Achilles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Achilles picks up all the kid who can't make the first cut to MLS Next. These kids have skills but just not good enough to make it on their current club's MLS Next team.
Basically, Achille's MLS Next team is an equivalate to another club's second team.

Where does your DC play?

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Anonymous wrote:My DS just joined Achilles. You all are making me very nervous.

If you have a baller who’s confident about his skills and mentally tough and resilient, he’ll be just fine.

Yes, justify it

Tell us about your DC, little Johnny flameout.

Highly likely their DC flamed out because of the parenting and they are still in the denial/angry phase.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DS just joined Achilles. You all are making me very nervous.

If you have a baller who’s confident about his skills and mentally tough and resilient, he’ll be just fine.

Yes, justify it

Tell us about your DC, little Johnny flameout.

Highly likely their DC flamed out because of the parenting and they are still in the denial/angry phase.

100% spot on.

Now we’re stuck listening to a raving lunatic lash out at their own failure.

[Anonymous]

This was fun.

Good luck this fall, Achilles FC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was fun.

Good luck this fall, Achilles FC!

Thanks! We’re looking forward to the new season!

[Anonymous]

Anyone who has their kid playing for Achillies is in denial that their child can't make it to any other clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has their kid playing for Achillies is in denial that their child can't make it to any other clubs.

Man. It must really suck to be you. Playing mad-sad clown must is exhausting.

And if you are going to waste your time trolling, at least learn how to spell the team name. Dipshit.

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Anonymous wrote:Once again, the Achilles bashing has gotten over the top. Why do parents put up with being told not to coach the team? Maybe because no parents should be shouting instructions from the sideline. I'm guessing the poster that heard that was from Bethesda. It's the only home field I can think of where parents were seated behind the teams rather than across the sidelines.

Over the last two years the Achilles 2009 and 2010 squads have lost at least 5 players to 3 MLS Academies. And they've lost other key players for different reasons. Because they're a small club without a large stable of kids to pull from, these losses are hard to make up. The 2009 team has the potential to be really strong this year because it has a good core of quality players that spent all of last year playing up into the U16 bracket. And if they are good, people on here will say results don't matter because of the "abuse." If they don't win a lot of games people will point to it as a sign that Sal can't coach. If the individual players move to MLS academies, or make MLS Next all-star squads, or get USYNT ID invitations (all of which have happened regularly for those age groups), people on here will say it's in spite of the coaching. It's ridiculous and just a function of somebody's axe to grind. Who would come on here and insult the parents of two SYC players who moved to Achilles just to then insult all the parents at Achilles by saying those parents would fit in? And then . . . .root for a team of 14 yr olds to have a bad season. To the few (maybe one) posters who are doing this . . . take a second to self-evaluate. You might find it valuable.

I heard all the USYNT invites were to kids from MLS Club Academies
Which age group had an Achilles player invited?

That's (almost) true of the 2024 national camp in CA.

At least 5 Achilles 2009 and 2010 players, not counting ones that moved to MLS academies, have been invited to the regional camp in Wilmington over the last two years.

The mass ID local region camps have players from many clubs.
All the DC area MLS Next clubs have players there.

After the first cut, it's a different story.

That said, its been said a thousand times that Achilles gets good players.
The results of the teams shows the issue is with the coaching.

you just can't help yourself. Your comment was predicted earlier in this thread. round and round. nothing positive can go unanswered. you can let it go.

and "gets" good players? The players on those lists have been with Achilles since they were little kids. That's coaching, right?

Sounds like personal training, not coaching, if you have a couple good dribblers and they can't perform as a team.

You can always point out where comments are not factual and provide the real truth

I've already done that. You don't care about how depth of squad and a small pool of players could affect results.

Your turn. Tell me about how Achilles training is all about dribbling (it's not). Tell me about how players that are only "good dribblers" get invited to USYNT camps or MLS Academies (they don't). Tell me about how the two Achilles players who got assists in the 2009 and 2010 all star games at MLS Next Cup this year are just "good dribblers" and not team players (they aren't).

You're showing that you don't know anything about Achilles, or soccer.

You're trying too hard on the sell

The last several years in both EDP and MLS Next, Achilles, in every age group has been abysmal in performance. The results and standings don't lie.

There are a couple good players there. Not in dispute.

These inflated exaggerated credits about Achilles players for USYNT and MLS Next All Star etc is disingenuous and misleading.

Should focus more on improving the program and less time peeing in the air and claiming it's raining.

Maybe the obnoxious abusive coaches should make way for new blood and relegate themselves to backoffice duties

“Inflated exaggerated credits”?

Good grief. It’s you again. Little Johnny flamed out so now the wrath of mommy or daddy comes to haunt the board year after year.

Parents and players know what they are signing up for and dive in for great coaching and the chance to play top tier teams across the eastern seaboard.

***POOF***

Be gone!

Kids are signing up (with parents checkbook) to be berated and insulted and embarrassed by lunatic coaches?

Coaches who are frustrated at the frequent losses and blowouts that are occurring because of Their poor coaching!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Achilles picks up all the kid who can't make the first cut to MLS Next. These kids have skills but just not good enough to make it on their current club's MLS Next team.
Basically, Achille's MLS Next team is an equivalate to another club's second team.

Where does your DC play?

Real Madrid

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Achilles picks up all the kid who can't make the first cut to MLS Next. These kids have skills but just not good enough to make it on their current club's MLS Next team.
Basically, Achille's MLS Next team is an equivalate to another club's second team.

Where does your DC play?

Real Madrid

Bwhahahahahahaah.

[Anonymous]

Aww did I hurt your feelings!?!

Here’s a bag of sunflower seeds. Go sit with the new a hole dad who just signed up for the 2011 team. You guys will hit it off well.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has their kid playing for Achillies is in denial that their child can't make it to any other clubs.

Man. It must really suck to be you. Playing mad-sad clown must is exhausting.

And if you are going to waste your time trolling, at least learn how to spell the team name. Dipshit.

[Anonymous]

The 2011s will be low-mid this year. They have a couple kids who transferred in from other MLS level clubs, a couple fast but tiny midfielders, and defense that will rely on one/two kids, one of them new. Might promote a few kids from team two. Biggest liabilities will be their parents and the weight of expectations. No game changers. Lost a talented kid or two from team two who didn't want to play the "you will get a chance" game anymore at 3500 a year,

[Anonymous]

Since Achilles doesn't have a 2010 team, I'm sure the U14s will have at least a couple kids repeat their grade, so to speak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Since Achilles doesn't have a 2010 team, I'm sure the U14s will have at least a couple kids repeat their grade, so to speak.

Bioband you mean?

[Anonymous]

I think Sal is going to finally meet his match with the new parents who's joining the 2011 team

Anonymous wrote:The 2011s will be low-mid this year. They have a couple kids who transferred in from other MLS level clubs, a couple fast but tiny midfielders, and defense that will rely on one/two kids, one of them new. Might promote a few kids from team two. Biggest liabilities will be their parents and the weight of expectations. No game changers. Lost a talented kid or two from team two who didn't want to play the "you will get a chance" game anymore at 3500 a year,