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    #16
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    LOL and a fact. Baseball is going same way. College World series looks like a clan convention.
    well, this news that soccer is a rich white kid's sport is being flaunted on Fox News and Breitbart, as a FEATURE. and they're not wrong. it's a rich kid's sport becuase YOU want it that way. because YOU (y'all) want to cast doubt on a kid's age, or residency (as in address), or legal status, whenever a non-rich white kid plays against your child.

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      #17
      While Solo occasionally says and does things that are foolish--it's interesting to compare her and Abby Wambach. Both have had well-known run-ins with the law.

      One, essentially, apologizes and is given a slap on the wrist.

      The other is given the full Tonya Harding treatment.

      Solo is dead right on this one, and the "rich" part is probably more important than the "white" part, at least around these parts. Like Harding, Solo comes a background of what some folks call "poor white trash", a phrase that is often bandied about as though the first two words together imply the third. Unlike Harding, who was at best a mediocre skater who could do things athletically that no other skater could do but was rather deficient in technique, Solo was--for many years--the best in the world at her job. And Solo has never been accused of trying to injure a competitor--she was run out of the sport, essentially, for trash talk uttered in a stressful moment.

      What Solo gets wrong is that her criticism, in the US, is mainly true about the women's game.

      On the guys' side, many of the top players in the country are Latino. Or black. Or come from the sticks rather than the manors of Lake Oswego. The USMNT may do a piss-poor job of finding these players, but they are out there, and if it's one thing that the Timbers do relatively well, it's reaching out to the Latino and other immigrant communities (the TA teams are chock full of talented Mexicans, Ukranians, and other kids with foreign nationality or heritage). Of course, this produces reams of whining here in this forum about how TA is picking the "wrong" kids, and how the oversized yuppies who play for the various West Hills clubs are the "true" best players in the local soccer scene ("they play basketball too! And study the piano"). Which is, of course, a bunch of rot.

      The difference? A lucrative marketplace for professionals on the men's side, and virtually nada on the women's side. The major opportunity for compensated play for girls/women is NCAA soccer, which is only of use for those wishing to attend college.

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        #18
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Hope Solo is off of her rocker about a lot of things and isn't always the most stable of people but she is 100% spot-on here.
        I wonder what she would think of the bs going on at Timbers Academy!

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          #19
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          You’ll find it where the college coaches are, Oceanside, So. Cal.


          Shoulder to Shoulder with sunscreen and notepads, hoping their prized recruits chooses their school over going pro. It’s incredible.


          US Soccer has created all of this.
          Did the Thorns have any teams in San Diego this past weekend?

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            #20
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Did the Thorns have any teams in San Diego this past weekend?
            Thorns & Timbers are the only DA in Oregon, they would be the only ones going from a state so rich with excellent clubs. Jus sayin.

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              #21
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Thorns & Timbers are the only DA in Oregon, they would be the only ones going from a state so rich with excellent clubs. Jus sayin.
              So did the Thorns have a team qualify?

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                #22
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                College baseball (go Beavs), like college soccer, isn't terribly relevant to the pro game. Most MLBers turn pro directly out of high school, and many come from overseas, particularly Latin America. And like NCAA soccer, NCAA baseball involves a ruleset that the pros find obnoxious. (Metal bats, after all, are a greater affront to America's pastime than a countdown clock and weird sub rules are to the world's pastime).
                Most MLBers coming out of high school also usually get some kind of college paid for in their contracts, so why not if it doesn't work out .

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  LOL and a fact. Baseball is going same way. College World series looks like a clan convention.
                  Maybe you could have made it to college if you could run as fast as your racist mind thinks.

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                    #24
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    So did the Thorns have a team qualify?
                    They played in the showcase bracket - which is where the non qualifying teams played.

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                      #25
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      So did the Thorns have a team qualify?
                      Thornz couldn't qualify for Founders Cup.

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                        #26
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        They played in the showcase bracket - which is where the non qualifying teams played.
                        That is good, at least they were able to play in San Diego. Sounds like a great event.

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                          #27
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          That is good, at least they were able to play in San Diego. Sounds like a great event.
                          Yeah but all those D1 coaches someone is on here bragging about were at the playoff games. Not the loser bracket showcase games. Oh well. They got to go to San Diego on our dime. Pretty good deal for them.

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            They played in the showcase bracket - which is where the non qualifying teams played.
                            Similar to the ECNL 'Playoffs' which are for clubs that didn't qualify for the DA. Got it.

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                              #29
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Yeah but all those D1 coaches someone is on here bragging about were at the playoff games. Not the loser bracket showcase games. Oh well. They got to go to San Diego on our dime. Pretty good deal for them.
                              College coaches watch all the levels at big ECNL or GDA showcases. People say College coaches don't watch showcase bracket in ECNL as well and it isn't the case. College coaches are looking for talent not teams, they troll all the events. Kinda like you GDA or ECNL trolls.

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                                #30
                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                College coaches watch all the levels at big ECNL or GDA showcases. People say College coaches don't watch showcase bracket in ECNL as well and it isn't the case. College coaches are looking for talent not teams, they troll all the events. Kinda like you GDA or ECNL trolls.
                                They don't have bottomless budgets so they must prioritize. DA is their top choice, according to them, they will make an effort to get to USYS and US Club events if they can afford it and have the staffing to attend. Just the way it works.

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