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Originally Posted by Locke
Yes it can.
I coached Tier 1 Youth Soccer years ago and both the club and parents were talking about US College Scouts watching them play and the possibility of Scholarships, etc.
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Would be interesting to compile a database and distribute it to parents to show them how few kids get U.S scholarships.
Elite female soccer players in Canada in big cities at least have a chance to get noticed and get a decent sized scholarship in the U.S (I stress "chance"), male players have close to a 0% chance of not only getting recruited, but seeing decent scholarship money as male soccer scholarship money is very very limited compared to female players, due to football and title IX which mandates money has to be equal between the sexes. The bigger hope for male soccer player in Canada would be getting into the Whitecaps, TFC or Cf Montreal youth academy system and obviously those odds are extremely low, too.