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[quote=Anonymous]I would focus less on club and more on the right coach, development program and culture. I am a few years removed from youth soccer but my kid started at Bethesda while she was in elementary skills. She definitely developed fundamentals there but we left once she hit 6th grade and joined an MSI Classic team (the travel at !Bethesda was a bit much). After a year my daughter asked to go back to travel so we shopped around for another travel program. She was welcomed back to Bethesda but we ran into a coach at MSI who I liked. I did not know it at the time but he was also coaching the U18/19 team at McLean, which ended up winning the ECNL finals that year.  That coach developed that team into arguably one of the best teams in the area by u16 and one that routinely beat the area ECNL teams in local tournaments. He coached them until the graduated although the team eventually left MSI before u17 to join a local ECNL team. Every player on that team who wanted to play college soccer is currently playing college soccer.

My point is that at the u12 level, there are some really great coaches unaffiliated with the big clubs. If they still do rankings, I would check those out. The best coach I met was a parent coach who played at a high level thru u14 at which pointed he handed his players off to several elite (ECNL/GA) teams who were more than happy to add those players to their respective teams because they were so well developed. One of those players is currently an All-SEC forward.[/quote]

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