Which NOVA U9 team plays most like Barcelona U9?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do so many latin families feel connected to FC Barcelona?

Messi? I don’t know ... they’re just one of the most famous and successful Latin soccer teams out there.

Am I missing something ? Barcelona is a European club not Latin. Anyway my guess in because Messi is from Argentina. Although that would be like the USA and Mexico connecting with Alphonso Davies because he’s from the same continent. So maybe it’s like the LeBron factor where whatever team he plays for becomes popular.

Latin people include Spanish and Portuguese (as well as Italians and some parts of France); Latin people, like the Latin language, are indigenous to Europe. You’re confusing “Latin” with “Latin-American” or “Latino.”

In any case, yes of course the presence of major soccer players from Latin America on Barcelona plays a role, I’m sure. However, there are Latin Americans playing for clubs all over Europe, from England to Germany and beyond, so I think the Latin cultural bond probably has something to do with Barcelona’s popularity among Latin Americans. Plus of course, superstar Messi.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do so many latin families feel connected to FC Barcelona?

Messi? I don’t know ... they’re just one of the most famous and successful Latin soccer teams out there.

Am I missing something ? Barcelona is a European club not Latin. Anyway my guess in because Messi is from Argentina. Although that would be like the USA and Mexico connecting with Alphonso Davies because he’s from the same continent. So maybe it’s like the LeBron factor where whatever team he plays for becomes popular.

By referring to an example from a more familiar sport, you have demonstrated your ignorance of both soccer and basketball, as well as a cultural ignorance that is frankly stunning. I do not think your underlying assumption iscorrect in my experience (Latinx communities are simply more avid soccer fans across the board, and many if not the majority prefer Madrid), and the notion that Hispanic Americans are cheering on a team because they have an Argentinian is preposterous. I don’t think you appreciate the multiple national and regional rivalries among our neighbors, or how they translate into preferences in these United States. I would leave it be.

I think the OP was referring to Latins not Latin Americans. Big culture difference there. To be fair the Latin America culture is much closer to an American culture rather than Latin.

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly SYC samba boyz. 10-1 over bethesda.

Haha. You keep saying this. Are you the coach? They are a good team but no where close to this video.

Samba Boyz. Champs of Icebreaker playing up a year. 39 goals for and only 2 against! Clean sheet in championship game!

SYC has a good record and we’ve played against you - SYC is a tough opponent, but to me didn’t look anything remotely like Barcelona (or Malaga) from that match. Lots of fouling and lots of effective (non-foul) pushing and winning 50-50s ... not much skill.

This is exactly what I thought when we played them. Good team at scoring but could not see any skill.

Yep the SYC 2012 (boys and girls) are all about scoring, pushing, extended arms, pulling on jerseys, and all around fouls that are taught. Not much skill is displayed. This wins games at u little while everyone else is working on skill development. But later on? Time will tell.

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly SYC samba boyz. 10-1 over bethesda.

Haha. You keep saying this. Are you the coach? They are a good team but no where close to this video.

Samba Boyz. Champs of Icebreaker playing up a year. 39 goals for and only 2 against! Clean sheet in championship game!

SYC has a good record and we’ve played against you - SYC is a tough opponent, but to me didn’t look anything remotely like Barcelona (or Malaga) from that match. Lots of fouling and lots of effective (non-foul) pushing and winning 50-50s ... not much skill.

This is exactly what I thought when we played them. Good team at scoring but could not see any skill.

Yep the SYC 2012 (boys and girls) are all about scoring, pushing, extended arms, pulling on jerseys, and all around fouls that are taught. Not much skill is displayed. This wins games at u little while everyone else is working on skill development. But later on? Time will tell.

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Anonymous wrote:Clearly SYC samba boyz. 10-1 over bethesda.

Haha. You keep saying this. Are you the coach? They are a good team but no where close to this video.

Samba Boyz. Champs of Icebreaker playing up a year. 39 goals for and only 2 against! Clean sheet in championship game!

SYC has a good record and we’ve played against you - SYC is a tough opponent, but to me didn’t look anything remotely like Barcelona (or Malaga) from that match. Lots of fouling and lots of effective (non-foul) pushing and winning 50-50s ... not much skill.

This is exactly what I thought when we played them. Good team at scoring but could not see any skill.

Yep the SYC 2012 (boys and girls) are all about scoring, pushing, extended arms, pulling on jerseys, and all around fouls that are taught. Not much skill is displayed. This wins games at u little while everyone else is working on skill development. But later on? Time will tell.

Fouls are a strategic part of the game. Not red cards but yellows yes and fouls. nothing wrong with any of that. Nobody can predict the success of a u9 team long term meaning years out.

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Anonymous wrote:Fouls are a strategic part of the game. Not red cards but yellows yes and fouls. nothing wrong with any of that. Nobody can predict the success of a u9 team long term meaning years out.

Yeah - when you can't defend, just have your little #4 run up and foul the other player and knock him to the ground. Nothing wrong with that, right? It's all part of SYC's game strategy. "Samba" lol.

You can't blame the kids themselves -- they are only doing what their screaming coach taught them to do. But I'm pretty sure I can predict the lifelong success of the players on the SYC u9 team.

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Yeah. I’ve given up.

I went back to a Club I used to admire for their style of play- but their U13s now capitalize on 2 giants with long balls to them, or let them just go forward and push through while the players I remember that have great IQ and skill (but actual birth year) have been marginalized. There is no semblance of the possession style they used to play anymore.

It’s so easy to see why the USMNT can’t qualify for the Olympics.

I get it. Those kids won games and garner Gotsoccer points, but it’s not the beautiful game. It’s just ugly.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I’ve given up.

I went back to a Club I used to admire for their style of play- but their U13s now capitalize on 2 giants with long balls to them, or let them just go forward and push through while the players I remember that have great IQ and skill (but actual birth year) have been marginalized. There is no semblance of the possession style they used to play anymore.

It’s so easy to see why the USMNT can’t qualify for the Olympics.

I get it. Those kids won games and garner Gotsoccer points, but it’s not the beautiful game. It’s just ugly.

+1 I can’t stand soccer games that seem as if you are watching kickball. There is no skill involved in this style of play. Play soccer not kickball.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I’ve given up.

I went back to a Club I used to admire for their style of play- but their U13s now capitalize on 2 giants with long balls to them, or let them just go forward and push through while the players I remember that have great IQ and skill (but actual birth year) have been marginalized. There is no semblance of the possession style they used to play anymore.

It’s so easy to see why the USMNT can’t qualify for the Olympics.

I get it. Those kids won games and garner Gotsoccer points, but it’s not the beautiful game. It’s just ugly.

+1 I can’t stand soccer games that seem as if you are watching kickball. There is no skill involved in this style of play. Play soccer not kickball.

I am with you, my kids team made the Jeff cup finals and what I saw from the other team was not soccer. I was terrified for their horrible way of playing something that it isn’t soccer but yet they were able to win due to free kick on a fake foul. I guess as far as they follow the rules the team can play 9-10 kids on the back and keep the giant one up front and produce a fake foul. Horrible game, youth soccer will lose its major fans gradually.

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no they won’t. Bitter much?

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Youth soccer has major fans outside of the parents?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I’ve given up.

I went back to a Club I used to admire for their style of play- but their U13s now capitalize on 2 giants with long balls to them, or let them just go forward and push through while the players I remember that have great IQ and skill (but actual birth year) have been marginalized. There is no semblance of the possession style they used to play anymore.

It’s so easy to see why the USMNT can’t qualify for the Olympics.

I get it. Those kids won games and garner Gotsoccer points, but it’s not the beautiful game. It’s just ugly.

+1 I can’t stand soccer games that seem as if you are watching kickball. There is no skill involved in this style of play. Play soccer not kickball.

I am with you, my kids team made the Jeff cup finals and what I saw from the other team was not soccer. I was terrified for their horrible way of playing something that it isn’t soccer but yet they were able to win due to free kick on a fake foul. I guess as far as they follow the rules the team can play 9-10 kids on the back and keep the giant one up front and produce a fake foul. Horrible game, youth soccer will lose its major fans gradually.

There is "beautiful soccer" and "ugly soccer" played at every level of the game. In US youth soccer there is more beautiful soccer than there once was. So things are better than they used to be. And in a big tournament final there is more excuse for playing to win than any other game a team plays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. I’ve given up.

I went back to a Club I used to admire for their style of play- but their U13s now capitalize on 2 giants with long balls to them, or let them just go forward and push through while the players I remember that have great IQ and skill (but actual birth year) have been marginalized. There is no semblance of the possession style they used to play anymore.

It’s so easy to see why the USMNT can’t qualify for the Olympics.

I get it. Those kids won games and garner Gotsoccer points, but it’s not the beautiful game. It’s just ugly.

+1 I can’t stand soccer games that seem as if you are watching kickball. There is no skill involved in this style of play. Play soccer not kickball.

I am with you, my kids team made the Jeff cup finals and what I saw from the other team was not soccer. I was terrified for their horrible way of playing something that it isn’t soccer but yet they were able to win due to free kick on a fake foul. I guess as far as they follow the rules the team can play 9-10 kids on the back and keep the giant one up front and produce a fake foul. Horrible game, youth soccer will lose its major fans gradually.

There is "beautiful soccer" and "ugly soccer" played at every level of the game. In US youth soccer there is more beautiful soccer than there once was. So things are better than they used to be. And in a big tournament final there is more excuse for playing to win than any other game a team plays.

I am the pp someone responded to. It wasn’t a tournament final we went to a practice and game and it was so disappointing how much they veered off course from what this team looked like early on. They sold out at U13 for a few kids that look 16/17 and just use them to plow through the normal 12-year old U13s. I was surprised because there was zero possession style like they used to play.