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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of the top talent plays ODP after U12.  Top kids are too busy with their seasons and individual training after this.  ODP is great for kids to get extra touches to help improve, but other than that it doesn’t matter.  Stop stressing and enjoy the touches.  Your kid makes it, great (it means nothing), they don’t, you got the touches.  Has anyone seen a top kid playing ODP after U14.  No.  Stop making ODP anything other than extra touches.  No one is making a college or USNT from ODP, it is about the touches and friendships.  If you think it provides more than that you are fooling yourself.  Of course the regional team coach is promoting kids that played for them more.  Who would expect different.  This is youth soccer in the U.S.  Enjoy the touches or don’t bother, that is all it is worth.[/quote]

FYI, top kid parent, that was not the most recent question and you are parroting the same words repeatedly said on these pages.  No one here “thinks” their kid is getting to the USMNT through ODP.  Quite the opposite.

Small-sided, futsal, pickup and a ball and a wall is the boring path for highly technical players who don’t want to get beat by the Swiss 4-0.  Almost none of the DCUM crew knows how to develop a USMNT which is why this area does not produce major talent. Get off of your high horse because it is almost guaranteed that you have not developed a USMNT player.  People are curious about ODP for their “mediocre” player who they support who will probably surpass your “top” player after they burn out from a parent like you because the parents of the “mediocre” players may understand how variability and versatility in playing styles is a factor that is wildly missing in US youth when they complete with internationals.

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