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You don't want to go near DAs that focus on recruiting kids within their own club even if they are not the best players.  That means politics, less competition for your kid, insularity and a host of other comorbidities that will make the experience unpleasant over time.  But if you are looking to build a wall around your club and protect your son from competition, by all means you should go to the clubs that do this.[/quote]

I don't understand this point of view. If you want to be a Senior Engineer at Google, your best chance is if you are a Junior Engineer at Google. Of course they accept applications from outside the company, interview people, test them etc. And they probably hire a number of them from outside. But there is no better way to know what you are getting in an employee than seeing them on the job over time; and there is no better way to know what you are getting in a player than to have had them on your club for a few years.

That's not "politics"; it is a reasonable system to assemble the best team (at Google or a top soccer club). You are trusting a large sample size (years together) over a tiny one (interview/ID session). So, if you want to work at Google in two years, the best way is to work there next year; and if you want to play at Bethesda DA (or any other DA) in two years, the best way is to play there next year.

What reason would a club have for keeping a player who is worse over taking an outside player who is better? I truly can't think of any incentive to do this. The answer is that they [i]don't[/i] think that outside player is better--or at least not better enough to be worth the risk of basing a decision on a small sample. But some parents go to these ID sessions and are in the [i]exact opposite[/i] position from the coach--they have a large sample size from their own player, and just see a tiny one from the players already on the team (and those top players aren't trying that hard, to be honest). So they think "how can they take that guy over my kid?!" But you know a lot more about your kid than they do and a lot less about the other players than they do.

The vast majority of players are better off with a year- (or years-) long tryout than an hours-long tryout.[/quote]

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