Anonymous wrote:There are certainly better players at the same 2007 age in the DMV.

There are at least 3.

Here's the issue - it used to be that any 20-year old "phenom" female player had an elevator straight up to the full national team. Think Rose Lavelle, Alex Morgan... they had no real competition.

Now all these "phenoms" opting out of college soccer and signing at 16 years old have the other 2008 "phenoms" to compete against, the 2007 phenoms, the 2006 phenoms, and then the all-Americans coming out of college and foreign national team players settling down in the US.

We do not have a real pyramid where say choley rickets can start and play a full 90 in the 3rd tier of women's soccer on loan from the spirit. This is what is done in every other country with a legit soccer system. After 1-2 years of playing full 90s for a lower division team, Spirit loses a key player and boom she is ready to go.

But instead they have her sitting on the bench watching everyone else play and will probably sign another 16 year old to do the same next year.

Anonymous wrote:She's 15 and 5ft 1...I'm not saying she's not good, but she should finish high school, grow a little, and go to college. She played maybe 5 minutes at the end of the game on Saturday. She seemed to have good energy, but she's 15!

Who? Chloe? If so, she's 16 and turns 17 in May.

I feel bad for her. They put her in to play when another player was injured. Maybe they contractually have to play her a certain amount of time?

She lost the ball. Later, she got the ball and kicked it out of bounds. I imagine playing like this must be really hard on her, and she's so young.

There are certainly better players at the same 2007 age in the DMV.

She's 15 and 5ft 1...I'm not saying she's not good, but she should finish high school, grow a little, and go to college. She played maybe 5 minutes at the end of the game on Saturday. She seemed to have good energy, but she's 15!

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.

15 year olds in the NWSL is just an irresponsible decision even if the kid is a phenom. the league does not have the proper infrastructure and support to have that work out at a decent percentage. Maybe a few more years down the line when the league is stable. 18 would have been a good place to start and go from there after some results.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.

If your child was national team camp, sure. Otherwise no. You have to remember that a lot of elite girls soccer is UMC not even middle class. Probably more higher than UMC than middle class. This applies to most of the elite teams around here. No parents are not going to let someone chase their dream of pro soccer over college unless they are Kennedy Fuller level. Even then it is unlikely. Women’s pro soccer is not a career. Sorry but true.

It is a career, but it is such a long shot that it's ridiculous to push it as a viable option at an early age. The NBA is a career, but focusing on NBA to the exclusion of college at a young age is rightly viewed by most people as idiotic. The same goes for every sport.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.

If your child was national team camp, sure. Otherwise no. You have to remember that a lot of elite girls soccer is UMC not even middle class. Probably more higher than UMC than middle class. This applies to most of the elite teams around here. No parents are not going to let someone chase their dream of pro soccer over college unless they are Kennedy Fuller level. Even then it is unlikely. Women’s pro soccer is not a career. Sorry but true.

But it is a career. Teachers make little more or less is that not a career. You're a donkey

Teacher, yes it is -- one that they do until they retire. Not the 2.7 years the average player spends in the NWSL. Pro femal soccer player -- no not a career.

+1
And teachers who retire after a full career receive a pension so $$$ until the day they day.
NWSL players, not so much

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.

If your child was national team camp, sure. Otherwise no. You have to remember that a lot of elite girls soccer is UMC not even middle class. Probably more higher than UMC than middle class. This applies to most of the elite teams around here. No parents are not going to let someone chase their dream of pro soccer over college unless they are Kennedy Fuller level. Even then it is unlikely. Women’s pro soccer is not a career. Sorry but true.

But it is a career. Teachers make little more or less is that not a career. You're a donkey

Teacher, yes it is -- one that they do until they retire. Not the 2.7 years the average player spends in the NWSL. Pro femal soccer player -- no not a career.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.

If your child was national team camp, sure. Otherwise no. You have to remember that a lot of elite girls soccer is UMC not even middle class. Probably more higher than UMC than middle class. This applies to most of the elite teams around here. No parents are not going to let someone chase their dream of pro soccer over college unless they are Kennedy Fuller level. Even then it is unlikely. Women’s pro soccer is not a career. Sorry but true.

But it is a career. Teachers make little more or less is that not a career. You're a donkey

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Anonymous wrote:Fuller is a star. She is the future of the national team and I think will be a starter in Nwsl for a long time. I do not think she looks confused.

While I think most girls or almost all girls should go to college —- not for development but because there is no future in women’s soccer—- Fuller is not one of them. She is the real deal.

I don't see it, but you might be right. It will be fun to watch in play out. I hope she does well contrary to the hater comments.

In any event she got giant deals from Nike and Gatorade.

How big $$ do you think those deals are?

Does big money = happiness? Not always.

No but it mostly does.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.

If your child was national team camp, sure. Otherwise no. You have to remember that a lot of elite girls soccer is UMC not even middle class. Probably more higher than UMC than middle class. This applies to most of the elite teams around here. No parents are not going to let someone chase their dream of pro soccer over college unless they are Kennedy Fuller level. Even then it is unlikely. Women’s pro soccer is not a career. Sorry but true.

The Santos rumor was confirmed as true today. I'm excited for the Spirit and their new blood.

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.

This.

People pushing college aren't all in, which is fine; but don't make it sound like that's the best and only path worth taking.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't the whole narrative college is better because you can have a professioanl career to make "big money". Figure out what you are actually saying first champ.

LOL. What is that supposed to mean? College isn't better for everybody, my point was that if a kid wants to chase the dreams of being a pro, let her. That is HER happiness, we're all sitting here assuming that there needs to be big money attached for it to make sense. Sometimes people are perfectly okay chasing their dream and making enough to get to the next day.