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James
Oct 2, 07 - 2:02 PM |
Club Soccer ... the sport
High school soccer and college soccer are a farce. Club soccer adheres to the established rules of the game around the world. The NCAA and NFHS alter the rules of the game willy nilly in order to 'Americanize' the game. Scholastic soccer limits the amount of games players can play during the years in which it is most crucial for developing players to play as much as possible. Specifically in Kansas, the Kansas High School Activities Association limits high school boys players from participating in club soccer with its 'six player rule' which bans more than six members of the same high school team from playing on the same club team. The result is that high school teams in small towns in rural areas are severely limited in their ability to compete with schools from the large urban and suburban areas since those players simply cannot form club teams without running afoul of the six player rule. Therefore the overall development of the gam e is stifled in areas where most people are very protective of the 'traditional sports', especially football. Curiously, the Kansas association has no six player rule for girls...who don't threaten football's popularity. Scholastic/collegiate associations place these restrictions on soccer NOT to keep the games in the "proper educational perspective" but rather to prevent soccer from receiving equivalent exposure to that of the 'revenue' or 'traditional' sports of Football/Basketball/Baseball. If that's not the case, explain the continued expansion of the Bowl Championship Series and the NCAA Basketball tournaments in addition to more regular season games in both football and basketball. The NCAA has actually used Title IX to decrease the number of men's college soccer programs available, while the USSF, which is not legally bound by Title IX has greatly expanded the opportunities for women and girls to play soccer without decreasing opportunitie s for men and boys. If scholastic/collegiate athletic associations don't want the USSF to encourage its players not to play scholastic/collegiate soccer, maybe those associations should think about cooperating with soccer's true governing body instead of trying to undermine it. Soccer is a superior activity to american football and anyone who can't understand why is proof of why. JAMES COMPTON jamesc96485@earthlink.net |
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Charlie
Oct 2nd, 2007 - 2:07 PM |
Re: Club Soccer ... the sport
Hello, James. Any child psychologist will tell you that specializing in a sport in middle school/high school is not good for the physical or emotional development of the child. Club soccer is all about the individual and not the team concept. Club soccer has no academic rules for participation. In fact the ODP manual states that missing an ODP practice because of a school event is an unexcused absense. High school athletic associations have a desire to protect young athletes from exploitation by folks who drain kids physically and emotionally by playing far too many soccer matches or baseball and softball games a year. Frankly, club soccer is all about the adults, not the kids. Club coaches lie like Hell to parents. "If Johnny plays for me year-round, he will get a college scholarship". Bull ****! ODP is a lying joke...reel those parents in and make some money. And club soccer "develops" players for who / what?? An advanced CLUB travel team, where parents have to spent $5,000 instead of $3,000 for their kid to get abused. I've never wittnessed as much verbal abuse anywhere else in sports than at a Club soccer match. What is the mission of the USSF? ... Why have a USSF? Why isn't school participation enough? ... because there are folks out there making money through USSF by preying on the hopes of parents. When college soccer programs start putting 80,000 folks in the stands for a match, then I'm sure soccer will take its proper place in AMERICAN sports. Nobody needs to "protect" football. At least schools don't play any sport year round. Charlie |
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