Can anyone tell me about VDA
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Anonymous
I disagree. The kids he brought up are great soccer players, period! All of them, even the ones that didn’t get as much playing time as the top 11. There is something to be said for working hard for the minutes you earn. I understand that everyone thinks that things should be fair but sports in general aren’t meant to be “fair” or everyone would be running Rec teams. There is always a top and bottom, but don’t be confused to think that those kids weren’t developed. Those kids at BRYC on that 02 and 03 team can go on any other team and be starting 11. Almost all of those kids will get a D1 opportunity. You can say what you want about MW but he knows soccer and he knows how to develop and make athletes work hard for what they get. There is not one coach out here that everyone loves. MW will change things at VDa that need to be changed. |
Anonymous
Would VDA care of losing those 3 players that believe and dream they’re NT material? or would VDA care more about keeping +20 other ones with more realistic expectations? |
Anonymous
Are you saying that VDA will not help your child go to National training center? |
Anonymous
I believe any club playing in elite league can nominate its best players to attend the NTC. Why VDA wouldn’t be able to focus on developing the best players with realistic expectations and yes still send players to NT centers? |
Anonymous
VDA would be okay with those kids leaving. Have fun with the throwaways. |
Anonymous
If those 06 players leave there must be a reason why. VDA is not the best at sending children to the training centers and it used to be that the only ones sent were the PWSI favorites that quite frankly weren’t good enough to be pulled to begin with but the club sent them because they were the coaches favorites. It is crystal clear in every age group who should be going to NT but they never get chances to go, that really does need to change and honestly if FCV has a proven track record of sending players when VDA doesn’t why not change clubs? |
Anonymous
Unless you're in DA, you have an uphill climb to get into an NT camp. I suspect USSF scouts are instructed to look primarily at DA players. ECNL players that have in the past gone to NT's are falling off the list. FCV has a distinct advantage with NT placement because of the direct connection to USSF scouting. If NT is a goal, your DD should be shooting for a GDA spot somewhere, preferably FCV or Alexandria. It is not clear that there is enough supporting talent to show a truly exceptional player to their best advantage at MU. |
Anonymous
| yeah, preferably the Alexandria GDA that doesn't exist. |
Anonymous
| a Alexandria GDA right next to Arlington yes thats exactly what DA plans for the DMV for it to have two GDA right next to one another! |
Anonymous
| Arlington, Alexandria, what's the difference. Might as well be on Mars. |
Anonymous
I have heard that (Di Dr) literally tells players that if they don’t leave ECNL and go DA they will not be able to continue going to NTC. This is insane and if true that needs to be reported. ECNL has some of the top talent around, and the only player that has been moved up to actually play on the U16 National team roaster is Jill from Richmond which is an ECNL club. If your good enough and you have someone supporting you, you will get your chance but if it is true that a US TC scout is actually telling kids they must leave ECNL and move to DA to get that chance that needs to be reported and investigated as a conflict of interest and that person should be removed for that position. |
Anonymous
I’m pretty sure you meant Arlington above. Alexandria is not in the DA. |
Anonymous
DA and US Soccer are going to invite the players they want to. This has always been the big stick that DA carries but has not used it yet. Just business |
Anonymous
That’s the truest statement, However they use that stick all the time. |
Anonymous
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The regurgitation off talking points is unimaginative and boring.
1. The local “National Team Centers” are not ”National” or “Team” related “Centers”. They are local training sessions with local coaches. If your kid has gone (mine has), then thank your team coach. It’s a joke. People must stop confusing a Camp with a Center. Huge difference. 2. Plenty of ECNL kids go to the local NTC. Here’s the kicker...the DA coaches are using the local NTC to recruit the ECNL players to DA (which is their mission). 3. Locally, FCV is using the Centers as their personal recruiting Centers. NTCs are being run at Evergreen under the supervision of US Scouts (FCV staff) who then tell the ECNL players to move to DA for a chance of a NT Camp. I know for a fact this is happening. 3. The local ECNL clubs are trying to combat this by bending over backwards to give the players what they want. Insert parent politics. Here is reality. Your kid has a 99.9999999999 percent chance of smelling the bench of a YNT let along the USWNT. Why do you think the majority of YNT members come from the DA? USSF FORCES those players to leave their ECNL club and join their local DA (if one is available) when they get chosen for the YNT. Get it? I repeat All YNT members must leave their ECNL club if chosen..that’s why you think that they all come from DA when in reality they don’t. |