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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Arlington’s problem may be that it is simply too big to manage. The same club that you want to succeed in ECNL is weighed down by its desire to field six teams at every age group. FVU and VDA specialize in just the top layer. Arlington ECNL can never be great because it always wants to be everything to everyone. It’s more a community association not a soccer academy. [/quote]

New soccer mom here: my son plays ADP (I’d say he’s the 3rd best player on his team) and I didn’t let him try out for U9 travel this year because, frankly, it’s a lot of money for something I don’t really understand.

WHY does Arlington have 6 travel teams for each age and gender? That seems to imply they’ll take almost anyone willing to play—it doesn’t seem like the kids who make travel (particularly the lower level teams) are great players.

From reading this board, it seems like little kid travel is a road to nowhere. But my kid loves soccer and wants to play travel, so please tell me what I’m missing, beyond travel having one more practice each week and participation in tournaments.[/quote]

This board is mostly the invested people who think their kid is playing in college.  Most of them are delusional but that's what they are gunning for.

Many people just want their kid to play soccer and have a good time and stay active.  Club sports in general have decimated rec sports so you have to participate in club sports to just play any sport and have a good time at a reasonable competition level.

One warning is ADP is a dead end at end of 5th or 6th grade.  Now I guess it will be after 6th grade with new age groupings.  No one explains that part.  All these kids will get dumped into travel tryouts and there is no room for them on travel teams.  There is no expansion of the number of teams and there are already a bunch of kids who have been playing travel.  Most of the ADP kids have to go back to rec or they stop playing soccer.  So my one piece of advice is if you think your kid will want to keep playing soccer, don't wait until the end to jump over to travel from ADP.

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