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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To Poster #2, what about Brit-Am? I don't know anything about them, but am searching. I am looking for the same as OP. We have been in a couple of clubs and I have found that, regardless of what we hear from the club in the beginning, it almost always ends up at the same place--laser focus on top team and basically no care for teams below it, regardless of whether or not the kids in the second group are very good or not--"player development" goes out the window. There are so many good kids who at this stage aren't ready for the top team, but no club seems to be catering to this group at all. Very frustrating.  [/quote]

Yep. There are lots of small clubs that play mostly SAM league and MSI select -- not EDP / NCSL -- where your kid will get plenty of playing time and attention -- though in my experience they tend to be underfunded and not-quite-serious enough for some kids who are dedicated B-team types. They probably practice 2x/week and not 3x, maybe don't play tournaments. I think there's a big luck factor that comes into play -- finding a great coach and group of kids who mesh well together. Depending on where you live, look at ATD, MD Fusion, DCYFC, Brit-Am, FC Lions, PPA.

This isn't really what you're looking for, of course, but I haven't found anything between these and B-team purgatory.  :)

oh also check out Laurel -- same as Takoma, I believe, where it's not really a "club" so much as an umbrella org that gives independent teams the means to compete in EDP / NCSL. (Those teams are not actually based in Laurel, either.) 
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