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Amir Shirazi vs Almaden Valley Soccer Club, Inc. et al
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shirivelli
BRONZE
Yeah, I am moving to MVLA Club given their recruiting reputation and proven pipeline of school placement. I was able to verify from their MVLA school announcement via Facebook (www.facebook.com/mvlasoccerclub), and below are their 2024 ECNL graduation class with 23 rosters. This means even their bench players are getting offers to these top schools. Crazy! If your player is good enough to make their ECNL or even ECRL teams, MVLA is the sure thing after spending all that academy fees$ for many years to come.100% agree with this assessment as a parent from this club. It's not worth the investment if you have an ambitious player who wants to be challenged. We've been to enough clubs to understand that no club is perfect and there are always pros and cons. Personally, I find the culture at AFC to be pretentious so I wouldn't be surprised if this case wasn't handled properly. Truth be told, their coaches can do no wrong...go figure
100% agree with this assessment as a parent from this club. It's not worth the investment if you have an ambitious player who wants to be challenged. We've been to enough clubs to understand that no club is perfect and there are always pros and cons. Personally, I find the culture at AFC to be pretentious so I wouldn't be surprised if this case wasn't handled properly. Truth be told, their coaches can do no wrong...go figure
RandomSoccerFan
GOLD
Congrats to all of those moving on to continue to play - but keep in mind that these are kids living in the Palo Alto / Mountain View / Cupertino and nearby areas. If you looked down the yearbook of the graduating seniors at any of the public high schools, and certainly the private high schools, you'd be expected to see pretty much the same list of committed schools regardless of their soccer club. MVLA didn't cause them to be good students or have sufficient resources, or even uniquely prepare them to be recruited and play (some with scholarships, most not) at the college level. But it sure didn't hurt, either.
shirivelli
BRONZE
Our high schools are good, but not *that* good. More than half of that list is in the "absurdly selective" category.
Congrats to the kids involved.
RandomSoccerFan
GOLD
It sounds like you are familiar, but you may want to check out the college lists at Paly/Gunn/MVHS, let alone Harker/Menlo/Notre Dame, or any of the other private schools available. One can debate whether the schools themselves are "inherently that good", but the population attending them finds a way to have some pretty stellar admit rates of even the most selective secondary education.
If your daughter plays at MVLA or Mustang, she's going to be seen. Everything else is 2nd tier up there. I'm convinced most college coaches are lazy and assume anyone on the 1st team roster is college ready.