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Anonymous
Bethesda gets better competition. |
Anonymous
3 futsal tournaments. Thank god I won't be standing in snow and icy rain this year. |
Anonymous
Mundialito over spring break south of Barcelona. Won't need to worry about icy rain along the Mediterranean 
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Anonymous
Is this skill over money or typical pay to play? Let me guess U13 or below... $$$ |
Anonymous
HHaha I doubt we will need to worry about icy rain in April |
Anonymous
What local team is participating in the Mundialito and what age group? Or are you here to brag about how your son is the next superstar and made a super elite team to go? |
Anonymous
It's a tourist package, like Disney with their 3v3 tournament in January in Florida. |
Anonymous
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This brings back some memories. My son's team participated in what I think were the inaugural editions of both the Arlington and McLean spring tournaments. For the little kid brackets, McLean gave out these absolutely freaking enormous trophies to each kid on the winning team. They were gaudy as all get out, but the kids loved them. Arlington gave out medals plus something that I thought was really cool: T-shirts that had the names of all the teams participating in the age group on the back and a reference to being champions of the tournament plus the date on the front.
Hope they both still do that for the little kids! |
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It's funny how people get blasted in here for caring about the younger kids doing well in matches. This must be the only sport where this is such an issue. Have you ever watched a youth (tackle) football game and seen how serious the coaches and parents take it? That culture is way more intense than soccer. And how about Little League, especially in Vienna? Those people are super passionate. But yet if someone throws out a comment about their kid's soccer team doing well in whatever league or tournament, they get taken to the woodshed. Do you know how serious people take the sport in Europe and South America? They care about results at the younger ages. It's pretty freakin' hilarious how the perception is that being concerned about results is part of the problem.
I get it, I really do. We won't know anything about these kids' potential until they are a few years down the road. And I also get that a lot of nutty parents live vicariously through their kids' sports pursuits. But if you have a kid who is developing with a good team and they play in matches and tournaments, I think it is OK to want to win and OK to feel good about when they play well. |
Anonymous
Amen. One potential result of player development over time is...gasp...positive results in match play. What's rewarding is watching a team like my daughter's who as a group is skillful but relatively small (and regularly got beat in tournaments and league play at U9-U11) develop over time individually and as a group, and then emerge at U12 and start to beat the big kick-and-run teams. It was nice for the kids to feel like their hard work had paid off. That being said, there are still times when they play a good game, but lose to a more athletic team. Doesn't mean we're devastated or changing clubs because they lost. I agree that results in games and tournaments is only one small part of the experience, and is by no means the only measure of success, but nothing wrong with being happy when it happens, especially if it's the result of players and a team working hard to get better. Also doesn't mean things won't change over time or that our kid is guaranteed a D1 scholarship b/c they had success at U12. Some of us actually understand the game and just because we're happy about a win or curious about how other teams are doing in the age group doesn't mean we're stupid or living vicariously through our kids. It's okay to be happy about a win at any age, as long as it's been achieved in a sportsmanlike manner. Kinda sick of the sanctimonious nut jobs on here scolding parents for caring about their kid's soccer journey along the way. Different priorities at U9 than at U16, but it's okay to care all along the way as long as you keep things in perspective. |
Anonymous
| I agree development is most important but you need to appreciate the successes along the way. Some of those successes are wins, playing in competitive tournaments, earning a medal in tournaments, in competitive tournaments, being selected to play on a tournament team going to Europe, etc etc etc. I understand that results aren't the most important thing for U9s-U12s but these things are motivators. It's easier to motivate my kid when he's looking at a team going to Europe than it is when he's looking at some [whatever] team. I agree many kids at this age will quit, become weaker, clumsy etc and some kids will soar in a few years, but I think it's safe to say that a kid training/competing/etc against and with the "successful" teams is in a better situation than a kid not having those opportunities at the same age. The hard part is keeping that kid engaged and continuing with the growth mindset and not settling for being "better" than the other kids on his team. Some one brought up Little League. Yep. 11-12 year olds. Where is all the protests that the LLWS doesn't mean anything and the laughing and finger pointing at those parents? Kids might only have one shot to earn a tournament medal for whatever reason. If it comes at the youngest ages...enjoy it! Maybe even brag a bit. Good luck to those taking their little ones to Europe this spring break. It will be a fantastic experience for them. |
Anonymous
Yes -- FPYC plays NCSL only. Though they have talked about entering a team into EDP. |
Anonymous
You must be mistaken. Not a 2006 team in EDP. |
Anonymous
| what about the apc tournament in early march? anyone done that before? |
Anonymous
"They have talked about entering" /= "They have entered" I also don't believe the "talked about entering" was limited to 2006. Actually, I'm pretty sure FPYC has had the occasional team in EDP in the past, though I'm not sure if it was a Joga team. They only have one U9 and one U10 team? That's surprising. Not many people trying out, or did they just decide to be more selective? I've always thought they had plenty of interested players. |