AYSO United Central Tryouts this weekend!

[Deadpoolscores!]

This sounds very much like AYSO's Pacific Soccer Club tryouts/model in Orange County.

Except one big difference $$$.

 

[jrcaesar]

Could be. PSC says its $350 to the club, and then the team fees. Still, it's AYSO coaches who are transitioning with their players into club.

 

[Daniel Miller]

AYSO should stick with what it does best; entry-level soccer for the masses. That is not meant to be condescending. Recreational leagues are the most important of all for the growth of soccer in the U.S.
Extending its reach into club soccer will not help AYSO in any way. It may keep a "club" team under the AYSO umbrella for a year or so, but most of those players will move on to more competitive clubs after exposure to the club world. While AYSO may put together a strong club team here or there, in the overwhelming majority of cases the AYSO team will do poorly. Kids aren't going to stay on that team for long.

By creating these quasi-club teams, AYSO may be speeding up the process whereby kids leave its program. Suppose AYSO has an all-star team where about 5 players are thinking of moving to club soccer. To save those players from moving, AYSO will make its own "club" team, using about 12 of its players. But the next year, after exposure, most of those players are going to jump to another club anyway. Instead of losing about 5 players, AYSO ends up losing about 10.

AYSO is the biggest player in the biggest niche is soccer. It should keep doing what it already does well, and forego doing what it can never do well.

 

[Eagle33]

After a long observation of the tryouts it was a great turnout of mainly AYSO kids, which is great if your just going into club for the first time. Yet on the other hand some of staff coaches that were there were also AYSO coaches transitioning to the United club. Is $1500 worth it now if that's who your DD has for a coach? Or would you wait to see if you actually get on the team that has the better coach? That's basically what I informed my cousins which he is no debating if he is better of and taking his DD to Legends, Arsenal, or Freedoms tryouts which is just as local as well. What you peeps advice your family especially if they want there DD to develop?

If you want a player to just have fun and enjoy the sport, then money savings make sense - stay in AYSO. If you want your DD to develop, get her with a good coach ASAP. Team or level is not important - only coach is.