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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's called capitalism and individual choice. Everything in the US works this way. The market ultimately decides how these things work, not some top down authority saying how everything should be. Customers willing to pay for something drives it. Is it the ideal way to develop soccer players? Probably not but not necessarily because the same types of systems exist in other sports and it works (sometimes). [/quote]

I don't know -- we're not as dominant in basketball as we used to be.

You're right -- the market is deciding such things. US Soccer *could* step in and try to sort it all out, but they're already facing enough lawsuits.

So the key is trying to educate parents to make better choices. Along those lines: No, volunteer parents aren't necessarily worse than "pro" coaches. A volunteer parent may have the same level of coaching education as the "pro," and they're going to be better at dealing with kids than some 25-year-old who hasn't around 9-year-olds since he was 9 himself.

I see so many travel coaches out there who I can't believe get paid for what they do. Meanwhile, in Iceland, everyone and his dog has a B license.[/quote]

THIS.

Caveat emptor on all club soccer businesses - that’s what it is in the end .  If music man character were alive today he would be a travel soccer coach.  They are all selling dreams - and not many know more about the game than that.

Bethesda rightfully earns a lot of derision on this board for various reasons - but they earn steady marks in my opinion the club’s policy of no Dad coaches. So many Dad charlatans that drop a few references to Pep - take discounted fees and work for more minutes for junior on the down low.  I would like to see Michael Lewis’ reforms of travel/club ‘industry’ be implemented.  Needs some congressional oversight via USYS (by forcing them to monitor their clubs’ standards as exchange for federal money they receive from US Olympic Committee.  When pigs fly, I know.[/quote]

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