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Anonymous wrote:If you don't have a player (or coach) in the family, your chances go down from an already minuscule amount to begin with.

Agree in general, but there are a whole lot of former players around here, including former pros, D1 players, and others who are very serious about soccer because it's part of their family culture. This area has been a soccer hotbed since the 70s, at least. That is one reason why we do, in fact, produce more pros than a lot of other areas.

Also, I've seen from experience that you don't necessarily need to be the child of a super-serious parent to make it to the next level. You just need the knowledgeable people to take an interest, which can happen if you are friends with their kid or they coach you.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering, what is BRYC doing with their girls that are the second tier? I see their first tier in ECNL and their 3rd tier (ex. U16 Academy Black) in NCSL and I have seen their 2nd team (U16 Academy Elite) in tournaments but what league do they participate in?

Girls? Does BRYC elite girls have more than 1 team after their u12 age groups? I’m not sure there is a second tier.

Yes, here are their U16 girls pages-
ECNL: http://home.gotsoccer.com/rankings/team.aspx?teamid=505168

Elite: http://home.gotsoccer.com/rankings/team.aspx?teamid=699228

Black: http://home.gotsoccer.com/rankings/team.aspx?teamid=737308

All of which have played in multiple tournaments this year.

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RantingSoccerDad wrote:

Anonymous wrote:look, most of these people had pro soccer players in their family already. Ian harkes - duh, rather was former USMNT captain, Najar had an former pro uncle he trained with since he was a little kid in Honduras.

Gyau, too.

Pulisic, Moreno, Kerr, etc...

RantingSoccerDad wrote:

Anonymous wrote:look, most of these people had pro soccer players in their family already. Ian harkes - duh, rather was former USMNT captain, Najar had an former pro uncle he trained with since he was a little kid in Honduras.

Gyau, too.

Anonymous wrote:If you don't have a player (or coach) in the family, your chances go down from an already minuscule amount to begin with.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering, what is BRYC doing with their girls that are the second tier? I see their first tier in ECNL and their 3rd tier (ex. U16 Academy Black) in NCSL and I have seen their 2nd team (U16 Academy Elite) in tournaments but what league do they participate in?

Girls? Does BRYC elite girls have more than 1 team after their u12 age groups? I’m not sure there is a second tier.

Anonymous wrote:Just wondering, what is BRYC doing with their girls that are the second tier? I see their first tier in ECNL and their 3rd tier (ex. U16 Academy Black) in NCSL and I have seen their 2nd team (U16 Academy Elite) in tournaments but what league do they participate in?

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if anyone here realizes how ridiculously few people from this area go pro.

Look overseas. Look at MLS. Look at the NWSL. Not a lot of DMV people.

Yet if you read this board, everyone's going pro -- oh, but they might settle for merely playing in college.

Good luck with that.

Dont agree at all on the men's side. Check out this article highlighting locals who have gone pro recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soccer-insider/wp/2018/01/26/a-decade-ago-this-youth-soccer-club-rarely-won-now-it-has-produced-seven-pros-in-two-years/?utm_term=.a91c2bae060a This doesn't include other young players who have recently gone pro, including Chris Durkin, Jacori Hayes, Ian Harkes or those currently at UMD and other colleges who are likely to turn pro when they graduate. Also doesn't include older players like Andy Najar or Joe Gyau. I'm sure there are many others--if you follow DMV soccer on twitter, you can get a good sense of this.

It is, of course, hard for any player to go pro, but I think if you can't move to LA or Dallas, this is a pretty good region to be from if that's your dream.

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if anyone here realizes how ridiculously few people from this area go pro.

Look overseas. Look at MLS. Look at the NWSL. Not a lot of DMV people.

Yet if you read this board, everyone's going pro -- oh, but they might settle for merely playing in college.

Good luck with that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if anyone here realizes how ridiculously few people from this area go pro.

Look overseas. Look at MLS. Look at the NWSL. Not a lot of DMV people.

Yet if you read this board, everyone's going pro -- oh, but they might settle for merely playing in college.

Good luck with that.

Thanks! My kid is dreaming big and I am encouraging her. The women's landscape is changing bigly right now and the status quo of what's produced success for the US women appears to be shifting as other countries are catching up and outplaying them. She can try to be part of the change and try to get there with the development she is interested in or sit and watch others .. She has chosen to be part of the change and will give it her all. As a whole, we haven't really given women the resources they deserve, it's about time.

Yet it’s a model that hasn’t worked for the boys and the Men didn’t even qualify for the World Cup. The more the women have tried to mirror that model, the worse it’s been.