CYA vs SYA Soccer

[Anonymous]

To start, I've never seen a forum where everyone is anonymous! So I have a pretty straight forward question and would like some opinions on 2 clubs that are in my backyard. We moved from BC and my son is an 06, which travel club should we pursue? I'm literally on the line geographically between these 2 clubs.

I found info via google that one owns (SYA) their own facility which looks awesome, but am more interested in the competitive and development levels.


Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To start, I've never seen a forum where everyone is anonymous! So I have a pretty straight forward question and would like some opinions on 2 clubs that are in my backyard. We moved from BC and my son is an 06, which travel club should we pursue? I'm literally on the line geographically between these 2 clubs.

I found info via google that one owns (SYA) their own facility which looks awesome, but am more interested in the competitive and development levels.


Thanks

CYA has lots of good fields and the own their own field house now. SYA plays in a CCL vs CYA playing in NPL. Similar leagues but CCL has stronger clubs in overall in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To start, I've never seen a forum where everyone is anonymous! So I have a pretty straight forward question and would like some opinions on 2 clubs that are in my backyard. We moved from BC and my son is an 06, which travel club should we pursue? I'm literally on the line geographically between these 2 clubs.

I found info via google that one owns (SYA) their own facility which looks awesome, but am more interested in the competitive and development levels.


Thanks

I think SYA is better choice. Also this past year, there were a lot of coaching changes at CYA due to bad management and direction of the club. CYA has had some good teams in the past but there is a lot of uncertainty of the directions of the club at this time. SYA participates in the stronger of the two regional leagues and has some good coaches that have been at the club for a few years.

[Anonymous]

Thank god for search feature to understand the acronyms. With SYA competing in a stronger league, how do they fair? We went to watch CYA in a Super Y game and they looked ok, nothing spectacular. Coaches seem nice, kids had some variance in size so I'm assuming it was a mixed age group for summer league. I could not find any activity for SYA for the summer.

We just moved into our house 2 weeks ago so as you can imagine, soccer was not my first priority. Son loves the game so want to make the right choice.

[Anonymous]

All the top teams are already formed. You might have to go where there is room now and move next year.

[Anonymous]

There's usually room for a strong player.

[Anonymous]

Isn't it too late for this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't it too late for this year?

If the player can play it is never too late. Coaches will find a way.

[Anonymous]

A player can join any team at any time of the year people. The only difficulty is being released form a prior team in order to register the player on the new team. Being released form another team if rostered for the current season might require paying for the rest of the years training fees but that is club dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A player can join any team at any time of the year people. The only difficulty is being released form a prior team in order to register the player on the new team. Being released form another team if rostered for the current season might require paying for the rest of the years training fees but that is club dependent.

and considering the OP said they had moved, I dont think that is an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A player can join any team at any time of the year people. The only difficulty is being released form a prior team in order to register the player on the new team. Being released form another team if rostered for the current season might require paying for the rest of the years training fees but that is club dependent.

and considering the OP said they had moved, I dont think that is an issue.

I've reached to both clubs. My son played on the 1st team at his previous club, but we understand he will have to earn his spot. It would be good for him to make a few friends before school starts. Thank you for the guidance everyone. I'll reach out to both clubs to see where he lands.

[Anonymous]

Even if your kid doesn't make the top team because of "space" he'll be better off in being SYA's second team which still plays in CCL2 then CYA's 2nd team in NCSL's 3rd Division. Also the ability to move to top team later on.

[Anonymous]

ASA parent here, we've played both clubs at the 07 boys level. Not sure if there is a skill gap between 07s and 06s, but the SYA team was probably the best we played in CLL play. Their starting 9 was loaded with skilled players and they moved the ball extremely well. The coach was young, but had complete control of the team. The CYA team wasn't even close, punt and run.

[Anonymous]

Seems like lots of people are pushing for SYA. Just to give the other side of the coin:

Youthsoccerrankings.us has CYA ranked 14th in the state and SYA ranked 31st. Also NPL has a lot less distance to travel than CCL (with NPL the farthest you will travel for league games is Williamsburg, whereas CCL has a Va beach team, a hampton team, a roanoake team, plus williamsburg). I know its travel soccer, but 4 plus hour drive for a single game kinda sucks, plus there are a lot of teams closer and better than say Roanoke.

[Anonymous]

Those soccer rankings don’t mean a things. Leagues that use got soccer to track schedules and results inflate the numbers vs teams that only get points from tournaments because leagues like ccl don’t track in got soccer.