Best DMV MLS Next Club for Player Transfer (SYC, Alexandria, Bethesda, Baltimore Armour, Achilles)

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Anonymous wrote:Unsure what's going on at SYC, here's another coach change for the SYC MLS Next boys teams again. It changed at the start of the season and now possibly changed again.

What age group(s)?

2010 they are imploding, that age group was good

Just a forced change on coaching. The team has only lost one game this season. The are ahead of DC United. Not sure why you say they are imploding? That is not true at all, the new coach is very good as well.

See! Winning is the focus of SYC. Don’t expect any development, just lots of social media posturing. If your player is just an ok player and want to ride the coattails of a winning MLSNext team, SYC is for you. If you have a long term goal for your player to play in college or more and actually get playing time, do not go to SYC.

How does this post make sense at all? You must still be drunk after the elections.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where will you live? DMV Commute can be brutal.

Falls Church

Go to SYC, which will go against traffic. If not, another alternative is Arlington, but they are ECNL. Avoid Alexandria and Aquiles; this is well known.

Oh yes, avoid these two!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where will you live? DMV Commute can be brutal.

Falls Church

Go to SYC, which will go against traffic. If not, another alternative is Arlington, but they are ECNL. Avoid Alexandria and Aquiles; this is well known.

No one goes to SYC to get developed. That too is well known. 100 percent focused on winning. Kickball all the way with players who can’t ever keep the ball. Totally ok if that plays to your players strength and if they are a starter.

You see SYC kids do so much technical training at club neutral trainings yet they don’t ever use them in games.

That's incorrect. They actually practice a lot of soccer possession drills, passing accuracy, and many other technical aspects. The practices are much better run than in some other places, where the same things are repeated non-stop with no purpose. It's also well known that further development usually requires individual training outside of the club.

You see zero skills in games. Seriously, none of those kids are using any individual skills in their matches. When pressured, the only thing SYC players know to do is pass or boot it. That’s about it. But they hardly ever have the ball though. Their MO, which they’re good at, is steal/intercept the ball and hoof it to a striker. Again, if that plays to your players strength, SYC is a great club for that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unsure what's going on at SYC, here's another coach change for the SYC MLS Next boys teams again. It changed at the start of the season and now possibly changed again.

What age group(s)?

2010 they are imploding, that age group was good

Just a forced change on coaching. The team has only lost one game this season. The are ahead of DC United. Not sure why you say they are imploding? That is not true at all, the new coach is very good as well.

See! Winning is the focus of SYC. Don’t expect any development, just lots of social media posturing. If your player is just an ok player and want to ride the coattails of a winning MLSNext team, SYC is for you. If you have a long term goal for your player to play in college or more and actually get playing time, do not go to SYC.

How does this post make sense at all? You must still be drunk after the elections.

It’s true, very few SYC players get keep up with the competition once everyone catches up with speed and size.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsure what's going on at SYC, here's another coach change for the SYC MLS Next boys teams again. It changed at the start of the season and now possibly changed again.

What age group(s)?

2010 they are imploding, that age group was good

Just a forced change on coaching. The team has only lost one game this season. The are ahead of DC United. Not sure why you say they are imploding? That is not true at all, the new coach is very good as well.

See! Winning is the focus of SYC. Don’t expect any development, just lots of social media posturing. If your player is just an ok player and want to ride the coattails of a winning MLSNext team, SYC is for you. If you have a long term goal for your player to play in college or more and actually get playing time, do not go to SYC.

How does this post make sense at all? You must still be drunk after the elections.

It’s true, very few SYC players get keep up with the competition once everyone catches up with speed and size.

That's a general statement. 2010 seemed to have kept up with DC United u15 team pretty well the last time they met. The matches are always close when these two age groups play against each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Go to SYC, which will go against traffic. If not, another alternative is Arlington, but they are ECNL. Avoid Alexandria and Aquiles; this is well known.

Oh yes, avoid these two!!!!

Why not Alexandria? They looks pretty good. There’s no subs on Alexandria like the one Achilles? Thx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsure what's going on at SYC, here's another coach change for the SYC MLS Next boys teams again. It changed at the start of the season and now possibly changed again.

What age group(s)?

2010 they are imploding, that age group was good

Just a forced change on coaching. The team has only lost one game this season. The are ahead of DC United. Not sure why you say they are imploding? That is not true at all, the new coach is very good as well.

See! Winning is the focus of SYC. Don’t expect any development, just lots of social media posturing. If your player is just an ok player and want to ride the coattails of a winning MLSNext team, SYC is for you. If you have a long term goal for your player to play in college or more and actually get playing time, do not go to SYC.

How does this post make sense at all? You must still be drunk after the elections.

It’s true, very few SYC players get keep up with the competition once everyone catches up with speed and size.

That's a general statement. 2010 seemed to have kept up with DC United u15 team pretty well the last time they met. The matches are always close when these two age groups play against each other.

I don’t doubt that there are some amazing players on SYC. They’d be good regardless of club. But it’s the rest who are not getting developed bc there are no opportunities to use whatever skills they’ve developed on their own. SYC doesn’t attempt to play possession-based soccer which is what you play if you want players to practice using their skills under pressure.

Can you share what SYC’s game style/philosophy is?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Go to SYC, which will go against traffic. If not, another alternative is Arlington, but they are ECNL. Avoid Alexandria and Aquiles; this is well known.

Oh yes, avoid these two!!!!

Why not Alexandria? They looks pretty good. There’s no subs on Alexandria like the one Achilles? Thx

What do you mean there are no subs on Alexandria? All MLSNext teams have subs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Go to SYC, which will go against traffic. If not, another alternative is Arlington, but they are ECNL. Avoid Alexandria and Aquiles; this is well known.

Oh yes, avoid these two!!!!

Why not Alexandria? They looks pretty good. There’s no subs on Alexandria like the one Achilles? Thx

What do you mean there are no subs on Alexandria? All MLSNext teams have subs.

Meant to say no subject in the forum on Alexandria

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Go to SYC, which will go against traffic. If not, another alternative is Arlington, but they are ECNL. Avoid Alexandria and Aquiles; this is well known.

Oh yes, avoid these two!!!!

Why not Alexandria? They looks pretty good. There’s no subs on Alexandria like the one Achilles? Thx

What do you mean there are no subs on Alexandria? All MLSNext teams have subs.

Meant to say no subject in the forum on Alexandria

I wonder if that’s a good thing or bad thing?

Alexandria has this playing philosophy of building from the back. A coach told me it’s implemented through all age groups and the director checks on the coaches to make sure they’re adhering to it.

DS practiced with them and offered a spot on the top team but we decided not to join them. You should just go and practice with the team so u can watch the pracrticrs and see if ur player fits in and likes it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where will you live? DMV Commute can be brutal.

Falls Church

Go to SYC, which will go against traffic. If not, another alternative is Arlington, but they are ECNL. Avoid Alexandria and Aquiles; this is well known.

No one goes to SYC to get developed. That too is well known. 100 percent focused on winning. Kickball all the way with players who can’t ever keep the ball. Totally ok if that plays to your players strength and if they are a starter.

You see SYC kids do so much technical training at club neutral trainings yet they don’t ever use them in games.

This is 100% true. SYC only cares about winning so they can go and post on social media.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are looking in Maryland and want college vs pro consider Pipeline. Very strong club with better college exposure than clubs like SYC and Alexandria. Its among the best in ECNL and gets lots of scouts and exposure…

What are the best clubs if your son wants to go pro? We have a talented but overlooked player who needs a break. He needs to find That Coach who sees him as That Player. He has been passed over multiple times by players that were clearly less talented than him and now his confidence is in the toilet. His team does not have an ECNL or MLS next track looking in Montgomery County Maryland

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are looking in Maryland and want college vs pro consider Pipeline. Very strong club with better college exposure than clubs like SYC and Alexandria. Its among the best in ECNL and gets lots of scouts and exposure…

What are the best clubs if your son wants to go pro? We have a talented but overlooked player who needs a break. He needs to find That Coach who sees him as That Player. He has been passed over multiple times by players that were clearly less talented than him and now his confidence is in the toilet. His team does not have an ECNL or MLS next track looking in Montgomery County Maryland

Achilles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsure what's going on at SYC, here's another coach change for the SYC MLS Next boys teams again. It changed at the start of the season and now possibly changed again.

What age group(s)?

2010 they are imploding, that age group was good

Just a forced change on coaching. The team has only lost one game this season. The are ahead of DC United. Not sure why you say they are imploding? That is not true at all, the new coach is very good as well.

See! Winning is the focus of SYC. Don’t expect any development, just lots of social media posturing. If your player is just an ok player and want to ride the coattails of a winning MLSNext team, SYC is for you. If you have a long term goal for your player to play in college or more and actually get playing time, do not go to SYC.

How does this post make sense at all? You must still be drunk after the elections.

It’s true, very few SYC players get keep up with the competition once everyone catches up with speed and size.

Wtf? Not true. My kid played SYC mlsnext u18/19 and is playing d1 this year. We have a u17 kid. We have been at many clubs. The kids here all have really good individual skill and first touch. It’s what we noticed coming from some other “name clubs”. They know they can pass and put a ball to someone else on the team and they won’t lose it , they will be on the right place, make the run, etc. The kids are great 1v1 too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unsure what's going on at SYC, here's another coach change for the SYC MLS Next boys teams again. It changed at the start of the season and now possibly changed again.

What age group(s)?

2010 they are imploding, that age group was good

Just a forced change on coaching. The team has only lost one game this season. The are ahead of DC United. Not sure why you say they are imploding? That is not true at all, the new coach is very good as well.

See! Winning is the focus of SYC. Don’t expect any development, just lots of social media posturing. If your player is just an ok player and want to ride the coattails of a winning MLSNext team, SYC is for you. If you have a long term goal for your player to play in college or more and actually get playing time, do not go to SYC.

How does this post make sense at all? You must still be drunk after the elections.

It’s true, very few SYC players get keep up with the competition once everyone catches up with speed and size.

Wtf? Not true. My kid played SYC mlsnext u18/19 and is playing d1 this year. We have a u17 kid. We have been at many clubs. The kids here all have really good individual skill and first touch. It’s what we noticed coming from some other “name clubs”. They know they can pass and put a ball to someone else on the team and they won’t lose it , they will be on the right place, make the run, etc. The kids are great 1v1 too.

So your kid was developed at SYC?