Younger coaches & parents won’t believe me!
But before someone had the genius idea to form a private for profit league & become a mega millionaire off the backs of 🇺🇸 ⚽️ families & formed a new Super Ultra Mega EliteChampions League for our youth, we had a system that worked & served players of all abilities!
All over the 🇺🇸, we had Recreational ⚽️, Advanced ⚽️ & Advanced Travel ⚽️ (travel meant a few hours from home max, 2 overnights max, no out of state travel unless you earned it by winning state & going to regionals) as well as TOPS soccer all fell under one banner
We were truly a ⚽️ community often with local senior teams to look up & aspire to!
#CollegeSoccer coaches went to state & regional matches as well as a true national championship (The McGuire Cup) and it meant something
Coaches recruited High School ⚽️
We had true ⚽️ communities and it worked
The ⚽️ community was generally quite happy with the system
Now we have this mess
Gordon Gekko was wrong
Greed is not good!!
It ultimately destroys what it touches
And some people think our system is better now because our players are better now (which they are)
But is faulty logic based on incorrect causal reasoning
Players are better because there are millions more of them & we finally have parents & grandparents (like me) who grew up with ⚽️
Understand ⚽️
Many coach ⚽️
In my day parents didn’t even know what a ⚽️ was for or how it worked
It was “that foreigners game”
We NEVER saw ⚽️ represented in commercials, movies advertising etc
Now you cannot escape a single day without coming across some ⚽️ image at least
That’s why we’ve gotten better
It’s 💯 NOT the privatized for profit leagues
I’ll argue we would be miles ahead of where we are if they had never come to fruition
Rant over
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