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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Organize and resist! Low level agitation on our team (not tea at Arlington) has allowed us to resist some far flung soccer but it is difficult.  A lot depends on the parent group and the team manger.

I want a very competitive localized  league with lots of good local talent and teams.  Seems virtually impossible to find without a drop in the level of play.  Possible to find it for a while by playing up  but that peters out too by a certain age.  We all end up taken our strong player to the uber travel leagues if we can afford ti because they love to compete.  Frustrating.  I see how useless the travel time and energy expenditure is but dont see a good solution once the teen years hit.[/quote]

The issue is that if you resist, there are 2X players in line to take a spot and pay the freight and do the travel.  CCL, ODSL, WAG etc. etc. need to merge and created tiers by region (like the ODP areas for VA state - South, Central etc.) and have relegation. For now - those not in DA or ECNL, top teams are forced to play in Jeff Cup, CASL, DELCO and Disney to get noticed.  If you dont want to get noticed, then drop to a lower level team and reduce the travel.  The whole thing is a mess.....[/quote]

I still blame the parents.  The parents that have thought their snowflakes are so elite that they just have to do all of this travel.  They will bend over backwards for their Clubs.  They will take anything the Club TD throws at them because to do otherwise casts them as the 'bad apple' and then they will just take one of the many waiting in the wings that will bite their lip and bend over and take anything.

They also pit parents against one another---just like you see on this Board.  Oh--that's a trouble maker family--blah, blah.  Anything that might shed light on the scam they have running.

I don't know what's happening.  Did any of these people play "elite" soccer in their youth?  I'm guessing not.  Those that did are the strongest advocates AGAINST this ridiculous travel and 'pay-to-play" that excludes a huge swath of really talented kids across the Nation.

If parents looked at the big picture and Clubs actually rewarded talent over lemmings with big checkbooks, it would be a completely different landscape.

There is ZERO accountability for these Clubs.  None.  They know it.  This is why they keep dreaming up more ridiculous schemes and refuse to play some of the best talent in the local area by putting themselves in separate leagues.  [/quote]

Great post and describes some of these parents well.  On our club it is lemmings who have never played the game thinking their DD will get great at soccer if they sign up as asked and kiss the ass of every coach and influential parent at the club.[/quote]

This applies to most Clubs, btw.  [/quote]

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