What does everyone think about SYC

[Anonymous]

Let me tell you a little secret about the Samba Boyz. They won the Loundon Tournment a couple of weeks ago. They typically play up a year and ‘invite’ the keeper from the 2011 Academy team to guest play. They market is a good experience and more game time but the truth is they do not have a dedicated keeper.

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Anonymous wrote:Not an SYC parent, just curious. Why does SYC put their top girls teams in Loudoun tournament but only the boys third teams?

Wait the Samba Boyz are a third tier team at SYC?

Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Previous poster was being sarcastic. They are top team in 2012 academy. Looks like they played in 2011 bracket and won. No surprise.

[Anonymous]

So what you are saying is that they play as a 2012 team playing up, while at the same time rostering 2011 boy(s) on that very same team. Oh man, very misleading indeed. Anything to win I suppose.

[Anonymous]

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So what you are saying is that they play as a 2012 team playing up, while at the same time rostering 2011 boy(s) on that very same team. Oh man, very misleading indeed. Anything to win I suppose.

I am not sure I get your point. The 2012 team plays in a 2011 division--and they have one 2011 player joining them (a goalie). What is misleading about that? Its not like they are playing in a 2012 division and bringing the 2011 goalie 'down' to play for them. Now that would be misleading and against the rules.

But quite frankly they could have eleven 2011 players on the field/ They only have 1 because the rest of the team is good enough to play against other teams' 2011 players and they would wipe away the competition in the 2012 bracket so they play up. duh. nothing to see here...

[Anonymous]

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So what you are saying is that they play as a 2012 team playing up, while at the same time rostering 2011 boy(s) on that very same team. Oh man, very misleading indeed. Anything to win I suppose.

I am not sure I get your point. The 2012 team plays in a 2011 division--and they have one 2011 player joining them (a goalie). What is misleading about that? Its not like they are playing in a 2012 division and bringing the 2011 goalie 'down' to play for them. Now that would be misleading and against the rules.

But quite frankly they could have eleven 2011 players on the field/ They only have 1 because the rest of the team is good enough to play against other teams' 2011 players and they would wipe away the competition in the 2012 bracket so they play up. duh. nothing to see here...

sounds like the pp was implying that by rostering a 2011 player on any 2012 team (goalie or other), said team is in fact considered a 2011 team.

Go B!

[Anonymous]

Let me simplify it since you obviously are simple minded.


The 2012 play up so they can pull one or two guest players from the 2011 to play. Is it wrong no. But is it a cheap move, I think so. Then again Samba boyz are cheap and dirty so they do anything to win. Oh wait you must one of the parents!

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Anonymous wrote:

So what you are saying is that they play as a 2012 team playing up, while at the same time rostering 2011 boy(s) on that very same team. Oh man, very misleading indeed. Anything to win I suppose.

I am not sure I get your point. The 2012 team plays in a 2011 division--and they have one 2011 player joining them (a goalie). What is misleading about that? Its not like they are playing in a 2012 division and bringing the 2011 goalie 'down' to play for them. Now that would be misleading and against the rules.

But quite frankly they could have eleven 2011 players on the field/ They only have 1 because the rest of the team is good enough to play against other teams' 2011 players and they would wipe away the competition in the 2012 bracket so they play up. duh. nothing to see here...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Let me simplify it since you obviously are simple minded.


The 2012 play up so they can pull one or two guest players from the 2011 to play. Is it wrong no. But is it a cheap move, I think so. Then again Samba boyz are cheap and dirty so they do anything to win. Oh wait you must one of the parents!

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Anonymous wrote:

So what you are saying is that they play as a 2012 team playing up, while at the same time rostering 2011 boy(s) on that very same team. Oh man, very misleading indeed. Anything to win I suppose.

I am not sure I get your point. The 2012 team plays in a 2011 division--and they have one 2011 player joining them (a goalie). What is misleading about that? Its not like they are playing in a 2012 division and bringing the 2011 goalie 'down' to play for them. Now that would be misleading and against the rules.

But quite frankly they could have eleven 2011 players on the field/ They only have 1 because the rest of the team is good enough to play against other teams' 2011 players and they would wipe away the competition in the 2012 bracket so they play up. duh. nothing to see here...

Why is it a cheap move, other than because you happen to think so?

[Anonymous]

The anger shown to a bunch of (what 8-9 year old?)boys is comical. Who cares. This forum always amazes me.

Anonymous wrote:

Let me simplify it since you obviously are simple minded.


The 2012 play up so they can pull one or two guest players from the 2011 to play. Is it wrong no. But is it a cheap move, I think so. Then again Samba boyz are cheap and dirty so they do anything to win. Oh wait you must one of the parents!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

So what you are saying is that they play as a 2012 team playing up, while at the same time rostering 2011 boy(s) on that very same team. Oh man, very misleading indeed. Anything to win I suppose.

I am not sure I get your point. The 2012 team plays in a 2011 division--and they have one 2011 player joining them (a goalie). What is misleading about that? Its not like they are playing in a 2012 division and bringing the 2011 goalie 'down' to play for them. Now that would be misleading and against the rules.

But quite frankly they could have eleven 2011 players on the field/ They only have 1 because the rest of the team is good enough to play against other teams' 2011 players and they would wipe away the competition in the 2012 bracket so they play up. duh. nothing to see here...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Let me simplify it since you obviously are simple minded.


The 2012 play up so they can pull one or two guest players from the 2011 to play. Is it wrong no. But is it a cheap move, I think so. Then again Samba boyz are cheap and dirty so they do anything to win. Oh wait you must one of the parents!

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Anonymous wrote:

So what you are saying is that they play as a 2012 team playing up, while at the same time rostering 2011 boy(s) on that very same team. Oh man, very misleading indeed. Anything to win I suppose.

I don’t see anything ‘cheap’ about it. Your kid must be on one of the 2011 teams that was embarrassed to be playing a largely 2012 team and losing? Sour grapes it seems…

I am not sure I get your point. The 2012 team plays in a 2011 division--and they have one 2011 player joining them (a goalie). What is misleading about that? Its not like they are playing in a 2012 division and bringing the 2011 goalie 'down' to play for them. Now that would be misleading and against the rules.

But quite frankly they could have eleven 2011 players on the field/ They only have 1 because the rest of the team is good enough to play against other teams' 2011 players and they would wipe away the competition in the 2012 bracket so they play up. duh. nothing to see here...

[Anonymous]

They’re not breaking any rules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’re not breaking any rules.

Yeah right. This is what I mean by SYC trash. All the guest players to win state cup and MLS Next games, marketing those wins and pretending they are true SYC wins is fraud, but you are right, may not break any rules. Congratulations. Keep up the good work with the next gen, and when they don’t get you what you want, rent some other players.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They’re not breaking any rules.

Yeah right. This is what I mean by SYC trash. All the guest players to win state cup and MLS Next games, marketing those wins and pretending they are true SYC wins is fraud, but you are right, may not break any rules. Congratulations. Keep up the good work with the next gen, and when they don’t get you what you want, rent some other players.

Look at the director's MLS Next team. Shutout in 8 games.

[Anonymous]

Over the last 5 years or so, the SYC Boys program has had the most noticeable upward trajectory in competitiveness of any northern Virginia boys program. It's gone from an ordinary, mediocre program that was initially rejected by CCL to some highly competitive teams and MLS Next membership. I don't know any inside details on the club, but in an endeavor where everyone is trying to win when someone starts to win a lot more - it catches your attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Over the last 5 years or so, the SYC Boys program has had the most noticeable upward trajectory in competitiveness of any northern Virginia boys program. It's gone from an ordinary, mediocre program that was initially rejected by CCL to some highly competitive teams and MLS Next membership. I don't know any inside details on the club, but in an endeavor where everyone is trying to win when someone starts to win a lot more - it catches your attention.

The inside to that is that all those players came from LMVSC club, not SYC itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re not breaking any rules.

Yeah right. This is what I mean by SYC trash. All the guest players to win state cup and MLS Next games, marketing those wins and pretending they are true SYC wins is fraud, but you are right, may not break any rules. Congratulations. Keep up the good work with the next gen, and when they don’t get you what you want, rent some other players.

Look at the director's MLS Next team. Shutout in 8 games.

You have link to the standings? Want to check out.

[Anonymous]

DS's previous teammate was on the second team (orange) in the 2006 group and tried desperately to get on the first team (blue team, this was EM's team, the Technical Director). Told no despite the first team not exactly getting the wins... 7th in CCL and 2nd in EDP, tossed out of State Cup.

Well, DS just showed me a video of of his previous teammate scoring a goal at an academy in Spain.

This shows you the ability of the Technical Director, EM, to identify talent and form a development plan. Which is none. Which is no wonder why he chose the rosters the way he did. His practices was mainly scrimmaging and his games were mainly kickball to the fastest players. EM would never watch players on the second team at combined practices and didn't go to a single second team (orange game) all year. If you didn't have "the look", EM doesn't bother.