Only one USWNT player didn’t kneel ahead of Olympic soccer match

Kaepsknee

RoadDawg55 said:

hardhat said:

If it is about wokeness, I'm sure growing up wealthy enough to afford select soccer was real tough on the players in the women's team. I'm so proud of them for overcoming their hardship and lack of fortune in life. What a brave and bold stand. Kudos.

It’s the easiest sport in the world to get a pick up game going, but in America, it’s absolutely a money sport. Very few underprivileged kids are playing soccer unless they were found by a select program at a very young age.

I personally can’t recall one high school soccer player that came from a truly poor family.

Not the case here. There are 5 times the Soccer fields as there are baseball/soccer fields down here in Cap City. Most that participate aren’t rich.

WestlinnDuck

Kaepsknee said:

RoadDawg55 said:

hardhat said:

If it is about wokeness, I'm sure growing up wealthy enough to afford select soccer was real tough on the players in the women's team. I'm so proud of them for overcoming their hardship and lack of fortune in life. What a brave and bold stand. Kudos.

It’s the easiest sport in the world to get a pick up game going, but in America, it’s absolutely a money sport. Very few underprivileged kids are playing soccer unless they were found by a select program at a very young age.

I personally can’t recall one high school soccer player that came from a truly poor family.

Not the case here. There are 5 times the Soccer fields as there are baseball/soccer fields down here in Cap City. Most that participate aren’t rich.

I grew up playing pick up baseball, football and basketball. Not a parent in sight. When I was 9 I'd take my 3 year old brother to the school. I'd play workup and he would play on the playground equipment. Now, the cops would pick us up and take us to CSD. Today, at the local grade school there are no pickup games in anything. Maybe a few kids on the play ground, always accompanied by a parent. There are some pickup basketball games at the park, but they are generally over 18 year olds. Not a group of sixth graders playing.

In the West Linn school district if you didn't make the select soccer team (over a $1,000 in costs) in sixth grade, you weren't going to make the high school team. No pick up soccer to hone skills, you needed the structure to get those skills. Not like in Mexico where you see a lot of pick up soccer on hard as concrete basically dirt fields.