What is VSA Travel Like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Proper game intelligence also and actually finding players that are problem solving on the with the technical ability to create time and space if needed.

PWSI/VSA/VDA have nearly robotic like back lines and midfield. EVERYTHING FORWARD! And pray that a forward can get on the end of it and make something happen.

VSA and PWSI are nothing alike other than feeding VDA.

[Anonymous]

VSA and PWSI top players will go to VDA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Style of play? Kickball. Direct as possible. Back line and midfield? Clear it forward as fast as possible.

Methodology? Find big, fast players that can kick it far.

Genuinely curious, why is this preferred and so common among US coaches? It’s ugly as hell and kids don’t really develop.

because in US we have our best prospects (for at least boys) playing sports like football basketball and baseball. those sports are getting the picks of the litter in terms of performance potential.

Ideally you want both technical and the physical.. but what you get are either small and slower technical kids or bigger faster kids. On 11v11 pitch the bigger faster kids are just going win the battles. Ie US soccer in a nutshell.

So, hypothetically a young Luca Modric would not have made it on a a U11 big club top team in today’s DMV landscape? Hell even a young Pulisic. If that’s the case then what does that say about the product that consumers are forking over thousands of dollars for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Style of play? Kickball. Direct as possible. Back line and midfield? Clear it forward as fast as possible.

Methodology? Find big, fast players that can kick it far.

Genuinely curious, why is this preferred and so common among US coaches? It’s ugly as hell and kids don’t really develop.

because in US we have our best prospects (for at least boys) playing sports like football basketball and baseball. those sports are getting the picks of the litter in terms of performance potential.

Ideally you want both technical and the physical.. but what you get are either small and slower technical kids or bigger faster kids. On 11v11 pitch the bigger faster kids are just going win the battles. Ie US soccer in a nutshell.

So, hypothetically a young Luca Modric would not have made it on a a U11 big club top team in today’s DMV landscape? Hell even a young Pulisic. If that’s the case then what does that say about the product that consumers are forking over thousands of dollars for.

You’re absolutely clueless. Go out and watch the best teams in these age groups. There are great players. Some of them big. Some of them small.

[Anonymous]

Somehow Loudoun Soccer offered a standout player who was playing a grade up in their rec league only black. VSA put him on ECNL=R.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Somehow Loudoun Soccer offered a standout player who was playing a grade up in their rec league only black. VSA put him on ECNL=R.

Congrats to your son.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Style of play? Kickball. Direct as possible. Back line and midfield? Clear it forward as fast as possible.

Methodology? Find big, fast players that can kick it far.

Genuinely curious, why is this preferred and so common among US coaches? It’s ugly as hell and kids don’t really develop.

because in US we have our best prospects (for at least boys) playing sports like football basketball and baseball. those sports are getting the picks of the litter in terms of performance potential.

Ideally you want both technical and the physical.. but what you get are either small and slower technical kids or bigger faster kids. On 11v11 pitch the bigger faster kids are just going win the battles. Ie US soccer in a nutshell.

So, hypothetically a young Luca Modric would not have made it on a a U11 big club top team in today’s DMV landscape? Hell even a young Pulisic. If that’s the case then what does that say about the product that consumers are forking over thousands of dollars for.

Very possibly not. This goes beyond soccer, though, and the same thing is happening in basketball. The NBA commissioner (Adam Silver) and a number of players have spoken out about how the US has fallen behind in developing basketball players vs many other countries.

“Former NBA player Jason Richardson backed up Commissioner Adam Silver’s comments about the development of youth basketball in the United States. According to Richardson, who spent 14 years in the NBA, there seems to be a drastic change in how basketball development is being conducted in the United States, to the point that development programs outside of the United States are already miles ahead compared to them. Richardson blames the decline of youth development in the U.S. on four factors."Grassroots coaches, directors offended by Adam Silver’s comments yet don’t see how they’re part of the problem. Politics, controlled narratives, social media, and $$$ is what’s killing youth basketball. Can’t keep celebrating individual play and low basketball IQ. Develop your players!"

https://www.basketballnetwork.net/latest-news/jason-richardson-on-whats-killing-youth-basketball-in-the-united-states

[Anonymous]

OP here, I appreciate your basketball input, but please talk about VSA travel and not basketball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I appreciate your basketball input, but please talk about VSA travel and not basketball.

Ok. Go elsewhere, unless you like boot and run.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, I appreciate your basketball input, but please talk about VSA travel and not basketball.

Ok. Go elsewhere, unless you like boot and run.

Vsa is the least boot and run club in the area for top teams.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Somehow Loudoun Soccer offered a standout player who was playing a grade up in their rec league only black. VSA put him on ECNL=R.

Congrats to your son.

Just someone we played against who got 5 goals in 10 minutes before they moved him to defense.

[Anonymous]

We have been with VSA two years, ECNL-RL U16 and plan to return this next season for U17. It has been good and great!
A few players move to VDA and some return from VDA, not wanting the pressure that comes with the higher level team.
At ECNL-RL level, there is a formal evaluation that goes on mid season: the players rate themselves in abt 12 or 16 categories, then coaches rate. Then, at practice field side and one-on-one, the coach reviews with the player three things to work on. I saw immediate improvement in some players after that process.
Always positive feedback during practice and games and good game coaching. Different formations used during a game. There is a bit more kick ball forward than passing but not alot more.
We have enjoyed it and live far away so don't know the local core of parents socially.
Players treated mine well as a new player.
We are happy at the ECNL RL level. My player gets enough game time and is being developed at VSA.

[Anonymous]

See that’s useful information!

[Anonymous]

I dont understand the logistics of playing rec soccer in Loudoun and then going to play travel soccer in Haymarket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont understand the logistics of playing rec soccer in Loudoun and then going to play travel soccer in Haymarket.

It's actually a closer location for western and southern loudoun families. Not everyone in loudoun lives in Leesburg. Loudoun rec is the only rec program I'd ever even heard of and I don't know a single person who had their kids play rec anywhere else in elementary school.