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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Most of my conversations with my fellow suburban parents about travel teams revolve around how expensive they are and how it's just a way to make $$ off our kids. And what a weekend waster it is for all involved. A lot of these programs have 3 or 4 teams from the same town for the same grade(s) based on skill, so your child is either on the A,B or C team. Maybe the A team kids get to play lacrosse or soccer in college, but those B and C kids likely won't and are basically subsidizing the A teams.
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We all have these conversations. This is the first layer.
Try talking to them about the kids who can't afford to play for any travel teams that are awesome at soccer and how you can get them to play with your team if you all agreed to pay a bit more. The conversation will shift once they realize the advantage they inherently have by paying all that money. Everyone who has kids on a travel team complains about the money. But the reason they exist is to give them a leg up on the kids who can't be on a travel team.
We've discussed here before why the men's and women's national teams look the way they do here in the US. It's not because there are no people of color playing soccer. It's because the whole system is set up to feed talented, upper middle class athletes into college programs and elite travel squads. This is the only country in the world where soccer is a rich man's sport.
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
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Shut up, fool! Where are the current generation's Mister Ts?
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