Make youth soccer great again

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Ideas welcome

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Make it free for all. More people will play. Take the best of the best and put them on ships and sell them for big $$$ overseas. There the player will have to play for free until they drop. Repeat the process.

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There needs to be SOME free programs for boys AND GIRLS for the best of the best. Everyone else can pay. Focus needs to be on development until u14. Focus on winning at u15 Tooooo many kids are shorted development because the clubs and coaches focus on winning over everything else.

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all club should offer free 4 v 4s once a week

all club should also make a select team like what match fit is doing only instead of holding tryouts coaches should nominate players to try out and whoever makes those select teams will do some summer select and winter select tournaments

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My kid should play the most minutes and score all the goals

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More emphasis on pickup play with kids. All you hear is "overseas the kids all play in the streets". Towns should organize pickup soccer on like a Friday so it's not just relying on kids and word of mouth to get the kids together at parks. Try to engrain it more in our culture.

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Make it free for all.

How?.

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There are three things I would love to see

1. More opportunities for pick up play. Even that's hard because fields are all taken. My player (11 years) often ends up playing 3-3 pickup because a lot of his friends have younger siblings who have rec practice at a field nearby on the same day, so they all end up there and just play. Wish they could do it more often.

2. Compensation for clubs whose players get recruited and join an MLS club or academy. In a perfect world we'd have the grassroots system that they have in most European countries but I'll take some form of compensation, which ends up favoring development and lowers cost.

3. Proper league placement. Right now which team ends up in which league and which division is so arbitrary.

4. related .. fewer leagues.

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There are three things I would love to see

1. More opportunities for pick up play. Even that's hard because fields are all taken. My player (11 years) often ends up playing 3-3 pickup because a lot of his friends have younger siblings who have rec practice at a field nearby on the same day, so they all end up there and just play. Wish they could do it more often.

2. Compensation for clubs whose players get recruited and join an MLS club or academy. In a perfect world we'd have the grassroots system that they have in most European countries but I'll take some form of compensation, which ends up favoring development and lowers cost.

3. Proper league placement. Right now which team ends up in which league and which division is so arbitrary.

4. related .. fewer leagues.

I like this list.

the club vs club as to change. It needs to go based on team in each age group. Not the entire club. Just because one team may be good in a club doesn’t mean the rest are. Competition is poor. And if you so call need good competition to get better…well everyone in ECRL is screwed.

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I like this list.

the club vs club as to change. It needs to go based on team in each age group. Not the entire club. Just because one team may be good in a club doesn’t mean the rest are. Competition is poor. And if you so call need good competition to get better…well everyone in ECRL is screwed.

US soccer should make a league that everyone is in. And have relegations after each season. Club v club doesn’t work.

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US soccer should make a league that everyone is in. And have relegations after each season. Club v club doesn’t work.

USYS actually has a decent structure, if there was a way to incentivize all the clubs to participate. One single club v club tier/league for the whole country, designed only for the truly elite kids who plan to play after HS. After that, all teams are in a promo/rel structure with tiers large enough to keep travel more reasonable. Feed them all into a national championship each year. 90% of the kids in club soccer have no ambition to play competitively past HS. If they somehow provided the same caliber of play for those 90% without asking them to spend $2000+ per year on travel expenses, maybe some of those savings could go to a ~$100 fee to help fund the academies for the top players.