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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know girls who made DA who were on the B team at our club previously. I'm not impressed with the DA rosters so far. Its just watering down the top teams in the area. Which is good for my child because now they are on the A team I guess. [/quote]

Could it be that your club didn't do a good job of evaluating players and she was incorrectly placed on the B team.  It's also possible that player had an excellent coach and did extra training on the side to get better.  It's also possible that your club was more focused on politics and butt kissing parents than promoting someone new to the A team.  Players change year to year and it does not mean that a player on a B team can't get better than a player on A.  Not saying that DA rosters are great or anything but your logic that it's based on A and B is dumb.  Seems like your only focus is now being able to brag about your kid being on the shinny A team. SMH.[/quote]

Kids change.  If you haven’t seen a kid play, but 6 months, a year ago you have no idea what they are presently like.  It’s not linear.[/quote]

I agree with this.  I think that is a huge problem in this area.  The only way you can evaluate a player is in that exact point in time.  Kids change drastically over time.  There is too much weight given to team assignment.  It is also opinion-based.

Seeing at kid play at 10-11 and saying 'oh yea, I saw her play', but she is now 15, you have no idea what she has been doing in that in-between time.  There is physical growth, mental growth, the amount of training on their own, the intensity of that training, life experience, etc.

What a crazy soccer world we have in this country when we talk about a 9-year old's speed or lack thereof as that is the course of their life.  That isn't even taking into account mental quickness, speed of play with ball/acceleration, etc.

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[b]Every[/b] youngster needs a coach willing to believe in their potential.  This is a key element missing in a lot of Clubs.[/quote]

I find they only believe in the top 8-10 players in the critical U8-U12 development stage.  The rest they could give a sh*t.  I loved the John O'Sullivan "Patience' article about development linked above.  It describes exactly how I feel about the way we don't develop and how the parent shit their pants over winning the Eliteeliteness cup at U9/10 and it's all over Club websites.

The kids understand this quite clearly as they are forced to endure watching the special treatment accorded to those anointed ones and their parents prancing around with puffed Peacock chests.  They are segregated from the elite hence they rub off their magic.

He quotes 75% turnover rate for top teams over time.  I am not as sure about that with the civil service protection/nepotism afforded these families at most Clubs.[/quote]

Let's say that a DA has to select 26 kids for their two DA teams.  Are you saying that they shouldn't take the "best kids" and they should randomly select because their may be a Gareth Bale in the mix?  Even with Gareth Bale, they said he was the fastest kid on the team at one time and then dropped off. I understand why they kept him because the saw what he was before and took a chance that he would fight through it....but what are these clubs supposed to do now? Guess at who will be good in 5 years?  You take the best at the current time.  Sure, someone will get passed over and be better than someone that was selected over him, but this isn't easy in my opinion.  You don't know who is going to work hard/grind month after month, year after year.  You take the best of what you have now.  Sure, there is an argument that these DAs currently take the most athletic over the smarter soccer players but even that's difficult to define.[/quote]

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