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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]These conversations all go the same way -- I'm going to extrapolate from a handful of coaches I've seen and assume that applies to all coaches in a given area, and I'm going to compare that against 1-2 things I believe from following soccer in (England, Germany, Mexico, Italy, wherever) and declare it's wrong.

You could have Gary Lineker and Hugo Perez observe the same three coaches for a whole season, and they'll come up with drastically different assessments. And we expect to be able to make grandiose proclamations about many more coaches when we have much less experience?[/quote]

Let’s just have the fees get lowered[/quote]

That would be great.

And solidarity pay/training compensation can help -- a bit. It's just not the cure-all some people think it is. [/quote]

I don't think it helps at all actually.  The primary consequence of most of these schemes is to provide professional clubs with monopsony power over the kids in their area - these are basically scams which benefit the clubs by allowing them to invest less in training the kids, not more.

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A few steps to cut costs:

1. Less travel, more soccer.

2. More sponsors. (Easier said than done, of course.)

3. Stronger professional clubs that can turn around and offer free academies.

4. More coaching education (USSF is working on it) for volunteer parent coaches who can help out so clubs aren't assigning "pro" coaches to the D or E teams. (Want to know why so many foreign coaches come here? It's because they don't have as many paid opportunities elsewhere. If you're in England, and you're not coaching with a pro club's academy, where are you coaching? The reason soccer's cheaper overseas is that you're generally either playing for free at a pro club or paying very little for what we would call "rec" (even though the level isn't necessarily bad). They don't have Loudouns or Arlingtons or Bethesdas offering several levels of "travel" coaching with professional coaches making any sort of money.)[/quote]

I would say the single best thing you could do for youth soccer in this country is remove the home territory rule so that the best kids can go to the academies which want to invest in developing them.  Instead you wind up with clubs like DCU which invest nothing in training but refuse to release the rights of local kids to go elsewhere.  And then, should they be good enough to get an offer from a European club, [b]DCU will demand hundreds of thousands of $ which basically ensures that the European club will make the offer to a local kid instead.[/b][/quote]

That's about to get tested.........[/quote]

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