Expensive to play soccer..>.<  

For the past three years, baseball has gone up $10 each year. this year it is $45 dollars per child. I have two that play. All they get is the shirt. It is aggravating, If it wasn't for my kids love for baseball, I wouldn't have put them in this year. I wonder if its going to go up again next year.

I believe the fees go toward upkeep of the fields they play on and practice on. I know when I played soccer we used the school soccer fields but we were not on a school affliated soccer team. It's possible the school charged for the use of the field to compensate for the upkeep, who knows.

Also, someone is getting paid for organizing the league, it may not be the coaches but there are administration staff who do work to.

I think you will find that this is the fee for insurance, to cover, hospital, and other medical needs, and in some cases wages for the player.

It could be call registration annual fee.

All players must be registered and payed up to play.

This is standard right across all codes of Football.

But if you ask at your club they will tell where that fee goes and how it is used.

I think at the end you will think it good money spent well for what you receive.

I know just how you feel. I have 4 kids and no money. They are constantly bringing home flyers for baseball, football, cheerleading, gymnastics and so on and so on. I can't afford to let even one kid join and if one joins I'll have to let all 4 join. And the little girl next door has activities that overlap. She took cheer class and before that was over her t-ball started. And she's only 4. I keep telling my kids to do good in school, go to college get a relly good job and maybe then you won't constantly dissappoint your own kids.