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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is a DA program right now at the younger age group and during a meeting I found out my coworker's son is also doing DA for Sporting KC.  They pay $0!!!  I'd reconsider driving my son from the burbs to DC if they cover the cost.  Until then,  no way in  hell.  $30 just top hop on 66.[/quote]

From you experience, was the DA training any different from other travel clubs?[/quote]

Not the poster...But this is something that interests me too and so I've watched various training sessions from the so-called 'elite' programs—including the DA sessions (u11-u12) and the training I see there is identical to the training my kid gets at his smaller club. HOWEVER, it just happens to 'look' better because the kids are better to begin with! So if you took all the best players from all the clubs A teams, they will look fantastic. Take your average kid and he or she may struggle through the same training. But does that mean the training is actually better? I personally do not think so. [/quote]

The difference is in the talent not the training. In general the training for pretty much most 11/12 year old kids should be very similar. Regardless of talent level the developmental stages are still the same. And frankly, DA or not, at 11/12 years of age the difference between players at a DA vs Non-DA level are shades of gray in most instances.

What a DA environment hopefully brings is a discipline of patience and trust in the training process overall. DA should be more about the long game and less about this Sundays game [/quote]

So is it better off for the talented kids just to stay with their teams (travel or rec) and join a DA team later on, say at U14/U15?[/quote]

I think the answer is case-specific. I only have heard of a couple players coming from rec to an older DA team, and those kids were heavily trained by their families. If your kid plays on a good local club team and is the kind of player who will stand out in a tryout, then I think that timing could work and I've seen many kids move over as late as U16. But it's harder to get noticed if you are not already in the system. All the DA coaches are scouting kids from other teams at every match--even at the youngest age groups--and the national team scouts and whoever decides on the US training center invites are watching the young DA teams too. You also lose out on the years of more focused training.

But if a kid is dazzling, there is always room for him. All these coaches want to win and have kids who might make national team rosters or commit to top D1 programs as that raises the club and coach's standing. [/quote]

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