Arlington U11/U12 pre-academy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Is this AK? If so, he's one of the best around. You clearly have a gripe with your kid's playing time. It's funny how the coaches' favorites are almost always the best players.

The 2013's lack of success was not about coaching. They just didn't have the quality of players but expected to be as good as the 11's or the Mclean/FVU 13's. Recruiting got them team to a better place more recently.

We have friends who were on his 2013 and were starters for all 4 years he had them. They would agree, he was NOT one of the best around. Not even close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is AK. His 2013 favorites were not the ECNL coaches' (there were 3 this year alone) favorites. So... yeah. As a club Arlington had most of that cohort for the entire duration of their soccer careers, and AK was unable to develop them.

And yes, playing time matters when you're talking about 9 year olds. It is the ONLY way to develop them. And if you look at his current team, he couldn't develop them either. He is relying heavily on age group waterfalls to fix the team he couldn't develop.

What were you expecting, wine out of water? He's not Jesus, I'll give you that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is AK. His 2013 favorites were not the ECNL coaches' (there were 3 this year alone) favorites. So... yeah. As a club Arlington had most of that cohort for the entire duration of their soccer careers, and AK was unable to develop them.

And yes, playing time matters when you're talking about 9 year olds. It is the ONLY way to develop them. And if you look at his current team, he couldn't develop them either. He is relying heavily on age group waterfalls to fix the team he couldn't develop.

What were you expecting, wine out of water? He's not Jesus, I'll give you that.

More than what he did…in FOUR WHOLE YEARS!

[Anonymous]

Are we talking about a u10 coach and in game adjustments, really? I don't know who the coach is but as far as guest players go, I can tell you guest players are usually a club or another coaches decision not the coach that needs players. Some times its simply who answers on team snap first. Most coaches could care less about wins and losses at u10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is AK. His 2013 favorites were not the ECNL coaches' (there were 3 this year alone) favorites. So... yeah. As a club Arlington had most of that cohort for the entire duration of their soccer careers, and AK was unable to develop them.

And yes, playing time matters when you're talking about 9 year olds. It is the ONLY way to develop them. And if you look at his current team, he couldn't develop them either. He is relying heavily on age group waterfalls to fix the team he couldn't develop.

What were you expecting, wine out of water? He's not Jesus, I'll give you that.

More than what he did…in FOUR WHOLE YEARS!

Your kid must be the water he couldn’t turn into wine.

[Anonymous]

I always felt our club is the means through which we access games and development is my kid does outside of practice (time on the ball, trainers, supplementals, whatever is your family’s method).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always felt our club is the means through which we access games and development is my kid does outside of practice (time on the ball, trainers, supplementals, whatever is your family’s method).

That’s too hard. It’s much easier for parents to whine that their kid isn’t getting any better because the coach can’t substitute in games “correctly”.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always felt our club is the means through which we access games and development is my kid does outside of practice (time on the ball, trainers, supplementals, whatever is your family’s method).

That’s too hard. It’s much easier for parents to whine that their kid isn’t getting any better because the coach can’t substitute in games “correctly”.

So much great coaching talent in the parent pool standing right there on the sidelines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses.

[Anonymous]

Talk to older parents. They will give you the secrets so you can skip the drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses.

Not the OP, but every player at this level is pretty good, no true standouts at the U-little level. The more they play, however, the more they standout because they’re developing their game iq. I don’t have experience with AK personally, but have heard horror stories.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses.

Not the OP, but every player at this level is pretty good, no true standouts at the U-little level. The more they play, however, the more they standout because they’re developing their game iq. I don’t have experience with AK personally, but have heard horror stories.

I have experience with AK at the younger ages. All players play at least half the game. The strongest players play most of the game. This sounds like parents of kids who weren’t deemed to be the strongest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses.

Not the OP, but every player at this level is pretty good, no true standouts at the U-little level. The more they play, however, the more they standout because they’re developing their game iq. I don’t have experience with AK personally, but have heard horror stories.

I have experience with AK at the younger ages. All players play at least half the game. The strongest players play most of the game. This sounds like parents of kids who weren’t deemed to be the strongest.

Parent of a current U10 (2016). My daughter is a starter and plays the entire game without substitution (along with a few others). While I appreciate that greatly, it is sadly not true that “all players play at least half the game”. I’m happy for my daughter, since she is one of the ones AK is investing in greatly right now, but sympathize with the families whose daughters don’t play much. He has had 3-4 2015s guest with us almost every game this year, and they definitely play more than rostered 2016s. We get the sense he wants to win, but then again, who doesn’t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would also add that the coach for 2016G PA1 is stubborn. He does not know how to adjust to games when his team is losing. He will keep his favorites in despite failures, and pulls the rest of the team for one bad pass. He also routinely brings girls down from the 2015 age group to guest so that he can win rather than develop the team he is supposed to be coaching. He was previously the coach for Arlington's 2013G, and most parents on that team agree he did not prepare them adequately to play ECNL. He has some weird clout in the club though despite being overwhelmingly ineffective.

Strange how quick folks are to jump on parents for offering an opinion/ information. Isn’t that the point of this forum? Anyway…

OP, as a parent considering a U9 offer, I found this helpful. In your experience is this isolated to a single coach? Or is lack of development and favoritism a more pervasive problem across the club at the U-Little age groups?

Not strange if you understood what they are saying and who they are saying it about. All opinions are dependent on one’s perspective but it sounds like they have a child that did not play much or was not favored. They believe this is why their kid was not developed to be as strong a player as they could have been.

Take a look at the other thread regarding favoritism. Rather than owning their own development, they would rather whine and make excuses.

Not the OP, but every player at this level is pretty good, no true standouts at the U-little level. The more they play, however, the more they standout because they’re developing their game iq. I don’t have experience with AK personally, but have heard horror stories.

I have experience with AK at the younger ages. All players play at least half the game. The strongest players play most of the game. This sounds like parents of kids who weren’t deemed to be the strongest.

Gawd…this is one coach. His opinion will not matter in a few years. Parent of a 2012 he didn’t think was good enough to stay on red (at the time that was the top team), and my kid plays ECNL now. My advice, stay the course, believe in your kid, and do all the extras. AK’s opinion doesn’t matter by the time soccer gets real.