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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was blown away by the intensity at the school my kid goes to when they added football. The soccer team plays in front of a handful of parents and 1-2 kids, the football team gets a crowd. They even got a cheerleading squad for them.

Even my soccer kid talks about wanting to go to football games! [/quote]
Welcome to the real world outside the soccer bubble. And the DMV is not even a big football area. There are high school football games in Texas with 10-20k people at the games. Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania high school football is huge. MLS would love to have that kind of attendance and passion.[/quote]

Yep. Football is the revenue sport. Even at our high school they are selling our home games.

Soccer is getting families and a couple of girl friends/boyfriends.[/quote]
Getting back to the original point of this post...everyone recognizes the "problem" with USA youth soccer culture is that it doesn't exist. Other sports have it but not soccer. I have yet to hear any real ideas about how to change that. Maybe we should just accept what it is and move on.[/quote]

Soccer culture exists in small pockets of groups who come from true soccer cultures 
It is unfortunately spread out and dotted around this big country 
Many of the people from true soccer cultures are marginalized from expensive pay-to-play US soccer, so their influence to the non soccer culture people isn't happening.

Most of DCUM rejects any of what it takes to be a true soccer culture, because they are focused on the winning, the superficial, the labels and keeping up with the Jones's. 
Microcosm of our society.

We are literally arguing about which kid's league is better than the other 😂😆[/quote]

Yep, we have been steadily moving away from playing with and in front of friends, supposedly because it's necessary to be elite, even for kids who will never be elite.  We're alienating, in combination with ever-increasing prices in pay-to-play leagues, the people who would support the culture.  It's like we took a sport that could have become football and instead decided it would be better to be more like badminton, squash, and rowing - a sport done in obscurity by rich kids in front of their parents to compete for college scholarships/admission.
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This +1,000

When I have seen our varsity teams play, it’s like 11 individuals all out for themselves.  Very little unselfish play.  And just not fun to watch.  [/quote]

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