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[quote=Anonymous]Our travel team had several players from Arlington, and we had to pay the county extra money for those players. I assume that Arlington has the same setup as far as field fees go.

And in general, not everyone has a "home club" that is near them or has the ability to take new players. This is clear when you look at the spread of clubs across the area and who they serve. A previous poster mentioned DC Stoddart, but there are other clubs in DC as well. Some clubs are tiny and only have 1-2 teams per age group, if that. Some are larger and can accommodate more kids. But to limit folks to their geographic area when not all geographic areas are well represented by clubs (like travel baseball is) is silly.

That said, if your child played in a club and did not move up in the ranks, then it might be time to move to another club (if you are dissatisfied). There are many clubs who recruit players - we have had several players recruited to Arlington over the years from our soccer club, and they are told that they are stronger players than those that were grown in house. What this says to me is simply that the individual player is stronger, and at the upper age groups (U15+) there's nothing really wrong with recruiting in players to build teams. That's what you do at that age and above. At the younger ages, well, not so much as you are still building players. [/quote]

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