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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm thinking that American Soccer won't start to compete with Europe until the Soccer Clubs start putting 13 year old kids (Pick the correct starting age) under contract.  i.e. Join us and we'll give you a 5+ year contract. You get to play on this travel team for free, but we control your rights and can trade you to MLS or England, or to whomever we want.  .... and there has to be an understanding that if you become less worthy, they can cut you at their discretion.

Benefit to kid: Free soccer/uniforms

Benefit to club: An ongoing farm team that can be sold for financial gains or used to become a power house.[/quote]

Love the enthusiasm, but you should educate yourself on how the rest of the world does things.   We don't have to start from scratch.   There's already a system of rules in place that incentivizes player development.  It's why prospective future professional players (i.e., the elite) in the rest of the world don't have to pay.   Youth players are free to move to whatever club they want, but if they do grow up to play professionally,  every club that trained them from U12 on up gets compensated by the club that signs them first, and there can be further bonus payments if there are transfer fees later on.   Developing a superstar can be like winning the lottery for a youth club.   It's literally worth millions.

Of note, last year MLS announced that it would begin following this system,  but only in one direction.   It will insist on training compensation and solidarity payments when one of its academy players gets signed abroad,  but it will not make such payments to domestic non-MLS clubs whose players later move to an MLS team.  Not surprisingly,  US Soccer is OK with this,  and had said it will not back non-MLS clubs seeking TC/S payments.

Some background reading:  https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/a-guide-to-training-compensation-and-solidarity-payments-in-football
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And more background. Many players feel this is an unfair system they are being coerced into participating in for fear of losing their spots.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/major-league-soccer/story/3880427/mls-players-union-solidarity-payments-unfair

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