Arlington Girls ECNL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington would have to restructure its program from the ground up. This would mean changing out most of its coaching staff and developing skilled players. At the older ages midfield wins. Arlington seems to develop fullbacks. If the best player on your team is a fullback you are in trouble.

Arlington’s player pool size hides a lot of mediocre coaching and “development” issues that show as players age up.

Arlington needs a change is direction. New club philosophy that is reflected in the coaches. There is a reason certain coaches stay, new coaches go and the results over time remain the same.


“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”

Start developing the three.

Does Arlington have any good coaches?

With that player base and average family income in that area, you don't need good coaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington would have to restructure its program from the ground up. This would mean changing out most of its coaching staff and developing skilled players. At the older ages midfield wins. Arlington seems to develop fullbacks. If the best player on your team is a fullback you are in trouble.

Arlington’s player pool size hides a lot of mediocre coaching and “development” issues that show as players age up.

Arlington needs a change is direction. New club philosophy that is reflected in the coaches. There is a reason certain coaches stay, new coaches go and the results over time remain the same.


“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”

Start developing the three.

Why the restructure? What is wrong now? They are doing fine. College commits are strong. That is the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington would have to restructure its program from the ground up. This would mean changing out most of its coaching staff and developing skilled players. At the older ages midfield wins. Arlington seems to develop fullbacks. If the best player on your team is a fullback you are in trouble.

Arlington’s player pool size hides a lot of mediocre coaching and “development” issues that show as players age up.

Arlington needs a change is direction. New club philosophy that is reflected in the coaches. There is a reason certain coaches stay, new coaches go and the results over time remain the same.


“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”

Start developing the three.

Why the restructure? What is wrong now? They are doing fine. College commits are strong. That is the test.

College commits are average for an ECNL GIRLS program and not strong historically.

[Anonymous]

College commits are meaningless for that area, most girls are committing and getting accepted for reasons other than soccer I would imagine.

[Anonymous]

Color me unconvinced. We play for a rival club and have played against their ECNL, ECRL, and NCSL girls and boys teams over the years. While my kids' teams have generally had success, I feel like Arlington is one of the higher quality programs around, and their teams are usually competitive. You could say it's just the player pool, and I've never attended an Arlington practice, but they feel well coached from watching them in games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Color me unconvinced. We play for a rival club and have played against their ECNL, ECRL, and NCSL girls and boys teams over the years. While my kids' teams have generally had success, I feel like Arlington is one of the higher quality programs around, and their teams are usually competitive. You could say it's just the player pool, and I've never attended an Arlington practice, but they feel well coached from watching them in games.

I'm not familiar with their coaching but clearly on paper they're one of the deepest clubs in the area by far, and generally if you're able to build teams from a HUGE sample size you should be pretty decent overall.

[Anonymous]

but they are uniformly not, 11s excluded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington would have to restructure its program from the ground up. This would mean changing out most of its coaching staff and developing skilled players. At the older ages midfield wins. Arlington seems to develop fullbacks. If the best player on your team is a fullback you are in trouble.

Arlington’s player pool size hides a lot of mediocre coaching and “development” issues that show as players age up.

Arlington needs a change is direction. New club philosophy that is reflected in the coaches. There is a reason certain coaches stay, new coaches go and the results over time remain the same.


“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”

Start developing the three.

They only develop the two wide defenders in a back four? Are you mislabeling the centre-halves as full backs also and mean they only develop good players on the back line?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Arlington would have to restructure its program from the ground up. This would mean changing out most of its coaching staff and developing skilled players. At the older ages midfield wins. Arlington seems to develop fullbacks. If the best player on your team is a fullback you are in trouble.

Arlington’s player pool size hides a lot of mediocre coaching and “development” issues that show as players age up.

Arlington needs a change is direction. New club philosophy that is reflected in the coaches. There is a reason certain coaches stay, new coaches go and the results over time remain the same.


“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”

Start developing the three.

Does Arlington have any good coaches?

With that player base and average family income in that area, you don't need good coaches.

They do. Just like any clubs, some coaches are better than the other. Then depend on the preferred playing style, formation and how your kid fit in the puzzle. Everyone will have different opinions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:College commits are meaningless for that area, most girls are committing and getting accepted for reasons other than soccer I would imagine.

Not at all. Soccer is the key. A top 25 college acceptance is a lottery ticket these days. Even with great scores. Soccer (or field hockey or lax) can lock in a great school.

[Anonymous]

Great weekend for the 2008s.

[Anonymous]

How does 2013 & 2014 girls Pre ECNL look right now? Does Arlington have good prospects moving forward?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arlington would have to restructure its program from the ground up. This would mean changing out most of its coaching staff and developing skilled players. At the older ages midfield wins. Arlington seems to develop fullbacks. If the best player on your team is a fullback you are in trouble.

Arlington’s player pool size hides a lot of mediocre coaching and “development” issues that show as players age up.

Arlington needs a change is direction. New club philosophy that is reflected in the coaches. There is a reason certain coaches stay, new coaches go and the results over time remain the same.


“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”

Start developing the three.

Couldn't agree more

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great weekend for the 2008s.

A good weekend for Arlington ECNL girls overall. 11-0-1. I think that's a lot better than Arlington's record against those clubs last year.

[Anonymous]

Which team lost to NCFC?