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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Long distance travel for non professional academies is non value-added

What part of yourh development in soccer happens in a plane or bus or hours in the car?
It's all about training and executing your training in games at game speed decision making

You can play the same 6 clubs all season in under an hour drive and develop as a player.[/quote]
Long distance travel happens because in the US, soccer is a pay to play activity more like competitive dance than a tier 1 sport. Half the people don’t care much about developing their kids in soccer and are more about the experience. Long distance travel is a better experience. [/quote]

Explain how driving I-95 or NJT for 4 hours and eating stale gas station food is a better experience than playing the same quality team 20 minutes from home?[/quote]
It’s absolutely better to me. We get to stay overnight and explore a new city. Spend a lot of quality time with my kid. Have fun with the other families. When we are 20 minutes away everyone just shows up for the game and goes their separate ways as soon as it’s over. When we go far away people stick around, have meals together, go shopping between games. The experience is totally different. For us the experience has little to do with what’s happening on the soccer field.[/quote]

So, I think our problem is distinguishing between tournaments and league play.  I agree with this post.  One of our favorite tournaments last year was on the Jersey Shore.  We would have NEVER chosen the Jersey Shore as we are a OBX, Hilton Head, Foley family.  It was one of our best weekends of the year.  There is real bonding at out of state tournaments.  What is irritating is league play far from home.  You get none of the bonding described by this poster.[/quote]

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