Found this on another forum:
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“Yeah, but you have to pay the folks to run the leagues, organize the teams, pay the refs, rent the field, buy the goal nets... heck, even pay the coaches. It doesn't come free, you know. And outside of (maybe) a few overpaid administrators for the biggest clubs, nobody is getting seriously rich and buying yachts out of all this.
As @ebbro pointed out, someone has to pay. Elsewhere, it's the clubs. Here in the US, they don't even pay many players that much, much less have lots of money left over to fund programs for youth players. Others have also pointed out coaching is key. I recall an article (rats... can't find it) stating that in 2004? 06? when the DFB set about remaking their program, that they spent money to train and deploy literally thousands of coaches across the country. When is USSF going to pay for my A license course, eh? I've spent a lot of my own coin getting a coaching education.”
Still a long way to go....