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Message: [QUOTE="Hoo's That, post: 3047604, member: 3609"] Your highlighting missed the most important part of my statement. The problem is not that we don't have the numbers playing soccer, it's that our best athletes are still playing football and basketball. There should be no question in anyone's mind that affluent parents are taking their sons out of football while the less-affluent are still playing. But that's what those who closely follow soccer will tell you [I]is[/I] the problem. Here soccer is a game for the rich. In the rest of the world it's a game for the poor. Until schools obsess over 5-star soccer players from Texas and Florida like they do football players now, we will always be an at-best second-tier soccer country. [/QUOTE]