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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not really seeing kids from Arlington and surrounding areas, DC or MD currently at DCU going out to Loudoun 4 times per week just to practice plus games.  This will hurt the diversity of players from many different areas available for DCU's player pool.[/quote]

So they aren’t going to have any teams with regular DC practices? There goes the DC, Arlington, Alexandria, Annandale, Gunston, parts of Maryland diverse player pool that DC United used to attract.

Loudoun is American football, baseball heavy  in older years.  Other than the vast amounts of unused land I can’t come up with a single reason for that area to be a home base.  It is cheap land period.  DC has no land to build.

So now you have Loudoun, DC United, FCV and FCBescola all sitting on top of one another.

How many current DC United Academy kids are going to leave with this geographic move?  I guess they will need to start all over.

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I imagine this is how DC United will be reduce or eliminate their DA fees for their players.  They are one of the few MLS academies, maybe the last one, that still charges their players for fees.  Understandably there may be some travel-related costs that the parents have to pay, but for the most part joining and participating in an MLS DA is free of cost for the player's families in the rest of the US.  People are concerned about Arlington, as if their DA won't continue to receive expanded age groups.  I think the weaker DA's in the region were always McLean and Loudoun.  I said before, this is not good news for Loudoun Soccer, but great news for Loudoun residents as a whole.[/quote]

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