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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 2809572, member: 153"] Agreed on your point about scouts and the inner city. In fact, we have a problem with field space in inner cities as well. Lots of basketball courts, soccer fields not so much. I would also point out though that in Holland where you have a social safety net and not much poverty, the socioeconomic status of soccer players is similar to that of the US. Much of Europe is wealthy and socialist, so you don’t have poor inner cities. In Spain, it’s a different story, since you will find kids who can’t do pay-to-play, and Brazil of course is on another planet in terms of the poverty. [/QUOTE]