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[quote=Anonymous]My kids club regularly has its best players poached by ECNL/GA-DA teams that are very close by.   They build their teams on the back of players outside their club yet I'm supposed to believe they are great at developing players because they play ECNL or such and compete at a high level.   Nonsense.

These clubs cherry pick players and flirt with the parents to get them to come.   I know because my kid was one of the players targeted over the years.  I didnt make sense to me to change so we never took the bait.  Happy we stayed where we are.  They dangle college play in front of you as if you must play for them to be seriously considered.   Development?  I dont think so

Now that my kid is older and I see this now I realize just how tainted this system really is.   Youth development is not the core focus.  Its a business with a lot of people making money and thats OK.  Lets just not kid ourselves and say one club is so much better at developing players than another.

All I see is good individual coaches in some cases and in some unique cases a club that has a curriculum that focuses on teaching the fundamentals.   Beyond that XYZ Club is no different than the others when it comes to player development

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