ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership

[Anonymous]

I was there-- looks like the one team had the three top strikers. The ball movement was great, better in some matches than others, but I would agree, it looks like there were a clear top 15-20 who spent the majority of the time on the field.

[Anonymous]

Green all have a chance to make it. Orange not so much. So even the green that didn’t play much several will still get an offer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Green all have a chance to make it. Orange not so much. So even the green that didn’t play much several will still get an offer.

I would say there were 3-4 orange kids that stood out, a keeper that stood out, 7-8 green kids that stood out. It's so hard for defenders to show in tryouts.

[Anonymous]

The orange team didn't rotate much, so I would assume that's where they were keying in on a few kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Green all have a chance to make it. Orange not so much. So even the green that didn’t play much several will still get an offer.

What I don't get is how they didn't make a 1st round of cuts and do an invite only session with the top 30-35 kids. I get making early offers to your top 10 but it seems impossible to make any club unless your just a true standout of the coach has already seen you play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Green all have a chance to make it. Orange not so much. So even the green that didn’t play much several will still get an offer.

What I don't get is how they didn't make a 1st round of cuts and do an invite only session with the top 30-35 kids. I get making early offers to your top 10 but it seems impossible to make any club unless your just a true standout of the coach has already seen you play.

because they are trying to balance absorbing three clubs of "top" team kids vs new ones in the youngest age group. I'm sure if your kid is in McLean, BRYC or Vienna, your coach has already been asked to tier you.

Challenge with alliances is the next step after two opens would be to have 5-6 invites out to train with the top team like SYC, Alex and Arlington did. Not sure how to do that with an Alliance. What did Loudoun do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Green all have a chance to make it. Orange not so much. So even the green that didn’t play much several will still get an offer.

I would say there were 3-4 orange kids that stood out, a keeper that stood out, 7-8 green kids that stood out. It's so hard for defenders to show in tryouts.

Which age group?

[Anonymous]

Yes, BRAVE boys had parent coaches for their u17s and u19s this year. How absurd is that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Green all have a chance to make it. Orange not so much. So even the green that didn’t play much several will still get an offer.

I would say there were 3-4 orange kids that stood out, a keeper that stood out, 7-8 green kids that stood out. It's so hard for defenders to show in tryouts.

It is unless they are huge and/or talk and they communicate right things when they talk. Also positioning doesn’t look sexy when defending in soccer, just as it doesn’t look sexy on goalkeeping: making the las ditch block or save can look good but often could have been prevented with better positioning. Some of the players who don’t stand out it’s because they are almost in the right spots and keep it simple, and they will get overlooked unless they are big.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Green all have a chance to make it. Orange not so much. So even the green that didn’t play much several will still get an offer.

I would say there were 3-4 orange kids that stood out, a keeper that stood out, 7-8 green kids that stood out. It's so hard for defenders to show in tryouts.

Which age group?

2012G

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

because they are trying to balance absorbing three clubs of "top" team kids vs new ones in the youngest age group. I'm sure if your kid is in McLean, BRYC or Vienna, your coach has already been asked to tier you.

Challenge with alliances is the next step after two opens would be to have 5-6 invites out to train with the top team like SYC, Alex and Arlington did. Not sure how to do that with an Alliance. What did Loudoun do?

Did the coach mention that offers would be out by Friday? I didn't get the sense that they would be inviting people to training with top teams.

[Anonymous]

They will just complete their offers—no more ID sessions necessary

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least for the 2012 girls there were five million kids trying out tonight.

Less than the first session where they had about 50.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least for the 2012 girls there were five million kids trying out tonight.

Less than the first session where they had about 50.

There were at least 65 kids there for 2012s. Less for sure for 2011s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At least for the 2012 girls there were five million kids trying out tonight.

Less than the first session where they had about 50.

There were at least 65 kids there for 2012s. Less for sure for 2011s.

65 kids. Maybe more, but after initial passing and warmup drills, MAYBE 25 of them saw more than 20 minutes in the 11 v 11 scrimmage.