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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest US soccer culture problem is that youth soccer exists to create economic success for private clubs.  We are traveling all over because winning bigger and bigger things helps build the club profile.  They don't care about the kids at all.  Why do you think you have to respond within 48 hours to your offer letter to join the team?  For the kids benefit?  Or to lock down customers?

We are all paying to be used...they have us by the junk and they know it.  How else can your kid make it to the top?  Staying within the cheap, local leagues?  Good luck bub.

Soccer isn't in the streets...its on "elite" teams who are exploiting adults who make it about them.  All I can do is use those clubs as much as they are using me...and keep my eyes wide open.

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Clubs may love this spending, but couldn't the leagues or governing bodies try to fix this?  Why do they seem to constantly move in the opposite direction, with more tiers, requiring more travel?  In theory all these tiers should at least ensure highly competitive games, but from what I see many teams are traveling all over to have 4-0 or worse games.  There are teams in other tiers close by that could keep games closer.[/quote]

Because leagues are competing with each other and they want more influence, size, money, power.  We should stop thinking about this as youth sports with good intentions and instead view it as corporations fighting for market share.  I do not trust these clubs and leagues at all.[/quote]
The leagues and governing bodies have no authority to dictate how it works. Everything is driven by market forces. If there is enough demand for something it will come to be. We have all these elite leagues with crazy costs and traveling because there is enough demand for it. There isn't someone at the top that gets to make a proclamation about how things work. We parents collectively get to decide with our dollars. As long as there are enough parents willing to pay for these things the systems will continue to exist. [/quote]

Yes.  Agree. There is great demand.  And the system works for what people want out of it.  On the girls side, just about every player on every ECNL team can play in college. Many get money in D1, others get a top school locked in.  That is what the demand is for.  And it works.  The goal is not to create the best soccer possible.  Or to go pro.  Goal is to get to play in college.  I doubt you will see a change.  Why?  Because none of the people involved — players, parents, college coaches, clubs want anything different.  [/quote]

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