GPS U13 playing Revs U13 this weekend

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A GPS thread really brings out the bigots.

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So...your solution to this 'racist' regime is what?
Do you want the DA teams to send out buses to pick kids up all over Mass?
Do you want them to hold practices throughout the state?
Do you want the Revs to move to Boston? How would that benefit the poor throughout the state?

Most of the inner city are better off running T&F, playing basketball, baseball or football as these sports are better supported financially and have more opportunity.

Why can't the country face facts....soccer is a minor sport.

Some DA clubs do provide transportation. Some even do residency programs. Clubs that want to find talent try to find ways to make it work.

And while pull the bulls**t racist card? No where in the post did they mention the ethnicity of the players they knew. White kids are poor too. Nor are all lower income families in big cities. Poor is everywhere. This is about giving more kids an opportunity to play soccer that are shut out because of cost or other hindrances. Yes more lower income kids will be minority based on demographics. However, most who will be interested in soccer will be Hispanic, not African American.

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Some DA clubs do provide transportation. Some even do residency programs. Clubs that want to find talent try to find ways to make it work.

And while pull the bulls**t racist card? No where in the post did they mention the ethnicity of the players they knew. White kids are poor too. Nor are all lower income families in big cities. Poor is everywhere. This is about giving more kids an opportunity to play soccer that are shut out because of cost or other hindrances. Yes more lower income kids will be minority based on demographics. However, most who will be interested in soccer will be Hispanic, not African American.

Bolts are screwed- Valeo gets U13/U14 expansion. Bolts are dying a slow death. BA and his muppet DC are ****.

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Bolts are screwed- Valeo gets U13/U14 expansion. Bolts are dying a slow death. BA and his muppet DC are ****.

You must be the Talking-Soccer owner from FC Stars...

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Bolts are screwed- Valeo gets U13/U14 expansion. Bolts are dying a slow death. BA and his muppet DC are ****.

Isn't this a good thing? Two more years of someone else training the kids that Bolts will end up taking the best of at U15? Is GPS or Bayside getting expansion as well? Does this mean that the U13 DA program nationwide won't be hacked the following year as some suspected (why award it to a club and take it away the very next year)?

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I know two lower income kids who turned down MLS DA offers because they couldn't get to practices. The parents worked multiple jobs and certainly couldn't afford to hire a babysitter/driver. Efforts to find a carpool solution failed.

That's life. No one ever said the world owed you anything, snowflake. Have the parents make some sacrifices for their kids. Give up one of those part-time jobs. No? Stop whining then.

Seriously, entitlement needs to die.

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Speaking of self entitled soccer parents. This guy ^^^

You utterly failed to grasp that quality players get shut out of soccer. Stop focusing on your kid and look at the big picture. Soccer will not get better, or more popular, if it remains a sport for rich dirt bags like you

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Why would a reader infer that from my very clearly worded example? The issue is not rich white kids, it is rich kids. I also conceded that rich kids is also not, by itself, a guarantee that a kid is not a great player or super athletic. Right now in US Soccer, the top leagues have a very disproportionate number of rich kids in them. If the playing field were leveled for serious players and W2s were not checked for ability to pay, then our soccer world would be turned on its head and I am sure we would improve quickly in a very short amount of time at every age, including the senior teams in just a few years. You can't force anyone of any ethnicity to play and there are no guarantees that skin color denotes top quality. Sorry, you cant just take a random black or hispanic kid and throw them into DA and expect them to be Pogba or Suarez in a few years. Soccer needs better, far cheaper, local leagues (like Pop Warner or Little League) that allow kids to play. I would even say the geography could be far greater than those two examples and have various striations for individuals to move up or down with their ability. City leagues, state leagues, regional leagues.

I don't know what you consider rich but there are very few upper middle class kids on my kids soccer team. I think you are pointing to rich as the culprit and negating having parents that take the time (and spend the cash) to make sure the kids play soccer or any sport. Having a parent that cares is what you are seeing at soccer. There are ways poor kids can play and work their way up to a premier team and scholarship but they need parents that give a ****.

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Speaking of self entitled soccer parents. This guy ^^^

You utterly failed to grasp that quality players get shut out of soccer. Stop focusing on your kid and look at the big picture. Soccer will not get better, or more popular, if it remains a sport for rich dirt bags like you

This is all conjecture on your part and you have no proof to back up what you say. In my town it is $60 for the fall season to play town travel. How is that locking kids out? And if their parent volunteers it is free. Parents that don't care are locking their kids out of soccer not rich people.

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Speaking of self entitled soccer parents. This guy ^^^

You utterly failed to grasp that quality players get shut out of soccer. Stop focusing on your kid and look at the big picture. Soccer will not get better, or more popular, if it remains a sport for rich dirt bags like you

soccer or no soccer.... he/they are simply a dick!!

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I don't know what you consider rich but there are very few upper middle class kids on my kids soccer team. I think you are pointing to rich as the culprit and negating having parents that take the time (and spend the cash) to make sure the kids play soccer or any sport. Having a parent that cares is what you are seeing at soccer. There are ways poor kids can play and work their way up to a premier team and scholarship but they need parents that give a ****.

Do you know what the qualifier is for DA travel scholarships? The family can't make more than $25,000. That is the US poverty line for a family of four. Poverty. Not even low income but POOR. If you're a family of four that makes $45,000 in MA you will be struggling mightily and pricey club soccer will not be high on your priority list.

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Do you know what the qualifier is for DA travel scholarships? The family can't make more than $25,000. That is the US poverty line for a family of four. Poverty. Not even low income but POOR. If you're a family of four that makes $45,000 in MA you will be struggling mightily and pricey club soccer will not be high on your priority list.

Do you know what you the qualifier is for a DA club to offer a scholarship? TALENT! It’s as simple as that. If they want your kid your income is meaningless. The club can do whatever they choose.

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Do you know what you the qualifier is for a DA club to offer a scholarship? TALENT! It’s as simple as that. If they want your kid your income is meaningless. The club can do whatever they choose.

That's at the club level; I was referring to the USSF scholarship. You have to provide financial documentation to qualify and that is only for travel costs. Clubs can give their own scholarships if they want and based on whatever criteria they want. Some base it on talent, others by financial need (again, most requiring documentation and a very low income level to qualify). But clubs can only afford to give so many scholarships and ultimately everyone else pays for it - either through jacked up tuitions on the other DA players or from the other non DA teams. They're businesses first and foremost (the few that are non profit are non profit in name only). At non MLS clubs money still steers the ship. It's only at MLS clubs where talent is the true qualifier.

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This is all conjecture on your part and you have no proof to back up what you say. In my town it is $60 for the fall season to play town travel. How is that locking kids out? And if their parent volunteers it is free. Parents that don't care are locking their kids out of soccer not rich people.

You obviously had a silver spoon up you @ss your whole life. You have no idea what it is to be poor. $60 can be a struggle for a poor family, but that’s besides the point because if they are too busy working multiple wage jobs (remember these aren’t 9-5 Mon-Fri jobs like you may work) and don’t have transportation they can’t make it to practices and games, even in their own town let alone in travel soccer. Sometimes the lack of a support structure is worse than the lack of $ for a poor family.

We collectively lose out when talent isn’t realized because of poverty and lack of opportunity.

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You obviously had a silver spoon up you @ss your whole life. You have no idea what it is to be poor. $60 can be a struggle for a poor family, but that’s besides the point because if they are too busy working multiple wage jobs (remember these aren’t 9-5 Mon-Fri jobs like you may work) and don’t have transportation they can’t make it to practices and games, even in their own town let alone in travel soccer. Sometimes the lack of a support structure is worse than the lack of $ for a poor family.

We collectively lose out when talent isn’t realized because of poverty and lack of opportunity.

Not the OP, but that's a broad stroke to be using there. Some of us came from nothing, went to small schools and worked the entire time and have managed to become relatively successful. Nothing was ever given to me, other than later in life when previous successes/relationships were rewarded with opportunities. Those, were, still earned.

This blame game has to stop.