I can believe that just a little. Let's do a comparison. Lets take the top AAU basketball team in the Columbia area or Greenville area. I would be willing to bet that a team of 12 aau basketball players about 8 of them comes from a lower income household. I'll be conservative and say 50% of them or 6 of them. If you think a soccer club is going to put half of a premier club team (about 9 players) on scholarship and pay for their travel in Premier League, Academy, ECNL, 2 tournaments a year you haven't been around. This would cause Club Directors to go into cardiac arrest. The only way better athletes will play soccer is if its affordable, and the clubs actually go into the inter-city and train for little or no money., and that won't happen.
