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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 average clubs geographically separated in a market saturated by better clubs...looks like all of MU’s problems are sorted.

US Soccer must be thrilled.[/quote]

Actually, these sorts of relationships are exactly what US Soccer wants. They want as wide a net cast as possible at the younger ages while letting the local clubs handle the development without to much DA oversight. This is why they are eliminating the U12 age groups on the boys side. They want access to the players without the heavy handed approach that the DA as a league places at such young ages.

Clubs like Metro, VDA, Baltimore Armour essentially have first dibs on the players those clubs produce. The clubs will lose the talent either way but if they can demonstrate a built in pathway they stand a chance to attract more talent, not all of whom will make DA or ECNL but are still more likely to stay. The positives for the partnership clubs is the potential for larger rec and youth programs overall.

The advantage for the DA club is early access to the players as well as access to the fields.

FCV sat on top of Ashburn as well as had a similar relationship with South County. Neither of which where/are big clubs. FCV also had a short lived partnership with Loudoun. All of these partnerships fed quality players into FCV's ECNL and later DA teams.

VDA has produced a pretty successful program on the shoulders of VSA and PWSI. The younger age groups at VDA are proving that the model is successful at drawing talent in and retaining players within the system while each partner club has been able to maintain competitive NPL teams individually.

Baltimore Armour is certainly rounding the corner and clubs like Pipeline do not appear to be suffering the loss of players to DA as their EDP teams are quite good on their own.

All of this while casting the net wider to players who may often go overlooked.

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