Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss

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Anonymous wrote:What do people know about NextGen Soccer? Where do they train? North of Baltimore I heard. I heard it is by invitation only. How do they scout? How many kids are in the program? Do they play games other than take kids to European tournaments? Where do all the kids come from? How often do they train? What age groups? I heard it's free. How to you stay in the program? Do you have to earn your spot week to week? month to month? Thanks.

Nobody cares about soccer on this forum, haven't you figured that out already!?!

"North of Baltimore" is kind of a stretch for this area, too. If someone asked the same question about something in Montgomery or Fairfax counties, I think we'd have a response by now.

Yes, it's north of Baltimore but they pull kids from this area. That's why I asked here.

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What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

U11, I guess we could find a couple of extra players but not sure that it's the intention to bring others in. Maybe depending on number of games, players can be rotated to miss 1 game each.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

U11, I guess we could find a couple of extra players but not sure that it's the intention to bring others in. Maybe depending on number of games, players can be rotated to miss 1 game each.

At that age, we typically formed one large team, then rotated players so that 8 or 9 dress for each game. Many of our kids played basketball in the winter, and were fine not playing every game (helped manage conflicts). Also reduced the financial/time commitment which parents appreciated.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

If the games are optional, I wouldn't bother going with a roster of 12. Not worth it. If the club requires it, I would complain. All you need is 7 players. If you can, break into to teams and recruit a few more players as suggested above. But yes, futsal is a very popular winter activity. Metro Futsal league. Alexandria has a futsal league. There's a league up at Dulles Sportsplex. A few others around as well. PAC has one at KidsChoice I think or at least used to. There is also indoor soccer at Springfield Sportsplex, Dulles, Manassas. Lots of arguments over what's better for development...futsal or indoor soccer. I won't touch that one. : ) You should consider cross training a little bit as well. Lots of winter basketball leagues. Winter swimming, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

U11, I guess we could find a couple of extra players but not sure that it's the intention to bring others in. Maybe depending on number of games, players can be rotated to miss 1 game each.

You could set up a rotation where you assign 9 players for each game. So if you had an 8 game season, each player would get 6 games.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

U11, I guess we could find a couple of extra players but not sure that it's the intention to bring others in. Maybe depending on number of games, players can be rotated to miss 1 game each.

You could set up a rotation where you assign 9 players for each game. So if you had an 8 game season, each player would get 6 games.

Yes. My husband did this with my U-9 and U-10 son's indoor teams. The rotation worked well since a lot of kids had conflicts with basketball games/trips/illness, etc. When schedule came out, he got feedback for attendance and created roster that way.

My older son did futsal at his travel club with 12 kids and it sucked. Very little playing time for all involved and a drive. Just wasn't worth it. Even after a full swap, there were two left on bench. Also--I feel futsal takes time to get into the game/flow so short substitutions sucked.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

U11, I guess we could find a couple of extra players but not sure that it's the intention to bring others in. Maybe depending on number of games, players can be rotated to miss 1 game each.

I'm in Manassas, so we have SNF for games and training, Battlefield Sportsplex, United Sportsplex for futsal. They all play on Sunday I think so you have to choose one, right now is about the time you would contact them to if you want to rent space for training.

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Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

If the games are optional, I wouldn't bother going with a roster of 12. Not worth it. If the club requires it, I would complain. All you need is 7 players. If you can, break into to teams and recruit a few more players as suggested above. But yes, futsal is a very popular winter activity. Metro Futsal league. Alexandria has a futsal league. There's a league up at Dulles Sportsplex. A few others around as well. PAC has one at KidsChoice I think or at least used to. There is also indoor soccer at Springfield Sportsplex, Dulles, Manassas. Lots of arguments over what's better for development...futsal or indoor soccer. I won't touch that one. : ) You should consider cross training a little bit as well. Lots of winter basketball leagues. Winter swimming, etc.

Futsal better for development. But.every.single.kid I know loves indoor soccer much, much better. Indoor soccer is so fast-paced, ball never goes out, they slam it off the side wall...it is just plain fun!! Then, you have the hockey body checks up against the glass. Good times. Futsal can be painful in the early years with the damn ball going out constantly.

Yes. futsal is better for developing ball skills---but indoor soccer was great fun for my boys and they got to play with friends and really work on their ball skill and stay in shape over the winter. They chose that over sitting on the bench with a 12-13 person roster on their Futsal travel roster. We kept only 2 subs so the boys were going constantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

If the games are optional, I wouldn't bother going with a roster of 12. Not worth it. If the club requires it, I would complain. All you need is 7 players. If you can, break into to teams and recruit a few more players as suggested above. But yes, futsal is a very popular winter activity. Metro Futsal league. Alexandria has a futsal league. There's a league up at Dulles Sportsplex. A few others around as well. PAC has one at KidsChoice I think or at least used to. There is also indoor soccer at Springfield Sportsplex, Dulles, Manassas. Lots of arguments over what's better for development...futsal or indoor soccer. I won't touch that one. : ) You should consider cross training a little bit as well. Lots of winter basketball leagues. Winter swimming, etc.

Futsal better for development. But.every.single.kid I know loves indoor soccer much, much better. Indoor soccer is so fast-paced, ball never goes out, they slam it off the side wall...it is just plain fun!! Then, you have the hockey body checks up against the glass. Good times. Futsal can be painful in the early years with the damn ball going out constantly.

Yes. futsal is better for developing ball skills---but indoor soccer was great fun for my boys and they got to play with friends and really work on their ball skill and stay in shape over the winter. They chose that over sitting on the bench with a 12-13 person roster on their Futsal travel roster. We kept only 2 subs so the boys were going constantly.

So every indoor soccer league (not futsal) that I'm seeing only allows TWO travel players per team. We played in Arlington and this was true---though heavily abused by a couple teams. This year it seems every kid we know in Arlington is now on a Travel team since they expanded the number of teams to 6 (and anyone left is on a developmental team--only allowed 5 total travel and developmental players) so running into a problem when trying to form a team this winter. Most indoor sportsplex have the same rule it appears, e.g., it's a rec only indoor league with only 2 travel/carded players allowed on roster.

Anybody know an indoor soccer league (not Futsal) that allows more??? My kids' friends play on different teams (within their travel club) and many play at travel clubs outside of the County. But--they love forming a winter team and just having fun together. It's the kids from their first 3 years of Rec soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

U11, I guess we could find a couple of extra players but not sure that it's the intention to bring others in. Maybe depending on number of games, players can be rotated to miss 1 game each.

You could set up a rotation where you assign 9 players for each game. So if you had an 8 game season, each player would get 6 games.

Check with the parents and see what everyone wants...Lots of playing time and lots of games = Two teams;
Lots of playing time and fewer games = one team and rotate players;
little playing time and lots of games = one team and bring everyone. This option costs the least.

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Thanks for the feedback. Futsal with a rotation system may be the way to go. Half of the team does basketball at the same time so it may work out well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

If the games are optional, I wouldn't bother going with a roster of 12. Not worth it. If the club requires it, I would complain. All you need is 7 players. If you can, break into to teams and recruit a few more players as suggested above. But yes, futsal is a very popular winter activity. Metro Futsal league. Alexandria has a futsal league. There's a league up at Dulles Sportsplex. A few others around as well. PAC has one at KidsChoice I think or at least used to. There is also indoor soccer at Springfield Sportsplex, Dulles, Manassas. Lots of arguments over what's better for development...futsal or indoor soccer. I won't touch that one. : ) You should consider cross training a little bit as well. Lots of winter basketball leagues. Winter swimming, etc.

Futsal better for development. But.every.single.kid I know loves indoor soccer much, much better. Indoor soccer is so fast-paced, ball never goes out, they slam it off the side wall...it is just plain fun!! Then, you have the hockey body checks up against the glass. Good times. Futsal can be painful in the early years with the damn ball going out constantly.

Yes. futsal is better for developing ball skills---but indoor soccer was great fun for my boys and they got to play with friends and really work on their ball skill and stay in shape over the winter. They chose that over sitting on the bench with a 12-13 person roster on their Futsal travel roster. We kept only 2 subs so the boys were going constantly.

So every indoor soccer league (not futsal) that I'm seeing only allows TWO travel players per team. We played in Arlington and this was true---though heavily abused by a couple teams. This year it seems every kid we know in Arlington is now on a Travel team since they expanded the number of teams to 6 (and anyone left is on a developmental team--only allowed 5 total travel and developmental players) so running into a problem when trying to form a team this winter. Most indoor sportsplex have the same rule it appears, e.g., it's a rec only indoor league with only 2 travel/carded players allowed on roster.

Anybody know an indoor soccer league (not Futsal) that allows more??? My kids' friends play on different teams (within their travel club) and many play at travel clubs outside of the County. But--they love forming a winter team and just having fun together. It's the kids from their first 3 years of Rec soccer.

Everyone must lie. We kept it to two travel players and every team we played had many more. We know the kids, we are in the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are your kids teams doing for Winter? Just training or leagues? Our team is considering a futsal league but with a roster of 12 where all are likely to want to participate and only 5 playing at a time we are not sure if there is enough playing time to go around? Thoughts?

What age group? You could split them into 2 teams so that they get more playing time. Might need to recruit 1-2 more players.

If the games are optional, I wouldn't bother going with a roster of 12. Not worth it. If the club requires it, I would complain. All you need is 7 players. If you can, break into to teams and recruit a few more players as suggested above. But yes, futsal is a very popular winter activity. Metro Futsal league. Alexandria has a futsal league. There's a league up at Dulles Sportsplex. A few others around as well. PAC has one at KidsChoice I think or at least used to. There is also indoor soccer at Springfield Sportsplex, Dulles, Manassas. Lots of arguments over what's better for development...futsal or indoor soccer. I won't touch that one. : ) You should consider cross training a little bit as well. Lots of winter basketball leagues. Winter swimming, etc.

Futsal better for development. But.every.single.kid I know loves indoor soccer much, much better. Indoor soccer is so fast-paced, ball never goes out, they slam it off the side wall...it is just plain fun!! Then, you have the hockey body checks up against the glass. Good times. Futsal can be painful in the early years with the damn ball going out constantly.

Yes. futsal is better for developing ball skills---but indoor soccer was great fun for my boys and they got to play with friends and really work on their ball skill and stay in shape over the winter. They chose that over sitting on the bench with a 12-13 person roster on their Futsal travel roster. We kept only 2 subs so the boys were going constantly.

So every indoor soccer league (not futsal) that I'm seeing only allows TWO travel players per team. We played in Arlington and this was true---though heavily abused by a couple teams. This year it seems every kid we know in Arlington is now on a Travel team since they expanded the number of teams to 6 (and anyone left is on a developmental team--only allowed 5 total travel and developmental players) so running into a problem when trying to form a team this winter. Most indoor sportsplex have the same rule it appears, e.g., it's a rec only indoor league with only 2 travel/carded players allowed on roster.

Anybody know an indoor soccer league (not Futsal) that allows more??? My kids' friends play on different teams (within their travel club) and many play at travel clubs outside of the County. But--they love forming a winter team and just having fun together. It's the kids from their first 3 years of Rec soccer.

All three that I mentioned don't care if kid is rec vs travel. SNF, United, Battlefield, all indoor soccer, teams are made by organization or you can bring your own team. They don't check for travel cards, only if you have already paid.