Bethesda acquiring (?) Dematha

[Anonymous]

Looks like the western PG county soccer vacuum is going to close slightly.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5y2Mo4PGtS/?igsh=bWh5Y3pvMXRycXpq

[Anonymous]

Pretty cool

[Anonymous]

DMSA wasn’t fielding any competitive teams so so I wonder how many DMSA players are actually going to get placed on top Bethesda teams. The younger ones possibly but anyone aiming for MLSNext or ECNL has probably left already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DMSA wasn’t fielding any competitive teams so so I wonder how many DMSA players are actually going to get placed on top Bethesda teams. The younger ones possibly but anyone aiming for MLSNext or ECNL has probably left already.

Why does every move evolve around ECNL or MLSnext....you do know if a kid doesn't play for either it's not the end of the world

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DMSA wasn’t fielding any competitive teams so so I wonder how many DMSA players are actually going to get placed on top Bethesda teams. The younger ones possibly but anyone aiming for MLSNext or ECNL has probably left already.

Why does every move evolve around ECNL or MLSnext....you do know if a kid doesn't play for either it's not the end of the world

Sure but if ur not aiming for ECNL or MLSNext, there are quite a few other clubs closer to where DMSA draws from. Why go all the way to Bethesda to be on a second, third, fourth … team? Definitely not worth the commute time.

[Anonymous]

Don't leave out bio banding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't leave out bio banding

What does bio banding have to do with this thread? It’s relevant only at MLSNext.

[Anonymous]

What does mean, in English, please…

[Anonymous]

Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

I kind of find it hard to believe that they’d have trouble completing their MLSNext rosters. Why do you think that is? I imagine so many players are trying out to get on those teams at least at U13 when MLSNext starts. I mean that’s how Bethesda stays at the top of the competition in the area, just by sheer number of players who want to play at Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

Agree with you, my DS also on Next team, just a mess, kids being forced on bench of bio banding

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

Agree with you, my DS also on Next team, just a mess, kids being forced on bench of bio banding

Don't understand your last sentence.
Your kid is in the bench because of bio-banding how?

[Anonymous]

Great. Does this mean practice locations will now include Hyattsville area too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

I kind of find it hard to believe that they’d have trouble completing their MLSNext rosters. Why do you think that is? I imagine so many players are trying out to get on those teams at least at U13 when MLSNext starts. I mean that’s how Bethesda stays at the top of the competition in the area, just by sheer number of players who want to play at Bethesda.

Its been awhile since Bethesda was "top of the competition" sadly, at least on the boys side. The directors and the board are rather lazy (been around since the 80's but they dont have enough field space for some of their MLSNext teams to practice more than twice a week, my younger sons EDP team has done a film review session that none of the MLSNext teams do, etc) and are neither soccer nor business people. Its a failing model propped up by a lack of serious competition. If Potomac would get themselves a complex they would lap Bethesda. There are more unhappy families than happy ones here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda hasn’t done a good job of developing its age groups. A lot of the MLSNext teams are incomplete and using bio-banding inappropriately. If Bethesda is something players from these clubs want to shoot for, then the opportunity is there. It’s just a mess of a club like most of the others around here.

My source is me, my kids play on their MLSNext and their EDP teams.

Agree with you, my DS also on Next team, just a mess, kids being forced on bench of bio banding

Don't understand your last sentence.
Your kid is in the bench because of bio-banding how?

They are bio-banding kids down that are not developmentally delayed and were in fact starters on their MLSNext teams in their own age group the year before. That hurts the kids in the age group that accepts the bio-banding because it takes minutes away from them. The issue is that the bio-banding is being done in bad faith to get better results, hence more sponsorships (clubs wording, not mine), and not to help with the development of kids.