Cats acting like shyt is hyper expensive here when it's $200 to train your kids years 1-7 with the LA Galaxy camps for 8 classes over the entire summer.
youth.lagalaxy.com
$200 to join a competitive leagues for the Fall and Spring.
Folks acting like it's a crazy ass paywall that'll cost multi-millions of dollars
This is out in LA and Orange County so you know there are cheaper around the country.
That's $400/year to get a good soccer education, training and participation. That's less than $3k total years 1-7, putting your name with the program year-after-year. That's nearly as much as you'll spend on Netflix over the same period of time, so what's the excuse?
You want your kids to be a soccer star you drag them into these camps for the price of some of these streaming services. You don't need some country-wide scaled up marketing or culture shift
If your kids are special, then someone'll notice from there. Messi, Ronaldinho, etc. were special at 8 years old. So if someone's kid sticks out at that point, someone will sponsor them like they do everywhere else.
It's literally a lower to middle class suburbia sport, not some super high class 1% paywall on some
So you decide: Netflix, Spotify and Disney Plus or Professional Soccer training. The choice and power is yours, nobody else's.
The defeatism here is crazy