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Just curious on what would go "terribly wrong" for a kid who is in a good training environment against good players?  Personal opinions you provided on VDA notwithstanding, I'm sure there are others with different opinions of the training there.

So what, your DD doesn't start.  It doesn't mean she isn't getting to be a better player.  Who knows, she may work hard enough and start someday.

What a great message you give...if you aren't cutting it to start right now, give up.   If you can't beat another elite team that has been together for years (or combination of top players from two teams who have played together for years in the example you gave), give up.

Development isn't about winning or starting,  It's about getting better.  And you are correct, for those who don't want their mettle tested against the best, and to get better, stay at your local club or play rec and have fun.  There plenty or room for those types too!
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I agree development is not about winning or starting - but what if you DA / ECNL club field a team lacking a starting roster of winners or starters as compared to perhaps a skill level of a PDA or Michigan Hawks?  Do we do anyone any favors if we show up and get shellacked?  Who exactly benefits if we don't employ a handicap model (like in golf)?  How does it benefit the competition when Washington Spirit shows up to play a PDA (last year).  It doesn't.  Everybody loses.

Are we furthering our goal for fielding the best to the compete against the world in Women's soccer if we drag your daughter with us and she can't compete against the top talent of another club?  I will tell you that we did not benefit the development of the PDA team when we played them last year as we had a roster of mediocre players.  No, I think the development happens at the local club - and if you want to do what's best - you as the parent will instead take your money for your EDP-bound daughter and let her play on a competitive local club, let her be active in high school and reinvest your savings in getting her skills so she is on the top half of the roster at next year's tryout.  If your kid is mediocre - she needs more than any DA / ECNL can give her.  She needs her life back and to refocus on developing the skills and athleticism to be in the top 10 of her team.

Our area has two DA clubs.  Perhaps the ECNL clubs should be a close second.  They should be the best of the best.  Instead, they have rosters with 20 and 30 kids.  They need rosters of 16 top kids - the best our area has to offer.  The other hundreds of clubs in DMV should be feeding those two teams.  These girls should represent as the Navy Seals of high school age soccer.  The culture of mediocrity prevents the elite players from getting better.  There are many options for the mediocre to improve - it just requires a commitment to the basics: touch, tactics, team-play and athleticism.  All of that can be improved when you take your scarce $ and make her train 10 months out of the year until she cracks the top half of the roster.  Just my opinion.

Thanks!
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There are just not enough face palm memes in the world.....[/quote]

DP here.  The solution to the problem of DA programs that get crushed by other DA programs is to open DA to all clubs and provide them with an opportunity to earn their way up on the field.  Then the DA club status will be earned on the field.  Competition is not about selecting two clubs in a board room and then telling the parents that they are the highest level of soccer and other clubs should be feeder clubs for them.   Opening the system will weed out mediocre coaches and players as the DA status would have to be earned on the field.  Top teams will be promoted, bad teams will get relegated.  [/quote]

I think this issue with that is US Soccer wants to keep control and audit over the DA clubs, so they all work within specific, set criteria and are auditable.

That would be impossible with the number of clubs that exist in the country.  They are probably having a tough enough time doing it for the clubs that are in DA right now.[/quote]

That also puts team success above player success. [/quote]

How so?  Training standards and adherence to the standard are needed if you want a repeatable process.   The main process here is to make players better.  If anything, that helps player development and is done at academies worldwide.  Why wouldn't training standards help here?[/quote]

The rest of the world has an open system for both professional and youth soccer with multiple tiers and promotion/relegation.  Any club can join at the lowest level and work its way up.  Programs with poor coaching and player development get relegated to lower divisions.  Good programs move up.  It works.  Yet USSF rejects this proven model and offers lousy excuses like USSF is having hard time keeping control and auditing the youth clubs.  Spain has 482 youth clubs/academies in the top four divisions of youth soccer.  And they have additional 5 tiers regional divisions with countless clubs below the national system (which also feed into national divisions through promotion).  In 2016-2017, we had 149 DA clubs, which is about 1/3 of clubs in the top four youth divisions in Spain.  Aside from this closed system of 149 clubs, we have a fractured system with multiple "elite," "premier" etc. leagues that feed into nowhere.  The current system does not reward good coaches that develop talent.  The top tier is an exclusive country club.   [/quote]

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