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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clubs need this kind of competition. Most clubs have become arrogant, self-serving, and fixated on their bottom lines despite being "non profits". The travel involved is ridiculous and the main barrier to entry for many kids. The pay-to-play madness has to stop. It shouldn't involve $10K a year for a kid to play high level soccer. [/quote]

What do you think the cost should be and what do expect to get in return?[/quote]

Great question, got an answer you you just on the "it cost to much" bandwagon.  You have the solution?[/quote]

PP here. The club cost from a fee and number of trainings is actually not terrible - provided you are on a top team and getting quality coaching with a staff that can fill in for coaches and evaluation by more than one coach. It is the hidden costs, mostly travel, that make it a racket. So, yes, part of the solution is stop the useless marketing of elitism with league names and have travel be within a 90 minute to 2 hour radius. Very possible to do in a metro area like DC with a rethink of leagues and general approach. There is no need for ECNL and MLS Next kids as young as 12 to be traveling six to seven hours for a single game. The only people benefiting from this are the hotels in said area. What's wrong with playing a local team two or three times? What's the problem with having more DC metro tournaments that mix leagues? You exclude kids who don't have a means and a support system when you force them to travel across multiple state lines or even across country for one or two games. That's solution #1.  Another idea would be what MLS Next has actually implemented with the video AI (Taka) that measures a team's performance beyond wins and losses and more on possession, pass completion, and other metrics. This eliminates the BS playing style that is American soccer - recruit huge kids and kick over the top to pile up wins. Who is actually developing players and playing a style that lends itself to the next level? 
Do I or anybody have all the answers? No because, after all, it is a free market and people will continue to sell what's being bought. But, most of us agree that the costs and travel are out of control. Not to mention the politics that exist in club soccer. [/quote]

We're the most expensive and only expensive country on the entire planet to play soccer

Every excuse about why it 'has' to cost this much is BS [/quote]

Still waiting for the answer for how you cut costs....just hear more talking points.  12 year Olds traveling 6 hours for single game, what team and club was this.  Sounds like a one of dumb decision.  Still waiting....[/quote]

What are the real vs inflated and unnecessary costs of soccer here?

If its free and much less everywhere else on planet earth, but they're putting out better products than us, that means we have invented an unnecessary, bloated superficial and ineffective marketplace.

The DMV could have local neighborhood leagues on public fields with good grass roots coaches. 
Tons of players, fields and coaches.

Lots of businesses and parents for sponsorships.
No need for MLS Next, ECNL, EDP etc

Parents need re-education that Elite is not for the masses. 
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