Stop burning out kids for profit!

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So we have confirmed that a small country like Holland has all the competition (and history) for competition a train ride away. That's cool, but doesn't fit with the mass of Unites States.

We have confirmed that no other organization will provide "free" training on their own time.

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So we have confirmed that a small country like Holland has all the competition (and history) for competition a train ride away. That's cool, but doesn't fit with the mass of Unites States.

We have confirmed that no other organization will provide "free" training on their own time.

That's part of the problem - USSF wants us to be like Europe. It isn't. Not geographically, not in terms of depth of professional clubs, not in terms of culture. We need a system that works here and to stop trying to force another system that just doesn't fit.

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That's part of the problem - USSF wants us to be like Europe. It isn't. Not geographically, not in terms of depth of professional clubs, not in terms of culture. We need a system that works here and to stop trying to force another system that just doesn't fit.

well....could we be closer to Europe?
If there were four residency academies in Mass area it would work pretty well. These clubs have enough money from their lesser teams, camps, and clinics that they might be able to swing it for a small fee.
NEFC, Stars, Bolts, Revs (already free), GPS......Seacoast......Blackwatch/Western-Pioneers in the west....