Private School Soccer Thread
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Anonymous
1-0. Heights has one loss (Dematha). Is Freddie Adu playing for the Heights again? |
Anonymous
Landon crushed Dematha. Maybe Landon was looking past the Heights and was caught flat footed? Or are key players injured? |
Anonymous
Wait WHUT?!!! The indomitable, unbeatable, inimitable Landon Bears were not only scored upon but lost a game? Say it ain't so! |
Anonymous
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I believe Landon tied one of top teams from Jersey the day before on Sunday.
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Anonymous
What happened to DeMatha this year? Did they loose a bunch of seniors? |
Anonymous
Actually, it's about HS soccer being just awful. It looks like rugby at times since the field is largely kids with very rough technical skills. But they can be big, strong, and fast, and use that to make up for poor technical skills. So it looks like rugbyb instead of soccer, and the good players get hurt. |
Anonymous
| College soccer even at the highest levels can be physically brutal. |
Anonymous
Well, all soccer is physical. But HS soccer has a lot of kids with very poor technical skills, which makes the physicality just a bunch of hacking |
Anonymous
Has it occurred to you that nothing "happened" to Dematha. Landon was just that much better that day. |
Anonymous
| Prediction - SSSAS beats STA this week, signaling a rise of its soccer program to match its lacrosse program. |
Anonymous
Inapt analogy because the best HS lacrosse players do play for their school teams -- HS soccer has the best players scooped off by the Academy system. And IAC lacrosse is a top league nationally -- not so for IAC soccer teams, which would be beaten by California middle school teams. And, at least from this thread, unless you can beat the Landon team, closest thing around to the U.S. Men's National Team, you're nothing in the IAC. They only lost because they were so very tired from beating a TOP Jersey side the day before, after all! So, it's all about Landon. Right? |
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IAC soccer predictions: 1) Landon; 2) STA; 3) Prep; 4) Bullis; 5) SSSA; 6) Episcopal
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Anonymous
Saints 2. Bulldogs 1. |
Anonymous
Having watched many a HS soccer game, the academy payers that end up coming back and playing for HS, have a much better experience than club. When the whole school is there watching your team take on a rival,that is camaraderie that you can't buy. It's too bad that club soccer took that away from so many. |
Anonymous
I have seen the same thing. There's no question, the level of technical skill and consistency of the coaching is much higher at the top-end club level (with Academy at the top). This is an additional attempt to make the U.S. Youth Soccer experience closer to the successful European club model, all with the goal of having a stronger U.S. Men's National Team at the end of the day. Basically, in the short term, it has just ended up making the Academy system a recruiting feeder for American Division I colleges. So you can probably say it's good for the colleges, it's good for the national soccer federation, but there is a price to the kids themselves. I hope that soccer will be an outlier and HS sports participation can still be a reality for other youth club sports players in other sports, but who knows. |