Try, every other paying parent took care of that!!!
Oh good lord. It's getting overly emotional now.
The club didn't charge the ecnl players/parents. Better? From the perspective of the ecnl players/parents, the club took care of it.
There are costs related to running programs, whether club, community or high school and somehow those costs do have to be covered. It could be through revenue (dues, fees, taxes etc) or cutting some costs is another way. In fact, someone already said the HS Football covers costs of all the other sports. That doesn't seem to have anyone upset.
But if you want to start getting upset about the costs of soccer when measured in terms of what other people might pay, including every taxpayer from whom $0.01 or more might go towards soccer field maintenance etc, go for it.