The official Girls Weekend Jefferson Cup thread

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Anonymous wrote:I don't care about the 2015s, but check out the scores from bracket A. Ridiculous!!

Or Ballers Elite can stop playing nation-wide all star team style and assembling kids for tournament wins rather than development.

Who uses tournaments for development? Mad because your kid didnt get the invite

So is this a team that plays in a league? Or did you mean they didn’t make tryouts last spring?

No, Ballers Elite doesn’t play in a league. It’s only a “team” for tournaments. Those kids are either career guest players with no home base or play mainly with 2014 or 2015 boys. They live in all different states. This is very driven by the parents who have instagram accounts for the kids and want them to be the next NWSL teen. (Not conjecture, several parents have said this) The team goes to tournaments to obtain instagram footage taken by their professional videographer. To the one poster’s question of “why not?” sure, they can form a team but why not play up for a challenge when they already do anyway with their respective clubs, rather than wasting everyone’s time for an 18-0 game? Badly done by Jeff Cup IMO, and it’s hard not to feel especially bad for the two clubs in their bracket.

That’s so sad. I also feel bad for the teams that played them. Horrible on the tournament for allowing that. These are 9 year olds.

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

ok, SYC mom

ok, Arlington dad. Your wife is begging you to get off the forum & take her on a meaningful date.

Also wants you to stop screaming at little Cindy on the ride home after she doesn’t score a hat trick & get the super team invite.

The doctor also wants you to come in for your biweekly checkup. U10 soccer has your blood boiling & worried about what other do with their time & money. Loser

This seems directed at a very specific person

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

ok, SYC mom

ok, Arlington dad. Your wife is begging you to get off the forum & take her on a meaningful date.

Also wants you to stop screaming at little Cindy on the ride home after she doesn’t score a hat trick & get the super team invite.

The doctor also wants you to come in for your biweekly checkup. U10 soccer has your blood boiling & worried about what other do with their time & money. Loser

This seems directed at a very specific person

Yikes this also really fits the bill for a Great Falls Reston dad of the same age group. What is happening to youth soccer??

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

ok, SYC mom

ok, Arlington dad. Your wife is begging you to get off the forum & take her on a meaningful date.

Also wants you to stop screaming at little Cindy on the ride home after she doesn’t score a hat trick & get the super team invite.

The doctor also wants you to come in for your biweekly checkup. U10 soccer has your blood boiling & worried about what other do with their time & money. Loser

Guess it is SYC mom lol

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

ok, SYC mom

ok, Arlington dad. Your wife is begging you to get off the forum & take her on a meaningful date.

Also wants you to stop screaming at little Cindy on the ride home after she doesn’t score a hat trick & get the super team invite.

The doctor also wants you to come in for your biweekly checkup. U10 soccer has your blood boiling & worried about what other do with their time & money. Loser

This seems directed at a very specific person

Any specific type of person who is slandering parents for giving their kid the opportunity to play with other great players in the top flight @ one of the “best tournaments in the country”

No one is flying across the country to play in a top flight division & thinking they’ll win 18-0, 14-0, 7-0. Parents with good kids would’ve just stayed home & trained before they did that

The real crime here is clubs making Ron from club xyz thousands of dollars every year to train & play all year around as a TEAM just to not be able to compete against a group of kids who barely know each others names.

Be mad at who your paying to develop your kid & yourself for not providing outside opportunities & experiences that your kid will remember

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

ok, SYC mom

ok, Arlington dad. Your wife is begging you to get off the forum & take her on a meaningful date.

Also wants you to stop screaming at little Cindy on the ride home after she doesn’t score a hat trick & get the super team invite.

The doctor also wants you to come in for your biweekly checkup. U10 soccer has your blood boiling & worried about what other do with their time & money. Loser

This seems directed at a very specific person

Any specific type of person who is slandering parents for giving their kid the opportunity to play with other great players in the top flight @ one of the “best tournaments in the country”

No one is flying across the country to play in a top flight division & thinking they’ll win 18-0, 14-0, 7-0. Parents with good kids would’ve just stayed home & trained before they did that

The real crime here is clubs making Ron from club xyz thousands of dollars every year to train & play all year around as a TEAM just to not be able to compete against a group of kids who barely know each others names.

Be mad at who your paying to develop your kid & yourself for not providing outside opportunities & experiences that your kid will remember

You really don't get it. Numerous kids on the Ballers Elite team are homeschooled for the purpose of training most of the day in order to reach the NWSL by 14-16. The ones who are not play on boys' teams or 2014 teams. Most of them have met before through the Eddie Johnson Lab Cult, so they do know each other's names. The majority of 9-year-olds on the U10 teams that played against Ballers Elite this weekend train well and have plenty of talent, but maybe their parents are still emphasizing education at this age. Even if you have not encountered the Ballers Elite families in the past, which I have, all you have to do is review the social media accounts of the players to see where the priorities lie and that your interpretation above is way off base. Also, they knew they would win by very large margins and still flew from California, Texas, the Midwest, and all over to get more social media footage and recognition. It is what it is. They've put it all out there and it is plain as day they are good with "flying across the country to play in a top flight division & thinking they’ll win 18-0, 14-0, 7-0." And no rational soccer parent on this forum is sitting here envious of those kids. I feel sorry for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

All over the country? for a tournament in Richmond?? LOL come on. You can't seriously believe that. Maybe all over the Mid Atlantic like every other team in the tournament but not the country. I am sure the can play in a tournament in Cali, AZ or TX before coming to Richmond.

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

ok, SYC mom

ok, Arlington dad. Your wife is begging you to get off the forum & take her on a meaningful date.

Also wants you to stop screaming at little Cindy on the ride home after she doesn’t score a hat trick & get the super team invite.

The doctor also wants you to come in for your biweekly checkup. U10 soccer has your blood boiling & worried about what other do with their time & money. Loser

This seems directed at a very specific person

Any specific type of person who is slandering parents for giving their kid the opportunity to play with other great players in the top flight @ one of the “best tournaments in the country”

No one is flying across the country to play in a top flight division & thinking they’ll win 18-0, 14-0, 7-0. Parents with good kids would’ve just stayed home & trained before they did that

The real crime here is clubs making Ron from club xyz thousands of dollars every year to train & play all year around as a TEAM just to not be able to compete against a group of kids who barely know each others names.

Be mad at who your paying to develop your kid & yourself for not providing outside opportunities & experiences that your kid will remember

A lot of words to say you have no idea what you are talking about. "Competing Nationally" at 2015 is patently absurd for any local/regional club. Yes at that age group a national team of hand picked players will beat even the best "team"/club. It's also useless for their development outside of stupid IG posts. I'm glad the kids had fun, but the parents are incredibly shortsighted chasing clout at 9-10 years old.

[Anonymous]

Getting back to the topic at hand. It sounds like the Fairfax Union U13 girls performed (overperformed?) well, as did the majority of the U13 ECNL MidAtlantic

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Jeff Cup is on a serious decline for the older age groups for college recruiting. with ecnl adding more showcase and the GA hopefully about to do as well, coaches are tapped out. coaches at the Jeff cup who do come are only looking at the first 2 maybe 3 brackets. this year the collection of college coaches is terrible. from a D1 perspective, its very sad

Great comment. Jeff Cup is so overrated. Too many teams playing in so many cities. It used to be more selective. I guess more teams, more money like everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back to the topic at hand. It sounds like the Fairfax Union U13 girls performed (overperformed?) well, as did the majority of the U13 ECNL MidAtlantic

It seems like a lot of the MA is inferior to PA/NJ

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back to the topic at hand. It sounds like the Fairfax Union U13 girls performed (overperformed?) well, as did the majority of the U13 ECNL MidAtlantic

It seems like a lot of the MA is inferior to PA/NJ

It was one weekend of results. Who knows how the games may have been affected by injuries and illnesses. The NJ teams did look strong out there though.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting back to the topic at hand. It sounds like the Fairfax Union U13 girls performed (overperformed?) well, as did the majority of the U13 ECNL MidAtlantic

It seems like a lot of the MA is inferior to PA/NJ

confirmed

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Anonymous wrote:That's what I was thinking. If they're that good, don't they have a home team that they need to represent.

The players came from all over the country to play on this team. So they have a free weekend.

Right. I have no idea where the players they had came from specifically, but as good a tourney as Jeff Cup is, it’s almost entirely East Coast and some Midwest. Even East Coast the presence is fairly minimal north of NJ.

There’s virtually nobody from CA, TX and other spots.

Which makes a lot of sense because the team in question is 2015! Flying around the country at 2015 for soccer is insanity.

worried about what other do with their money & time is one of your many problems in life. Blame your boss for not paying you more & giving you more time off work

ok, SYC mom

ok, Arlington dad. Your wife is begging you to get off the forum & take her on a meaningful date.

Also wants you to stop screaming at little Cindy on the ride home after she doesn’t score a hat trick & get the super team invite.

The doctor also wants you to come in for your biweekly checkup. U10 soccer has your blood boiling & worried about what other do with their time & money. Loser

This seems directed at a very specific person

Any specific type of person who is slandering parents for giving their kid the opportunity to play with other great players in the top flight @ one of the “best tournaments in the country”

No one is flying across the country to play in a top flight division & thinking they’ll win 18-0, 14-0, 7-0. Parents with good kids would’ve just stayed home & trained before they did that

The real crime here is clubs making Ron from club xyz thousands of dollars every year to train & play all year around as a TEAM just to not be able to compete against a group of kids who barely know each others names.

Be mad at who your paying to develop your kid & yourself for not providing outside opportunities & experiences that your kid will remember

You really don't get it. Numerous kids on the Ballers Elite team are homeschooled for the purpose of training most of the day in order to reach the NWSL by 14-16. The ones who are not play on boys' teams or 2014 teams. Most of them have met before through the Eddie Johnson Lab Cult, so they do know each other's names. The majority of 9-year-olds on the U10 teams that played against Ballers Elite this weekend train well and have plenty of talent, but maybe their parents are still emphasizing education at this age. Even if you have not encountered the Ballers Elite families in the past, which I have, all you have to do is review the social media accounts of the players to see where the priorities lie and that your interpretation above is way off base. Also, they knew they would win by very large margins and still flew from California, Texas, the Midwest, and all over to get more social media footage and recognition. It is what it is. They've put it all out there and it is plain as day they are good with "flying across the country to play in a top flight division & thinking they’ll win 18-0, 14-0, 7-0." And no rational soccer parent on this forum is sitting here envious of those kids. I feel sorry for them.

Looking at the scores, this “elite” team could only muster 7-0 against a local DMV team that couldn’t even win their bracket in Arlington last week. Maybe not so elite?