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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be curious to hear how many kids from "outside the system" are making U13 DA teams for next year.  That is, kids who did not play U12 DA this year.  The sales pitch for the U12 teams is that you need to get your kid in sooner, rather than later, or he may have trouble breaking in.[/quote]

There were spots for rising U13s from outside the DA but that's really the wrong question this year.  Because of the way the DA s phased in the age group change, this year's U12s (04s) will be next year's U14s.

U12 DAs are 2 x 9v9 teams (24-26 players) then they cut it down to one 11v11 team (16-18) players for U13 & above.  The cut isn't as sharp for clubs which mixed in a lot of 05s with their 04 groups (or next year will have a lot of 07s with their 06s), but for clubs which didn't do that, Arlington for example, they are going to be dropping a lot of their existing U12s anyway. On top of that you have all of the McLean current U12 DA players (mostly 04s) looking to move to another DA.  The advantage those players have by being "in the system" is that they already have had multiple opportunities to try out during matches against the other DA clubs throughout the year.

So yeah, with so many 04s being cut lose, it was hard for 04s from outside the system to break in this year, just as it will be hard for 06s next year (and 04s again, since they will age out Arl and Loud DAs, unless they get expanded).

It's an extremely competitive process, as it's designed to be.

Hopefully the cream will rise to the top, rather than just the early developers, but that comes down to the individual clubs.

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That is very informative.  Thank you for the response.  I always forget that US Soccer didn't adopt the birth year mandate for the DAs yet.  Don't even get me started on that.[/quote]

The DAs were playing by birth year long before US soccer mandated the change for everyone else.  The only difference is that right now they calculate the soccer age differently.  So 03s are U13 in the DA but U14 everywhere else this year,  but that will change next year, when they will all be U15s.[/quote]

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