OBGC Cup

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maryland United U11 ECNL Girls team sandbagged in the 2nd division and stomped all over everyone. But lots of top competitions across the board it seemed.

We played at OBGC Park on nice grass fields. Refs were hit or miss. Confirmed heading was allowed in U11???!!! But played breakout lines for offsides???

Water breaks caused delays in for the afternoon games.

Can't assume that they didn't request the top division either. Placement isn't an exact science especially at the younger ages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland United U11 ECNL Girls team sandbagged in the 2nd division and stomped all over everyone. But lots of top competitions across the board it seemed.

We played at OBGC Park on nice grass fields. Refs were hit or miss. Confirmed heading was allowed in U11???!!! But played breakout lines for offsides???

Water breaks caused delays in for the afternoon games.

Can't assume that they didn't request the top division either. Placement isn't an exact science especially at the younger ages.

This is true, but their coach said they didn't request a top division. Also, they advertise themselves as pre-ECNL at U11 on their website. But who cares I suppose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Horrible parking and horrible refs. Literally tied one game and lost another bec the ref was at the other end of the field and did not count goals calling offsides. Veo and anyone in a proper position could see there was no offsides. Also allowed too much fouling that went uncalled. It was unbearably hot—not on them but Spectator area was brutal in the sun.

you sound like such a pleasant, positive, upbeat person who I’m sure everyone loves to be around.

[Anonymous]

DS played at 0BGC Park. Field and goals felt small, and games were tightly scheduled. Refs were average, no ARs. Worst was the parking free for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland United U11 ECNL Girls team sandbagged in the 2nd division and stomped all over everyone. But lots of top competitions across the board it seemed.

We played at OBGC Park on nice grass fields. Refs were hit or miss. Confirmed heading was allowed in U11???!!! But played breakout lines for offsides???

Water breaks caused delays in for the afternoon games.

U11 is 9v9 right? Not ECNL yet. Hard to call a team of 10 year olds sandbaggers in a preseason tournament where the team has no record yet.

I don’t know about the Maryland United girls, but the OBGC team U9 boys team put themselves in the worst division. They won their games 11-1, 11-2, 8-0, and 7-0. Definitely looks like sandbagging to me, even with 8 and 9 year olds.

But at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter…

Md United wasn’t much better. I can’t understand why you want to crush teams by that much. You get nothing out of it.

[Anonymous]

I agree with u12 fields being too small we saw a sequence where the keepers punted back and forth to each other 3-4 times.

[Anonymous]

Did Loudoun/NVA 08 girls really lose 5-0 in every game?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did Loudoun/NVA 08 girls really lose 5-0 in every game?

Apparently they won every game but did not want to play in the final and decided to forfeit their matches for the weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with u12 fields being too small we saw a sequence where the keepers punted back and forth to each other 3-4 times.

Lol. Every u12 game for about half the match.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Lol. Every u12 game for about half the match.

U11 and U12 games are a mess everywhere. In the top flights the kids are too big and aggressive to play 9v9 in the same fields used for 7v7, and goalies can easily punt the ball to the other box. Additionally U11 players cannot head the ball which makes the box to box punts even worse. I think U11 and U12 games are more physical/dirty than at almost any other age because of this.

In my ideal world, U11 would play 7v7 without punting and U12 would move to 11v11. And I would get rid of 9v9. It is a nice thought to have an intermediate step between 7v7 and 11v11, but we don't really have enough intermediate fields to play 9v9.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently they won every game but did not want to play in the final and decided to forfeit their matches for the weekend.

Anyone have the back story on this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree with pretty much all of these comments.

- Water breaks were good. Clock kept running so didn’t impact delays.

- This was the worst I’ve seen in terms of delays. Not sure what drove it this year.

- Were there any ECNL or GA teams in 2nd brackets? In our brackets (2009 & 2010 girls) they were all top brackets (at least for ECNL, not sure on all GA teams). 2010 FCV even played up a year.

Figures... FCV always ducking real competition and claim they aren't by playing up??? Your competition was over in the VDA Cup, VDA 2010girls could have used a victory too so could have been a win , win for both of y'all. Stop hiding FCV!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with pretty much all of these comments.

- Water breaks were good. Clock kept running so didn’t impact delays.

- This was the worst I’ve seen in terms of delays. Not sure what drove it this year.

- Were there any ECNL or GA teams in 2nd brackets? In our brackets (2009 & 2010 girls) they were all top brackets (at least for ECNL, not sure on all GA teams). 2010 FCV even played up a year.

Figures... FCV always ducking real competition and claim they aren't by playing up??? Your competition was over in the VDA Cup, VDA 2010girls could have used a victory too so could have been a win , win for both of y'all. Stop hiding FCV!

FCV picks quantity over quality. But i'm not sure there's that much good competition in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree with pretty much all of these comments.

- Water breaks were good. Clock kept running so didn’t impact delays.

- This was the worst I’ve seen in terms of delays. Not sure what drove it this year.

- Were there any ECNL or GA teams in 2nd brackets? In our brackets (2009 & 2010 girls) they were all top brackets (at least for ECNL, not sure on all GA teams). 2010 FCV even played up a year.

Figures... FCV always ducking real competition and claim they aren't by playing up??? Your competition was over in the VDA Cup, VDA 2010girls could have used a victory too so could have been a win , win for both of y'all. Stop hiding FCV!

If anybody is hiding it’s VDA. I was interested to see their 2011G group possibly face Valor’s 2011G group in the east coast premier cup until it appears as if Valor either pulled out or the spot was pulled from them. Even for the U17 group in OBGC with NVA pulling out from a rematch against FCV. Doesn’t add up to FCV ducking. Each club plays their typical slate year in and year out. Really don’t think anybody is hiding from anybody. If they anybody wanted to face each other they know where to find one another. These kinds of arguments pitting this team vs that is more for parents egos than anything else.

[Anonymous]

These clubs decide well in advance what tournaments to attend and many coordinate coaching schedules among multiple age groups. Groupings are off at lots of tournaments. It happens, but it doesn’t mean anyone is doing anything wrong or any team is ducking any other team.