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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]Arlington population: 236,842 
Reston population: 60,335 (add 15,394 for Great Falls)
McLean population: 47,075
Vienna population: 16,556

I think VYS has shown players can stick with it all the way and still go to a D1 college. (If you don't believe me, just Google it. I'm tired of looking everything up for everyone.)

The very best players may still go ECNL. Vienna is nowhere near big enough to be an ECNL club.

Why Metro United includes Stoddert and Potomac instead of the more geographically logical Vienna and Herndon is above my pay grade. VDA is just too far away.

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Good guess. And a pretty good explanation for differences between top teams. Geographic service areas are totally different. This is why interscholastic sports have different divisions based on school size. The bigger your population, the deeper your talent pool is likely to be. Would you expect something different?  Why?[/quote]

In the past, vienna used to have about 4 teams starting at u9. With that many teams you should be able to have sufficient numbers to develop a strong top team at older ages. Maybe they should look at their development process instead. Maybe not the correct coaches at the u littles? Maybe not enough player movement so that as players progress they should be moved up the team order. [/quote]

Not so. The drop off between first and second and third is a lot more severe than one generally sees at other bigger clubs, so as the rosters lengthen, the quality is tougher to maintain and players depart. This is why we left. The coaching is very solid at U9 and they develop players well. Again, this is something you see at clubs with smaller geographic device areas. McLean and BRYC have the same issues with second teams at these ages and need to import a lot of their players U13 up. [/quote]

I get what you are saying, but if each start with say 44 kids, then everyone starts at the same place.  It's not like the water in Arlington makes for 44 better soccer players.  It's still 44 kids interested in soccer at the earlier stages regardless of level they begin with.[/quote]

Top 44 in a town of 16,000 is going to be different than top 44 with 200,000.  [/quote]

Yes but these are U9s if the desire to play is there, they won't be that different.  They aren't made players.  They can be taught/molded. Now if all 16k or 200k were starting off together than I would say yes.[/quote]

You have to factor in the other sports too.
Soccer is always competing with other big sports for the best athletes. This also impacts your "select group". Hence, better to have bigger pot.[/quote]

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