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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ so now DA is not elite. I'm thoroughly confused. All this time everyone has been saying DA is the cream. Now--it's: "no, no, no, nobody is saying DA has elite players". Which one is it? It can't be both at the same time.

I think this thread has proven it all means shit. More $$$$.

You do seem to be thoroughly confused.

Nah. I am not confused at all about the fact that somebody was a complete a-hole to post all that info, pics and videos of kids. Btw, there are multiple critquers---including the ones saying 'wow line that kid up for HS at Madison' blah, blah.

So--now only the positive critiques are ever acceptable. Most likely by their own parent. Ok- got it!

[Anonymous]

I think we can all agree the Spanish ref was hot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^ so now DA is not elite. I'm thoroughly confused. All this time everyone has been saying DA is the cream. Now--it's: "no, no, no, nobody is saying DA has elite players". Which one is it? It can't be both at the same time.

I think this thread has proven it all means shit. More $$$$.

You do seem to be thoroughly confused.

Nah. I am not confused at all about the fact that somebody was a complete a-hole to post all that info, pics and videos of kids. Btw, there are multiple critquers---including the ones saying 'wow line that kid up for HS at Madison' blah, blah.

So--now only the positive critiques are ever acceptable. Most likely by their own parent. Ok- got it!

Sigh. The comment about signing a kid up for HS at Madison was in response to the home town listed for a kid who went on some other trip (to Barcelona, I think?) that may or may not have been in contravention of DA rules. Nothing to do with the 3 v. 3 tournament. Will you at least try to pay attention next time before posting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

Not the person who posted pics or video but if the information is already available they are not going to get in trouble by the DCUM Blogs. They are going to be found out by people at their own club who constantly view other club's sites, training ads, or social media accounts to see what they have been up to.

This is directly straight out of the DCA's website: "92% of DCA 2004’s & 83% of 2005’s were accepted into 2004 US Development Academy/ECNL 100% acceptance rate of 2004’s and 2005’s that started with our coaches before age 7. It starts with our Summer Coaching….":

I think people were not necessarily criticizing the kids but the level of play that DCA and DA are claiming to have. No one said they couldn't pass or dribble but maybe no real coaching was being done to implement how they were going to play. Another poster even sarcastically remarked about the coaching point made. Are they strong travel caliber players, most likely... but to be so high level like all these sites claim to be or "develop" not sure. Take a look at the coaches.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, one of the posters was saying that Full DA kids do stuff outside the DA and someone called BS on it and said they had to be Development kids and that's when it got shitty. Posting individual pictures from DA rosters (even though they are public), that video, etc to prove a point. And for people to talk so badly about specific 11 year olds...you should be ashamed of yourselves. There is a ton of Arlington, McLean, Loudoun, Bethesda, Alexandria soccer video on youtube...how would we all like it if someone pasted a link of a video with our kid playing and started tearing it apart. Terrible people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

Not the person who posted pics or video but if the information is already available they are not going to get in trouble by the DCUM Blogs. They are going to be found out by people at their own club who constantly view other club's sites, training ads, or social media accounts to see what they have been up to.

This is directly straight out of the DCA's website: "92% of DCA 2004’s & 83% of 2005’s were accepted into 2004 US Development Academy/ECNL 100% acceptance rate of 2004’s and 2005’s that started with our coaches before age 7. It starts with our Summer Coaching….":

I think people were not necessarily criticizing the kids but the level of play that DCA and DA are claiming to have. No one said they couldn't pass or dribble but maybe no real coaching was being done to implement how they were going to play. Another poster even sarcastically remarked about the coaching point made. Are they strong travel caliber players, most likely... but to be so high level like all these sites claim to be or "develop" not sure. Take a look at the coaches.

Yes, people were saying that they specifically were bad and commenting on their dribbling, touches, passing, etc. And PS: Most of these 3v3 tournaments...By rule, the coach is not allowed to provide any instruction...and neither are parents.

[Anonymous]

^^well, yea it helps that it's the same coaches for DCA and DA.

Talk about tooting your own horn. 94% of the players I train made a team I coach. Well done, Coach!

The real test would be if they were to get accepted onto a team the coach had zero affiliation with.

This goes back to the point that US soccer is about forming cliques and getting private invites vs real development and identification.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

How is any of that going to get anyone in trouble?

The DCU U12 DA coach, Dave Sanford, follows dcaclub on Instagram. The DCA team is coached by Ken Krieger who is the head of the entire Arlington DA. The Joga team was coached by one of the Bethesda U12 DA coaches. DCA site lists Bruce Murray , McLean DA coach, as another one of their coaches.

The DAs already know and don't seem to care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

How is any of that going to get anyone in trouble?

The DCU U12 DA coach, Dave Sanford, follows dcaclub on Instagram. The DCA team is coached by Ken Krieger who is the head of the entire Arlington DA. The Joga team was coached by one of the Bethesda U12 DA coaches. DCA site lists Bruce Murray , McLean DA coach, as another one of their coaches.

The DAs already know and don't seem to care.

The DCA coaches are the DA coaches. Conflict?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^well, yea it helps that it's the same coaches for DCA and DA.

Talk about tooting your own horn. 94% of the players I train made a team I coach. Well done, Coach!

The real test would be if they were to get accepted onto a team the coach had zero affiliation with.

This goes back to the point that US soccer is about forming cliques and getting private invites vs real development and identification.

I noticed that irony as well. Classic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

Not the person who posted pics or video but if the information is already available they are not going to get in trouble by the DCUM Blogs. They are going to be found out by people at their own club who constantly view other club's sites, training ads, or social media accounts to see what they have been up to.

This is directly straight out of the DCA's website: "92% of DCA 2004’s & 83% of 2005’s were accepted into 2004 US Development Academy/ECNL 100% acceptance rate of 2004’s and 2005’s that started with our coaches before age 7. It starts with our Summer Coaching….":

I think people were not necessarily criticizing the kids but the level of play that DCA and DA are claiming to have. No one said they couldn't pass or dribble but maybe no real coaching was being done to implement how they were going to play. Another poster even sarcastically remarked about the coaching point made. Are they strong travel caliber players, most likely... but to be so high level like all these sites claim to be or "develop" not sure. Take a look at the coaches.

Yes, people were saying that they specifically were bad and commenting on their dribbling, touches, passing, etc. And PS: Most of these 3v3 tournaments...By rule, the coach is not allowed to provide any instruction...and neither are parents.

Ok but no specific points were directed at a specific kid. It was about the general level of play where the claim was that the DCA 3v3 team was made up of DA players and if so then the level seen was below what everyone claims DA to be. If they are DA they should be expected to be performing at a higher level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

Not the person who posted pics or video but if the information is already available they are not going to get in trouble by the DCUM Blogs. They are going to be found out by people at their own club who constantly view other club's sites, training ads, or social media accounts to see what they have been up to.

This is directly straight out of the DCA's website: "92% of DCA 2004’s & 83% of 2005’s were accepted into 2004 US Development Academy/ECNL 100% acceptance rate of 2004’s and 2005’s that started with our coaches before age 7. It starts with our Summer Coaching….":

I think people were not necessarily criticizing the kids but the level of play that DCA and DA are claiming to have. No one said they couldn't pass or dribble but maybe no real coaching was being done to implement how they were going to play. Another poster even sarcastically remarked about the coaching point made. Are they strong travel caliber players, most likely... but to be so high level like all these sites claim to be or "develop" not sure. Take a look at the coaches.

Yes, people were saying that they specifically were bad and commenting on their dribbling, touches, passing, etc. And PS: Most of these 3v3 tournaments...By rule, the coach is not allowed to provide any instruction...and neither are parents.

Ok but no specific points were directed at a specific kid. It was about the general level of play where the claim was that the DCA 3v3 team was made up of DA players and if so then the level seen was below what everyone claims DA to be. If they are DA they should be expected to be performing at a higher level.

+100

Nobody was singled out.

I was shocked that was DA. I questioned its worth for U12. This kind of solidified my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is pretty despicable that adults are posting individual children's information and critiquing them online. Even for this forum, that is some low shit.

I questioned this back when somebody was posting personal pics of players' dinner in Vegas and on the strip and their profiles (at age 11!).

I think somebody's desire to brag got the best of them. Not sure if it was a coach or a parent.

For the people critiquing the 3v3 video, keep in mind it was the last game of a tournament, playing on a frozen bumpy-ass field, with a frozen ball, with a bunch of idiots screaming at them from the sideline. No one would look good under those circumstances. I think the kids did pretty well and it's always nice to see a team from this area have some success in a national competition.

As ror the rest of it, I agree it would be pretty crappy if someone was taking photos and videos of kids themself and then posting them online without the parents consent, but that's not what I saw happen. What I saw was a few posters made a claim that DA players were participating in non-DA events, someone called BS, and someone posted links to prove that it wasn't BS. The links were to photos that were already publicly available online - put there by the kids clubs. Joga posts kids pics all the time on its social media platforms. Pics of the Arlington and DCU players at the Vegas Cup and other events were posted online by DCA Club on its instagram account. Instagram allows accounts to be made private, but DCA chooses to make theirs public, and advertises it on their website. The other links were to the US Soccer Development Academy's website which posts the names, pictures and stats for every player, even some as young as 06. Whether any of this should be happening at these ages is open for debate, but if parents have an issue with that they probably should take it up with those clubs, and US Soccer.

Personally, I find the information valuable. As the parent of a kid who might someday tryout for one of the DA teams, I want to know what the rules really are in advance. And if there are double standards, well then I want to know that too.

Disagree that it was appropriate to aggregate all the photos and other information here, regardless of whether they are public through other channels. The poster who did it may not have had bad intentions, but he or she should have realized that doing that (1) could have gotten kids, families, or clubs in trouble with DA; and (2) potentially made them a target for the sort of comments that appear above on this thread from people who love to come across as soccer experts. Is it worth doing that just to prove you are right about some point? Or any point, really?

How is any of that going to get anyone in trouble?

The DCU U12 DA coach, Dave Sanford, follows dcaclub on Instagram. The DCA team is coached by Ken Krieger who is the head of the entire Arlington DA. The Joga team was coached by one of the Bethesda U12 DA coaches. DCA site lists Bruce Murray , McLean DA coach, as another one of their coaches.

The DAs already know and don't seem to care.

The concern is with the US DA staff getting wind of it, not club-level DA folks. But hopefully the clubs/kids had permission.