re: Can someone explain to me why our youth system is bad?

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Can someone explain to me why our youth system is bad?

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Here is an example of where I live in IA. Cost $400 per season(fall and spring) and coaches are just parents that tell the defenders to stand on there own 6 and kick the ball to their kid or as far up the field as you can. Don't let other team score is the goal. And hope your one good kid(who you never want to pass) scores a goal. It was the same when we lived in LA AL and AR. Money goes to USSF. Coaches aren't paid just parents. Fields are city owned in all 4 states. We had to buy are own jerseys ball and equipment. So you have 15 kids on a team $800 per kid. That's $12,000 per year. Up here we went to 2 tournaments for my younger kid we had to pay more for. Luckily one of my kids coaches is head men's coach at a D2 school in town so he is not about results and we work out the back and pass and don't just park in front of goal. But I've seen the same in 4 states. Pay a lot to have patents coach that only want to win(a lot has to do with pressure from clueless parents). So it's park the bus. And who knows where money goes. There are 4 different leagues in town. I've switched between the 1st 3. They are all the same. Even did city league. It was $20(twenty) bucks and you had the same level of coaching Some even better that wasn't affiliated with USSF but it only went up to 12 year olds