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[quote=Anonymous]I want to echo what people are saying about the lower teams in Arlington specifically. The quality of play is far above rec and ADP (both of which we did with our child before travel). At the early ages, Arlington’s low teams play in the top divisions of NCSL and the top teams play an age group up. There were something like 7 divisions of teams in NCSL below my child’s low Arlington team, so I can see why many posters equate low teams with money grabs and the play like rec soccer because my guess is that is what you see in some of those very low divisions? I’m not sure. I can say that our experiences on 5th team then 4th team were miles above rec and ADP - which feels like a gimme when you practice so much more.

We found ourselves in a weird place where our child was dominating rec and wanted more than ADP and have found “lower” Arlington travel to be a lot of fun and the parents to be chill.

I’ve lurked on these boards for a few years and there is a ton of emphasis on top teams, top clubs, college prospects. Some kids are a great fit for travel soccer without all of that - if they want to experience teamwork, challenges, fun, learning, and the feelings of success that can come with all of that - especially if they are a strong athlete between college prospects and rec players.

I don’t know about red offers (don’t expect one) but they did do some renaming in recent years. Maybe people are still equating red with the top teams when those are called Academy and Pre-Academy at the young ages now and red is 3rd team. 
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