Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss

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Anonymous wrote:"If you are on the top team in SoCal and your very good coaches have the ability to arrange for your team to participate in tournaments with Barcelona's youth squads, you are in an excellent position to be scouted."

There are opportunities in the DMV for kids to make teams that play in European tournaments (including Barcelona) over spring break and the summer.

Yes. I do not think it was said anywhere that the kid was scouted/identified at a Club game.

For all we know he might not have been on US soil.

I love how the vultures, dick heads and naysayers come out of the woodwork though.

Yeah, I'm not sure why this is even a topic. A kid from a club's C team may or may not have an opportunity to train with a European team. Great. I think it's time we can move along from that.

Agree. I think it's tragic that (what I assume are travel coaches and TDs) basically saying any 11-year old on a lower team is a shit player with zero future. Tells you they don't develop. Some stupid US ranking by a US youth club coach holds zero weight abroad.

Carry on.

That's the predominant attitude across the DMV. They also give a lot of weight to another Club's assessment of a kid at 8 and beyond--which is just stupid. Every tryout application from 8/9 on the child must list the team level he plays for and then he/she will get shunted to the appropriate tryout field (the one that nobody is looking at) or the one that only A level players are put. How do you think the young Academy works--at 11 you only get an invite if you are on an A team? Sure missing a whole helluva lot of talent in this system.

I'm just going to flip it around this way -- a lot of parents think their kids are the next Christian Pulisic, and they've convinced that if Barcelona or Ajax or Bayern Munich got a look at their NCSL Div. 6 phenom, he'd have a golden ticket.

It's one thing to say USSF botched the selection of the U17s in a given year. It's one thing to say Arlington has kids on its C team who should be on an A team. It's another to say the club coaches overlooked a player who would make one of the top 20 or even top 100 youth programs in the **world**.

And look -- everyone gets it wrong at some point. Look at the winners of the U17 and U20 World Cup Golden Ball and Golden Boot awards. Then see where they're playing now. A couple of doing pretty well. Others are barely hanging on in the Mexican second division. Things change.

And still, I can guarantee you there is no player on a Northern Virginia C team who's good enough to play at a major European club academy. None.

And I am going to say that at U9-U12 that designation "C" (as well as the other letters) means absolute shit. The majority of the "A" team kids aren't even on the "A" team by 15.

With the attitude you possess--it's no wonder kids leave the sport in droves by middle school.

At least the Europeans continue to give opportunities and don't even expect a player to be fully matured until his early 20s. By then--a US soccer players career is over. Hell---by most Clubs its over at 11 with your analogy, correct ?

It's good for business to have parents think you are the ultimate decider though.

WOW. Just wow.

You realize parents are talking about kids 11-years old and younger? You know every 8-11 year old in this large area and how they are training on their own time, their lineage and their future growth potential?

I think Pep better watch out...

Any way you look at, putting a kid on a C team in NoVa who is good enough to attract interest from an academy program in Spain is a pretty big miss from a talent ID perspective. I'm curious to know which club he plays at.

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Anonymous wrote:Question for parents that have kids on the new DA teams at Loudoun, Arlington, Mclean:

were you happy with the first season? Did you like the training? The coaching? Do you see a big difference than what you got on the team you came from?

Did they already have tryouts for next year?

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ECNL clubs are a good option. Not keen on Washington Spirit as a goal of anyone, especially with MSI Soccer as one of the key money stake owners of it. What a complete joke. MSI Soccer can not even produce a boys college player!

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL clubs are a good option. Not keen on Washington Spirit as a goal of anyone, especially with MSI Soccer as one of the key money stake owners of it. What a complete joke. MSI Soccer can not even produce a boys college player!

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If a kid is REALLY playing in Spain---- There is no way they are on a C team in the States.

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You can play Super Y for other teams that have better coaches than Washington Spirit and that are not backed by the loser MSI Soccer!! lol

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I think you meant clubs-- right?

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Anonymous wrote:The two ECNL clubs are options. I think I will let my daughters tryout at both clubs and let them decide which club is best for them.

Not sure where you live...but the VDA DA academy is an option as well.

As a club starting from scratch this isn't an option for us. The ECNL clubs have impressive technical directors who have been putting players in top colleges for a long time, as of right now VDA doesn't have a player on the girls side....... They have to prove their worth in the girls game

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Yes. There are plenty of other clubs that offer SUPER Y LEAGUE!

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Anonymous wrote:The two ECNL clubs are options. I think I will let my daughters tryout at both clubs and let them decide which club is best for them.

Not sure where you live...but the VDA DA academy is an option as well.

As a club starting from scratch this isn't an option for us. The ECNL clubs have impressive technical directors who have been putting players in top colleges for a long time, as of right now VDA doesn't have a player on the girls side....... They have to prove their worth in the girls game

Agree .... the sum of all those parts does not equal the whole of either ECNL club. I assume your daughters are HS age or approaching, and that proven track record is going to be key.

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No sure why VDA has to prove themselves...or why they "don't have a single girl" it will be a PWSI /VSA player pool. ....and don't get it twisted...alot of top talent comes from those areas

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Anonymous wrote:No sure why VDA has to prove themselves...or why they "don't have a single girl" it will be a PWSI /VSA player pool. ....and don't get it twisted...alot of top talent comes from those areas

Is a Pwsi and Vsa player pool anything to brag about?

Two clubs with weak teams

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Anonymous wrote:No sure why VDA has to prove themselves...or why they "don't have a single girl" it will be a PWSI /VSA player pool. ....and don't get it twisted...alot of top talent comes from those areas

This is hilarious. You expect people to just Jump over to VDA because they are checking all the boxes off the field. A little reminder. Soccer is played on a field not in a town hall meeting or on the Internet.

They do need to prove themselves. I highly doubt any of the top talent in the area in are looking at VDA.

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Anonymous wrote:No sure why VDA has to prove themselves...or why they "don't have a single girl" it will be a PWSI /VSA player pool. ....and don't get it twisted...alot of top talent comes from those areas

Is a Pwsi and Vsa player pool anything to brag about?

Two clubs with weak teams

This is why naming clubs simply never goes well. What is the point or possible outcome to say such a stupid thing? Proclaim your club and age group so we can all pile onto your kid.