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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 535121" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>We have quite a lot male elementary teachers, but male kindergarten teachers are really rare. I'm not sure if I know anyone, who isn't a coach, LOL</p><p></p><p>You in USA have very unique athletic system with college sports. An American kid in my son's position would likely be scholarship athlete in college and train rather professionally there. To be honest I don't know much about American pro sport scene expect the big leagues (we are not able to miss NBA or Super Bowl or World Series even here, even though no one even really plays American football or baseball seriously here) and little bit of Olympic athletes in the disciplines I know more about. But at least in Olympic disciplines your up and coming athletes tend to be college athletes and have good services from their colleges. After that they make it mostly with sponsorship and price money. And some i think are more well-known and popular here at Europe than at home. I for example think that Lindsey Vonn may be much more a household name and superstar here than in most parts of USA.</p><p></p><p>Here we have sport federations that offer services for top young Olympic individual sport hopefuls. And they are usually able to get enough sponsor to basic living costs (or parents help them.) Also their sport clubs help but it is not a fancy lifestyle if you don't get into the absolute top. If you end up winning Olympic medal or be close to that, your sponsorship money will be good. And of course also price money starts to be also really meaningful at that point. In team sports it depends from sport. Some sports are almost totally hobby based, some have one or more levels of pro leagues per country (different sports and different amount of levels depending the country.) In some sports and some leagues the revenues are obscene (mainly football - or soccer, like you call it) and same goes with player's pay checks. But also that depends from country and level. And there are also many other pro team sports in every country.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child's situation, hmmm... even with costs of extra supports he comes cheaper to his team compared to what they would pay to someone else to do the same job (average pay in his league tends to be around the average pays of engineers, difficult child is closer to minimum wage.) And if he is lucky and makes it to the higher levels, the team will be nicely compensated. They could cut him, if they wanted, but they would need to pay more to someone else to do a same job. And they would probably not be able to get someone with difficult child's 'future potential' to his spot easily, someone with his current performance level, yes, easily, but that someone would be older and considered less of the future talent. difficult child really only became 'available' because of his troubles. And having kids who could have the potential to higher levels is both the status symbol and draws some good publicity and spectators. And his current team doesn't have many (or really any) kids like that. They of course do have bigger stars, but they are older players who are now close to the peak of their careers and while they of course are the main draw for audience, many also like it a lot when they can watch kids, who could maybe 'make it big' some day, even when it is a awfully long shot, like it of course always is. So currently both parties are benefiting nicely. It is a good fit for difficult child and they are happy to have him. But teams also like to pride themselves in taking care of their own, so there is also that and it is not solely about team saving money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 535121, member: 14557"] We have quite a lot male elementary teachers, but male kindergarten teachers are really rare. I'm not sure if I know anyone, who isn't a coach, LOL You in USA have very unique athletic system with college sports. An American kid in my son's position would likely be scholarship athlete in college and train rather professionally there. To be honest I don't know much about American pro sport scene expect the big leagues (we are not able to miss NBA or Super Bowl or World Series even here, even though no one even really plays American football or baseball seriously here) and little bit of Olympic athletes in the disciplines I know more about. But at least in Olympic disciplines your up and coming athletes tend to be college athletes and have good services from their colleges. After that they make it mostly with sponsorship and price money. And some i think are more well-known and popular here at Europe than at home. I for example think that Lindsey Vonn may be much more a household name and superstar here than in most parts of USA. Here we have sport federations that offer services for top young Olympic individual sport hopefuls. And they are usually able to get enough sponsor to basic living costs (or parents help them.) Also their sport clubs help but it is not a fancy lifestyle if you don't get into the absolute top. If you end up winning Olympic medal or be close to that, your sponsorship money will be good. And of course also price money starts to be also really meaningful at that point. In team sports it depends from sport. Some sports are almost totally hobby based, some have one or more levels of pro leagues per country (different sports and different amount of levels depending the country.) In some sports and some leagues the revenues are obscene (mainly football - or soccer, like you call it) and same goes with player's pay checks. But also that depends from country and level. And there are also many other pro team sports in every country. My difficult child's situation, hmmm... even with costs of extra supports he comes cheaper to his team compared to what they would pay to someone else to do the same job (average pay in his league tends to be around the average pays of engineers, difficult child is closer to minimum wage.) And if he is lucky and makes it to the higher levels, the team will be nicely compensated. They could cut him, if they wanted, but they would need to pay more to someone else to do a same job. And they would probably not be able to get someone with difficult child's 'future potential' to his spot easily, someone with his current performance level, yes, easily, but that someone would be older and considered less of the future talent. difficult child really only became 'available' because of his troubles. And having kids who could have the potential to higher levels is both the status symbol and draws some good publicity and spectators. And his current team doesn't have many (or really any) kids like that. They of course do have bigger stars, but they are older players who are now close to the peak of their careers and while they of course are the main draw for audience, many also like it a lot when they can watch kids, who could maybe 'make it big' some day, even when it is a awfully long shot, like it of course always is. So currently both parties are benefiting nicely. It is a good fit for difficult child and they are happy to have him. But teams also like to pride themselves in taking care of their own, so there is also that and it is not solely about team saving money. [/QUOTE]
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