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CA,it's great to see your club trying to bring in minorities, but here in the upstate the big youth soccer club is located in one of the wealthiest areas of the upstate, and i could be wrong, but i've never seen the big club offer any free soccer programs in low income areas to try and bring in potential great athletes from these areas. these low income areas are producing some of the best baseball, basketball and football players in the state, but no soccer players are coming from these areas. Could it be that volunteers in these other sports are offering their time and training for free, and the big soccer club will only do it if their getting paid. That's what it looks like.



I like to call soccer a country club sport. It attracts people with money. If you can pay, you can play. If you have the talent in the sports mentioned above then someone is willing to help you financially. The model for travel is also alot different. You don't see entire families traveling to AAU events.

We have several minorties on our team who are getting help from the club but still need help with travel expenses. As a team we all work together to make sure these kids have the opportunity(ie, paying for meals, hotels, providing transportation). And some wealthy parents don't want to help the minorities because that might mean that a more talented miority would take little Bobby's spot on the top team that Bobby has had all these years.