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Sam Gregory

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
291 total appearances

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

And you think, okay, what is the motivation for that kid?

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

What is the motivation for that parent?

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

And so it's not as easy as, yes, we need to lower the cost, but there's a bunch of costs that have nothing to do with what the clubs are charging.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

There's travel costs.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

There's just the size of the country, where players are located.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

So there's a lot of challenges, and

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

If I had an answer to that question, I think we would have done it because there's people who are motivated to do it, and I think there's a bit more momentum now where U.S.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

soccer, I know, is trying to get involved in different ways to lower the cost to entry.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

Some of the teams have, so Sporting Kansas City will have an academy, and they'll have players in that academy who won't be paying anything to play for the academy.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

And so there's some pathways, but again, that's a small group of very, very elite kids, so that's not...

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

hundreds and hundreds of kids, which you need because you can't tell at 14 who the best kid is going to be.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

But I think what you just highlighted there, that's not something that you can spend overnight and it changes.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

That's got to be a cultural shift.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

That's got to be kids who say โ€“ There's got to be a demand first.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

Yeah, it's got to be kids who say โ€“ not who grew up saying, I want to be the next Steph Curry.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

It's kids who grew up saying, I want to be the next Kristen Pulisic, right?

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

That's got to be the change that happens.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

And I think when you look on the women's side, that's what's happened is now you have all of these girls who grew up watching โ€“

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

Megan Rapinoe, Carly Lloyd, and that's who they want to be, and that's the pathway that they take.

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H1 Monologue, Sam Gregory

And I think a big part of that is, yeah, shifting that culture and giving kids the opportunity to have something to dream towards.