Thank you for your comment! As highlighted in our courses "Early Stage: Understand the Player to Develop the Talent" and "APFC Training Structure", we emphasize the importance of drills that offer players ample freedom and consistent ball control. This approach ensures that players are actively engaged and continuously honing their skills. Additionally, through Basic Situations, SSP, and SSG, we create environments where players have the opportunity to dribble and score, further enhancing their on-field decision-making and execution. We believe in a holistic approach to player development, ensuring they are well-rounded and prepared for various game scenarios. Hope this provides clarity!

Realistically, it's a business everywhere around the world, from Africa, Canada, Iceland, Argentina to Spain. And if that alone is the problem, then it is a problem worldwide. I suspect, though, that alone is not the problem or at least the problem you're identifying. Specificity has value. Within the United States, in some facet, I agree; it is expensive for youth to play at the competitive club level. That level spans many levels of play. At the youth recreational level, playing is relatively inexpensive, definitely more affordable, and in that sense, I generally disagree with your statement. Competitive youth club soccer overwhelmingly has a higher level of players and competition as well as a generally higher level of coaching than recreational soccer. Therein is a significant disparity, which adversely impacts the level of coaching, competition, and players each segment develops. And from my vantage point, both segments suffer from a lack of education and experience among coaches; though, it's more lacking in the recreational segment. Now, when you reference "some good players can't be on top teams because it's more expensive," generally, I might agree. Though, there are top players who do play for free at the academy level. The challenge is not necessarily that top players cannot play for free for the top teams, because that's not true in some cases, in some geographical regions. The challenge is developing those players to elevate their game to raise to the level of those free opportunities within the academy system, as developing those players either requires a lot of money and/or a highly qualified and dedicated parent to help develop that player. Furthermore, simply because a player is very good, perhaps good enough to rise to the level of free play, despite playing at relatively inexpensive levels, there are often other attributes that are gravely lacking. Discipline, mentality, professionalism quickly come to mind. Often times, in impoverished demographics, that mentality can be a challenge to find.

@@fidelgonzales8152 so in your opinion if you have money you can make it meaning that player sucks compared to others that are natural talented...

The real reason is due to other sports being more dominant, such as NFL football, which is arguably more expensive than football (soccer) but receive much more support, financially, commercially and socially. That's the real reason.

In fact, if football (soccer) were the most popular sport, then you'd have people playing it everywhere in parks, helping to prevent the exclusivity of "soccer camps" and things like that. It's simply that most athletes in the US are not inclined to compete in "soccer." That's changing but it's not there yet. Let's see after this next World Cup if there's another big shift.