Interesting dialog and worth a post to stir it up a little.
While I agree three clubs in a town the size of Fort Mill does indeed sound strange, you would have to consider the benefits of local rivalry before we jump to distilling (youth) soccer down to three clubs in the State. Growing up just south of Gatwick Airport (Sussex, England) it was always a lot of fun to watch the local games with the biggest for the kids on my block being Crystal Palace vs Brighton & Hove Albion. Of course for a few bucks more you could go to London (less than my journey to Summerville today) and watch West Ham vs. Chelsea or my personal favorite the North London rivalry Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. Consider all these teams and a plethora of smaller less known (not that Brighton & Hove are that well known) professional, amateur, and youth clubs fit in the space occupied by the greater Charleston region (i.e about 40 miles across) today and I find myself wondering why we can't do better at getting more kids involved right here and filling every club (and adding more - oh we just did).
Not sure what my point is here other than promote a degree of local competition that always generates excitement and helps provide choices for parents. Granted it makes it more difficult to bring the best together but not impossible.
Not sure who our local rivals will be Goose Creek, Mount P, or DISA. In any case we're looking forward to it and will give it our best.
Final thought as I sit wtriting this and looking at an envelope that arrived today in the mail and contained a registration form for a 6 year old boy I met last week when we visited Cainhoy Elementary and spoke to their PTO. The family lives in Huger and I recall the mother saying to me as we discussed our plans " we are so blessed to see something like this, you are the answer to our prayers" Please consider these families who simply can not afford the trip to Summerville or even MP, just a 30 minute drive down Hwy 41. All of us need to reach out and engage more kids. I can guarantee back when I was 6 and dreaming of playing for Brighton, I could always find a field, goals, and team to play with without driving 40 miles.
Now I fear this has no bearing on the original post and the geography and capacity for soccer in Fort Mill so please forgive me.
This here ones for us to bemoan the mess we have up here! Look you got the beach and now you want to take our thread too! How about giving us a little dignity here! 
