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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So here's a question, what good does it do a player to be in the DA or ECNL, if she doesn't even get to play?

For example, on the Wash Spirit VA U14 team, they have 24 players listed as FT academy players on their official roster (ussoccerda website), but only 18 of them can be on the roster for each game.  That means 6 players stay home every weekend.

The BRYC U14 ECNL team has 21 on the roster, but only brought 18 to their game against McLean this weekend, so 3 stayed home.  No idea how many of the 18 actually got meaningful minutes (the DA site lists things like that, so you can see that everyone who made the Spirit game day roster got at least 25 minutes).

FCV is only slightly better, only leaving 2 players off the roster every week.

Does that seem crazy to anyone else, or am I just being "soft"?   I mean, I get the idea that players that age shouldn't be coddled, need to learn to compete for starting spots, earn their minutes, and all that.  But not playing at all?  At 13 years old?  What's the point?

I wonder if these clubs were open and honest about the way things would be before accepting player commitments for the season.  Did the parents know what they were getting into when they dropped those $5000 checks in the mail?

VDA and MCLN both have about 17 total on their roster.  6 subs is still a lot (especially in the DA, where there's no re-entry), but that seems a lot more reasonable.

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BRYC was open (when asked) on the high team roster vs 18 game roster. to those who went there they believed the training was a fit for the tradeoff of not suiting up once in a while. what i think may have been less clear was the method of how to determine who was going to suit up. random equal selection or by weekly showing at training. 
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