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[quote=Anonymous]My comments in bold below.  What you're proposing isn't feasible for any except those with exceptional raw talent...

[quote=Anonymous]Everyone can play soccer. Rec leagues are inexpensive. If you want to play soccer, you can pay $70 in the local rec league for a full season and play. Or get half off or a scholarship.

[b] 70$ in fees is a significant amount to poor families.  And who is going to shuffle the kid around to play games?  A lot of poor families don't even have cars. Try taking public transportation to games--even in urban DC, it's not convenient to get to many fields.[/b]

For example, Arlington's in-house rec league is very competitive at the high school level. Loads of kids who will never set foot on a travel team who could but there is no way their families are going to pay the $ for it. Are they missing out? no.

If they want to get recruited, all they have to do is have a family member record their games with a cell phone or camera, make a highlight video, put it on youtube. If they are good enough, coaches will have a look.

[b]True there are those with exceptional raw talent, but for most others, how are they magically going to get good without lots of opportunity for practice?[/b]

Bottom line is if you want to play soccer, there's nothing preventing you from doing that. If you want to hire the best coaches who are not free, then you can't if you don't have the money.

[b]Many poorer kids are working jobs or watching little siblings at a young age, so yes, there's a lot of things preventing kids from playing soccer.[/b]

If you don't have the money, go to the pick-up spots and play with adults or older kids. Go to Arlington, Alexandria, Annendale, anywhere with concentrations of latinos or people from other cultures or immigrant populations - soccer is in their lifeblood, unlike suburban america.

Soccer is NOT culturally important to the average suburban american family. However, the world series and the NCAA tournament is.

Find those environments, play as often as you can, and you can get better without the fancy tournaments, uniforms, age group categories, and $$$ fees.[/quote][/quote]

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