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How good would U.S. be if they could just get the kids who can play?
#youthsoccerdevelopment #youthsoccerpayforplay
#youthsoccerdevelopment #youthsoccerpayforplay
How good would U.S. be if they could just get the kids who can play?
#youthsoccerdevelopment #youthsoccerpayforplay
John McEnroe said the problem with US tennis is the privileged kids play the sport."Privileged"?
Yes, for instance a team like say West Coast FC. The coach knew, heck WE all knew they didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning the championship but they went anyway.
http://events.gotsport.com/events/results.aspx?EventID=53087&Gender=Boys&Age=14
LAUFA and to and extent TFA are good examples of clubs with a paid segment and full funded component and good coaching and have seemed to secure decent field space and have produced good players.Isn't LAUFA one of the clubs helping under privileged kids? Of course not all of them are under privileged. However if they do work with inner city kids they aren't doing so bad. Are they?
Here you go from the 3four3.com article about the cultural problems:
This is a topic for the ages. What if Lebron, Kobe, Brady, and other top stars would have played soccer. Well, that's a big what if.
The Casual Mentality in full effect!WCFC was 0-2-1 and the two loses were 2-0 and 3-2 and the tie (1-1) was against the team that won the tornament. They tied the tornament winner which would tell me they did have a chance to win it all. Not sure what your gripe is with the WCFC team.
I'd love to see a huge discount say 100-200 max cost per year for any player that receives free or reduced lunch through the school.
Why?I'd love to see a huge discount say 100-200 max cost per year for any player that receives free or reduced lunch through the school.
I wonder how many of those are Illegal?With the amount of fraud that goes on in the reduced lunch program, this will never work. The threshold to qualify for reduced lunch is $45k for a family of 4 or $52k for a family of 5. For the sake of simplicity let just say the average 2 kid 2 parent family household income need to be below $50k to qualify.
Because I had too much time on my hands today...
Looking at California Education numbers from 2015 for LA County, it shows that 66.5% of all students were in the reduced lunch program. According to US census numbers for that same year, 40.8% of families made $50k or less in the county. There were 1,539,675 students enrolled in LA county schools. 1,023,956 enrolled in the reduced lunch program. Per the census numbers you would expect the number to be roughly around 628,000. The numbers aren't perfect cause we're dealing with percentages, but that's a massive difference of 400,000. Just sayin'
Back on topic...
It really does come down to money. Last year, US soccer spent $21 million on Youth National Teams and Player Development.
https://www.ussoccer.com/~/media/fi...ation-2016-audited-financials-final.pdf?la=en
According to a 2014 story in Reuters, Germany spends more than $80 million. More than $1 billion since 2000.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/soccer-world-ger-success-idUKL6N0PP3D220140714
Additionally, playing soccer in Germany cost practically nothing. It would seem its almost entirely subsidized.
http://www.dfb.de/en/news/detail/amateurs-football-is-there-for-everyone-113804/
I just don't see that level of investment happening here, because the truth is, soccer isn't that important.