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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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Newsflash: many if those C/D team players are better than what got marked as 'A' team at 8.  That is what you should sadden you  :roll: .
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][/quote]

I'm not sure I follow the point you are trying to make through your contradictions:

"Newsflash: many if those C/D team players are better than what got marked as 'A' team at 8.  That is what you should sadden you"

If this is common and true as you say, then exactly how has the system failed them? How have they "wasted their money"? By your own account, "those C/D team players are better than what got marked as 'A' team at 8"

Didn't parents pay to have their kids be developed as soccer players?

That clubs identify athleticism over talent at young ages is no secret and is problem with travel soccer. It is also the reason why clubs have 6 teams per age group. Regardless of the cynicism people have regarding a clubs motives in fielding so many teams it does provide training and opportunities to as many players as possible.

And to bring this all back to the main topic of the thread, that is also why there are many leagues in the area. They all support varying levels of play so that as many kids as possible have the opportunity to play in a competitive environment that is appropriate to their skill level. I, frankly, do not subscribe to any of that as being a "rip-off".[/quote]

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