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Everything is watered down these days.  Too many teams per club. Top talent spread too wide and diluted in too many different places/leagues.

Travel used to be an elite experience and not meant for every child.  It used to mean something to play travel.  Now anyone with a checkbook can find a team.

This has meant middle class families are needlessly shelling out 3k per kid for crappy training and sucky competition.

Jon Stossel should do an expose or Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on what robbery this is and how US soccer is not improving with more of this pay to play crap.

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Agree.  I have seen some of the games of the "c" or "d" teams in our club.  It saddens me that people are paying that much money to play.  Not the fault of the parents  - its easy to get sucked into the "travel" game.  And not the fault of the kids.  The club, though.... they have somehow brainwashed everyone into thinking that these kids are getting $3K worth of soccer out of this, and they are not.   When you have 6 teams per age group, it's just about making money, not soccer development.  There have been times where the "tryout" didn't even have enough participants to field the teams.  Everyone makes it.  (mostly on the girls side, I've never seen it on the boys side).  It's sad.  [/quote]

This depends greatly on the age that you are talking about. Soccer, and the access to training should be as inclusive as possible from U9-U13 at least. It is the "competitiveness" that parents bring into the equation that ruins it. Could prices be cheaper? Sure, but to brand a kid at 9 as not good enough is what is sad. [/quote]

If it were inclusive for everyone at 9, you wouldn't need to pay $3k.  Right there you are excluding many, many kids.

Further, we are at one if these clubs and any player below the B team is ignored.  They are written off.  It is a very toxic environment as the club seems to foster this in-fighting amongst the different teams in age group at the youngest ages.  You lose a lot of kids this way. And, when, hard work and results aren't rewarded since rosters almost never move, it does further damage.  [/quote]

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