Over the years club soccer coaches always grumbled about conflicts with high school soccer. The problem was especially acute on the girls side where the WAGS (Washington Area Girls Soccer) Tournament was the king of the hill among college showcase tournaments but was played over Columbus Day weekend and inevitably caused at least indirect conflicts with high school games or practices.
Lately the upper echelon club teams, the so-called academies, have subtly or not so subtly demanded its players forgo high school teams to be on their rosters. Chris Melchiorre has a story in today's Inquirer about one top college prospect who is going against the flow and will play for his Haddon Township High School team in his senior year this fall, rather than for the Philadelphia Union U18 Academy team.
I wish him luck and will be interested to see how things turn out for him.
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