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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My advice is to go watch two or three prospective teams play. Pay attention to how the coaches and parents act when they're winning and when they're losing. If a team seems like a good fit, email the coach and ask if you can come to a couple of practices. In my opinion, it's only worth going to a big name club if you're offered a spot on the first or second team. Otherwise, find a smaller club that will help your daughter develop. There are always opportunities to move to a bigger club when going from 9v9 to 11v11, etc. ODP is another possibility as she gets older. We have noticed the ECNL/GA clubs tend to recruit the "stars" from smaller clubs instead of pulling kids up from their lower teams.[/quote]

This is absolutely true. If your kids makes the top BSC team there are good reasons to go. If you get a white or worse green offer stay away. [/quote]

Top teams get great exposure at BSC[/quote]

+4 on this.  If your child is a serious player, skip MSI Classic unless it is a team with friends.  Quality is variable. BSC if DD makes the top team. Bordeaux has a lot of BSC defectors who got tired of being treated as 2nd class players because not on top team and they are very happy there.  MRM is very team specific, but coaches and teams tend to have more long-term consistency.  MSI has travel, too.  At BSC, as the kids get older, they have to be able to stomach yelling and harsh criticism from (a few of the top) male coaches. [/quote]

Oh hi Bordeaux dad!!!  Didn’t you defect from Bordeaux as well??

Some went to Bordeaux but jumped ship from there already. [/quote]

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