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I agree. Club ball is very important. Perhaps I wasn't very clear in my originl post. There are lots of good players all over the Rock Hill area. Let's celebrate that fact.



This may be one of those quotes you are looking for. I am a high school fan myself and actually think that while skill may be better on club teams, the play is better on high school teams because coaching must adjust more for discrepancy in talent so a lot more is going on besides just skill--playing to your strengths and to other team weaknesses, playing for position within a region, managing a team through schoolwork, home behavior (rarely will a parent keep a kid out of a club game since the parent has paid good money for the kid to play) and school behavior, practice and games, working with a team that has been brought together through zoning rather than paying and trying out and coach selection, etc.
The clubs do an excellent job of producing quality players and all high school teams benefit, but high school coaches have to take what they get and win with it.
There are some who seem elitist about club soccer, I have tried to get into it, followed some games and teams, seen some pretty play, but I have not seen the type of strategy and coaching that go with high school.
I would bet that most coaches that coach both would say that high school is tougher to coach, and when a coach succeeds in high school I believe he or she has accomplished a remarkable thing.

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