2025 Girls Academy Winter Showcase (CA)

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To all the GA people posting. Yes, you are correct.

The D1/P4 narrative is a girls ECNL talking point. In my opinion its the last one they have. When DA first switched to GA the top talking point was clubs switching to ECNL. Now that the dust has settled this is only brought up in the spring and clubs go both ways. Then it became total number of college commits without any specifications. This stopped working a couple of years ago when GA numbers were relatively equal. So now the ECNL talking point is being limited to D1/P4 only commitments. Which are much more dependent on club connections than league events.

If you've been around for a while you can see where things are going. GA is on the upswing and ECNL has plateaued. Don't get caught up in the nonsense. If your kid has talent coaches will fine them.

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

What’s the actual track record? Taking credit for BP’s work?

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

What’s the actual track record? Taking credit for BP’s work?

I guess you were not around years ago when this board was filled with hate for BP. At that time it was commonly said BP was taking credit for CC’s work.

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

What’s the actual track record? Taking credit for BP’s work?

I guess you were not around years ago when this board was filled with hate for BP. At that time it was commonly said BP was taking credit for CC’s work.

Chillax, both have been riding the wave that TF who solely made FCV. They’re both equally fraudsters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all the GA people posting. Yes, you are correct.

The D1/P4 narrative is a girls ECNL talking point. In my opinion its the last one they have. When DA first switched to GA the top talking point was clubs switching to ECNL. Now that the dust has settled this is only brought up in the spring and clubs go both ways. Then it became total number of college commits without any specifications. This stopped working a couple of years ago when GA numbers were relatively equal. So now the ECNL talking point is being limited to D1/P4 only commitments. Which are much more dependent on club connections than league events.

If you've been around for a while you can see where things are going. GA is on the upswing and ECNL has plateaued. Don't get caught up in the nonsense. If your kid has talent coaches will fine them.

There is also an 80/20 or maybe even a 90/10 rule with ECNL and D1/P4 offers. Nobody begrudges Hawks or Solar or Surf for being amazing programs but when Wilmington or Beach start quoting statistics about ECNL offers or coaches attendance it is like the mail room clerk taking credit for Goldmans league table. News flash, the coaches are there to see the elites, not the G division of a showcase.

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

rumor has it GD is headed to VRSC.

I heard this too. Taking at least one GA team in spring season. What kind of coach is he?

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

What’s the actual track record? Taking credit for BP’s work?

Rae Anne had a good track record. If yelling at kids and demeaning them is a good track record then so be it. If the club wants that reputation of looking the other way when these activities are occurring, so be it. And yes, they did a very good job of taking credit for what BP actually did. Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

rumor has it GD is headed to VRSC.

I heard this too. Taking at least one GA team in spring season. What kind of coach is he?

I’ve heard zero good about this coach.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To all the GA people posting. Yes, you are correct.

The D1/P4 narrative is a girls ECNL talking point. In my opinion its the last one they have. When DA first switched to GA the top talking point was clubs switching to ECNL. Now that the dust has settled this is only brought up in the spring and clubs go both ways. Then it became total number of college commits without any specifications. This stopped working a couple of years ago when GA numbers were relatively equal. So now the ECNL talking point is being limited to D1/P4 only commitments. Which are much more dependent on club connections than league events.

If you've been around for a while you can see where things are going. GA is on the upswing and ECNL has plateaued. Don't get caught up in the nonsense. If your kid has talent coaches will fine them.

There is also an 80/20 or maybe even a 90/10 rule with ECNL and D1/P4 offers. Nobody begrudges Hawks or Solar or Surf for being amazing programs but when Wilmington or Beach start quoting statistics about ECNL offers or coaches attendance it is like the mail room clerk taking credit for Goldmans league table. News flash, the coaches are there to see the elites, not the G division of a showcase.

There's also a phenomenon called "ranking inflation" which occurs when the top teams in a league only play each other. Basically as long as top team games are close and there arent any blowouts which almost always happens because defenses are really good teams ranking will be higher than they would be if you played a mix of teams. You see it in the Socal ECNL league which has a large number highly ranked teams.

Not that it matters that much but things like this do exist. If you watch the ranking app closely when 2 different really good teams from different leagues play each other the ranking apps general guess is less likely to be true. This might be because of less data but its multiple things that all contribute.

Why Im writing all of this is so parents can skip the Fomo. If your kid wants to play at a super college yes playing at a super club will likely open doors. But really good grades will open just as many doors if not more.

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

There are three GA coaches, CC, MJ, and JU. ED and JJ are just hanging around the sidelines and have nothing to do with the GA teams' performance this year, although they'll have a role for any future homegrown ulittle talent. CC has a track record that is matched by very few coaches in the DMV, that's just a fact, but things don't seem to be headed in the right direction for his teams. If he and VRSC parted ways, who would replace him? Hard to imagine the club could attract someone with a better track record. MJ used to coach at FCV (he left several years before CC) but he was not a GA coach there, and he coached some very bad VRSC teams before the GA era began. JU did not come to VRSC via FCV, he came through the boys side and this is his first year coaching with CC. What do people think about him? It's easy to complain about the coaches, but turning around a program as weak as VRSC's girls program was never going to happen overnight. Maybe it never will. FCV rarely developed ulittle talent, instead they stole it from other clubs, but VRSC is not in a position to steal top talent from anyone.

rumor has it GD is headed to VRSC.

I heard this too. Taking at least one GA team in spring season. What kind of coach is he?

He's a nightmare. Search Gus Donolo in this forum and don't say you weren't warned.

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Anonymous wrote:Cc destroyed the vrsc 09 team by being overly ambition and selecting second rate players. He's also overly influenced by ED who didn't get along with BP because he so unorganized. cc will likely quit or get fired. allhedoes is yell and berate young female players. That team only had one goalie and they had to promise her full time to get her on the team. I don't know how he get immunity from his 2 year old antics. No other coach has such immunity. He clearly doesn't develop players. The ECNL teams in the area aren't much better. You have BP stealing talent from all the other clubs to stack teams. Fairfax Union or whatever it's called now has dropped significantly for similar reasons. All that's left is Arlington and VDA for decent ECNL teams. GA will soon surpass these clubs because it's a better turn league and has a strategic advantage with the boys teams in MLS next. These clubs all basically crap on girls soccer

This was posted a few times before, sitting on his beach chair and only standing up to yell like an angry drunkard. It’s evident who’s forcing moderator to delete posts and entire threads.
Forget about ED or the Johnsons, those can barely communicate efficiently let alone coach young female athletes

Is it true VRSC is inviting him and his crew to leave the OneFamily?

Why would they? Almost every team has improved vs. last year. The guy literally has multiple Nat’l Championships, USWNT and USYNT players under his belt.

Are those the ones who went with BP? When BP tried to join VRSC he was denied. I wonder why. The former fcv coaches don’t like accountability. MJ may be the worst coach but at least he’s self proclaimed “marvelous!”

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Anonymous wrote:To all the GA people posting. Yes, you are correct.

The D1/P4 narrative is a girls ECNL talking point. In my opinion its the last one they have. When DA first switched to GA the top talking point was clubs switching to ECNL. Now that the dust has settled this is only brought up in the spring and clubs go both ways. Then it became total number of college commits without any specifications. This stopped working a couple of years ago when GA numbers were relatively equal. So now the ECNL talking point is being limited to D1/P4 only commitments. Which are much more dependent on club connections than league events.

If you've been around for a while you can see where things are going. GA is on the upswing and ECNL has plateaued. Don't get caught up in the nonsense. If your kid has talent coaches will fine them.

The quality and quantity of the college commitments is comparable?

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Anonymous wrote:To all the GA people posting. Yes, you are correct.

The D1/P4 narrative is a girls ECNL talking point. In my opinion its the last one they have. When DA first switched to GA the top talking point was clubs switching to ECNL. Now that the dust has settled this is only brought up in the spring and clubs go both ways. Then it became total number of college commits without any specifications. This stopped working a couple of years ago when GA numbers were relatively equal. So now the ECNL talking point is being limited to D1/P4 only commitments. Which are much more dependent on club connections than league events.

If you've been around for a while you can see where things are going. GA is on the upswing and ECNL has plateaued. Don't get caught up in the nonsense. If your kid has talent coaches will fine them.

The quality and quantity of the college commitments is comparable?

Not if you look at the leagues as totals. Ecnl gets more college recruits and more P4 recruits. With that said you would rather be a playoff GA team than a bottom half ECNL team. There are not as many high quality GA programs but there are still enough to get 200+ college coaches to GA events.

At the end of the day, take your kid to a place that is 1. Fits your lifestyle in terms of location or travel commitments 2. Has good coaching 3. Allows you to play against the most competitive environment in practice and games that fits your kids ability.

Then go to the ID camps that you “match for attractiveness” with. I am always shocked how little play ID camps get. I know of a couple of coaches that took literally all of their recruits from ID camps. They see you for 8 hours a day for a couple of days vs snippets of a game here or there at various showcases.

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Anonymous wrote:To all the GA people posting. Yes, you are correct.

The D1/P4 narrative is a girls ECNL talking point. In my opinion its the last one they have. When DA first switched to GA the top talking point was clubs switching to ECNL. Now that the dust has settled this is only brought up in the spring and clubs go both ways. Then it became total number of college commits without any specifications. This stopped working a couple of years ago when GA numbers were relatively equal. So now the ECNL talking point is being limited to D1/P4 only commitments. Which are much more dependent on club connections than league events.

If you've been around for a while you can see where things are going. GA is on the upswing and ECNL has plateaued. Don't get caught up in the nonsense. If your kid has talent coaches will fine them.

The quality and quantity of the college commitments is comparable?

Overall yes the numbers are pretty close. This is what the ECNL people hate admitting to. Which is why they focus on D1/P4 only.

GA provides all their committment numbers.

Girls ECNL stopped posting total nunber of committments a couple of years ago.

Theres a few people online that track numbers but sometimes they skew one way or the other.

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https://ussoccerparent.com/girls-academy-vs-aspire-vs-ecnl-2025-26-guide/?srsltid=AfmBOopFEVRsgt3fL2GkPzpCIInv3nbdQZgn2iEvLEP4Z23dmJnUw4Kv