Baltimore Armour - Why does nobody ever mention them ?
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Anonymous
| Genuinely curious, how does one illegally recruit for MLSNext? What loopholes are there? Luring other players from other clubs doesn’t seem illegal to me at all. |
Anonymous
On boys side it’s more of a demographic difference - most of the kids they take don’t speak English as a first language so their parents aren’t on a board for upper middle class native Americans. I’ve also heard coach O is difficult. |
Anonymous
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All what you need to know that this year only 4 kids from SAC u12 were promoted to Armour u13. The rest were recruited from elsewhere even from edp2 and edp4 teams.
It is all about development 
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Anonymous
| Nobody develops anything. Development is through private training and small groups training. |
Anonymous
There are plenty of clubs that can develop players outside of the more expensive established clubs. No one should think putting their kids in those clubs guarantees them a spot in the most competitive teams. I would say, unless your son is the top 3, maybe 5, every year or most of those years they are at the club, they are no better than kids developed at other clubs. Some of those kids coming from no name clubs probably have been playing up for years and are now just playing on age for the first time when they join MLSNext clubs. |
Anonymous
By your logic, a kid can play rec and take supplemental training to become a top player. I don't think so. Club are able to develop players to make them better. Supplemental private trainings speeds up the development they receive from the clubs. |
Anonymous
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The key is to take private training and small competitive group trainings early on. So yes, If a kid plays Rec at the age of 8 and trains every day with top kids in small groups without club so called development, I think they will get at the top when they are 14 or 15. Obviously as they progress, they will be far superior than playing Rec.
A travel club only provides you with a league you can play in and even with that, you may only play 5 minutes in every game. Look at ECNL rosters packed at 20 players (30 older age groups). How on earth a coach will play all 18 players long enough for them to develop in a 35 minutes half game? Other than games and tournaments, clubs provide some "easy training" 3 times a week like my DD calls it LOL. Trust me there are some top trainings in the area that far exceed the quality of trainings clubs provide. There are of course some good coaches that do develop but unfortunately they are very very few. The rest pay a 5k for a coaching license and they start calling themselves coaches who can develop. They understand Soccer upside down. Some think hurting an opponent is the way you play, the other think running all directions is the way to go somehow comparing football to Soccer. Unless a coach got exposed (played or coached) to soccer in Europe, South America or Africa, he/she will not understand how to develop the kids to play the beautiful game. At least on the girls side even at a high level like ECNL or GA, all i see every weekend is running, pushing and kick ball. Coaches are not interested in technique or possession soccer like in Spain for example . What kind of development is this then?? |
Anonymous
| Baltimore Celtics is surpassing Armour at the moment so there is that too |
Anonymous
Surpassing them where and how exactly? |
Anonymous
No. You may be thinking of the Boston Celtics |
Anonymous
| A now they are rejected from the Jeff Cup behind some weak RL teams and even 3rd teams. This is the bottom of the bottom. |
Anonymous
which age group? |
Anonymous
Give it a rest. |
Anonymous
Totally agree. Are there U13G coaches in the area who actually train and play a possession style? I’ve asked this question multiple times on multiple threads, but nada. Maybe that’s because there is nada in the area. So frustrating. |
Anonymous
Is that what why Dc United is so bad? |