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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.sbnation.com/2019/1/29/18199509/usmnt-roster-pool-demographics-latinx-foreign-born-players

“After California are several well known soccer hotbeds: Texas (9.1 percent of players), New York/New Jersey (8 percent), the area around Washington, D.C. (6.3 percent), Florida (4.6 percent), and Missouri/Kansas (4.6 percent).”

It would appear at least one journalist thinks our area IS a hotbed. I agree. [/quote]

There's a difference between the pool percentages and being a hotbed for development.  They aren't the same thing.   Development requires exceptional playing environments and coaching.   The anecdote of the 7 year old kid described above speaks volumes.[/quote]

Honestly, I don’t really care what some journalist or frankly anybody else views as a hotbed. Why on earth does it matter?  You want to feel better about not having a top kid?  Or hoping somebody else’s quality rubs off on your kid?  Or that recruiters will simply say, “well he is from Virginia (or Kansas), a soccer hotbed, so she must be good”?  Don’t think any of it works quite like that. [/quote]

There’s a big crowd on DCUM that can’t tolerate anyone saying anything positive about soccer in our area or the US. In their minds, it’s all 100% sh*tty, period, the end. There’s another big group that loves to claim that most soccer parents are fools, wasting vast sums of money on the delusion that their kids will get college scholarships.  No one from either crowd is interested in any arguments or facts to the contrary. They love the sounds of their own voices and are thrilled to have a platform to share their words with people beyond their long-suffering families. [/quote]

Here’s a simpler explanation.  Some prefer truth and others fantasy.   People can choose to believe what they wish based on the data they have, but you can’t say “don’t believe your lyin’ eyes” to people who don’t agree with you.[/quote]

Even simpler explanation.  Those that are habitually negative are losers, those that aren't are winners.  [/quote]

You cannot waste this talent on these boards - there are millions of fortune cookies that need to be filled.  Get to work![/quote]

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