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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everything is terrible!!! Yet we manage to be one of the top Womens Teams in the world in every age group. If we manage to keep politics out of the USWNT, we’ll win the World Cup again next time around. Oh, and not punch anyone in the back of the head too.

Sour grapes everywhere. My DD is on track to play D1 and has perfect grades. We will happily take any help and play ugly soccer. Unlike what you think, we are far from rich and actually sacrifice vacations among other things for Club soccer. Because of that she has made friends, stays busy, stays out of trouble and learns leadership as well as how to work with others. Money well spent.

You are Sour grapes!!!!![/quote]

There are two different arguments here.

1. What soccer does for your daughter for her individual growth and future. I hope no one would dispute how awesome what you described is for her. Hopefully all of our girls come away with friendship, leadership, commitment and ethics. D1 or not. College scholarships are definitely a nice added bonus if a girl has that ambition and makes it happen.

2. Soccer in the DMV and I’d argue in the U.S. The DMV does have some of the worst soccer programming in the country. And the U.S. plays some of the worse soccer globally. The USWNT argument is a straw man. Our teams are the best when we compete in spaces where women’s teams haven’t been amplified or supported, which until recently was virtually every country. That’s why we dominated. With other countries beginning to put money behind their women’s teams now everything is changing. We see it with the USWNT in recent years. It’s slower to come at the younger youth ages where boys programs still dominate in other countries.

What the US can get and should get credit for is putting professional women’s soccer on the map and setting that trend globally. It is giving women all over the world opportunities they never had. That is huge and something to be proud of! But what we cannot get credit for is great soccer. The good news is that can absolutely change. The bad news is I see no indication that it is. [/quote]

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