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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The overall problem to be 100% honest. The overall player pool in the entire DMV is over saturated with anyone willing to "pay to play". The business model has taken a bigger priority in making money over finding and developing talent. Too Many clubs have "ELITE" status.This waters down the the talent level and the best of the best don't train or play together because of it. Since its pay to play many parents would rather send the DC to a club where they will play big minutes and be one of the teams top players. Parent and child egos most of the time prevent them from joining a team where they would be the 10-18 th player. Instead they would rather play for a different club that they are a top 1 - 5 player. Frankly this is why We never see true superstar talent emerge from local clubs. One other point is so many of the really gifted players are priced out of the development process. This is because the model is designed to not turn away the average player who can pay. Bypassing the potentially talented player who cant. Yes every club has scholarships. The issue is offending the local paying family. Could you imagine if Loudoun Soccer decided to make up every single one of their "A" teams full or 90% scholarship kids none of which were even Loudoun residents? All of the other B,C,and D level teams were Pay to play Loudoun families. This model which should be nation wide in my opinion would take away the pipe dream of so many soccer parents in this country. It would also elevate the USA to one of the best soccer countries in the world.[/quote]

This may or may not be true as applied to LS once you get to U13 and older, but it's not even close of an explanation for why LS is not stronger/deeper at ULittle, especially on the boys side. Usually the Red (and sometimes Black) teams at LS on girls side at ULittle is very strong. Plus LS rec teams at ULittle usually do very well at Rec All Star tournaments, again more so on girls side. [/quote]

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