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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That isn't an academy program.  If you look under the USA soccer site, they list the current actual academies.  There are about 80 of the nationwide.  Around here, DC United and Bethesda-Olney.  Not sure if the Baltimore Bays still are.  They are very good programs, but, they practice pretty much 4 or 5 nights a week.  Your kid will get a lot better, and, he will play with and against a lot of very good kids.  The negative: uber competitive, and, almost an every night kind of thing.[/quote]

you're confusing what the term academy means.  Here, as with many other local clubs that aren't DC United, academy means the teams in one age group train together instead of as individual teams that never interact. Players will guest play among teams, coaches will train all the players in the academy and cover games for each other, etc. The big A Academies are obviously a different creature and are not what is being referred to in an email addressed to parents of 5 year olds.

To the OP, many house leagues at that age are 1 practice a week and 1 game.  For a child who loves soccer, 1 more practice a week doesn't seem excessive to me.[/quote]

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