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Golden State USSDA
Galaxy USSDA
LAUFA USSDA
Tijuana Xolos Mex
Seems worthwhile to me.
Galaxy USSDA
LAUFA USSDA
Tijuana Xolos Mex
Seems worthwhile to me.
All four make it worthwhile.Golden State USSDA
Galaxy USSDA
LAUFA USSDA
Tijuana Xolos Mex
Seems worthwhile to me.
I don't think the word is privledged. All kids work hard at all levels. What is the purpose of a preseason/end of season tourney for DA teams. I thought DA teams/players graduated from the BS. In my opinion is just a way to keep up the hype for the lower level DA teams. I'd like to see free substitution at this tourney and pick up the intensity and increase playing time for the lower level kids in the DA teams. If they are cut for playing time then why continue.
How long did you hang on to this fantasy? Took me three games.I thought DA teams/players graduated from the BS.
DA should be for fully funded academies only
So you are saying a kid can only play at the highest level of youth soccer if they are lucky enough to live in a city with an MLS team or can find a benefactor who wants to use youth soccer as a giant tax write off?
This is ridiculous. I can't afford to pay to play. My boys are playing academy without having to pay anything. Did you have a bad experience with an academy team?Not at all. There are several teams playing at a higher level than the DA teams at the bottom 2/3rds of table. Those families are being duped that they are playing at the highest level. Those clubs are members of the good old boys that are in the business of selling their product against what is best for the top players. They all have the $$$ to be fully funded but choose not to be. So they sacrifice the chance to get some of the top players in the area to line their pocketbooks. It's a false belief that they are the best teams/ players when only the ones that can pay can play. That's why the top 3 win more. They are truly taking the top players that they deem are the best
What club are you with, Fishme?This is ridiculous. I can't afford to pay to play. My boys are playing academy without having to pay anything. Did you have a bad experience with an academy team?
Not at all. There are several teams playing at a higher level than the DA teams at the bottom 2/3rds of table.
Those clubs are members of the good old boys that are in the business of selling their product against what is best for the top players. They all have the $$$ to be fully funded but choose not to be.
Wait a minute let's not get stupid. Those several teams you're referring to are not playing at a higher level than the bottom of the 03 academy "table" we dads have made up.Not at all. There are several teams playing at a higher level than the DA teams at the bottom 2/3rds of table.
What club are you with, Fishme?
I don't understand your argument? TFA doesn't have an academy at 03. And to my knowledge full- funded.
Okay, so what is your argument?We're with 04
I am trolling the 03s and don't really know this age group. I do know the 05s very well and know that outside the DA, there are few team worth playing. No Celtic, Pumas, Rebels, Chula Vista. They are all fine, but when you could be playing against LAG, LAFC (If they get all the TFA players), Strikers, Arsenal, Surf, there is no better place to play than the DA. Week in and week out the competition is very good.
They could make their DA free. But doing that means I no longer pay, and someone whose child is on the B or C or D team is paying for me. That is lame. Why should those parents pay more while I pay nothing. Just because my kid is better than theirs? To make it free, someone has to be paying. For most clubs that is the other parents. Some clubs have a rich guy who wants to see the less fortunate be able to have the advantages of the fortunate.