How competitive is ASA travel soccer team? Is it hard to make the team?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth my kid started on the bottom team at ASA, they are now on the top team. Half the old team is now on one of the top two teams. Silly to think that your lot is cast at 8 or 9.

But that’s only because of DA.

The top teams get absorbed into DA U12-U14. Also, at U13 the teams play 11v11.

A white team at U12 is really a blue/black team. The red team is the white team, etc.

Yes. There were parents ecstatic their D team kid got moved up, but it’s all relative . The teams just shifted upwards. With DA and it’s big roster, A team kids are absorbed there and that frees up tons of spots along the chain for lower players to move up. Without the creation of DA, the A team kids would still be on the A team and those kids would not move up. The number of teams also shrink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For what it’s worth my kid started on the bottom team at ASA, they are now on the top team. Half the old team is now on one of the top two teams. Silly to think that your lot is cast at 8 or 9.

But that’s only because of DA.

The top teams get absorbed into DA U12-U14. Also, at U13 the teams play 11v11.

A white team at U12 is really a blue/black team. The red team is the white team, etc.

Yes. There were parents ecstatic their D team kid got moved up, but it’s all relative . The teams just shifted upwards. With DA and it’s big roster, A team kids are absorbed there and that frees up tons of spots along the chain for lower players to move up. Without the creation of DA, the A team kids would still be on the A team and those kids would not move up. The number of teams also shrink.

Some were birth year moves as well. The kids with the birth year advantage dropped from lower teams onto the top teams below during the change year.

[Anonymous]

Are parents at ASA so caught up in colors that they fail to actually look at development? You are really limiting a player’s future if you think moving some idiotic color means your kid has gotten better or improved over players outside of the ASA bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are parents at ASA so caught up in colors that they fail to actually look at development? You are really limiting a player’s future if you think moving some idiotic color means your kid has gotten better or improved over players outside of the ASA bubble.

Yes. And the ones at my kid’s elementary school are already worked up about what color team their 2nd grade 7-year old will make this May.

[Anonymous]

^^ they are already deciding/training their rising 9U red/white teams this winter in their indoor winter soccer program . . . by invitation only

too late to get worked up

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^ they are already deciding/training their rising 9U red/white teams this winter in their indoor winter soccer program . . . by invitation only

too late to get worked up

^^And some of those kids are too late because there are 2nd graders that came out a year early already playing travel because the parents know if they do that the kid can play U9 again next year on a higher team. It’s becoming a trend.

It gets pushed younger and younger. The race to nowhere.

[Anonymous]

In ASA, you have U7 kindergartners? trying out and making teams in Spring.

They play travel the following year in 1st Grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In ASA, you have U7 kindergartners? trying out and making teams in Spring.

They play travel the following year in 1st Grade.

That’s plain stupid. Burn out 101.

Even if a 6-year old has talent and loves to play. Travel is not the right environment at that age.

[Anonymous]

so, OP, the answer is it is very easy to make at least a bottom 3, cash-cow team on the girls side, because they will form 6 teams this May with ~70 girls total on the rosters, but only ~70 maybe even come to try out ... annnnnnddddd of those 70, there will be a decent number of girls in kindergarten and 1st grade born in 2011 trying to play up

wasn't there a whole team of those last year

[Anonymous]

So the difference between the top teams(red and white) and the lower team is just coaching. This is the only reason the kids on the lower do not develop?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the difference between the top teams(red and white) and the lower team is just coaching. This is the only reason the kids on the lower do not develop?

No. The kids develop. They just have zero opportunities in ASA once they are put on a 5th or 6th team. Nobody looks at them again. Every tryout from there on, they will be put with the 5th/6th team field with nobody even watching. Rosters are already formed. They will take an outside player versus moving up one from within because if they moved a kid up it would cause too much angst and discord in the ranks.

[Anonymous]

Wow! Who knew there was this much cray cray in ASA travel soccer! We’ve been playing rec and happy there so far.

[Anonymous]

Choose another sport, fools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! Who knew there was this much cray cray in ASA travel soccer! We’ve been playing rec and happy there so far.

The craziness and neuroticism in Arlington extends to everything.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So the difference between the top teams(red and white) and the lower team is just coaching. This is the only reason the kids on the lower do not develop?

No. The kids develop. They just have zero opportunities in ASA once they are put on a 5th or 6th team. Nobody looks at them again. Every tryout from there on, they will be put with the 5th/6th team field with nobody even watching. Rosters are already formed. They will take an outside player versus moving up one from within because if they moved a kid up it would cause too much angst and discord in the ranks.

This is the most accurate statement I've read. Watch how the tryouts are done each year.