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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If you think playing time issues are different for club sports you are wrong. Every kid plays - you are paying for that. “But my kid is better”. Are you paying more than the other kid? No. Then shut it. At the highest levels of youth sports it is even more important to play everyone. The top soccer clubs compete for players by advertising how many kids on their teams are playing pro or playing in college. You don't get players unless you play everyone[/quote]

I don't know about other club sports, but for travel soccer, that is not how it works.  You need to earn your playing time in every game, otherwise you are played for a short time and on the bench for the rest.  For MLS Next it is even worse - if you are one of the bottom players, you are not rostered for the game, and don't dress for it.  The top teams have more kids than they need interested in joining them, it is not a concern about getting players.[/quote]

Yep it’s the top 2-3 players that make a difference everyone else is the rest of the team. The clubs are there to win. So they have starters and bench players. Rarely will the bench kids get in and when they do they play not to make mistakes. Though this does not mean the club team wins. Most are a game above or below 500. [/quote]

The MLS affiliated MLS Next clubs do not care about winning. They exist solely to feed talent into the parent club. In practice, it still means the end of the bench doesn't play, but playing time isn't based on skill or winning, it's based on potential. [/quote]

And how is potential measured or seen?[/quote]

The ability to play at a higher level. Every professional team, including MLS teams, has scouts paid to spot amateurs with potential to play at the next level [/quote]

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