Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know how they did at the Capitol Cup? They posted they had 32 teams in the tournament.
On of their coaches posted: "Being on top isn't easy - it comes with a target on your back. it stings when others celebrate beating us, but that only fuels our fire to work harder and come back stronger."
We were with with them last year when they were more selective of players on teams, they had less teams and they were pretty good. (We are with a different program this year.) I noticed that this year, they did not do that well in this tournament (they did have a few 1st place and 2nd place finishes, but not as many as I thought they would have). I think they diluted their talent pool a little to expand the club size, which indicates a scaling up problem. I would have expected them to do much better than they did. But to be fair, it seems there was better futsal pure competition at this tournament than in years past. And, they put all their teams in in order to maximize playing time for their players. They have a great futsal program, I'd recommend it to anyone. It is a huge step up from our Club Coaches who put together a futsal program over the winter. They did well in Atlantic City last year (Which is a big tournament.) They will probably have to select only the best players to compete in that this year and collapse the Black and Yellow teams into 1 team to do that.
Honestly, I think they didn't do that well in order to maximize player development over combining the best players to get wins in this tournament; but they will probably do that going to bigger tournaments.
-Former club member.