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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does the rest of the world operate like the US with the number of boys youth leagues (equivalent of DA/EDP/NCSL/CCL/ODP etc etc) or is it simpler and more streamlined? Do teams and clubs switch leagues as frequently and is there as much tinkering (e.g., birth year, elimination of certain age groups from DA etc) as here? Please excuse the naïveté - We’re relatively new to how things work in the soccer universe and navigating the whole thing seems unnecessarily complicated. Am I wrong or is this normal everywhere?[/quote]

Welcome to the US soccer mess.
In European countries, you usually will have only one national association managing all youth clubs (so no DA vs. ECNL non sense). You will start at a young age in your neighborhood/village, and play local teams. If you are a good player, you can consider playing for a better team (in a upper tier of the multi-tier youth system) in middle school years. This may imply a bit of travel, but nothing that you see here so early. 
If you are really good, you can try out for the academies of the best clubs, which is really competitive and may imply plenty of travel.
It is not pay-for-play system. You ill have mostly to pay for registration, uniforms and gas. 
Soccer will not get you in college, admissions being purely based on academics.

The main downside is that only a few parents can brag about their kids being "elite".   [/quote]

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