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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Barca needs to reduce its pricing by about $1500 or more to attract better talent and be consistently competitive against stronger teams.  Otherwise, they will continue to have wildly inconsistent talent fluctuations within their player pool.  They currently do well against low to mid-level competition, but get beat in higher level tournaments/leagues.   [/quote]

Seems like they are building teams at a reasonable rate.  This is what - their second or third year?  DS plays u-13 and I have noticed the Barca Academy team in some tournament brackets and they are performing respectably.[/quote]

Barca is doing well in lower brackets of big tournaments and in lower to mid-level tournaments.   To take the next step and start beating top teams, it needs better talent, which at its current price point is unlikely to happen.  [/quote]

It's location, more than price point.

Some of the teams are just between the ability to beat first teams at Big Clubs.  They are in brackets higher than these Clubs 2nd teams and beating them.  I think in a year's time they will make the transition to holding their own.  They are almost there.  You also have many players not even playing in their age group and when it all comes together and those kids move back to birth year at a later date--look out.   I find a lot of older teams have kids that are primarily in the last few months of the birth year, which is why there is a size difference in the puberty years.   A lot of the problem is going up against teams when you only come up to their waist--which will also work itself out naturally over time.

In the younger years, you just aren't going to get families driving a great distance for a young player.  Most families don't make that commitment until the kid is older and it's clear they want to focus on soccer.  Most of the younger players coming from a great distance are there because of older siblings.  You do get a case of 5-6 out of 10 players that are some of the best technically in their age group in the local area and have played for top teams with 3-4 that are very new players and haven't developed proper touch/trapping/passing, etc.  That means the team can do really well until the competition is in the Finals, etc. because of missed opportunity when played to players that just aren't with the rest of the team technically---they have gotten almost all of the players there tactically though and they are in the right place on the field.  These kids will catch up.  As a parent, I don't think that in any way hinders the development of the more advanced younger players.  In fact, having to field errant balls and get them under control and not being played perfect balls each and every time just serves to develop your touch even more and carrying along teammates allows for leadership and increased confidence.

They are developing players at a fairly rapid rate.[/quote]

Very well said.[/quote]

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