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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=asksoccernova]The thing I've noticed with Arlington on the girls side is that girls selected for the travel teams sometimes believe they are the best players in the land, because they are sitting on top of a large player pyramid (18 or so house teams). Especially if they also play on an  Arlington Rec team along with their friends / classmates and they score all of their team's goals every weekend.[/quote]

Hey, I've seen players in Vienna who think that. They see 100 kids try out, they get picked among the top 12 or 24, and they think they've "made it." Just a nasty side effect of our tryout culture.

[quote]I think that the Girls DA has a lot of potential because it is going to be run by US Soccer people who don't care at all about marketing, just player development. It does not need to market itself and over hype/over promote itself, so the focus can be on the players instead of trying to hype it up.[/quote]

Finally, you say something that I can't agree with. That's a first.

Knowing a lot of the people involved, if I had a choice between handing my kid over the ECNL staff or the DA staff, I'd pick the ECNL.

That doesn't mean the ECNL will be better across the board. Some DA clubs will offer a better experience than the nearest ECNL club, some won't.

But the DA is vanity-driven to some extent and misguided in other ways. U.S. Soccer has finally realized it can't just sit back and let chaos reign in youth soccer, so it's come out with a lot of mandates and programs. But they're not thinking them through. The intent behind small-sided games is fine; the regulations that will make clubs scramble to find fields that meet the requirements are not. The intent behind the DA may be sound, but they've done it in a way that creates utter chaos.[/quote]

That characterization is true for all of Arlington.  It's a truly insufferable place.[/quote]

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