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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 1801933, member: 153"]
Responding to ZooCougar, I would say that we could take more advantage of ethnic and immigrant communities in my area if only we could do something about facilities and transportation.

I sympathize with what you're saying but I don't think it's the organization of soccer that is to blame.

When we try to encourage our best house league kids to move up to more competitive clubs, we find that transportation is difficult because the lack of facilities (i.e. fields) requires transportation. And parents who work multiple jobs can't imagine their young children traversing the city to get to the fields (never mind practices that end at dark).

So, I think our problems have to do with the lack of numbers of soccer players (for basketball in the inner city, competitive teams congregate at local courts or school gyms) which would produce a demand for facilities, then urban sprawl and the fact that parents often work multiple jobs. If we could solve these problems,you'd see clubs like our own inner city club begin to dominate the premier teams, and that would really produce change.
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