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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Premier AC in Falls Church does a very good job of developing players.  From what I have seen (my kid as well as several family friends and neighborhood friends), player growth has been impressive.

There is a cost to foscussing on development, as others have said, and some teams pay it more dearly than others. A handful of PAC's teams are very strong and successful, while others have a wide range of players and are more like what 11:49 described.

I think the size of the club and the consistency in the coaching staff (most of the coaches played for the club president) are part of what makes the coaching so effective. On the other hand, the lack of depth is always a challenge to a small club even on the very strong teams (especially when it comes to tournaments). It sometimes also makes some of the stronger players inclined to leave for neighboring teams (who had originally turned them down) after a few years. [/quote]

Would totally agree Premier AC has a wide range a few really good teams that could easily hold their own in an ECNL league and few really bad teams that border on ODSL. As for development They are top tier and care about the player first if they think one of their players needs to move to a stronger competition than the can provide the will help the player get to a stronger team. They frequently send players to the DCU academy.[/quote]

You are kidding, right?  No disrespect to Premier AC, but their teams will get crushed by ECNL teams.  For example, Premier AC 08 girls top team lost to Arlington Silver.  To put things in prospective, Arlington's top team will be playing in ECNL next year., their next best team is Red, then White, then Blue, then Black, then Silver.  So PAC's best team lost to Arlington's 6th team, but it would hold its own against Arlington's top team and other ECNL clubs? [/quote]

You are yet another idiotic parent. PAC has sent players to Arlington and McLean top teams when those clubs could not be bothered to pick or develop them. You are comparing results that occur after importing a bunch of talent with clubs that actually develop talent. And you are exactly why Arlington and McLean have multiple teams but cannot do anything but import talent at older ages to sustain their teams.  Absolute idiot. [/quote]

Newsflash, ECNL teams draw from many clubs and I can assure you that most do not come from PAC.  PAC's 08 team did not lose to top Arlington team, it lost to the SIXTH best Arlington team.  Arlington has 5 teams that are better than the team that beat PAC. 
And the same goes for pre-ECNL ages, PAC does not even have U12 girls team in NCSL and their boys U12 team finished third from the bottom in division FIVE of NCSL.  Wake up, division five of NCSL is not a hotbed of talent.  I don't look down at PAC or the kids that play for the club, but lets be real their teams are nowhere near of being competitive against the top teams in the area.  [/quote]

Nobody is discussing team performance. We are talking about individual development. You are beyond help. You obviously never played and have an obscenely simple and mechanical approach to something that is neither. [/quote]

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