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Originally Posted by Johnny199r
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.
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You get a pretty good idea in an American city of the odds. I live in a city with metro area of about a million. We have 3-4 big soccer clubs. 2 of them filter into what was a US Dev Academy team. The clubs have an average of 3 teams per single age group by the time they are 11v11 in u13. So it's basically a DA team, 4 elite teams, and about 8-9 2nd/3rd level travel teams across the city.
The clubs all post their college commitments. Usually about half the starting lineup of the DA team gets a D1 scholarship, and 0-2 from the elite teams. So probably about 8-9 per year males get D1 scholarships, and probably 10-15 D2/D3 scholarships.
Basically, if you're not on the DA team, or the best player in your club, there's no real chance.
A lot of sports, it's all about genetics anyway. I didn't really realize until I started following baseball recruiting a bit, that every single RH pitching prospect to come out of here is at least 6'2. A kid who only projects to be 6' has no real chance of pitching in a D1 school.