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CNN 国际新闻
📌 标题：‘I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill’: How the cost of youth soccer blew out of control and why some families pay it anyway
📅 发布时间：Updated Jul 12, 2026, 6:30 AM ET
📝 英文原文：
Atlanta—Meliesha Johnson saw the Instagram message first.The single mom, a teacher who lives north of Atlanta, monitors her 15-year-old daughter’s social media accounts. She had always wondered how other girls her daughter’s age ended up at various invite-only soccer camps around the country, and there it was: An invitation.Upstairs, in an unabashedly pink room, Makenna was on the phone with her friends. Her freshman year of high school was winding down and all around were the signs of this liminal time in life: Stuffed animals on the bed, skincare bottles arranged on a Hollywood-inspired vanity. She can’t yet drive herself anywhere and is therefore in a constant state of negotiating where and when she can walk around unsupervised. But she has a phone for navigating the shifting landscape of friendships and social media to show her a highlight reel of everyone she could be.The DM was from an elite soccer training organization that touts Christian Pulisic as a client on the professional side. Makenna had been invited to a camp that’s part of their “pathways” program. The camp was in Denver.“I just immediately knew that I wanted to do it, because, like, I had never really gotten a personal invite,” Makenna told CNN Sports.The only problem was that her mom had recently booked a cruise for the two of them to take that summer. It had been a tough year for Makenna – transitioning to high school often is, and then there was the soccer of it all.When Makenna was just 5 years old, a director of a soccer academy saw her playing on a rec team and recruited her to an under-eight team, meaning she was playing with and against girls who were several years older. At eight, Makenna moved to a more competitive club. Now she plays for TopHat, a travel team ranked third in the state of Georgia and 22nd in the country. Two years ago, they won the national championship in their age group.But in the past year, things have begun to shift. Two of Makenna’s teammates were selected for the U
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🇨🇳 中文翻译：
亚特兰大——梅利莎·约翰逊 (Meliesha Johnson) 最先看到了 Instagram 消息。这位住在亚特兰大北部的单亲妈妈是一名教师，她监控她 15 岁女儿的社交媒体帐户。她一直想知道她女儿这个年纪的其他女孩是如何参加全国各地各种仅限受邀者参加的足球训练营的，结果就是：一张邀请函。在楼上一间毫不掩饰的粉红色房间里，马克纳正在和她的朋友们打电话。她的高中一年级即将结束，周围都是这种限制的迹象
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