01 ODP Tryouts announced

gold digger wrote:I heard ODP is a joke. I'm hearing if your willing to pay anybody can play. 2nd even 3rd team club players make it. What's the point? With all the training available today and ECNL is it really worth it?

gold digger wrote:I heard ODP is a joke. I'm hearing if your willing to pay anybody can play. 2nd even 3rd team club players make it. What's the point? With all the training available today and ECNL is it really worth it?

Xara wrote:Let's see...

(1) Regular select team soccer practices, twice per week, at least 10 months per year.

(2) Perhaps 60-80 games in the same period including league, tournaments, and scrimmages.

(3) Extra weekend games for the girls overlapping into rec leagues, futsal, and indoor.

(4) Private or semiprivate skills session ordered up by the parents with more money than sense.

(5) Soccer camps in the summer, and now...

(6) ODP training so the parents can arrogantly say "my daughter is in the Olympic Development Program" while on coffee breaks.

It's an orthopaedic doctor's wet dream. But at least you'll save money by not going on any real family vacations. What an ideal world!

4-4-2-Diamond wrote:

Xara wrote:Let's see...

(1) Regular select team soccer practices, twice per week, at least 10 months per year.

(2) Perhaps 60-80 games in the same period including league, tournaments, and scrimmages.

(3) Extra weekend games for the girls overlapping into rec leagues, futsal, and indoor.

(4) Private or semiprivate skills session ordered up by the parents with more money than sense.

(5) Soccer camps in the summer, and now...

(6) ODP training so the parents can arrogantly say "my daughter is in the Olympic

Development Program" while on coffee breaks.




Lol

It's an orthopaedic doctor's wet dream. But at least you'll save money by not going on any real family vacations. What an ideal world!

Of course they could sit on the couch eating bon bons watching the sport on T.V.

Maybe then they'd have enough ambition to grow up and become 10,000 hour experts in soccer cyber warfare and fans of perennial relegation candidates. It's a psychiatrist's wet dream. What an ideal world!

4-4-2-Diamond wrote:

Xara wrote:Let's see...

(1) Regular select team soccer practices, twice per week, at least 10 months per year.

(2) Perhaps 60-80 games in the same period including league, tournaments, and scrimmages.

(3) Extra weekend games for the girls overlapping into rec leagues, futsal, and indoor.

(4) Private or semiprivate skills session ordered up by the parents with more money than sense.

(5) Soccer camps in the summer, and now...

(6) ODP training so the parents can arrogantly say "my daughter is in the Olympic Development Program" while on coffee breaks.

It's an orthopaedic doctor's wet dream. But at least you'll save money by not going on any real family vacations. What an ideal world!

Of course they could sit on the couch eating bon bons watching the sport on T.V.

Maybe then they'd have enough ambition to grow up and become 10,000 hour experts in soccer cyber warfare and fans of perennial relegation candidates. It's a psychiatrist's wet dream. What an ideal world!

Xara wrote:

4-4-2-Diamond wrote:

Xara wrote:Let's see...

(1) Regular select team soccer practices, twice per week, at least 10 months per year.

(2) Perhaps 60-80 games in the same period including league, tournaments, and scrimmages.

(3) Extra weekend games for the girls overlapping into rec leagues, futsal, and indoor.

(4) Private or semiprivate skills session ordered up by the parents with more money than sense.

(5) Soccer camps in the summer, and now...

(6) ODP training so the parents can arrogantly say "my daughter is in the Olympic Development Program" while on coffee breaks.

It's an orthopaedic doctor's wet dream. But at least you'll save money by not going on any real family vacations. What an ideal world!

Of course they could sit on the couch eating bon bons watching the sport on T.V.

Maybe then they'd have enough ambition to grow up and become 10,000 hour experts in soccer cyber warfare and fans of perennial relegation candidates. It's a psychiatrist's wet dream. What an ideal world!

This is the same old tired retort of so many on here. It goes like this: Yeah, our kid is way too tied up in a single sport that occupies the majority of her free time, our money, and leads to speeches from dad in the car ride home after bad games. But dammit, it's better than the alternative of doing nothing.

Here's a newsflash: The vast majority of kids who aren't in select soccer actually have balanced lives. They compete in multiple sports, go on weekend trips to see relatives, take vacations when they want, have best friends spend the night, and enjoy their lives. Select soccer is not the end-all. I presented several solid facts. You countered with pure hyperbole. Well done.

Xara wrote:

4-4-2-Diamond wrote:

Xara wrote:Let's see...

(1) Regular select team soccer practices, twice per week, at least 10 months per year.

(2) Perhaps 60-80 games in the same period including league, tournaments, and scrimmages.

(3) Extra weekend games for the girls overlapping into rec leagues, futsal, and indoor.

(4) Private or semiprivate skills session ordered up by the parents with more money than sense.

(5) Soccer camps in the summer, and now...

(6) ODP training so the parents can arrogantly say "my daughter is in the Olympic Development Program" while on coffee breaks.

It's an orthopaedic doctor's wet dream. But at least you'll save money by not going on any real family vacations. What an ideal world!

Of course they could sit on the couch eating bon bons watching the sport on T.V.

Maybe then they'd have enough ambition to grow up and become 10,000 hour experts in soccer cyber warfare and fans of perennial relegation candidates. It's a psychiatrist's wet dream. What an ideal world!

This is the same old tired retort of so many on here. It goes like this: Yeah, our kid is way too tied up in a single sport that occupies the majority of her free time, our money, and leads to speeches from dad in the car ride home after bad games. But dammit, it's better than the alternative of doing nothing.

Here's a newsflash: The vast majority of kids who aren't in select soccer actually have balanced lives. They compete in multiple sports, go on weekend trips to see relatives, take vacations when they want, have best friends spend the night, and enjoy their lives. Select soccer is not the end-all. I presented several solid facts. You countered with pure hyperbole. Well done.