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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our white club’s top teams are 95% Latino.   [/quote]

Whoa. Have they been there their entire soccer career or do they come from smaller clubs?[/quote]

Not PP, but our club is the same way now. Top teams are full of Latino players and yes, they all pretty much have come from other smaller clubs.

Now that we have MLS Next even more have arrived and the rest of the club players have become 2nd and 3rd tier teams. Really odd. [/quote]

So how is this diverse? 99 percent of anything is not diverse.

Virtue signaling[/quote]

I think the question to ask is why is this happening? What does it say about a big club when they are passing over kids they’ve trained for kids trained at smaller clubs? Assuming the smaller clubs are getting coaching right, why don’t big clubs coach that way? Is it the way they coach or the pool of kids they’re getting?

Of course 90+% of anything is not good but what about the system is producing these extremes? Mostly white or Latino or whatever teams [/quote]

Bigger doesn’t mean better and diverse vs non-diverse doesn’t mean one is better than the other. What matter is having a positive culture of learning that allows for a player to develop. [/quote]

I would disagree with this, at least with soccer, some diversity is better than none. Sure, if you mean positive culture of learning in a kumbaya kind of way - everyone’s respectful and polite and listens to different things, maybe diversity doesn’t matter. But positive development comes from not only listening and learning about different views/mindset/style of play, but actually implementing them and being exposed to them or having kids being pushed out of their comfort zones. That is not happening in a non-diverse setting.[/quote]

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