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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't speak to non-MoCo options but Classic/Select in MoCo has strong classic/select teams and it is not a leap of faith to put your kid in a classic/select program and get just as good of an experience if not better than the Potomac/Bethesda B and C teams.

I shared enough team names above that should enable people to do their own research. There are quality coaches, some of who I know because they also coached travel. The experience is different than travel for sure but as I mentioned above, I have seen too many kids come from classic and beat out other travel players for spots on B teams that I am certain that classic/select can provide the right environment for some kids and that the practice sessions are better than the sessions of travel programs.

Just do your research. The best classic teams actually stay together and progress to travel teams over the years. Some break up at the u13/u14 age as the parent does not want to coach a travel team and the top players leave to go to the top travel programs.

Classic can be a serious alternative to B/C teams. The question with which we all agree is that the timing to enter soccer and the motivation of the kid is key but with the $2,000 in savings, you can't tell me that you can't provide additional training for your classic-playing DC, play 3 or 4 travel tournaments a year and not get a strong experience which is better than the B/C team experience.

Sorry for using names but when I provide examples and links to teams and people still make the same stupid comment about unicorns, then the shoe fits.[/quote]

Lets take Toca Jr as an example:
Kit: $150
Winter training/Futsal full season: $450 for new members for 24, 1 hour sessions.
Winter training/Futsal half season: $325 for new members for 12, 1 hour sessions.

Now unfortunately prices are not listed for Fall or Spring seasons currently but I would imagine that they are in the range of $300 per season.

So to do 10 months of Toca Jr the cost is around $1200/year. This is in line with the training fees for a travel club that is providing 3 practices a week vs Toca's 2 practices a week.

And there are still opportunities to play in local tournaments and those will still carry fees as well.

So if you are comparing Toca Jr to say a C level travel team in NCSL the games may be spread around the DMV more than MSI's league. A typical U10/U11 C level travel team will play in 2-4 local tourneys per year like Dulles National and other smaller tourneys held out at the SoccerPlex etc. Certainly not leagues or tourneys going up and down 95 as you claim. In a head to head comparison if one is comparing the actual value for dollar per training session they actually come out a wash. Travel usually includes 3 1.5 hour practices a week compared to Toca's 2 1 hour practices a week. (The actual outside season may have 1.5 hour sessions).

So would this classic route cost less? Yes, but it pro-rates about to be nearly the same as travel. [/quote]

So you're saying that DenseMan stumbled across the concept that playing less soccer costs less and is less of a time commitment, but is still a better pathway to "Elite" soccer.  Someone call the USMNT![/quote]

It does stand to reason that to get better at something and to prepare to be elite at something the pathway is always to do less of that thing than other people. That sentiment is even reflected in the old joke about Carnegie Hall:

Q:"How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" 
A:"Practice" [/quote]

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