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[quote=Anonymous]So, all this complaining is because of 2% of the program? Does 2% of the program really take up so many resources that the other 98% can't get a field? That does not make sense.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington, Loudoun, PWSI, Bethesda, and a few others may recruit to a limited degree, but really the reason other players go there is because that is where a lot of the best coaches are.  If you are paying for travel soccer and committing the time and resources to it, you want the best experience for your kid - and want them to learn the most they can. In the past 3-5 years Arlington and Loudoun have made a concerted effort to draw in better coaches so it should be no surprise that kids are being drawn there. This is where the difference is between that group and Vienna - they all want to look out for their local players, but there is no reason for playing in vienna aside from the concenience of you live there. They can say they are "community focused" all they want, but the fact is there is nothing there to attract anyone outside the community (or even many inside the community). [/quote]

Define "many inside the community." This board tends to be dominated by people anonymously putting down anyone who's under the NCSL D2 level, but the fact is that's 95 percent of soccer players. VYS certainly has coaches capable of working at the NCSL D1 level and occasionally beyond, so really, they should be able to serve 98-99 percent of the kids in town.

We often talk on this board as if the top 2 percent are the only ones who matter. They're not. And many within that 2 percent think they HAVE to sacrifice everything to play soccer for the right coach or the right club or the right league, and that's not so.

Personally, I'd consider it a much greater accomplishment to make a good State Cup run with an underdog team than it is to play on a team of All-Stars all the time.

[quote]As for the fields - it is a wash. If you play in arlington yes you are on Arlington fields. If you join a team in Fairfax county, you are on Fairfax county fields, etc. Arlington is not the only place where tax dollars are used to build parks and fields. I would argue it's worse in McLean - where the club has drawn millions from the membership to build fields without county help - after years of long time McLean kids paying extra for fields your kid can come to tryouts, take their spot, and play on those fields. [/quote]

Yep. McLean may have the two best coaches in the area in Clyde Watson and Ken Krieger, but the politics in that club make the House of Representatives look like a hippie commune.

[quote]What's sad is the whole thing has become a big business as opposed to having anything to do with the kids or the communities, and so many parents just buy into it. To go an out of town club to play travel soccer on the 3rd or 4th team in your age group is stupid.[/quote]

Yep. Lots of snake oil being sold.[/quote][/quote]

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