I’m sure most players dream of playing soccer in college and professionally, but the reality is that less than 2% of the players that play soccer in high school will play in college at some level and of that 2% that play in college less than 1% will play professionally. There are sites that will give you the small percentage that go from high school soccer straight to pro. See site below also for scholarship stats and other stats. Let’s not even go into a professional soccer players average salaries.
https://scholarshipstats.com/soccer
Before worrying about competing with the Joneses spending family vacation money on elite/premier/academy programs that we get sucked into to play, promised things to switch and once they have you they are on to find the next player which could be to replace the one that was just added. Yes it's a business so sure I get that. The best thing we can do is make sure they are progressing and growing as players and most important of all is that they are having FUN. Isn’t that what it's truly all about?
With that said not looking for the negative views of US soccer it's been truly wonderful to see how the sport has taken off since the 1994 World Cup with more and more teams, players, opportunities, and fans of the sport. Before then you rarely saw a match on tv let and now Champions League games are live on CBS. How wonderful is that.
https://scholarshipstats.com/soccer
Before worrying about competing with the Joneses spending family vacation money on elite/premier/academy programs that we get sucked into to play, promised things to switch and once they have you they are on to find the next player which could be to replace the one that was just added. Yes it's a business so sure I get that. The best thing we can do is make sure they are progressing and growing as players and most important of all is that they are having FUN. Isn’t that what it's truly all about?
With that said not looking for the negative views of US soccer it's been truly wonderful to see how the sport has taken off since the 1994 World Cup with more and more teams, players, opportunities, and fans of the sport. Before then you rarely saw a match on tv let and now Champions League games are live on CBS. How wonderful is that.
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