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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Soccer America Today article.

Pay-to-play (lack of free play opportunities), decline of in-town youth sports leagues (like traditional little league), low participation from low income families, and not enough trained coaches (soccer finished last in 4 of 6 training categories and no higher than 7th in any) cited.  Smart phones and tablets also cited.

But while baseball participation dropped 5 percent and basketball 8 percent...soccer's 23.5% drop was striking!

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I don't think it's quite as bad as the soccer america article makes it out to be. If you actually read the report cited and look at the chart, they cherry picked 2010-2016 because 2010 was the largest participation year for soccer so the drop off for that time frame is the worst. The study goes back to 2008 and if you look at just the last year available, 2015-2016 soccer is down 1.1 %. Basketball was actually down more than soccer 2015-2016. Don't burn your kids soccer cleats just yet.

https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/2017/12/FINAL-SOP2017-report.pdf
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