Fall Pre-season Tournaments

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if you are willing to travel to PA, Spirit Kickoff by Delco is pretty good. I know they need a few more teams. For 2011's they already have 4 or 5 GA/ECNL, a ton for ECRL/NAL(GA Rising). Looking at the girls brackets for 2 weeks from now, they need 1 high level and 1 low level 2011G (already have 50 teams, just for flighting, they need these 2 teams), 2 high level 2012G (already have 42 teams), 1 low level 2013G (46 teams)

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/32148/teams?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bgroup%5D=f_14&showall=groups&commit=Search

Geez, they should pay me a finder's fee

How many teams are in the DMV?
What's the value of going to Pennsylvania for preseason friendlies?

Local high levels shouldnt pay for hotels that weekend. they should get accepted to copa rayados

[Anonymous]

My kid is pretty friendly. Does anyone want to play soccer with him?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if you are willing to travel to PA, Spirit Kickoff by Delco is pretty good. I know they need a few more teams. For 2011's they already have 4 or 5 GA/ECNL, a ton for ECRL/NAL(GA Rising). Looking at the girls brackets for 2 weeks from now, they need 1 high level and 1 low level 2011G (already have 50 teams, just for flighting, they need these 2 teams), 2 high level 2012G (already have 42 teams), 1 low level 2013G (46 teams)

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/32148/teams?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bgroup%5D=f_14&showall=groups&commit=Search

Geez, they should pay me a finder's fee

How many teams are in the DMV?
What's the value of going to Pennsylvania for preseason friendlies?

to play better competition? Someone asked about tournaments and someone gave them an option. I understand if it cuts into your local tournament and the money you personally make from it, but Spirit is a good tournament. Besides, Downingtown PA is only like 90 minutes from Baltamore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if you are willing to travel to PA, Spirit Kickoff by Delco is pretty good. I know they need a few more teams. For 2011's they already have 4 or 5 GA/ECNL, a ton for ECRL/NAL(GA Rising). Looking at the girls brackets for 2 weeks from now, they need 1 high level and 1 low level 2011G (already have 50 teams, just for flighting, they need these 2 teams), 2 high level 2012G (already have 42 teams), 1 low level 2013G (46 teams)

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/32148/teams?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bgroup%5D=f_14&showall=groups&commit=Search

Geez, they should pay me a finder's fee

How many teams are in the DMV?
What's the value of going to Pennsylvania for preseason friendlies?

and 40 from the maryland border

to play better competition? Someone asked about tournaments and someone gave them an option. I understand if it cuts into your local tournament and the money you personally make from it, but Spirit is a good tournament. Besides, Downingtown PA is only like 90 minutes from Baltamore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
How many teams are in the DMV?

Dont the usually get 8-10 teams, all GA and ECNL, but a mix of good and bad teams. No ECRL or anyone else. So it is a nice tournament if you want to stay close to home and play the same teams that you will play in league in a few weeks

[Anonymous]

SYC had interclub scrimmages over the weekend. It is degrading. They have their top team play up an age and against the second team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if you are willing to travel to PA, Spirit Kickoff by Delco is pretty good. I know they need a few more teams. For 2011's they already have 4 or 5 GA/ECNL, a ton for ECRL/NAL(GA Rising). Looking at the girls brackets for 2 weeks from now, they need 1 high level and 1 low level 2011G (already have 50 teams, just for flighting, they need these 2 teams), 2 high level 2012G (already have 42 teams), 1 low level 2013G (46 teams)

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/32148/teams?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bgroup%5D=f_14&showall=groups&commit=Search

Geez, they should pay me a finder's fee

How many teams are in the DMV?
What's the value of going to Pennsylvania for preseason friendlies?

to play better competition? Someone asked about tournaments and someone gave them an option. I understand if it cuts into your local tournament and the money you personally make from it, but Spirit is a good tournament. Besides, Downingtown PA is only like 90 minutes from Baltamore

You people don't even know why you say what you say. You just repeat something you've heard.

There is absolutely no reason any team in the DMV needs to drive far distance and stay in hotel to play preseason games.

What are the things a coach/team and more importantly an individual player needs to work on in a game that they can't do against a local team?
Be specific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How many teams are in the DMV?

Dont the usually get 8-10 teams, all GA and ECNL, but a mix of good and bad teams. No ECRL or anyone else. So it is a nice tournament if you want to stay close to home and play the same teams that you will play in league in a few weeks

So what if they will play them again?
How does that impact what a player needs to work on?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SYC had interclub scrimmages over the weekend. It is degrading. They have their top team play up an age and against the second team.

what is degrading about that?

[Anonymous]

why don't the various leagues just schedule 2w of scrimmages just like most sports leagues do? Not that hard...just build it in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why don't the various leagues just schedule 2w of scrimmages just like most sports leagues do? Not that hard...just build it in.

Most sports leagues? like the nfl, mlb, etc? they do that because there aren't comparable teams in other leagues.

It doesn't apply to local youth soccer, or even top level soccer. There are plenty of same level opponents in other leagues and it's good to have variety in opponent for sports reasons as well as just to increase the level of interest, i.e. play teams you don't usually see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if you are willing to travel to PA, Spirit Kickoff by Delco is pretty good. I know they need a few more teams. For 2011's they already have 4 or 5 GA/ECNL, a ton for ECRL/NAL(GA Rising). Looking at the girls brackets for 2 weeks from now, they need 1 high level and 1 low level 2011G (already have 50 teams, just for flighting, they need these 2 teams), 2 high level 2012G (already have 42 teams), 1 low level 2013G (46 teams)

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/32148/teams?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bgroup%5D=f_14&showall=groups&commit=Search

Geez, they should pay me a finder's fee

How many teams are in the DMV?
What's the value of going to Pennsylvania for preseason friendlies?

to play better competition? Someone asked about tournaments and someone gave them an option. I understand if it cuts into your local tournament and the money you personally make from it, but Spirit is a good tournament. Besides, Downingtown PA is only like 90 minutes from Baltamore

You people don't even know why you say what you say. You just repeat something you've heard.

There is absolutely no reason any team in the DMV needs to drive far distance and stay in hotel to play preseason games.

What are the things a coach/team and more importantly an individual player needs to work on in a game that they can't do against a local team?
Be specific.

I like the preseason tournaments far away. Great for team bonding, especially for the new players on the team, a fun low key getaway before everything gets hectic when school starts. Teams that like each other play better together. There are a lot more benefits to travel soccer than just soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if you are willing to travel to PA, Spirit Kickoff by Delco is pretty good. I know they need a few more teams. For 2011's they already have 4 or 5 GA/ECNL, a ton for ECRL/NAL(GA Rising). Looking at the girls brackets for 2 weeks from now, they need 1 high level and 1 low level 2011G (already have 50 teams, just for flighting, they need these 2 teams), 2 high level 2012G (already have 42 teams), 1 low level 2013G (46 teams)

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/32148/teams?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bgroup%5D=f_14&showall=groups&commit=Search

Geez, they should pay me a finder's fee

How many teams are in the DMV?
What's the value of going to Pennsylvania for preseason friendlies?

to play better competition? Someone asked about tournaments and someone gave them an option. I understand if it cuts into your local tournament and the money you personally make from it, but Spirit is a good tournament. Besides, Downingtown PA is only like 90 minutes from Baltamore

You people don't even know why you say what you say. You just repeat something you've heard.

There is absolutely no reason any team in the DMV needs to drive far distance and stay in hotel to play preseason games.

What are the things a coach/team and more importantly an individual player needs to work on in a game that they can't do against a local team?
Be specific.

I like the preseason tournaments far away. Great for team bonding, especially for the new players on the team, a fun low key getaway before everything gets hectic when school starts. Teams that like each other play better together. There are a lot more benefits to travel soccer than just soccer.

They can have your desired playdates doing other activities together

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:why don't the various leagues just schedule 2w of scrimmages just like most sports leagues do? Not that hard...just build it in.

Most sports leagues? like the nfl, mlb, etc? they do that because there aren't comparable teams in other leagues.

It doesn't apply to local youth soccer, or even top level soccer. There are plenty of same level opponents in other leagues and it's good to have variety in opponent for sports reasons as well as just to increase the level of interest, i.e. play teams you don't usually see.

So playing a local team not in their league or division isn't a variety in opponent?

If you need to travel to New Jersey to play a team to increase your interest, you are in the wrong sport.

[Anonymous]

across the board you have the younger top team beating out the older second team.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC had interclub scrimmages over the weekend. It is degrading. They have their top team play up an age and against the second team.

what is degrading about that?