Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss

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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.

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.

Fairfax Sportsplex's indoor soccer programs are geared toward travel players - no restrictions there.

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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.

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.

Fairfax Sportsplex's indoor soccer programs are geared toward travel players - no restrictions there.

Thanks. Truthfully, I don't think the Arlington indoor league will be able to exist for U-9 and above because almost every kid in the County at those ages is on a travel or developmental team. New this year with 6 teams in every age group.

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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.

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.

Agreed but if your team is made up of mostly travel players than you could always play in the Fairfax Sportsplex Travel division for more of a challenge vs the division where it's mostly rec.

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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.

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.

Options 2 and 3 cost the same. I wouldn't suggest breaking the fees down by game, just share the overall cost among everyone.

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+1 for indoor being more fun that futsal. My son decided to give basketball a go, which I encouraged so he didnt get burned out on soccer. If he could play both he probably would. With his travel team this year we are going to give futsal a go for one session. They placed 10 players on a squad thinking kids would miss some games playing other sports.

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Anonymous wrote:+1 for indoor being more fun that futsal. My son decided to give basketball a go, which I encouraged so he didnt get burned out on soccer. If he could play both he probably would. With his travel team this year we are going to give futsal a go for one session. They placed 10 players on a squad thinking kids would miss some games playing other sports.

Indoor is amusing, but my kids and their friends would far rather play futsal. It's an extremely fun and exciting game if all the players are skillful.

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I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

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Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Looks like they are going to need to try and recruit more local clubs.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Translated -- even though people in this thread think it's ridiculous to ask if driving all over the place is worth it at U10, CCL has decided to remedy the situation.

Good for them.

It'll be interesting to see how many clubs they get and how they manage "club-centric" scheduling with clubs that probably aren't as good as Arlington, Loudoun, etc. But we'll see.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Translated -- even though people in this thread think it's ridiculous to ask if driving all over the place is worth it at U10, CCL has decided to remedy the situation.

Good for them.

It'll be interesting to see how many clubs they get and how they manage "club-centric" scheduling with clubs that probably aren't as good as Arlington, Loudoun, etc. But we'll see.

Nobody ever said that the travel was good or necessary, we only said that complaining about something that you knew going into was stupid. You did not have to participate and if there were so many competitive options around you that you possibly should have gone to another team in another league. Please stop being so dull.

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Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Translated -- even though people in this thread think it's ridiculous to ask if driving all over the place is worth it at U10, CCL has decided to remedy the situation.

Good for them.

It'll be interesting to see how many clubs they get and how they manage "club-centric" scheduling with clubs that probably aren't as good as Arlington, Loudoun, etc. But we'll see.

It's good for them to make the move but just confused on how that impacts clubs that are not members of CCL and decide to participate with 11U & 12U because what happens to those clubs once the teams are 13U? Sorry, now you go back to NCSL? Do they become future members by joining now? I understand their request for 2 teams per gender/age but that means some mid-sizes clubs will likely pull their 2 teams out of NCSL or any other league that they may have them participating in. NCSL/ODSL merger more likely?

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Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Translated -- even though people in this thread think it's ridiculous to ask if driving all over the place is worth it at U10, CCL has decided to remedy the situation.

Good for them.

It'll be interesting to see how many clubs they get and how they manage "club-centric" scheduling with clubs that probably aren't as good as Arlington, Loudoun, etc. But we'll see.

It's good for them to make the move but just confused on how that impacts clubs that are not members of CCL and decide to participate with 11U & 12U because what happens to those clubs once the teams are 13U? Sorry, now you go back to NCSL? Do they become future members by joining now? I understand their request for 2 teams per gender/age but that means some mid-sizes clubs will likely pull their 2 teams out of NCSL or any other league that they may have them participating in. NCSL/ODSL merger more likely?

Yes, going back to NCSL is exactly what will happen. The Clubs in VA Beach to Richmond are not going to let NOVA hijack a league that they created.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Translated -- even though people in this thread think it's ridiculous to ask if driving all over the place is worth it at U10, CCL has decided to remedy the situation.

Good for them.

It'll be interesting to see how many clubs they get and how they manage "club-centric" scheduling with clubs that probably aren't as good as Arlington, Loudoun, etc. But we'll see.

It's good for them to make the move but just confused on how that impacts clubs that are not members of CCL and decide to participate with 11U & 12U because what happens to those clubs once the teams are 13U? Sorry, now you go back to NCSL? Do they become future members by joining now? I understand their request for 2 teams per gender/age but that means some mid-sizes clubs will likely pull their 2 teams out of NCSL or any other league that they may have them participating in. NCSL/ODSL merger more likely?

Yes, going back to NCSL is exactly what will happen. The Clubs in VA Beach to Richmond are not going to let NOVA hijack a league that they created.

Then the same could be said for those non-member clubs that they are marketing to, "why are we going to help you set this up and then not be able to progress with the same concept of games on the weekend and return to a team-centric format."

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Translated -- even though people in this thread think it's ridiculous to ask if driving all over the place is worth it at U10, CCL has decided to remedy the situation.

Good for them.

It'll be interesting to see how many clubs they get and how they manage "club-centric" scheduling with clubs that probably aren't as good as Arlington, Loudoun, etc. But we'll see.

Nobody ever said that the travel was good or necessary, we only said that complaining about something that you knew going into was stupid. You did not have to participate and if there were so many competitive options around you that you possibly should have gone to another team in another league. Please stop being so dull.

You really seem to think the people who question CCL travel are all people with CCL kids who knew what they were getting into and therefore shouldn't question it. What a strange assumption on so many levels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this means you fucktards wont have to argue about CCL travel distance anymore !

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/club-champions-league-launches-local-league-format-for-9u-12u-age-groups/

Translated -- even though people in this thread think it's ridiculous to ask if driving all over the place is worth it at U10, CCL has decided to remedy the situation.

Good for them.

It'll be interesting to see how many clubs they get and how they manage "club-centric" scheduling with clubs that probably aren't as good as Arlington, Loudoun, etc. But we'll see.

Nobody ever said that the travel was good or necessary, we only said that complaining about something that you knew going into was stupid. You did not have to participate and if there were so many competitive options around you that you possibly should have gone to another team in another league. Please stop being so dull.

When you argue with yourself on message boards . . .