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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not Duh.  There are other models out there.  VDA retains control of players, training and coaching.  The difference is do you align with a professional club or not.  VDA can hold players until graduation and claim their movement into national team pool or to a college.  Reston (or the previous 4) could not really.  They could say they sent them to Spirit....but it would be Spirit who can claim the players success and thus build their brand and club.[/quote]

No, PWSI and VSA both lost their kids to VDA. You act like those are not feeder clubs to VDA. What claim does PWSI have to brag about once a kid is on VDA? [/quote]

That goes to the point that there are too many clubs in NOVA.  PWSI and VSA had to / chose to do that with VDA to stay relevant - correct?  If not, why do the deal?  But there is a difference on how Arlington has their boys program from what I understand.  They have DA from 12-14 and control the teams and their development.  At 15 and beyond I think they pass on top players to DC United. I may be wrong there, but I think that is correct. [/quote]

No, without the demonstrated player pool, of at the time, VSA, PWSI and CYA, VDA would never have been awarded a DA in the first place. VDA only exists because those three clubs initially agreed to work together and provide a player pool to VDA. Also, and not a small thing is fields. I like how clubs use "their" fields on these applications as almost a certainty when  in 90% of the cases the fields are public parks where access is granted by the local land owning county, but thats another argument.[/quote]

And PWSI, CYA and VDA did not have ability to demonstrate the player pool concentration on their own because there are too many clubs and therefore too much dilution.  And all the new ECNL and DA clubs are going to further dilute things....and kill the smaller clubs in the process.[/quote]

Agree, see my post earlier about Local, Regional and National based clubs.[/quote]

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