Olympic development program soccer ny

Purpose To identify and provide opportunities for high potential players, facilitate their development, and expose them to the next level of their chosen pathway. Goal To be a nationally recognized youth identification and development pathway for US soccer players. How do I participate? You can find State Association by clicking here. Program Description History In , the program expanded, the organization became more efficient and multi-year plans were developed.

State Associations were encouraged to develop programs which supported and worked in tandem with National and Regional programs. At the beginning of a formalized program for girls was created, with the addition of a full committee one member from each Region.

Current Organization From until the present, international events for youth national teams have increased substantially and the US Youth Soccer ODP has kept pace by instituting trials and player pools for five age groups in the boys' program, and five age groups in the girls' program. You should be able to select the team in half that time.

Unless your objected is to keep more players around to collect more money. Other players prove themselves to be more dynamic in a competitive match" Then just have them play 11v11 earlier on in the tryout process. Simple fix!!! Nothing cynical in my thoughts. BTW - I did get a chuckle reading your naive comment. VA also starts in the summer -- 2 tryouts in August to select 5 geographic District pools. Those District pools train for 8 sessions in the fall. The State pool trains for 8 sessions over the winter outdoor.

The tournament teams don't get selected until right before those last 2 sessions. It's interesting to compare how different each state runs their program.

The NJ 03's and 04's are similar VA. Select players invited to 3 more evaluations in their designated district. VA had more training sessions. How much did VA cost? How were VA friendly teams choosen? Or position? The players are ranked at the district level and evaluated at the inter-districts for entry into the State Pool. VYSA has their own training facility which are fantastic playing fields. The teams are housed together, eat together and are transported to and from matches throughout the weekend with the exception of Friday.

Teams at the 04 and 03 level are equally distributed. The international teams played together for the VA Friendlies with the exception of the players who were rostered for the 03 Region I team that played at the Friendlies.

Coaches try to balance the teams. The exceptions are the international teams that mentioned, and 00G had their roster for the National Championships play together for the Friendlies. It makes sense they would use those matches to prep for this weekend. I assume the boys side was similar. Good discussion. There are many players who use ODP to gain "select" level experience and exposure while still trying to maintain a "soccer-life" balance.

I agree with a lot said. I have had two boys in the NJ program. Its tough to compare NJ with VA just because of the size of the state and their proximity to academy programs. I would have to agree from my experience that the teams should be picked a lot earlier or just have the tryout at a later date.

There must be a reason for keeping the extra players involved for a longer period time wether it would be to create more revenue or to make people happy to come back. If my sons had not made it in the past, I would not have been upset but would probably like to have had them join another additional program earlier on, instead of being dragged through a long tryout process.

Not all the players attend all the events and still make the program. A year ago a player on my sons team attended one tryout in the summer and the last two in April and still made the team. It would be interesting to see if VA would allow. Please don't get mad with my thoughts, I saw earlier someone else get mad at an earlier post from someone for no reason. The reason to have an extended tryout is to keep players involved. Wether that is to make money now or to have them think that they are close to making the team so they return next year to try out to pay more money.

I know they are friendlies so some of it is to see how the talent will work together as not everyone has to play in the Region 1 tourney unlike the friendlies were everyone plays. And, the refing was worse than high school. If soccer wants to improve anything, start with the refereeing. Payments should be based on performance. I don't mean outcomes, but correct calls. They should be mostly correct not mostly incorrect. Can't teach and develop the kids if the refs don't know either.

Players are then identified by US Soccer staff coaches for possible entry to the national teams program. Yet even those players who do not make the Region 1 or the national teams often use ODP as a path to college scholarships and even on to professional soccer.

We believe less travel will lead to more players trying out for ODP. August is the month that ODP tryouts kick off and Eastern New York is happy to announce the following tryout schedule:. For more information regarding age groups, tryout times and registration, please click on this link:. Members are affiliated with 11 leagues throughout the association, which covers the entire state of New York east of Route