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[QUOTE="Padutch5, post: 1727680, member: 3528"]
OK, I recognize all of the ills of America today are because of the privileged upper class but enough already.  How do you explain the fact that our college D1 basketball teams are dominated by Afro Americans?  There is just as much focus on traveling, maybe even more.  Much of the basketball travel is actually at much greater distances.
I will agree on one thing.  The emphasis of youth soccer in being like Europe is beginning to hurt the average soccer playing kid.  The youth teams in any towns are sponsored by the park districts.  The level of soccer used to be pretty good.  Then USA soccer began to push to elite teams as feeders into the system. In prior years In most states , the better players playing travel also played in the house league. This was good for the non elite players in that they got to measure themselves against the better players.  Now those travel team players are forbidden to play in the house league.  The town travel teams are still relatively low cost.  However, the club teams are now viewed as the feeders into the elite academies and the cost of those is significant.
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