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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 662730, member: 1452"]
PDA and World Class are both ECNL clubs.  The competition to get on those clubs is huge so I know exactly what you mean.  You can easily get over 100 girls trying out for spots on the top teams.  NR and Crush are NPL.  
 
Not sure what it is like out there, but to play on one of these ECNL teams out here you either have to give everything else up or subjugate it to soccer.  Very tough on the multi-sport athlete/multi-activity individual.
 
My daughter's age group was really the first age group out here where the "Academies" began taking all the best talent from the local club teams.  World Class is four years old and Crush is even younger.  Prior to that, PDA was really the only Academy in the Metropolitan area unless you wanted to travel to Long Island and PDA is over an hour drive from the city...
 
Now, every Thomas, Reinhart and Jorge is hanging out a shingle and calling themselves an Academy.  
 
It has become a joke.  Unfortunately, many of the parents don't understand the game well enough to be able to differentiate between good and bad training and, as a result, you get a lot of parents shelling out $2500+ dollars for bad training for girls whose talent level will be lucky to make a high school roster, let alone a college one.
 
One of my buddies kids' made the U12 ODP team and was just at their camp.
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