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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So genuine question, why do younger 2nd/3rd Valor teams seem to be out pacing in the skills/learning the game over big club teams? Are they all just going to disappear to said big clubs in a year or two? Their coaching and play style seems to work and I've been shocked watching some 2nd, 3rd,4th team games on them wrecking big club teams. However, the top teams get destroyed regularly in regular season games and tournaments where they don't play down. I can't imagine the goal would be to play for their top teams u-13 and below. [/quote]

Um, no. It sounds like the club is purposefully placing teams in the wrong tournaments/brackets/NCSL divisions to look better than they are. The 3rd and 4th and 5th teams are just terrible. [/quote]

Right. Take Valor's 2013 girls teams as a great example.

Valor's Pre-ECNL team played Arlington's, Great Falls/Reston's, Braddock Road's, PWSI's, Vienna's and Loudon's Pre-ECNL teams (i.e. the top 2013 team from each of those clubs) in league play while Valor's 2nd team played Lee Mount Vernon's 2nd team, Stafford's 3rd team, Bethesda's 5th team and DCSC's 4th team in NCSL.

I understand we're talking about 10 and 11 year old girls but the gap in skill level between the teams in Pre-ECNL and the NCSL's 5th division is ENORMOUS.[/quote]

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