chapindad: in regards to your minority post , i think your missing the point. i think were talking about people who cannot afford the sport of soccer at the youth level because of their class, not neccesarily their ethnic background. unlike the big three sports in the US of A, soccer is not affordable for the lower class, a strain on the middle class, and the upper class has no problem dishing out the money for their child to play at the highest club level. i've been part of the soccer scene for several years and have never seen our big club have clinics, build a soccer field or target youths in lower income areas. I think this is why the sport of soccer has peaked in this country because the best youth athletes are not given the opportunity to play soccer like the other big 3 sports. look at pro baseball, and now basketball those sports are loaded with minorities. I went to a Greenville Drive baseball game last week a majority of the starters were from the caribbean and south america, i doubt if a majority of those kids came from middle or upper class families. i think soccer got off on the wrong foot in this country, once the clubs saw that there was big money to be made they killed any opportunity to get the best athletes in the country. Even golf that was pretty much a country club sport has conformed to the needs of taking that game to low income areas, They have a very successful "1st Tee program that gives low income youths lessons and play for free. If you asked one of the big soccer club director to offer something like this they would run and hide.
