SYC social media

[Anonymous]

They don't care!! To be fair, neither does ANY soccer club in this area. They walk the line about development and providing your child an opportunity to compete, but don't be naive. You may find a coach that might care a little bit, but deep down it's all about rankings, show, and winning; not developing. If you think any of these clubs, VDA, ARL, FVU, NVA, Vienna, BRYC, etc.....CARE, you just have blinders on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't care!! To be fair, neither does ANY soccer club in this area. They walk the line about development and providing your child an opportunity to compete, but don't be naive. You may find a coach that might care a little bit, but deep down it's all about rankings, show, and winning; not developing. If you think any of these clubs, VDA, ARL, FVU, NVA, Vienna, BRYC, etc.....CARE, you just have blinders on.

Fact check: True

[Anonymous]

SYC is more focused on winning and rankings than our last club. (That is not altogether terrible, but player development does take a backseat.)

The amount of times the goalies are allowed to punt the ball to midfield vs distribution is telling. Goal kicks? Just kick it as hard as you can. Why work on receiving, passing and distribution, when we can just boot it? Dribbling and showboating? Go for it! Why pass it when a few key players are encouraged to dribble as much has possible for their own development vs being encouraged to pass is to teammates is also telling. We have a few kids who are excelling at the expense of the rest of the team. Those same kids are also doing a lot of SYC coach's private training.

Tournaments? Enter as many as possible to get the points.

The teams are strong, but part of that is due to the large numbers at tryouts and the numbers of kids feeding into SYC.

All team and clubs have their issues, but there is less development here than our last club. (Out last club had mental health training, fitness training, frequent guest playing and player counseling included in the price. SYC either doesn't do this often or you have to pay extra for it.)

Our team's strength is from kickball, showboating & big athletic kids but not from whole team development....we're not moving clubs, but I am beginning to wonder if the only thing better is to move to Europe.

Oh yes, we have the Instagram Virus... but that is perpetuated mostly by parents.

[Anonymous]

I thought this was going to be about thier tik toks... which keep showing up on my feed now!

Played one of thier lower teams in the Alexandria tournament recently and was really disappointed by the parents and the players behavior. Blatant fouls, stuff like boxing out and trying to run blocks, and parents cheering it on. Plus yelling at kids on our team for doing a fraction of these things back when they realized the red wasnt calling. Really rude and obnoxious and not sports like.

And after all that blustering we tied, which really pissed them off because they assumed they were far better.

[Anonymous]

Don't start with IG. The team IGs are even funnier equal photo opps for girls, right... tiger moms rule on IG

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let’s just call it what it is: SYC only cares about winning and image. The “development” talk sounds good on paper, but the actions don’t match. Key performances were completely ignored because they didn’t come from the usual favorites.

Selective shoutouts and constant favoritism send a clear message: if you're not already in the spotlight, your effort doesn’t matter.

It’s disrespectful, demoralizing, and the exact opposite of what a real development program should be. These are kids giving their all, and they deserve better than to be treated like background noise.

Do better, SYC. All your players are watching—and so are the parents.

Stop complaining and go make an Instagram page for your kid!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SYC is more focused on winning and rankings than our last club. (That is not altogether terrible, but player development does take a backseat.)

The amount of times the goalies are allowed to punt the ball to midfield vs distribution is telling. Goal kicks? Just kick it as hard as you can. Why work on receiving, passing and distribution, when we can just boot it? Dribbling and showboating? Go for it! Why pass it when a few key players are encouraged to dribble as much has possible for their own development vs being encouraged to pass is to teammates is also telling. We have a few kids who are excelling at the expense of the rest of the team. Those same kids are also doing a lot of SYC coach's private training.

Tournaments? Enter as many as possible to get the points.

The teams are strong, but part of that is due to the large numbers at tryouts and the numbers of kids feeding into SYC.

All team and clubs have their issues, but there is less development here than our last club. (Out last club had mental health training, fitness training, frequent guest playing and player counseling included in the price. SYC either doesn't do this often or you have to pay extra for it.)

Our team's strength is from kickball, showboating & big athletic kids but not from whole team development....we're not moving clubs, but I am beginning to wonder if the only thing better is to move to Europe.

Oh yes, we have the Instagram Virus... but that is perpetuated mostly by parents.

I've heard this from some but our experience has been different. Good coach and there is focus on style of play. Not much long ball and we are usually smaller than our opponent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC is more focused on winning and rankings than our last club. (That is not altogether terrible, but player development does take a backseat.)

The amount of times the goalies are allowed to punt the ball to midfield vs distribution is telling. Goal kicks? Just kick it as hard as you can. Why work on receiving, passing and distribution, when we can just boot it? Dribbling and showboating? Go for it! Why pass it when a few key players are encouraged to dribble as much has possible for their own development vs being encouraged to pass is to teammates is also telling. We have a few kids who are excelling at the expense of the rest of the team. Those same kids are also doing a lot of SYC coach's private training.

Tournaments? Enter as many as possible to get the points.

The teams are strong, but part of that is due to the large numbers at tryouts and the numbers of kids feeding into SYC.

All team and clubs have their issues, but there is less development here than our last club. (Out last club had mental health training, fitness training, frequent guest playing and player counseling included in the price. SYC either doesn't do this often or you have to pay extra for it.)

Our team's strength is from kickball, showboating & big athletic kids but not from whole team development....we're not moving clubs, but I am beginning to wonder if the only thing better is to move to Europe.

Oh yes, we have the Instagram Virus... but that is perpetuated mostly by parents.

I've heard this from some but our experience has been different. Good coach and there is focus on style of play. Not much long ball and we are usually smaller than our opponent.

Keep reading this. In our experience the training are much better in regards to strategy, fitness and ball drills when compared to neighboring clubs. Loving the experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't care!! To be fair, neither does ANY soccer club in this area. They walk the line about development and providing your child an opportunity to compete, but don't be naive. You may find a coach that might care a little bit, but deep down it's all about rankings, show, and winning; not developing. If you think any of these clubs, VDA, ARL, FVU, NVA, Vienna, BRYC, etc.....CARE, you just have blinders on.

should be pinned. These clubs love players with hype and social media footprints. Saves them from having to worry about hyping them up.

[Anonymous]

Same as everyone else, OP.

[Anonymous]

For example, CYA knows who the pro player's kids are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They don't care!! To be fair, neither does ANY soccer club in this area. They walk the line about development and providing your child an opportunity to compete, but don't be naive. You may find a coach that might care a little bit, but deep down it's all about rankings, show, and winning; not developing. If you think any of these clubs, VDA, ARL, FVU, NVA, Vienna, BRYC, etc.....CARE, you just have blinders on.

Funny...only one of these clubs is a club we are potentially interested in. No club is perfect but some of the clubs definitely have a style of play and track record of development.

Pro tip: Clubs deliver tactical guidance, not individual development. Individual development takes place at home and outside of the club environment. You can easily go through Coerver's 99 skills for ball mastery. If will take 1-3 years for mastery where you kid will feel confident to execute and most are too impatient to master the craft.

If your kids just wants to play 2-3 days per week, go ECNL, play high school and hope for college. The top players are playing and training 2-4 hours daily on their own. It is straight arithmetic and deep work. More than enough time with 168 hours in a week, less video games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SYC is more focused on winning and rankings than our last club. (That is not altogether terrible, but player development does take a backseat.)

The amount of times the goalies are allowed to punt the ball to midfield vs distribution is telling. Goal kicks? Just kick it as hard as you can. Why work on receiving, passing and distribution, when we can just boot it? Dribbling and showboating? Go for it! Why pass it when a few key players are encouraged to dribble as much has possible for their own development vs being encouraged to pass is to teammates is also telling. We have a few kids who are excelling at the expense of the rest of the team. Those same kids are also doing a lot of SYC coach's private training.

Tournaments? Enter as many as possible to get the points.

The teams are strong, but part of that is due to the large numbers at tryouts and the numbers of kids feeding into SYC.

All team and clubs have their issues, but there is less development here than our last club. (Out last club had mental health training, fitness training, frequent guest playing and player counseling included in the price. SYC either doesn't do this often or you have to pay extra for it.)

Our team's strength is from kickball, showboating & big athletic kids but not from whole team development....we're not moving clubs, but I am beginning to wonder if the only thing better is to move to Europe.

Oh yes, we have the Instagram Virus... but that is perpetuated mostly by parents.

You nailed it.

The teams are strong, they pick up the strong and or tallest kid that comes through the door. They have key players that they play every game, the other ones will get shifted to the second team. The keepers have no confidence playing with the ball. They need to be able to kick long balls and that is about it.

As for practices? Practices is consistently being moved around. There is no field space. GK training is once a week with a coach who is not even licensed (on the boy side).

If you want to be with a club that has strong social media present, then SYC is the club for you. If you want to play kickball and not be developed as a soccer player, then SYC is the club for you.

[Anonymous]

Is it the only club where parents cheer for their players to get yellow cards during games?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it the only club where parents cheer for their players to get yellow cards during games?

yes