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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The crying and complaining about the condition of the fields for playing soccer is the exact reason that America will never be competative in soccer on the world stage. Take a look at the field conditions in other countries that their PROs play on. They are literally running through puddles and mud patches. 
And here  some parents are complaining about their little princes and princesses not having an adequate field to play on. What a joke. [/quote]

Sure, but they aren't paying through the nose for it either. It's not about princes and princesses, it's about getting value for money spent.  [/quote]

Foolish for spending tons of money on soccer too. All you need for soccer is a ball and enough players. Its ridiculous that it would cost $1000s for kids to play soccer.

Again, this attitude is why America will always suck at soccer.  So focused on stupid things and not development as players.[/quote]

That is easy to say sure, but how would you explain the success of our women's side? Those teams were developed in a pay to play environment.

Notwithstanding that, the environment is what it is. One cannot just forgo playing in our system because it costs too much. There simply aren't enough players playing in the alleys and mudpit fields to develop well here.

and finally, why are you so bitter?[/quote]

He/she isn’t bitter to point out the frivolity of all of this. Kids don’t need to travel and ‘pay to play’ for years and years of their childhood for the US to end with a good women’s national team. Some  of the world doesn’t even allow their females to play sports and other countries barely support the women’s teams (soccer is a big macho macho thing in many countries - they want the girls playing volleyball instead). 
The kids could stuck to home and play a good game until their later teens and nothing would change except you’d have fewer spoiled kids and less money wasted on all of this.[/quote]

The point is ... it is the way it is, and to pontificate and be bitter about how things could be is a waste of energy. The reality is that if you have a youth player today you will have to embrace the system as is unless you want to take on training your little Messi yourself. It is not great but it is our system, and [b]until it is changed from the top down, we all have to deal with it[/b]. [/quote]

Nope. These are pampered parents complaining. Not kids. Not coaches who actually doing the training. It's the parents. Unfortunately since they hold the purse strings they have more say than the people who actually know the game of soccer.[/quote]

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