Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The doctor examines your kid on a Friday. Doctor tells you that the examination revealed that something MAY be wrong or it MAY be just a false positive.

Doctors then tells you to have a good weekend and don't worry about it. Doctor says he will give you the results down the road.

That is what DA tryouts kind of feels like. The anxiety of not knowing is worse than the truth.

You have some serious issues if you are equating a child's health to a soccer tryout. You obviously have never had a child with a major health diagnosis.

It was meant to be a joke. I knew as soon as I wrote that that someone would take it out of context..so sorry to you

If possible, your response just made it worse. You made a joke comparing soccer tryouts to what it might feel like being told your child might have a major health issue. No one is taking anything out of context. For those of us who have had to live through that nightmare experience, reading your post just made us re-live it. Not fun. On the other hand, I highly doubt you actually meant to cause any offense, so just apologize for being insensitive and move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The doctor examines your kid on a Friday. Doctor tells you that the examination revealed that something MAY be wrong or it MAY be just a false positive.

Doctors then tells you to have a good weekend and don't worry about it. Doctor says he will give you the results down the road.

That is what DA tryouts kind of feels like. The anxiety of not knowing is worse than the truth.

You have some serious issues if you are equating a child's health to a soccer tryout. You obviously have never had a child with a major health diagnosis.

It was meant to be a joke. I knew as soon as I wrote that that someone would take it out of context..so sorry to you

If possible, your response just made it worse. You made a joke comparing soccer tryouts to what it might feel like being told your child might have a major health issue. No one is taking anything out of context. For those of us who have had to live through that nightmare experience, reading your post just made us re-live it. Not fun. On the other hand, I highly doubt you actually meant to cause any offense, so just apologize for being insensitive and move on.

no problem..sorry

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I wouldn't equate soccer tryouts to health problems or even college admissions, but they're still stressful. And often unfair. And dragged out too long while spending too little time evaluating each player.

[Anonymous]

Anyone else have a view on the Spirit da tryouts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The doctor examines your kid on a Friday. Doctor tells you that the examination revealed that something MAY be wrong or it MAY be just a false positive.

Doctors then tells you to have a good weekend and don't worry about it. Doctor says he will give you the results down the road.

That is what DA tryouts kind of feels like. The anxiety of not knowing is worse than the truth.

You have some serious issues if you are equating a child's health to a soccer tryout. You obviously have never had a child with a major health diagnosis.

It was meant to be a joke. I knew as soon as I wrote that that someone would take it out of context..so sorry to you

Your apology isn't very convincing, may you should've thought of a different metaphor that isn't akin to terminal illness.

[Anonymous]

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That is what DA tryouts kind of feels like. The anxiety of not knowing is worse than the truth.

That's tryouts are always like for kids who aren't sure they're going to make a team they want to be on. I'm guessing many of the kids trying out for these DA teams probably haven't experienced that feeling before.

DA can choose developmental players from their own club, I think a lot of kids in PWSI and CYA were not that concerned at their VDA tryouts. Least of all the one's that were invited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The doctor examines your kid on a Friday. Doctor tells you that the examination revealed that something MAY be wrong or it MAY be just a false positive.

Doctors then tells you to have a good weekend and don't worry about it. Doctor says he will give you the results down the road.

That is what DA tryouts kind of feels like. The anxiety of not knowing is worse than the truth.

You have some serious issues if you are equating a child's health to a soccer tryout. You obviously have never had a child with a major health diagnosis.

It was meant to be a joke. I knew as soon as I wrote that that someone would take it out of context..so sorry to you

Your apology isn't very convincing, may you should've thought of a different metaphor that isn't akin to terminal illness.

Jesus people MOVE ON. He made a dumb joke. No one thought it was serious (or funny). THIS is why the Trumplings won. They are sick of this kind of PC/oversensitive crap! I'm a huge liberal and I'm sick of it too!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The doctor examines your kid on a Friday. Doctor tells you that the examination revealed that something MAY be wrong or it MAY be just a false positive.

Doctors then tells you to have a good weekend and don't worry about it. Doctor says he will give you the results down the road.

That is what DA tryouts kind of feels like. The anxiety of not knowing is worse than the truth.

You have some serious issues if you are equating a child's health to a soccer tryout. You obviously have never had a child with a major health diagnosis.

It was meant to be a joke. I knew as soon as I wrote that that someone would take it out of context..so sorry to you

Your apology isn't very convincing, may you should've thought of a different metaphor that isn't akin to terminal illness.

Jesus people MOVE ON. He made a dumb joke. No one thought it was serious (or funny). THIS is why the Trumplings won. They are sick of this kind of PC/oversensitive crap! I'm a huge liberal and I'm sick of it too!

+1. We need to be better at apologizing, but we need to be better at accepting apologies, too.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone familiar with DA speak about the ID invites.

Is the purpose of the invite to narrow down the roster (couple of kids looking for the last remaining spots) Or is this another look to make sure they are getting the same caliber player that showed up at tryouts.

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Anonymous wrote:from the SYA town hall- Md United is also leaving CCL after this year (due to boys joining Ecnl).

Ellicot City is joining CCL.

Maryland U. offered decent competition usually. E. City was horrible and a longer drive. CCL just gets worse and worse. It just needs to implode.

Once Arlington and Loudoun go it will definitely lose any last bit of "elite" status. It will probably remain a relevant league in Virginia for mid tier clubs, especially those in far off areas with no other competition.

Where will Arlington go? Loudoun has DA and maybe ECNL. Arlington's out of both of those.

They could probably go wherever they wanted to. DA and ECNL seem desperate to add almost any clubs they can right now. I would like to see them play boys and girls ECNL, I think they would do well there.

Seems like Arlington has really missed the boat. No path for their girls, not sure why anyone would stay. Plus it's so political some of the things I hear are ridiculous for a club that's supposed to be professional

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone familiar with DA speak about the ID invites.

Is the purpose of the invite to narrow down the roster (couple of kids looking for the last remaining spots) Or is this another look to make sure they are getting the same caliber player that showed up at tryouts.

Not sure I follow. Do you mean a invite out of the blue or a call back invite from a previously attended tryout?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone familiar with DA speak about the ID invites.

Is the purpose of the invite to narrow down the roster (couple of kids looking for the last remaining spots) Or is this another look to make sure they are getting the same caliber player that showed up at tryouts.

Not sure I follow. Do you mean a invite out of the blue or a call back invite from a previously attended tryout?

Invite after mutiple open tryouts

[Anonymous]

Female players in Arlington don't need a pathway to anywhere, they already have all the resources they need plus a humongous player pool to pick the best from.

[Anonymous]

Same with the boys, except for the occasional 1 or 2 that move to DC United

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Female players in Arlington don't need a pathway to anywhere, they already have all the resources they need plus a humongous player pool to pick the best from.

Big player pool and certainly less competitive since every girl that showed up to tryouts made one of the 6 teams.