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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are moving to the area next month from overseas and will live in falls church city. My daughter will be a freshman in HS at Meridian. She wants to play travel soccer as well. She has been playing here (military base), not super competitive because it’s a small community, but she loves soccer.  What would be a good club to try? She’d probably make one of the lower teams in a club and that’s fine with us. Looking online Arlington has 5 times at 2010 and McLean has 3 teams. How about Vienna?  Villarreal or Lee-Mount Vernon (that’s kind of far for regular practices). Any other clubs near Tyson’s? What would be a good plan for tryouts? Help![/quote]

[b]Military base soccer anywhere overseas is likely a higher level than rec soccer here in NoVa[/b]. [b]My guess is your kid could make any team[/b]. Save yourself from the acrimony that is ECNL in NoVa and look at Alexandria and Vienna for a solid clubs with no high league play; or check out SYC if she wants to compete in the Girls Academy. Alternative to ECNL, without the insecurity of needeing to be the best for college recruitment tied into their player pathways to success and development[/quote]

OP, lots of good advice here from other PPs!  But, I highly question everything in this post based on these declarative statements.  I've been a part of several DoDEA communities OCONUS, and for sports I beg to differ.  OP sounds like they have a reasonable, self-aware well-grounded understanding of their DD's skill level and how she might match up with local teams.  Good luck![/quote]

Interesting.  I’m not PP, and don’t agree that military communities overseas automatically mean ECNL when you return here.

That said, I grew up DODEA, and generally, the sports (including soccer), were very good. Most of our club and HS soccer team went division 1 or had the option if they wanted it.

I think it’s a combination of the military’s focus on fitness and competition, plus, for soccer, we were playing on European club teams from young ages. [/quote]

This is PP I come in peace. Thanks for sharing your perspective. Granted I was an adult when I first lived on base and assumed what you referenced in the last paragraph. Two countries, multiple installations in both, but boy was I surprised don’t judge a book by its cover.

Didn’t hold a candle to the high school football, basketball, baseball I grew up playing and watching in a major metro area. None of the overseas base kids went anywhere near D1. recruiting are you kidding me? kids were lacking in talent, size and training. Soldiers sailors airmen and Marines excel at what they do but doesn’t mean their kids can ball, or hang with stateside inner city, suburban, or country stars with daddyball soccer mom Friday Night Lights atmosphere.

Now I must caveat I’m only talking about overseas - for CONUS bases I saw more than a few kids and teams make it D1 or go pro. Cause or correlation? Maybe parents of sports serious kids only take domestic billets or deploy overseas individually, leaving dependents in communities? 
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Interesting. Maybe it’s the size of the base?  We were in Germany. We sent a football player to Nebraska who set their freshman reception record as a WR. Sent another to Penn St. Multiple soccer players to men’s and women’s programs like USC, JMU, William & Mary, UNM, UF…

Shaq played DODEA basketball in Germany. [/quote]

Go Huskers!  Who was it?  Vikings GM Spielman's kid set the record in 2017 but I don't remember who held it before.

Yes Shaq lived in Germany as a kid, but he played HS ball in Texas to my point that the military kids here in the U.S. play at a higher level than the kids at overseas bases with limited competition.[/quote]

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