Does there exist a list of players that belong to National ODP team pool that are younger than 17? Do we only know about the U17's at Bradenton or is there a larger list somewhere out there?
there is a U-15 national team, no residency(obviously). I know two people in the pool(they are from the same organization as me), Kris Byrd and Juan Guzman......
There is a National pool for each age group through the ODP programs. Each state association (in many larger states, there's two assocations) forms a state pool of 20 to 30 players in each age groups starting about U11 or U12. From that State pool, they pick a team of 18 players to go to the Regional ODP Tournament, generally late June timeframe. From all those state teams, 20 to 30 players get invited to the Regional Pool for a week of training a week or two later. From that Regional pool, a team of 18 players is picked to go to the National tournament -- so you have 4 teams of 18 players at the National ODP tournament. Then from those 72 players, a National pool of 20 to 25 players is chosen for a National Camp and teams are generally picked from this pool to go to the international Youth Tournaments like the U16 tournament in Ireland earlier this year.
Thanks kevbrunton. I never knew what the exact breaksown was as far as how many belonged to which pool. Once upon a time there was this list, http://www.soccertimes.com/usteams/roster/u-16men.htm which hasn't been updated in a while. Is there a new list some where? I could not find anything like it on the USYS site.
Try this http://www.youthsoccer.org/ . Go to the bottom and they have links to these age groups:’85 Boys, ’86 Boys, ’88 Boys, ’85 Girls, ’86 Girls, ’87 Girls and ’88 Girls.
Thanks I took a look at http://www.youthsoccer.org/ but all they had was their names and which town they were from. I was hoping to get their club affiliation and their birthdate. Oh well. Thanks for the suggestion.
I know at some point I had a list of the U15 national pool. I think they had a camp for them in the past couple of months. There is a U15 national coach now as well, but I'm struggling to find the information and I don't seem to have kept it in my email folders (my bad). Perhaps somebody else received this release from USSF, seems like it was in November maybe.
The next logical step Many soccer power houses on Europe and South America are keeping a tigh wacht on the very youngones, thats the reason USSF LOST LANDON DONOVAN TO BAYERN L. I really hope ussf gets smart and P40 SPLIT ON TWO CELLS, p 40 east and proyect 40 west. The risk of repeating the same mistake of Donovan is very likely.