Written by Robert Ziegler, ESNN

Why Clubs Need to Make Money

(2nd in a series of articles about elite youth soccer in America being at a crossroads)

Longtime readers of the site have seen me make mention of a subgroup within the soccer community who have apparently grown comfortable with making money off of mediocrity.

I don't mean to paint with too broad of a brush here and I really have no way to quantify just how prevalent a practice this is, but IT IS out there on the elite youth soccer landscape, and it is important for us as a soccer nation, not to mention to one soccer family at a time, that we learn how to recognize this syndrome and eradicate it.

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