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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The above posters are prime example of why America is never going to be good at football.

It just isn’t in the culture. The king sport is king because all you need is a ball to have fun. No fancy or expensive equipment. Just a ball to kick at.

Poors, rich, intelligent, dumbs… anyone can play it.

When it’s embedded in your life like outside of USofA then you inherently develop talented players with minimal to almost virtually no oversight of organized play.

Fun fact: in Brazil, the kids do not start organized club futebol until AFTER U13. Make of that what you will. [/quote]

Op here -
I mean I think the posters above would generally agree with you? It sounds like some weird FOMO funnel has been created. I think it makes sense that it’s like the first sport kids can really get competitive in.

I also don’t think it should be competitive until HS. That’s the way it was when I was playing.

The posters above sound like their kids just enjoy playing and to keep playing the system requires a certain amount of time.

But even those posters aren’t doing as much as I’m seeing, 6 days a week all year for 8-10 year olds.

I don’t care that soccer will never be the biggest sport. I get why it won’t be in the US. I just don’t get why people have subscribed to the insanity.[/quote]

8-10 year olds doing 6 days a week all year takes exaggeration to new heights [/quote]

There is no exaggeration there. If you able plugged into U9-U11 instagram feeds of these soccer kids, you will see 6 days a week is common for the most dedicated families.  Throw in high demand training featured on IG, and you will see near daily posts from these parents featuring their kids training about 6 days per week.  Travel practices are 3 days, games 1 or 2 days.  On top of that, you have at home workouts and sign up ad-hoc training sessions.

There is even another level: the home school level so the kids can prioritize training over school level. This level includes flying across country to guest play in tournaments or get high end training from trainers who usually coach professional level players.

In the NOVA area, I'd say 40-50 kids aged 8-10 practice 6 days per week and 2-4 families homeschool or arrange school in a way that works around soccer.  [/quote]

Oh good lord. If your data comes from insta, let’s just end the thread here.

#baller #grind #puttinginthework

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lol I agree, but you can’t escape the fact it directly ties into this thread, ‘Why Soccer is Such a Big Deal.’

Kids are balling out, grinding daily. It’s well documented. We know the kids, we know the coaches, we know the trainers they are grinding and lots of posting to support it.  This goes past being on the 1st team. This is in hopes of getting a USYNT training invite.  Which will peak the interest of college coaches down the road.

Soccer can lead to college access.[/quote]

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