Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:US Soccer press release today. http://www.ussoccerda.com/20190307-NEWS-DA-Four-New-Clubs-to-Join-Boys-DA-for-201920-Season

Some highlights (or lowlights, depending on your viewpoint):

Boys DA will NOT be breaking out the U16s as its own age group.

Arlington did NOT get expansion to new age groups for Boys DA.

That has to be a surprise to them given they were holding ID sessions for 03/04 boys. http://arlingtonsoccer.com/programs/development-academy/talent-id/

My guess is DCU blocked it. Their plan has always been to snatch up the local affiliates best players at by age 15.

ASA website says boys have DA up to U18/19. That’s not true anymore?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Multiple sources have confirmed that the Virginia Development Academy – born as a partnership between the Prince William Soccer, Inc., Virginia Soccer Association and Chantilly Youth Association to field a boys Development Academy program in 2014 – is set to move its top girls programming from Girls DA to ECNL. It’s the latest arrival in the latter league’s sustained push to grow its membership nationwide.

Arlington moving to girls DA is the antithesis of most of the other top girl Clubs. I wonder if the girls will eventually migrate away from Arlington in the older age groups like they used to.

The boys look to have a collapsing DA program. No U12, looks like no U13 in 2021 and they did not get expansion for U16.

I think we can pretty much say with Loudoun's migration that Club DA in the DMV is toast.

ASA wasn’t going to ‘get’ an ECNL squad (they were turned down) so they had to further hope that DA would accommodate them given their boy’s DA track record. Fortunately for them it happened. ASA now has the tough road of trying to build back the (girl’s) program to some level of respectability in the years forward. But it is no longer a destination club for elite players. With the boys not getting DA expansion, I wonder if they will follow Loudoun into ECNL.

Boy, its so much fun to watch the implosions.

Anonymous wrote:Multiple sources have confirmed that the Virginia Development Academy – born as a partnership between the Prince William Soccer, Inc., Virginia Soccer Association and Chantilly Youth Association to field a boys Development Academy program in 2014 – is set to move its top girls programming from Girls DA to ECNL. It’s the latest arrival in the latter league’s sustained push to grow its membership nationwide.

Arlington moving to girls DA is the antithesis of most of the other top girl Clubs. I wonder if the girls will eventually migrate away from Arlington in the older age groups like they used to.

The boys look to have a collapsing DA program. No U12, looks like no U13 in 2021 and they did not get expansion for U16.

I think we can pretty much say with Loudoun's migration that Club DA in the DMV is toast.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:US Soccer press release today. http://www.ussoccerda.com/20190307-NEWS-DA-Four-New-Clubs-to-Join-Boys-DA-for-201920-Season

Some highlights (or lowlights, depending on your viewpoint):

Boys DA will NOT be breaking out the U16s as its own age group.

Arlington did NOT get expansion to new age groups for Boys DA.

That has to be a surprise to them given they were holding ID sessions for 03/04 boys. http://arlingtonsoccer.com/programs/development-academy/talent-id/aq 15.

ASA website says boys have DA up to U18/19. That’s not true ?

Anonymous wrote:US Soccer press release today. http://www.ussoccerda.com/20190307-NEWS-DA-Four-New-Clubs-to-Join-Boys-DA-for-201920-Season

Some highlights (or lowlights, depending on your viewpoint):

Boys DA will NOT be breaking out the U16s as its own age group.

Arlington did NOT get expansion to new age groups for Boys DA.

That has to be a surprise to them given they were holding ID sessions for 03/04 boys. http://arlingtonsoccer.com/programs/development-academy/talent-id/

My guess is DCU blocked it. Their plan has always been to snatch up the local affiliates best players at by age 15.

Anonymous wrote:US Soccer press release today. http://www.ussoccerda.com/20190307-NEWS-DA-Four-New-Clubs-to-Join-Boys-DA-for-201920-Season

Some highlights (or lowlights, depending on your viewpoint):

Boys DA will NOT be breaking out the U16s as its own age group.

Arlington did NOT get expansion to new age groups for Boys DA.

That has to be a surprise to them given they were holding ID sessions for 03/04 boys. http://arlingtonsoccer.com/programs/development-academy/talent-id/

My guess is DCU blocked it. Their plan has always been to snatch up the local affiliates best players at by age 15.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the topic of this thread (Boys' DA season), here are the scores from the last weekend's boys VDA College Showcase, U15 age group, with 4 non-MLS DA teams:
Richmond-1, Arlington-1
Bethesda-7, VDA-2
Arlington-1, Bethesda-1
VDA-3, Richmond-1.
Final Standing: Bethesda, VDA, Arlington, Richmond.

Pre-season and on a long weekend, so teams were probably missing a few key players. Not much should be read into these results, except that the teams were mostly well-matched. VDA has lost a few players to DCU and (possibly) Arlington, so they probably need a bit of time to find their groove.

Did VDA lose those players to DCU permanently, or were they just guest players for the GA cup? I've only seen 1 added to the actual roster (also 1 from Arlington).

Anonymous wrote:On the topic of this thread (Boys' DA season), here are the scores from the last weekend's boys VDA College Showcase, U15 age group, with 4 non-MLS DA teams:
Richmond-1, Arlington-1
Bethesda-7, VDA-2
Arlington-1, Bethesda-1
VDA-3, Richmond-1.
Final Standing: Bethesda, VDA, Arlington, Richmond.

Pre-season and on a long weekend, so teams were probably missing a few key players. Not much should be read into these results, except that the teams were mostly well-matched. VDA has lost a few players to DCU and (possibly) Arlington, so they probably need a bit of time to find their groove.