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Aug, 2017
The benefits of participating in ODP are many:
- Training and playing in competitive environments to increase individual player development.
- Training and playing with players from all over the state & region.
- Exposure to college coaches.
- Exposure to US Soccer National Team scouts (at Region Camp & other various ODP events).
- Exposure to USSDA program scouts (at Region Camp & other various ODP events).
- Exposure to MLS scouts (at Region Camp & other various ODP events).
- Play in competitive events that their club teams may not ever play.
- Participate in State & Region ODP Camps.
- Learn specific aspects of the game based on the Region 3 ODP curriculum.
- Quality coaching & instruction.
- Recommendations for US Soccer Training Centers.
- An avenue/pathway for the US Soccer National Teams.
This is what we do here in Mississippi:
- Offer eight training sessions (over four dates; players must attend at least three out of four dates) for the year.
- Offer two tournaments (one in the Fall and one in the Spring).
- Offer any ODP Inter-Regional events when they come up (these are ODP-only events against other state ODP teams).
- Offer State ODP Camp every June (to prepare for July events: Region Camp or tournament – we’ve taken teams to Dallas the last two years at FC Dallas).
- Offer Region ODP Camp every July for age appropriate teams.
- We have also offered international trips in the past and should we have a group that is committed to going abroad, we will take them.