They had 9 players show up for the whole tournament!!! |
It was their second team, the second team played with 9 players the whole tournament. The first team played and beat Bethesda blue in the final of their tournament. Which Bethesda blue is ranked 21st in the nation. |
So the coaches who train the players and manage the games for VIVA come from the Villarreal academy in Spain? |
Too bad they are all leaving, guess other clubs will get stronger |
They beat Bethesda's B team. That's great. |
Wonder how their A team/DA ranks in the nation |
Where are majority of the players going? |
Da is a program for the biggest and fastest players. There is no point for a da until you are 16 because everyone will be fast and strong. So if you make da when you are young it means that you are big and fast and little bit of technical skills. Even when you are older they still teach you to kick and run. This is why the united states is very poor at teaching soccer to kids. This is why I support clubs like villarreal moving in, to open a pathway to professional soccer. In a couple of years, there will be more clubs like villarreal from europe moving to virginia and that will be the end of these silly clubs charging ridiculous amounts of money to play youth soccer.This is coming from an former da coach. So what I am trying to say is when they are 16 they will all be fast and strong, so it will be based on who taught better youth soccer villarreal which is proper soccer or what da teaches kick and run. |
/\ what a maroon, what an ignoraminus. |
Agreed! ...has never watched local DA teams play. |
Lol has never watched European soccer in his life. |
Sounds like a bitter Central American follower |
Sounds like a racist red neck follower |
Well, I'm gonna agree with you on that last part about the racism, but ... comparing VIVA to the DA is laughable, and so is the assertion that any team coached by Bo plays anything resembling the football played in La Liga. That VIVA 05 team is barely better than Bethesda's B team - in other words the team made up of players who weren't good enough to make(or stay on) Bethesda's DA team. And that's not for lack of size or speed. It's because the skill level on that Bethesda 05 DA team is freaking amazing. What's sort of ironic is that there actually is a Villarreal coach in the DMV right now. Javi Cano was a head coach in their youth academy from 2011-2017. He's now the U15 coach at DCU. La Liga clubs are not looking for players in clubs like ABGC. They're just looking for marketing partnerships to spread their brand name in a very lucrative market. Looks like they bet on the wrong horse this time, but they'll survive. |
Get real man... that part about s pathway to professional soccer just makes me think of this as a money grab. |