The over/under is set at $3,000 for your kid to play in 1 National Team Tournament whether it was the Circuit or Club Nationals. I'm taking the over. Try-out fees, Uniform, Flight for dad/son, rental car, hotel, etc. This is absolutely insane. After looking at IG it's obvious some teams would take anyone that inquired to play.
You're not wrong, but every 2028 team at the Circuit except for Team 18 and Nation's Best were actively looking for unregistered, unverified players the night before the tournament started.
Also not wrong about cost, but let's keep the "insanity" in perspective when we freak out about $3,000....USL reported that the average parent expenditure on lax was about $9,000 per kid per year in 2021. Highest among sports, per participant, aside from hockey (and a quick reminder that as small/nonexistent as our sons' chances are to make a PLL roster one day, zero MD natives have ever made an NHL roster. Zero. Ever). Now that's insane.
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