Re: ECNL, Other Soccer Clubs and the Road to College or national Team- Youth Coach Speaks OUT

by socc-key-ballmom 20/03/13, 03:57 pm

Things have not changed all that much.

ODP is still a path to the team if players are talented enough.

ECNL is just another avenue to these camps.

But, in the end, it is about exposure.

With the invention of a U20 National team, more and more of the U20s are being identified in college games. College coaches are connected with the National staff...and help identify players who have not been identifed previously through other avenues (ECNL, ODP, etc).

ECNL, ODP, and college games all give players opportunities for exposure!

by Packrabbit 19/04/13, 06:01 pm

Gunners wrote:
socc-key-ballmom wrote:Well, I played through the OPD system 25 years ago(albiet not called ODP at the time). I played with the likes of many well know north texas women on the national teams from the 80's and early 90s. ODP was the only path to the national camps.

In fact, there was a time in the history of North Texas soccer when over 25% of the players on the U19 and Women's national teams were from the Dallas area. All made those teams and pools through the ODP programs....following the North Texas State Team Coach--Cossaboon.

Congrats. Things change.

Congrats? Times change? Gunner, I believe you missed (or belittled?) the point. Even with 20/20 hindsight and better technology today, the first guys that climbed Mt. Everest could probably provide some wisdom to those thinking about trying it today. Obviously, youngsters today are entirely too intelligent and experienced to entertain any advice from someone who actually climbed and reached the mountaintop...

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