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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^
This is pretty funny. I stopped reading after "great random teams in NCSL or ODSL". There are zero great teams in ODSL. [/quote]

I don't know about great, but don't overlook the ODSL teams that can't meet NCSL requirements (and thus can't join NCSL) yet have talented rosters. In most cases it's a team that a parent coaches because his son or daughter just happens to be that age, and the players are skilled because they've grown up with the game in family settings. Great? Probably not, but they'll can certainly blow teams out.[/quote]

Agree to an extent. Let's say it more clearly: ODSL has some ass-kicking teams of poor Hispanic kids being coached by their crazy dads. Greatness isn't out of reach.[/quote]

What makes you think we're poor you ass-wipe!

I moved to an independent club with my son because I was sick of the 1hr long training sessions from E-licensed coaches following a curriculum some TD thought up a few years and as they were phoning it in to their 2nd training session since they had taken up 3 teams to make some money on the side they weren't providing any instruction at all or correcting the boys when they say the drills being executed incorrectly.  The current team were on has 3 practices a week by a coach, whose son is on the team(why else would he do it), we have 2 hour practice sessions that start after he gets home from work which is usually by 6pm.  If you get there late, no worries as he sometimes has work issues and other parents start the kids on the warm-ups.  The trainer changes the drills and what we work depending on how the team is doing in the games, we don't have a season and practice during December/January/February and the team as a whole registers in the indoor leagues as well.  Even though I am paying less at this point than pretty much all of the clubs around the area would charge for 10-months of soccer, DS team as a whole is getting way more in training time vs games.  We are NOT required to show up in our training kits at 4:45pm for practice or have a fancy logo on our shirts or have some kind of misplaced ego because were on the "RED" or "BLUE" team or play in CCL1 or whatever stupid shiny piece the soccer clubs have come up with to separate money from their parents.  I guarantee you, soccer basis, my son's experience is better than your son's experience.[/quote]

Let's rephrase the statement: ODSL has some ass-kicking teams, many predominantly Hispanic and some parent-coached, who aren't in NCSL for whatever reason (sometimes field issues, sometimes by choice). Dynamite, VISTA and a few others have some teams that routinely go into tournaments and clobber high-level NCSL teams. IFC actually has entered the occasional team in EDP.

It's a pity we don't have a single competition that would bring together the good teams from CCL (maybe half of them), VPL (maybe a third of them), ECNL (all 1 of them on the boys side), EDP (most of D1 and some of D2), NCSL (most of D1, some of D2) and ODSL (a couple of teams from D1). That would be a great, competitive league or tournament. Alas, none of these folks want to play nicely with each other. [/quote]

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