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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You should be on a Travel forum [/quote]
Here’s some news for you. There are a lot of people like us on your kid’s high level soccer team. My kid is a good athlete and soccer is a fun activity we can afford. Development is not important to us because our kid is not going to play pro or in college. [/quote]

First and foremost, there aren't a lot of casual soccer tourist people like you on my kid's team

Second, did you read the heading of the thread?[/quote]
Well there are plenty of casual soccer tourist people on my kid's GA team. It's not the top team in the area but is near the top of the standings and is still considered high level except by ecnl dad. Considering more than half of players on GA teams don't play in college I'd say many are willing tourists.[/quote]

Not making it and having a mentality not even trying are two different things[/quote]
Mentality? We’re talking about a kids activity here. Just because you take it too seriously doesn’t mean we all do. Not everyone has the same goals. As long as my kid is good enough to play on the team they can have whatever mentality they want. I’ll bet it really burns you to know that there are players on your team who lack the “mentality” but are just as good or better and sharing the stage with your kid. [/quote]

This is interesting. You are advocating to teach your child to not give their best after making a commitment to the team?

Actually, you're saying you're fine with your kid being mediocre and just showup?
Hopefully they learn better work ethics from others

Your kid giving 50% doesn't hurt the kid giving 100%[/quote]

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