#658: Club vs high school soccer with Matt Sahag

Matt Sahag, who coaches high school girls soccer in Des Moines,
joins the pod to discuss a recent pitch from a big ECNL club to
players and their parents, discouraging them from playing high
school soccer this spring so they can focus on league ECNL play
and national showcases.


Sahag has responses to the claims made by the club. It's
interesting. 13-yr-old's flying out for the weekend to play
regular-season games, $2500 trips to Arizona for...what? And you
don't get to play against that cross-town rival this season for
your school, by the way. AND the pot at the end of this rainbow
is probably a partial scholarship at a non-D1 college. Just
another slice of the America soccer dilemma.


If you want more from Matt on the specifics of the Sporting Iowa
pitch, listen to his break-down on Soccer Talks, the Kick It
Forward podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e210-high-school-soccer-matters-is-ecnl-super-cup-the-answer/id1458145533?i=1000739927583


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