Soccer pundits complaining about wanting more junior funding from the government and conveniently ignoring the fact that parents already pay a heap for their kids to play soccer which the league and clubs just hoovers up and wastes
Why is it junior/amateur level soccer costs so much to participate? I've never understood that? It seems to me to be the type of sport that could run on the smell of an oily rag, like it does in developing nations.
Because the clubs use the junior fees to pay their senior players and because the league in general provides close enough to zero support in terms of money for the juniors. Also soccer is being run in a hilariously incompetent way
Me too, was a member, now, **** em'
Handed in my City Membership - albeit only a country one. Not sure the CFG would miss me but I'm just so finished with the A League.
They’re obviously banking on it going to nuts if they think City v Adelaide grand final in Sydney is going to sell out
Always found it hard getting behind the A-League aside from punting on it. Suffers from the same problem as the NBL to an extent which is almost netball standard compared to an NBA game. There's that many hardcore soccer fans here that get up at 3am to watch the EPL but couldn't give a stuff about the A League. If the they haven't won over those types yet almost 20 years in they never will
