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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This discussion is the reality that makes the true soccer people so mad. The reality is that soccer just isn't that important to most people in this country. The youth and college structures reflect that. Most parents are perfectly happy with the way things are and will continue to pay to play all the way to college. They don't care about the soccer national team any more than they care about how many medals the swimmers win in the olympics.[/quote]

I would argue they care more about the Olympics than soccer.  Also Olympics more than Hockey.

But I have a question -- why should people care?  The goal for most is a fun kid game that all kids can do.  A subset of this group takes it a little more seriously and does travel.  A subset of that group tries to move up in travel and play in top leagues.  A subset of that group makes it to ECNL or MLSNext or GA.  A subset of that group plays in college.  And a small small subset of that group plus a few that opt out of college or go pro early go pro and/or play on the national team.

How is the national team relevant?  Fun to watch and talk about, sure but why would people care beyond that?[/quote]

There are people in Europe and South America that don't care about their national soccer teams much.

But, they ain't gonna be spending thousands of dollars and driving/flying miles every year for soccer[/quote]

They ain't got the income of the people in the US spending that money.  On the girls side it is a rich girl sport.  Not a hardship.  And it helps with college and is fun.  [/quote]

So it costs them less/nothing and they still aren't gonna be doing all the traveling etc if they don't love soccer

btw... why do rich girls need soccer to go to college?[/quote]

Cause they white and belive athletic hooks are common[/quote]

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