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[quote=Anonymous]You can find a travel team for most kids but you also have to realize that many big programs are fine with creating a travel team so that you can spend $3,000 to the club but you are not paying for the best coach or playing against the best competition. If you are still willing to fork out that $3,000 for the priviledge of being a travel soccer parent, then good for you. But if you are questioning the value of such a plan, then consider some of the alternatives referenced above.

Some of these parents above sound like the NYC parents trying to get their kid into the right pre-school so that they are on the Harvard track. There are absolutely some merit to that argument but it does not mean that if your kid has to do pre-school or any school at all to get into Harvard. There are alternatives folks.

I just watched an episode on HBO's Real Sports on the youth sports industry that has been created over the past 20 years. It is insane to consider the amount of money spent by parents these days. I don't know a family in my neighborhood who spent any where near the amount of money parents spent today on youth sports (considering inflation). There were 15+ kids in my high school who played soccer, basketball, track, gymnastics, baseball, football, etc. Some when on to play professionally. There were travel sports but the cost was nothing like it is today.

Re: elite travel soccer, a kid can show up at u13 - u15 and make an elite team. U13 is ideal but I have seen kids make it at u14/u15. If the above skeptics don't believe my experience, have them ask around. [/quote]

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