While playing in a 14u tournament with a long break I stopped to watch part of a 10u Arsenal game. I chatted with a circle of six Arsenal dads. They believed every 10u player on that team was going to play D1 and turn pro someday. At that level Arsenal sells the dream.
I became friends with an Arsenal dad in my son’s age group from all the times the teams competed. When our boys were playing against each other in 17u he told me there were only four holdovers from the 13u A team. Everyone else had been cut along the way.