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[quote=Anonymous]The positives I see as a former travel soccer player, division I athlete, and paid coach:

-Time management
-Learn to make friends in different environments, and how to deal when you don't
-Fitness, learn how to exercise, how to push your body, what you limits are
-Confidence builder and transferrable skill for kids that move often
-Learn how to work hard at something, both as an individual and a team
-learn how to deal with the fact that you may lose, no matter how good you are, how hard you work, or how much you prepare - and how to deal with that. 
-Healthy competition, during games against others, and in training against friends. 
-It's fun

Downsides:
-It is ridiculously convoluted in this area with so much money and so many egos. 
-Pay to play sucks, but we are nowhere near a pro club structure that could support the infrastructure given the low fan and financial support of the pro game here and the small number of clubs for a country so big. 
-Other people are crazy (but not me, of course, just everyone else), especially when their kids are involved. While individuals are crazy, they are downright dangerous in groups. There has never been a process designed that a person can't screw up or destroy. [/quote]

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