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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]. Our DD is a 14, and I think the 14 pool is stronger than the older pools overall.  [/quote]

Just so I know how much weight to give to the rest of your post, could you explain why you think the U14 pool at your daughter's DA is stronger than the other age groups in that DA, other than the fact that your daughter is in that group?  You don't have to even state which DA it is.  But your statement is throwing me off because at 3 of the DAs, the U14 don't have the best record, and at the 4th DA, the U14s are tied for best record but have a much worse goal differential.  Or are you saying that across all of the area DAs, more talent has moved into the U14 age group than has migrated to the older groups?[/quote]

The latter.  It's not showing in the records of the teams yet, maybe because the girls haven't been playing together very long or there are positional gaps this first year, but IMHO the raw individual talent at U14 is higher than the raw individual talent at the older ages.  Older girls already in the recruiting process stayed where they were (unless US soccer made them move as appears to have happened with the USYNT players). Last year's U13s were probably considering making a move regardless if they weren't at an ECNL club and wanted to push for a higher level of play, where last year's U14-15-etc probably had more reason to stay put if they'd already made that kind of a move when they were 13s.  [/quote]

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