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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t play travel hoping to play in college.  We play for the organized practices 3-4 days a week for 10 months a year.  The friendships, the tournament fun, and hopefully the professional coaching vs a parent.  The many (so many more than rec) games and scrimmages they always look forward to year round.  Personally I don’t understand the 8 week rec soccer idea with a random parent coach and teammates.  If you get lucky with a coach or team that’s great.  But still it’s only for a few weeks a year.  [/quote]

Those are fair points to bring up. Still unnecessarily expensive. We’re from England, where kids start “travel style” programs recreationally at a young age for literally a few dollars equivalent a month. anyone could play them. Looking at the players England and other countries produce then compare them to the USMNT..something’s unfortunately broken here.

Definitely think it’s not beneficial having a random parent coach. They just pick their kid and their friends to play and put their least productive players in goal or on the bench. [/quote]

I think in a lot of countries local governments and even local soccer clubs subsidize these teams.  That’s not true in the USA.

England is way better than the USA at soccer, sure, but remember here it’s viewed as just one of like a dozen or two sports a kid might play and not like the main sport for serious athletes.[/quote]

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