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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you keep feeding the pay to play system because you fear your kid will miss out, the system will never change.
A $4.5 billion industry that produces mediocre players.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sd-sp-us-soccer-pay-to-play-u20s-20180814-story,amp.html[/quote]

There are maybe a few hundred or so kids across this country with world-class soccer potential; the travel soccer population is orders of magnitude higher, and most of those kids have zero shot at getting anywhere close to that level. They aren't D1 players, to say nothing of MLS.  Many of the parents are delusional about that.  The only real reason to do travel soccer is because your kid loves and is good at soccer.  That's the point, not professional development.  Please.  Your kid is not going pro, unless he is obviously better than everyone else on the field at the highest level you can think of.

As for why U.S. Soccer "fails,"  it is because the cream of the crop of our athletes play other sports--they are NBA point guards or power forwards, NFL safeties or wide receivers, etc.  [/quote]

Yep.

Hockey players. Swimmers. Track and field athletes..competitive gymnasts and dancers. Skaters. Skiers.

The US excels in so many other sports.  It is no big deal if soccer is left for the rest of the world.[/quote]

That stupid argument fails with women.  Admit it.   The best women athletes in massive numbers are playing soccer.[/quote]

No.

The best female athletes are probably in track and field, women's gymnastics and swimming, plus womens NBA.[/quote]

This is laughable.[/quote]

Says a person who is blinded by his/her hatred travel soccer parents.

Womens gymnasts, ounce for ounce, are hands down the best female athletes anywhere.[/quote]

And that does not mean that they would be good at soccer. Gymnastics is far to specialized to ever bother comparing to any other sport.

That said, gymnastics aside, more travel soccer players could make varsity track, basketball, lacrosse, field hockey, cross country or even swimming than the other way around. [/quote]

Um...no.

Soccer is one of the simplest sports to pick up for anyone with a bit of athleticism.[/quote]

Yes, if you play kick and run like Americans which isn’t  Futbol.  People without touch or ability to do the things FIFA players do at lightning speed.  Which even our pros can’t do.

I love how the argument changes.  The best US male athletes go into football, baseball and basketball.  The sheer number playing in the later years are not in soccer.  Got it.  Could buy that.

But—Now when the sheer numbers of Us women playing soccer above all other sports in the later years we change the argument that the minute few of gymnasts in comparison are the majority of best athletes.

You people are crazy.[/quote]

Your argument would be more credible if the US women weren't currently ranked #1 in the world.  [/quote]

It is only a matter of time before we move down in the ranking.  Other countries are getting serious about women's soccer and have caught up. US women won 1 out of the last 4 world cups.   Yes, they are doing OK compared to men, but the completion is getting stronger, while the USSF is getting more and more dysfunctional. [/quote]

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