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[quote=Anonymous]This thread is the “poster child” to why US soccer is “mid”.

Do parents have “letterman jackets” with patches for the tournaments your kids win?!?

The obsession with kids winning is hilarious.  
Rankings are numerical tabulations based on tournaments, etc. and this can be easily manipulated.

Here is the rub.  The teams want to please you parents so they win at all costs and player development is shunned.  You are on the “best team in the country” but no D1 schools are playing attention because your kid has less ball mastery skills than a 10-year old Brit.  The D1 schools go and recruit those skilled kids outside of the country and then 🇺🇸 parents complain all of the D1 spots have been taken by internationals.

As a parent who will have to join one of the clubs in the future as my child approaches MLS Next age,  this is the takeaway from the early, quality parts of this thread:

Choose SYC if you want to win
Choose Achilles if you want a technical foundation that may help your kid get to Europe if you can stomach the coaches antics.
Choose Bethesda or Alexandria as the safe developmental middle grounds who have strong foundational methodologies but may not “always win at all costs.”

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