Valor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We played a u-littles Valor team recently and they had 5 kids sitting on the sideline. Seems ridiculous at that age. No other teams we played carried that many subs. All about $$$$.

Yup. Even u-9/u-10 they are benching kids. Imagine paying for developmental Travel ages soccer and your kid does nothing but scrimmage in practice and ride the bench if they aren't a starter.

My friend told me they also keep a couple good kids on each of 2/3/4th teams when they can to try and bolster scores/wins by letting those kids just play almost the whole game to try and win while just collecting money from the other parents to keep the program looking good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And yet, I hear someone from the 3rd team of U15B made a JV team... so there's that.

It all depends on the school they are attending and the skills of the athletes trying out. Some are more competitive than others and some take whoever they can get to round out the team and have enough players.

There is no large public HS in northern va who is taking whoever they can get to round out the soccer team. It is hard to make even the JV soccer team at all the big schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That 3rd team player is probably one stuck in the system and won't be moved up due to the reasons stated earlier in this thread.

Numbers for high school tryouts are huge on the boys side. Looks like most of the ones that make the rosters are ECNL or MLS Next Players with some regional league players sprinkled in.

My kid plays varsity for Centreville and there are several kids who have only played house league on JV. Some gold and white Valor kids did not make the JV team. Around 150 boys at tryouts. I was surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We played a u-littles Valor team recently and they had 5 kids sitting on the sideline. Seems ridiculous at that age. No other teams we played carried that many subs. All about $$$$.

They had 5 subs for 7 v 7 ? That's just sad.

[Anonymous]

Man, this club sounds godawful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised that my neighbor, who has played on Valor since he was little, didn't even make the JV team of our HS. I know it’s hard to make varsity, but what did his parents pay for all those years if he doesn't have enough skill for JV?

Weird. Valor is only 3 years old.

Not really. It was SYA/CYA travel before, so the kid probably did that and then it magically transformed into Valor.

no it was SYA (good program) or CYA (crappy program). The merger forced legacy SYA teams to pick up some CYA kids. Which was the beginning of the downfall. Then add several CYA coaches who are simply not good, but are still coaching in Valor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised that my neighbor, who has played on Valor since he was little, didn't even make the JV team of our HS. I know its hard to make varsity, but what did his parents pay for all those years if he doesn't have enough skill for JV?

This makes me sad but i am not surprised to hear this. There is no player development at valor so it really puts valor players at a huge disadvantage. Let this be a warning for all parents Get them out while they are young so they can still catch up to their peers.

Boys HS soccer at almost all schools in area is shit soccer. Its athletes playing kickball in most instances. If you are undersized or dont have elite speed you at a disadvantage.

[Anonymous]

Do college scouts pay attention to high school teams anymore? I heard some club teams don’t let their players play for the high school team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That 3rd team player is probably one stuck in the system and won't be moved up due to the reasons stated earlier in this thread.

Numbers for high school tryouts are huge on the boys side. Looks like most of the ones that make the rosters are ECNL or MLS Next Players with some regional league players sprinkled in.

My kid plays varsity for Centreville and there are several kids who have only played house league on JV. Some gold and white Valor kids did not make the JV team. Around 150 boys at tryouts. I was surprised.

I’m pretty sure a kid on Gold U15 (2009) just made JV at Centreville. Can only think of that 1 on our team that goes to Centreville — maybe there’s a 2008 that didn’t make it?

[Anonymous]

JV could be 2009, 2008, or 2007.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised that my neighbor, who has played on Valor since he was little, didn't even make the JV team of our HS. I know its hard to make varsity, but what did his parents pay for all those years if he doesn't have enough skill for JV?

This makes me sad but i am not surprised to hear this. There is no player development at valor so it really puts valor players at a huge disadvantage. Let this be a warning for all parents Get them out while they are young so they can still catch up to their peers.

Boys HS soccer at almost all schools in area is shit soccer. Its athletes playing kickball in most instances. If you are undersized or dont have elite speed you at a disadvantage.

Maybe its sht soccer but it still is hard as heck to make the high school teams, at least at the big publics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, this club sounds godawful.

+1

[Anonymous]

yeah. 180 kids register to try out and 120 actually show up for tryouts. They take around 20-22 varsity and 20-22 JV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do college scouts pay attention to high school teams anymore? I heard some club teams don’t let their players play for the high school team.

You're much less likely to get scouted at a high school team level vs a top travel team. Most of the clubs hold showcases for colleges side from coaches and directors helping with recruiting.

[Anonymous]

Is their girls' program that much worse than the boys'? I know people signing up for tryouts but like all clubs, they normally are much more talented at one or the other.