Odds of Getting In

Odds of Getting In

Hah. The odds of becoming a pro soccer player are basically the odds of picking an even prime number out of a hat of all the numbers in the world: one in a gajillion-bazillion-infinity. Good luck with that.

Want some concrete statistics? In the United States, even if you do everything right and are good enough to get a prestigious full-ride scholarship to college, only 1.7 percent of college soccer players end up playing professionally. (And only 0.08 percent of high school players play professionally.) Those are some terrible, terrible odds. And it's not much better anywhere else in the world either, where even more people play "football" and even more people want to play professionally.