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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's just another entrant in the alphabet soup of youth soccer in DC.  They would do better to try to form an alliance with an existing ECNL (or MLS Next)club to send kids their way. DC proper has too many clubs. If the 5 small clubs plus DCSC banded together, something great could happen, particularly if they had a mission of leveling the playing field for kids who may not be able to traditionally afford travel soccer.[/quote]

Touched a nerve, eh?

Somebody has to pay for it. I doubt a team of 12 with three who can afford to play are going to be happy footing the bill for nine other kids.[/quote]

ASPEN institute begs to differ.

https://projectplay.org/childrens-rights-and-sports[/quote]

I have a grand idea!  Why don't YOU pay for one child to play? Pay for two if you can afford it.   Put your money where your mouth is.

Be aware,  not everyone who says they need a "scholarship " or assistance in paying.   You won't mind though,  I'm sure.  What do you say?[/quote][/quote]

It's one thing to want to complain about fees and to worry about what they'd be if a smaller share of the club's players were able to pay. But you can't seriously be arguing that the pay-to-play system we have in U.S. soccer is good, in general. I don't see much of a path to changing it (you'd need the professional clubs to be much more dominant, revenue-wise, than they are, and you'd need a lot of lower-division smaller clubs in metro areas, so that each pro club could just set up its own academy system -- it works in Europe because soccer isn't competing for cash with football, baseball, basketball and hockey there). But our national teams, and our domestic ones, would surely be better off if money wasn't an impediment to getting kids into developmental programs.[/quote]

I did not see anyone say what you are arguing against.  What I read was you being told to pay for a needy child. Apparently,  that isn't something that interests you beyond asking everyone else to do it.

If you want to live somewhere that has s better youth system move there. Simple.  To my knowledge,  Holland still offers American citizens residency as a repayment for liberating them in WWII.[/quote]

I didn't ask anyone else to pay for needy kids, I'm not the poster who you (or someone else) initially started arguing with about that. I pay the full (expensive) fees for my kids to play, though I probably wouldn't mind if the club announced it was raising the fees slightly to pay for other kids. When my kids played in rec, I typically gave a donation equal to their rec registration fees each season to their club's scholarship fund.

Still, since we were talking about fees and people not being able to pay them, it seemed worth noting that this system is bad for pretty much everyone (bad for parents who can afford to pay, bad for kids whose parents can't afford to pay, bad for U.S. soccer).[/quote]

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