Tryouts

As of 2012 i have been attending professional soccer tryouts in the united states and as of now i attended ....1 soccer combine in sarasota , and 2 NASL tryouts for the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers and Atlanta Silverbacks. The combine i attended in sarasota ended up good for me getting good reviews from my coach and some other feed back from other coaches. Unfortunately i didnt have an agent with me talking to all the coaches so all i could do was just play good and hope a coach would notice me from afar. As for the 2 NASL tryouts i feel like i didnt play as good as i could of in the Strikers one because i was noted down in the wrong position and didnt play my position till the second game which hurt my chances a lil but im not going to make excuses. one thing that did seem to bother me was the organization of the tryout....it was a lil out of order and it made me feel like it was just a method to get 175$ out of me. I mean they do have about 2 or 3 tryouts charging aspiring players that amount. The profit is just insane, originally from Uruguay i know that in South America the system is nothing like that over there. If your good then you go to a team and meet with the manager and they offer you a 2 week trial with the reserves or the team and if your something they might be intrested in then you get offered a contract. Over here in the U.S. you have to pay to play and you get one or two days of tryouts with random players that are also trying out and its just a scattered mess of players that are on differnt levels of skill which makes it very hard to get noticed or even play decent. Next tryout was with the Atlanta Silverbacks in Georgia. I spoke to a friend of mine who knew an insider that could possibly get me an invite without paying the application fee. After recieving the invite i booked my flight and was on my way. I arrived in Atlanta excited to play and once again it was a mess of players on diffent skill levels. This tryout though was more organized and they made us run some drills and do some passing, but after seeing that alot of the players were not able to do the drills correct they decided to cut it down and just start with the scrimmages. After that it got better and players started showing better skill but in some cases you were stuck with a player that couldnt pass well or couldnt keep up with the level and it just makes you look bad at times. But i felt like i did extreamly well and left pretty happy with my performance. So after some time and waiting for responses from the staff of the tryouts i was hoping to hear something positive but all i got were NO`s NO`s NO`s. Im going to keep training and im looking to find some trials out of the country were i believe i have a better chance at success in soccer. In the US its more about size and power and not the fundamentals and tactical side. I hope that soccer continues to grow in the US and i hope kids have better better opportunities in the future