The problem is that too many, particularly girls, are playing for the wrong reasons. Many are playing because they see a scholarship at the end of the rainbow. For many that are fortunate enough to actually get a scholarship, they find out that it isn't as glorious as it's made out to be. There's a lot of hard work and often a lot of time spent on the bench. They're not prepared for that reality and can't handle it.

The game first needs to be played because the player has a love for the game. Too many think they love it, or at least they tell themselves that they love it, but the reality is that they don't. A player will never be excellent unless they love the game. Additionally, too many players lack tactical savvy. There are a lot of players out there without a high soccer IQ. They might be smart kids but not so much when it comes to soccer.

Was trying to get my kids in a soccer program, costs 5 g's a year each. First problem!

And the coach will suck for that money!

Laughable a ball for equipment needed!! What a joke

The thought that the amount of equipment needed somehow correlates with how much it should cost!! What a joke

Has to be

You'd grab the money and run too if you were these soccer clowns.

US Soccer is a business, and just like every other post modern company, they've signed up to the new religion of Intersectionality. Where Rapino, a lesbian with pink hair, titsout, disdainful behavior toward anything traditional is her unashamed basline. She doesn't stand for the national anthem, plays for team USA, and is celebrated for being a champion after beating mostly women of color whose historically patriarchal societies only got into women's soccer recently after the men running their soccer federations discovered they could make some money off the circus.

Team USA picks which commandments they wish to follow. Lots of white privilege going on. Mostly white, affluent, college educated woman on that team. Then when a relgious player doesn't want to wear their Intersectionality gay rights banner, they're thrown into the abyss, never to be heard of again, but they want to be paid the same as men even though they don't generate as much money... You know, because of equality for women.

So, unless your kid is a greedy lesbian, atheist, American hating, leftist, with the moral flexibility to ignore the contradictory garbage your organization represents after you celebrate beating Thailand 13-0 in front of the World...that's the future of your daughter, that's what you're paying for right now. Otherwise, the women running the USWNT have in place a glass ceiling...just ask Jaelene Hinkle, a Christian, who was called us, and handed a uniform with a land mine emblazoned on it...how'd that work out for her? Did she step on the land mine? A message to all other women that oppose the new indoctrination into religion of Intersectionality, and then when your practices become so obvious that the result may negatively impact your business, in this case, forcing Christian women whom play for team USA to wear gay pride symbol, and when they refuse, spin it, call her a homophobic individual who doesn't represent your organization's values, including, inclusiveness for all...ignoring that you just expelled a Christian black female because she didn't want to wear your crucifix around her neck.

Take your hate elsewhere, you piece of shít.

By your logic, if someone is lesbian, atheist, not a Christian, or a "leftist" ("leftist" ROTFLMAO!!), they hate America. What make America America is if that someone wants to be a lesbian or an atheist, they have a right to be.

For the record, I'm Jewish so I'm not a Christian but I still love my country. Clowns like you hate America and what it stands for but you're too stupid to realize that.

Be gone, jackwagon....

I like the word jackwagon

Awarded 2+ social justice warrior points

Sure, you being Jewish and this and that, calling me a piece of §hit, accepting everyone and everybody makes you a better person.

It doesn't.

You conveniently based your world view on the labels you've been handed. Instructed that the character of a person doesn't count, only the pronouns they use.

USWNT practices exclusion. Members are forced to wear their yarmulke or crucifix or told to pray towards mecca...or they must go. This is not inclusion, this is, exclusion. It's a contradiction you're comfortable with. It's a big flashing neon sign that says, Christians need not apply. In your mind you'd argue "but it's religion! Religion shouldn't be in sports! It's not the same thing!" Ah...but I disagree. Why is social activism allowed in sports? And why do you think Social activism groups don't behave and provide the same functions as religious organizations? The gay rights community is a religion, they have their temple or churches, their traditions, their own nomenclature, their rules and subculture, their saints, institutions of indoctrination, orthodox and passive members, contradictions, holy days, parades, flags, and just like every other organization, an us and them mentality. I don't have a problem with gay people. I have a problem with asshats that champion Christian bigots. When you dismiss a player from the USWNT because they won't wear your group's symbol, a symbol that has nothing to with soccer, you're a Christian bigot. Calling her a bigot against gay people, and excommunication from the USWNT is what their good book instructs them to do with heretics and apostates. For recusants, character assassination, and banishment. Sounds real inclusive.

Another soccer thread flushed down the political crapper

I never implied that I was a better person because I'm "Jewish and this and that, calling me a piece of §hit, accepting everyone and everybody.... " You inferred that is what I was expressing.

It seems to be that you're the one that thinks you're a better person. You're the one making snide comments and questioning the worth of non-Christians, atheists, lesbians, "leftists" ("leftists" ROTFLMAO!!), etc. Somehow you believe that everyone in this country should be homogeneous - Christian, heterosexual, rightist/conservative, etc. Remember, Hitler thought the same way. Me? I think that everyone in the USA should practice whatever faith they choose to and if they choose to be an atheist that's fine too. They should be allowed whatever political beliefs they want, should be allowed to love whoever they want to. The Constitution gives us those rights. You? You're apparently filled with hate and believe that anyone that is an atheist, not a Christian (that would be me since I'm a Jew), not heterosexual, not conservative, or anyone that doesn't fit your "ideal", is somehow inferior. You're an obtuse idiot that hates this country and what it stands for

Be gone, jackwagon....

Eh hem...

No. "Somehow you believe that everyone in this country should be homogeneous".

What I wrote, or meant to express is I see no difference between social activist ideologies and religious ideologies. And point out the hypocrisy of the "inclusive" USWNT that force players from all different backgrounds to be "homogeneous" toward their own organization's culture, which has nothing to do with soccer, and everything yo do with power. To force convert players to accept, and promote their ideology, or they must go, this is not equality. This is a demonstation of power. This is Christians forcing Jews to convert or leave. 1492 in Spain or 2019 in the USA...same thing. Hanging a Jamon Serrano over the doorway in 1490 in an Andaluzian village market demonstrated the order of things, a message just as throwing a black Christian female off the USWNT for not wanting to wear the gay pride flag on her team USA game jersey...it's a message. You're too busy virture signaling to hear the message.

Take it to the political forum, jackwagon

Agreed... very eloquently stated. More of us feel the same way than the media will report/admit.