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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s easy to say there should be more competitive clubs in the dc area. If you live in dc or surrounding areas like pg county your options are Md united, Achilles, or go to Arlington or Alexandria. Dcsc is a big club in terms of numbers, but they have the same problem as every other dc club- their better players will likely leave at u14 level for SYC DCU Bethesda or one of the clubs I named above.

It’s a shame as someone who grew up playing in pg county 30+ years ago and have coached in dc last 3. The facilities in dc are a huge problem, there are good up clubs in the area like Dc sporting and futures in pg for kids soccer, similar to Bmore where rec clubs in surrounding cities help develop kids, but based on the current landscape once kids hit u14 if they have ambition they will jump to an MLSNext club or play ECNL hoping to keep moving up the ladder, so all of these clubs outside of the privileged ones (PPA, DCXI, DCYFC, Futures, Wash Capital united) who don’t have ECNL or MLSNext status suffer. Teams break up, kids change teams every other season. It’s a shame that, at the end of the day, kids from u15-19 don’t really have that many more options for competitive soccer in the general pg and dc areas within a 45 min drive than they had 30+ years ago. [/quote]

So what can be done?[/quote]

New poster here, but one who is a DC resident and has faced all of this - one of the biggest issues, maybe the biggest issue, is facilities. There just aren't enough fields and especially not enough lit fields, to supply the practice time needed. DCSC manages this but squeezing 6+ teams on one field at a time, PPA uses a lot of crappy grass fields or has teams travel to far flung places multiple times a week.  DCYFC is very small, and they have one main field, but you need to be bigger to support top teams etc.

I read a survey ages ago that said while DC has among the most greenspace per acre of any city, the overwhelming majority of it is NPS land. It has among the least recreation and field space of any city per acre. (That said, I can't find the link to it. Maybe someone else can.) Also something like 40-50% of all playing fields are baseball fields in the city. That doesn't help either.[/quote]

Incorrect.  As a DC resident and familiar with DC Soccer and a few of the DC clubs, there is a shortage of turfs fields in NW DC at the rates they want to pay.  DC Soccer was called out by DC Gov. last fall because they were consuming so much space at super cheap rates and needed to increase the rates.

If they had a serious operation, people would easily drive to NE, SW and SE for practice as I have met DCSC parents at SoFive in Rockville.

This facility thing is a lazy excuse.  There are 6 unused fields within 2 miles of my door in NW DC and MANY MORE through the city.[/quote]

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