Who controls US Soccer ?

[whatithink]

I've also seen a few opt to just play their senior year for fun and a chance to win a CIF championship.

I've seen it a lot with seniors for sure. For the 9-11 crew, I've seen a mix of kids who want to play HS and consider it more important, and others where their MLS N team has been beaten up a lot, so they don't care and just want to have fun for a change.

 

[Slobodan]

Whomever controls it should have stopped that match last night. Reminded me of an AYSO U6 game. Hopefully nobody got hurt getting their shins kicked by 6 other kids.

 

[watfly]

I consider the 2007 age group in San Diego as a fairly strong class, and it certainly comes from a large population base. However, out of that group I only know one kid that is on the professional track. Others might play college and then have pro opportunities, but in terms of a straight path to the pros I'm only aware of one kid (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Let club soccer players play high school. Pro potential kids have plenty of leagues and teams to play on (or train with) at HS age. USL, USL 1, USL 2, MLS Next Pro, UPSL, NISA.

 

[SuperSoccerStar]

At least in SoCal and for Girls playing Highschool soccer has become very important. At lease from what I'm seeing.