Soccer abusive to children?

[renard_ruse]

In big soccer/football countries, professional teams run "soccer academies" where they take children as young as five or six years old and start training them to play professionally. The children are forced to play soccer all day. In many countries they are denied the right to attend school. The vast majority never make it to the pros and are discarded once they reach their mid-teens. With no job prospects or even the ability to read or write, many kill themselves.

 

[renard_ruse]

In America, children are encouraged to play a full range of sports. Once they reach high school they can then pick a sport(s) they think they might be good at and try out for the school's team. If they are really good, they can play in college and further improve their skills, possibly leading to a pro contract. The child is no tracked into one sport or activity and their mind and soul is not destroyed.

People say this is why Americans "don't win in soccer." I think that our system is something to be proud of. God Bless America.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It creates new faggots.

 

[dolf]

in the third world legislation is lax and parents are desperate.

 

[colddiesel]

In big soccer/football countries, professional teams run "soccer academies" where they take children as young as five or six years old and start training them to play professionally. The children are forced to play soccer all day. In many countries they are denied the right to attend school. The vast majority never make it to the pros and are discarded once they reach their mid-teens. With no job prospects or even the ability to read or write, many kill themselves.

And your source for this is?

 

[islandman]

In big soccer/football countries, professional teams run "soccer academies" where they take children as young as five or six years old and start training them to play professionally. The children are forced to play soccer all day. In many countries they are denied the right to attend school. The vast majority never make it to the pros and are discarded once they reach their mid-teens. With no job prospects or even the ability to read or write, many kill themselves.

Conditions are also atrocious in baseball academies throughout Latin America. The common thread isn't sports, but rather poverty.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

In big soccer/football countries, professional teams run "soccer academies" where they take children as young as five or six years old and start training them to play professionally. The children are forced to play soccer all day. In many countries they are denied the right to attend school. The vast majority never make it to the pros and are discarded once they reach their mid-teens. With no job prospects or even the ability to read or write, many kill themselves.

That's how Jackie Chan got his start...





... Samo used to beat him up.