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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is this a debate.  For some, Vista works, for others it may be FCBE.  Does it really matter if the kids are developing and having fun?  Fun???? That word ring a bell with anyone?  It's a damn game and I don't care how good you are, if you aren't having fun you aren't going to get better.[/quote]

Completely agree. Just stating what red flags I would consider with a small club over the price. It still always comes down to the overall value of the experience. It is to simplistic to say "we won a scrimmage and our fees are only $800 so we are better".[/quote]

I don't think anybody was saying that, you probably made that connection after making an assumption about what the parent was thinking.  Particularly, soccer should be a sport that allows you to move in an out depending on the season.  The annual signup is a boon to the clubs.

I would see as a red flag any club that doesn't value their players enough to let every 8-9 year old know good at soccer the club thinks they are by ranking their athletic ability in a color-coded fashion.  Then saying to the parents you will pay as much for your less-talented/athletically-gifted child as the other parent of the talented/coordinated child and will be assigned a coach that is less inclined to teach those kids as well as a coach that has a lower credential than the coach assigned to the talented/coordinated children AND you will show gratitude for being allowed to play in our club teams by doing as much volunteering as we ask you to do.  Of BTW, for a few select clubs, an addendum is that if the parent of the less-talented child wishes to receive training they already paid for from the coaches who train the talented children, they will be expected to pay MORE.[/quote]

YES!!  +100  These travel clubs are f*cking ridiculous at the younger age groups.  What's worse is that this is encouraged by the Coaches/Club administer and the obnoxious parents who think the Chartreuse team (or whatever stupid arbitrary color they have assigned the top team) at U9 means they are destined for greatness and superior to all other players in the age group.  We have had our share of douches that love to say 'well I guess nobody has been good enough to move up from within so we got an outside player this season'.  Oh yeah dipshit--that is what it means :roll: .  They don't want to screw with the pecking order and cause anarchy in the ranks.  Joke is on them---they get to spend more weekends in miserable Shitsville locations in the freezing cold, driving rain or intense heat and humidity---fighting hour long traffic jams while the rest of us kick back on our couch or travel somewhere actually desirable over the holiday weekends and stay in luxury vs the Hampton Inn in East Shitsville (which is another 20 min drive to the field).

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