Braddock Road

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Warhawks, man you are taking me down memory lane. I remember playing that team back then. The soccer landscape is completely different unfortunately. I suggest getting up to speed on the mess of youth soccer and then DMV, which is next level craziness. I would focus less on is BRYC good because the crazes will come out in full force on this form and get educated on the pay to play system and what DMV has done to maximize profits and minimize talent consolidation. If you want an even bigger laugh, check out ODP.

The Warhawks were pay to play too…

$300 plus tournaments is hardly comparable to today. You are the first person I've heard argue that the system was pay to play ie in the same context as today's system. Please share articles that indicates 2001 = to today. Or are you just being argumentative to say that we had to pay something and thus pay to play? Sigh

$300? GM was paid $25k per year to coach that team. I doubt families only had to pay $300.

They also practiced two times a week and the fields were grass and not lit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Warhawks, man you are taking me down memory lane. I remember playing that team back then. The soccer landscape is completely different unfortunately. I suggest getting up to speed on the mess of youth soccer and then DMV, which is next level craziness. I would focus less on is BRYC good because the crazes will come out in full force on this form and get educated on the pay to play system and what DMV has done to maximize profits and minimize talent consolidation. If you want an even bigger laugh, check out ODP.

The Warhawks were pay to play too…

$300 plus tournaments is hardly comparable to today. You are the first person I've heard argue that the system was pay to play ie in the same context as today's system. Please share articles that indicates 2001 = to today. Or are you just being argumentative to say that we had to pay something and thus pay to play? Sigh

$300? GM was paid $25k per year to coach that team. I doubt families only had to pay $300.

They also practiced two times a week and the fields were grass and not lit.

Dang, sounds like you were getting ripped off. I played for a competing team, NCSL Division 1 (IYKYK), and we paid $1,500 for the season plus tournaments. Granted, the money went to the coach vs club so who knows what’s what.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Haven’t lived in the area since like, 2001. Moving back this year and have two boys. All I remember from youth soccer is that my friends Braddock road soccer team won a national championship and sent like all the guys to D1 soccer schools afterwords. Are they still good or have things changed in 25 years?

I even remember the team name. Warhawks. lol.

I remember facing them I think mid 90s. NCSL First Division (they used to have relegation back then)

We defeated them 3-1 and they fired their coach. We were called the Bethesda Magic!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Warhawks, man you are taking me down memory lane. I remember playing that team back then. The soccer landscape is completely different unfortunately. I suggest getting up to speed on the mess of youth soccer and then DMV, which is next level craziness. I would focus less on is BRYC good because the crazes will come out in full force on this form and get educated on the pay to play system and what DMV has done to maximize profits and minimize talent consolidation. If you want an even bigger laugh, check out ODP.

The Warhawks were pay to play too…

Seriously? The 1999 warhawks produced Abe Thompson and Clarence Goodson, both of whom played professionally (didn’t Clarence also make the world cup roster one year??) , not to mention about every other guy on that team playing d1 after graduation. I wouldn’t call them pay-to-play. Abe Thompson didn’t need to bribe anyone to let him on their team in the late 90s.

“Pay to play” means they had to pay fees and their coach.

Bribing? What are you talking about?

Pay to play implies that players who can pay, will get a roster spot; and players who cannot, likely will not. I’m saying teams would have taken Abe even if he couldn’t pay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Warhawks, man you are taking me down memory lane. I remember playing that team back then. The soccer landscape is completely different unfortunately. I suggest getting up to speed on the mess of youth soccer and then DMV, which is next level craziness. I would focus less on is BRYC good because the crazes will come out in full force on this form and get educated on the pay to play system and what DMV has done to maximize profits and minimize talent consolidation. If you want an even bigger laugh, check out ODP.

The Warhawks were pay to play too…

Seriously? The 1999 warhawks produced Abe Thompson and Clarence Goodson, both of whom played professionally (didn’t Clarence also make the world cup roster one year??) , not to mention about every other guy on that team playing d1 after graduation. I wouldn’t call them pay-to-play. Abe Thompson didn’t need to bribe anyone to let him on their team in the late 90s.

“Pay to play” means they had to pay fees and their coach.

Bribing? What are you talking about?

Pay to play implies that players who can pay, will get a roster spot; and players who cannot, likely will not. I’m saying teams would have taken Abe even if he couldn’t pay.

Teams take top players now, even if they can’t pay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Warhawks, man you are taking me down memory lane. I remember playing that team back then. The soccer landscape is completely different unfortunately. I suggest getting up to speed on the mess of youth soccer and then DMV, which is next level craziness. I would focus less on is BRYC good because the crazes will come out in full force on this form and get educated on the pay to play system and what DMV has done to maximize profits and minimize talent consolidation. If you want an even bigger laugh, check out ODP.

The Warhawks were pay to play too…

Seriously? The 1999 warhawks produced Abe Thompson and Clarence Goodson, both of whom played professionally (didn’t Clarence also make the world cup roster one year??) , not to mention about every other guy on that team playing d1 after graduation. I wouldn’t call them pay-to-play. Abe Thompson didn’t need to bribe anyone to let him on their team in the late 90s.

“Pay to play” means they had to pay fees and their coach.

Bribing? What are you talking about?

Pay to play implies that players who can pay, will get a roster spot; and players who cannot, likely will not. I’m saying teams would have taken Abe even if he couldn’t pay.

Teams take top players now, even if they can’t pay.

Right; and all the players in the 1998-1999 Braddock road warhawks (why are we talking about this by the way?) would have been taken by pretty much any area team even if the teams were supposed to cost thousands and the players couldn’t pay. Because they were all top tier players. Hence, the team was not “pay to play” in the way the phrase is often used to mean that anyone who can pay for a slot will get a slot somewhere. This team was just full of talented players with zero bench riders whose parents basically paid for them to get a slot on the roster.