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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, you as a parent wouldn't take the risk, which is very commendable and shows you have character. However, people being paid huge money will look the other way, as the only on earth who stands to get in trouble is the player, not them. It's easy to say "I had no idea he was on the DA team, I feel lied to," and absolve yourself. Furthermore, a lot of parents are deluded when it comes to regulations and their kid's potential. Their entitlement is more important than what's actually best for their player. Pay-for-play is holding our country back from reaching its potential in soccer.[/quote]

+1 if you watched the U-17 World Cup recently, it was obvious that other countries are doing something different - and their approach is developing players 
who are truly elite and breath taking to watch. They play the beautiful game. US players can't hold a candle to them. 
Pay to play & parents who throws money at developing kids who are uncreative and mediocre is a reason the US can't compete on an international level. It will catch up with the girls side eventually too. 
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Not sure how you can watch Andrew Carleton and Josh Sargent and arrive at that conclusion, but whatever floats your boat.[/quote]

Agree, and not sure how someone could watch Erik Palmer Brown, Tyler Adams, and Justen Glad in the U20 World Cup and be so dismissive either.  But I think a lot of people who like to make these comments don't actually follow the youth game or pay attention to what's going on in the current US youth landscape.[/quote]

Sure, a few up and coming, but still not the breadth and depth of several of the non-US U17 & U20 teams.   
This article gives a good overview of how pay to play is keeping the US from developing a national team with truly elite players: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jun/01/us-soccer-diversity-problem-world-football[/quote]

I understand that the pay-to-play system keeps a TON of talent out of the system.  Maybe it keeps out the very best talent in the US.  Even if it does, for how big the US is and for how many kids ARE playing in the pay to play system, the US should still be running over most of the world.  Why can't we develop 20 kids out of the millions of kids that are playing?[/quote]

Because their development is too structured/rigid and sunpervised. Most kids don't have soccer in their blood or an innate love of the game that has them kicking the ball around whenever they can get their feet on it. Kids from poorer countries will make a ball out of whatever they can get their hands on and play impromptu pickup games. US kids for the most part don't do that. [/quote]

Some of the pay to play do have a ball constantly at their feet and play pick up with kids that can't afford to pay to play.  What happens to them????  They get in our shitty club Travel system which drills all of this creativity and instinct right out of them.  From age 7 on they are spending most of their playing time standing around at practice with other kids f*cking off and getting nothing out of it, but eventual boredom and by the end of the season that can't wait for the 3 shitty 90 minute practices to be over so they can go back to having fun in the pick up games.  I have seen my kids get worse DURING the season---and I can't wait for it to end so we can go back to pick up and our own backyard training.[/quote]

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