| South Valley Chivas continues to produce talented youth soccer players as proof of this is Dani Rivas, Valeria Rios and Jaybree Lopez who were recently selected to participate in Northern California’s State Olympic Development Program soccer teams.
They were selected respectively amongst over 100 players per age group. Both Rios and Lopez were selected to participate in the 1999 state team while Rivas was selected for the 2001 state team.During the selection process players needed to attend three tryouts at which players were cut at the end of each tryout. The Olympic Development Program is a national process for identifying and developing the best youth soccer players. |
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| The process promotes players to the U.S. National Teams, which represent the United States in international competition, such as the Youth World Cup and the Olympics. The main ODP objective is to identify, evaluate and train highly talented male and female youth soccer players.
Dani Rivas has the distinction to have also been selected to the Nor Cal Premier State Player Development Program which is the equivalent of the ODP program but is put on by US Club Soccer. Other South Valley Chivas girl players who are participating in the PDP program but at the district level are Alexis Contreras, Annis Gomez, Zoe Rios and Isabella Baez. On the boys side players Eric Rincon and Carlos Samano who play for the Chivas Boys 2004 team are participating in the PDP district team. |
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