MSK357
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You should promote your daughter. she might get that nike contract you want.
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MacDre
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Nah, my kid is a shy, introverted, science nerd. We want the money, fuck the fame-kinda like the boys.
MSK357
GOLD
Sounds like you really wanted that contract and you know who's trailblazing the "new pathway". Quit lying, you sound foolish.
MacDre
PREMIER
No, that was me testing the waters. If I had to identify someone in the US Soccer ecosystem that’s a trailblazer it would be the big homie from Hastings Rich Nichols. If I was mad about something, it would probably be about how the big homie was ousted.
Dude, you are acting hella square. More Promotion for ya square pants.
Girls do not have the same pre-professional soccer opportunities because the professional women’s soccer market can’t support it.
Don’t like it? Go support your local wpsl team. Plenty of good seats available, and they’re playing now.
MacDre
PREMIER
This is not about market economics. The objective of the program is preparation for the National team.
outside!
DA
The issue is not quite so simple. It is difficult to overcome a century of discrimination.
On the other hand, trying to find out any information on the local WPSL team is almost impossible. I was never able to find a schedule. My daughter practiced with two different semi-pro teams (one WPSL, one some new league thing) this summer and never saw a published schedule.
WPSL schedule for FC Golden State:
Looks like they play at Great Park. The rest of the schedules are there, too.
outside!
DA
Thanks, but that is fairly new. When I searched earlier this summer, I could not find any schedules for San Diego teams. Now that Captain's practices have started, most of the college players are done.WPSL schedule for FC Golden State:
Looks like they play at Great Park. The rest of the schedules are there, too.
oh canada
GOLD
If ya'll were hoping for your daughter to make a comfortable career in professional athletics then you signed her up for the wrong sport at 5 years old. You shoulda invested the time and money in tennis, where the tournament prize money potential is much greater OR a sport that has much more potential to make $ from digital content like skateboarding or snowboarding. Soccer juggling videos on youtube are not gonna buy the first car.
Just look at what female sports you see on TV -- Tennis, golf, xgames, basketball, softball, beach volleyball, track/field, gymnastics, swimming...all of these get more and better airtime than womens soccer. Unfortunate, but true.
Just look at what female sports you see on TV -- Tennis, golf, xgames, basketball, softball, beach volleyball, track/field, gymnastics, swimming...all of these get more and better airtime than womens soccer. Unfortunate, but true.
If we start red carding more fouls and making it easier to score than flop, viewership would be up. How many people want to watch tactical fouls?
SoccerFan4Life
PREMIER
Forget sports, get them into technology sales. Get your daughter to learn how to feel comfortable doing presentations, have a great personality, and good enough to play golf to take customers out.
There’s plenty of mid to high 6 figure salaries selling IT technology to fortune 1000 customers. Sports is just the foundation to work hard, be relentless, and be a team player.
Work on their Mandarin too.
Our goal has been a solid sports program with a stronger educational foundation and strong alumni network!
MacDre
PREMIER
I tried this but it ain’t really practical because it ‘s too hard to get conversational practice for the language to stick. But as a North Americans, all kids should be fluent in English and Spanish.
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DA
Yet HS Spanish classes spend most of the time writing verb tenses and almost no conversation because it is easier to test.
All languages are best learned at the earliest stages. We are in California plenty of chances to practice.
I'd sign my kid up for a club soccer team that works on conversational Spanish.
outside!
DA
Too late, but would not have worked for DD as there are no top level teams that speak mostly Spanish.
Have you tried learning to write Mandarin?
This is not an easy language. If you want to be moderately literate, you are trying to memorize around 6,000 unique characters. Many of them are homonyms, so each time you write down a word, you need to figure out from context which one you are writing.
example:
ma ma qi ma.
ma man.
ma ma ma ma.
There are five different characters in the above tongue twister, pronounced six different ways. Four of the pronunciations are different versions of “ma”.
Not a simple thing to inflict on a kid.