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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Potomac is like any club. They’re happy people and unhappy people. I would venture to say the unhappy people at Potomac will be unhappy anywhere. It is a well run club with good coaches and decent communication. However they did let a coach that was brought from the outside create too much turmoil and upheaval and that disrupted what should have been a natural flow of kids moving upward and their progression. However, those kids are developing and will do fine. Most everyone we know from u12 and above is happy and u9 and below seems happy. 
The top teams at Potomac can beat anyone and their “issues” seem to be the same that any club has. [/quote]

No doubt the top ECNL and MLSNext clubs are competive against each other. But I’m curious as to what has been asked. Why are Potomac boys and girls not being invited to USYNT events or do not appear to be scouted by academies? DCU takes kids from the other MLSNext and ECNL clubs all the time (even the ones they have cool relationships with). Haven’t seen much from Potomac. Are the coaches and club not doing enough to advocate for their players? [/quote]

Is that Potomac’s business model?

1) DCU has its P2P clubs it works with. I would not expect any special relationship to Potomac.
2) BSC does not promote anything to DCU and DCU still find kids at BSC despite the clubs efforts to block them. If you are good enough, they will find you. I would not focus on the club. I would focus on your kid.
3) Potomac coaches SHOULD be recommending players to ID2. Again, if your kid can play, USYNT and MLS academies will find you through that process.
4) Potomac coaches SHOULD be recommending players for the MLS Next ID weekend on Indigenous People/Columbus weekend.
5) MLS academies recruit at the regional ID camp for ODP. I know a few Potomac players in ODP. If you are not making the regional ID camp for ODP, USMNT should not be on your radar. If you kid can ball, they will be noticed.

No horse in the race but a club does not dictate what happens to a kid. Plenty of ways to get seen if your kid can ball.  Most kids can’t ball at the level of their parent’s ambition and think it is the club's fault.[/quote]

This is a lot of confidence in a call to authority.

What are you on about??!!

Coaches are clearly biased for tall players that fit the look.

Kids develop at different times too.

The real issue is no movement between first and second teams.  Potomac has this problem in spades - even with trackers.

Anchoring effect is real in the system - no matter how many hours your kid puts in.

It’s a coaches sport - our kids are pawns.[/quote]

My DS played travel soccer at the first team. Very few players moved up to the first team.  When they did, you could see that they were not at the same level.  For most clubs, there's a huge gap between the first and second teams. [/quote]

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