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[quote=Size5Balls]Most any kid who has played competitive soccer, at any level recently, will make the district team. The state team will be kids that play first team soccer on a reasonably good club team (think ECNL-R/EDP level) along with some of the better second team players. Little to no ECNL or MLSNext level players do ODP anymore, so you don't have to worry about them. The selection process is pretty straight forward. If you are one of the top 30-40% of kids in your district, you will go to state. Most kids I saw at state level could actually play the game. I'm not saying they were all good players by any means, but looked like a fair representation of talent that knew what was going on at least. The regional selection process seemed a little more political and not sure it was the best representation of talent that I saw there. Seemed like PA had way more players than any other state. Would I do it again? Probably not. Do I have any regrets for doing it? Not really. The training was good and I thought that was the real benefit of the program. One day a week in the winter off season mostly. Playing against kids you don't normally see. The main issue now is the best kids don't do ODP, so it's not an elite level by any means. There are some good players in it though, so it is competitive to a certain extent.[/quote]
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