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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MSI is going to cost 2175$ for 2 practice a week and NCSL league. Now is it just me or does this seem a bit much, usually most clubs have 3 practices a week.

How much does your club cost?[/quote]

That is high. Our team has 3x practices per week. $1600 for year.[/quote]

$1600 seems on the low side. What club is that?[/quote]

When did we the parents decide 1600$ a year for soccer is on the low side? You just need a soccer ball and a field..

Oh you must be a coach or admin that really need to make 90k a year[/quote]

Nice comment.  Most of these coaches are making much less than that, working the coaching job in addition to another job to make ends meet in this very expensive area.

You are free to have your kids play rec or pickup if you don’t want to spend the $1600-2k.  [/quote]

Not the previous poster, but someone must be raking in the cash.   Soccer clubs book the county fields on the cheap and then charge thousands of dollars to hundreds of families, who paid for these fields through taxes.   When my kids started to play, the top clubs were charging around $1100-1200.  This would be considered cheap now.  This is not a good trend. [/quote]

Most coaches will charge somewhere around $150 per 90 min session, and maybe $200 for a game.  So if they are lucky or good enough to have 2 teams practicing 3x week plus games on the weekend, they'll be making about $1200 / week.  Multiply that by 40 weeks a year (figuring 6 weeks off in summer/winter, also accounting for weather related cancellations) and you're talking about something in the neighborhood of $50,000 a year.    Enough to live on, but hardly "raking in the cash" (esp if self-employed and paying for health ins).   For those with day jobs, it only works if their other job is flexible enough to accommodate their practice schedule.  You can't very well work 9-5 in Tysons and coach 2 teams in Springfield - you'd never make it to practice on time.  Those who combine something like being a school teacher with a coaching gig at night probably have the most manageable schedule and will be doing OK financially, but it's not always a very sustainable life style if they plan on having a family some day.

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I think most coaches make half that amount for two teams.[/quote]

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