Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss

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Anonymous wrote:The strongest tears in VPL are the Richmond teams, across age groups and gender.

Considering their best girls play ECNL and Boys play DA...VPL Richmond teams are weak...heck..their ECNL teams are weak

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Anonymous wrote:WS taking basically anyone now for summer superY .... got an email solicitation that no need to tryout anymore .... desperate to fill rosters with paying customers?

"We are accepting all qualifying players without a need to tryout. "Qualifying" players are those who have at least 1 year experience playing on a travel team in one of the following leagues or competitions: ECNL, CCL, NPL, Region I, NCSL D1 or D2. Other qualifying play would be to have made an ODP roster via tryouts in the past year, to have finished in the top 8 in the most recent State Cup or in the top 2 of the most recent State Presidents Cup."

Interesting to note that there are likely no "qualifying players" in the clubs they've partnered with -- Reston and Gunston

Spirit has partnered with several clubs in the area not just Reston and Gunston.

Not for the Development Acad- ... oh, this is about Super-Y and not the DA. You're right. Never mind.

In any case, the person who said "no qualifying players" about Reston and Gunston can be easily refuted by checking the NCSL standings. Reston only has four girls teams in NCSL (U12, U13, U15, U20), but they're ALL D1 or D2. And Gunston has four D1 girls teams.

Always amazing to see what kind of garbage people can just make up out of thin air.

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I think they actually have a point--even if the delivery was bad. Over the past 30 some years that since I started playing, and then coaching, in this area--the number of leagues and clubs has exploded. It has caused a serious dilution in the talent pool. The talent pool is spread so thin at this point. It has allowed for people to take advantage of parents that don't know much about the sport or the scene and fooled by people that don't have their player's development in mind or truly care about helping them reach their best.

All of these announcements that are "coming soon...big news" are just a battle for one Club to try to draw the areas players over----then the Club that is one-step behind has to announce or create something that sounds even better. In a type-A area where parents really only care about what they can tell other parents about who their kid is playing for and how that reflects on them and their gene pool.

If the same players are being spread all over the place---how good is anything? When Clubs can't fill teams, nobody is doing Super Y anymore and we solely care about winning titles---and picking players that might fit a cog in a wheel---how is that developing the whole player?

We also have a system where all age groups practice at different places and times. Some kids only ever practice against kids on teams below them. Some kids are only in leagues with unmatched talent.

Nobody is going pro and very few area getting college scholarships worth anything. Everyone is just wasting a ton of $ and creating worse traffic all over the DMV.

The delivery was so bad, I wrote that poster off as nothing but a blow-hard who gets their jollies by trashing those around them in a doomed effort to seem superior. If they were attempting to make the same points you are, they'd be well served to let you be the spokesperson for the movement.

I agree with much of what you've said. I wish we had more of a true pyramid here, at least at the level that used to be in place where you'd play rec, then move up to NCSL or WAGS, then to a regional or national league perhaps with some ODP mixed in along the way (though I think ODP is part of the problem now in most of the areas around here). You could pretty easily figure out if the investment was worth it under that system and your path forward was clear. You also were pretty much guaranteed the right level of competition after the early development years too.

I do think the DA has been a good addition on the boys' side, along with the introduction of the US Training Centers, and the id2 program. A lot more talented kids have access to free or affordable high level soccer since those programs started. I would be curious about whether there are stats on this, but I do actually think more boys are starting to go pro the last couple of years. Most of players on the U17 team currently in the qualifying rounds for the World Cup have or will be going pro when they are 18, and the same is true for a lot of 16-18 year olds at DA clubs around the country. And huge numbers of kids in this area (DA, ECNL, or otherwise) have either gotten significant scholarship dollars or have gotten admissions bumps sufficient to get them into top schools recently. For me, things look pretty good at that level (though I'm not claiming we are in FC Dallas or LA Galaxy territory just yet)--it's just the younger years that are more of a mess than ever.

Also? There are way, way more than a handful of brilliant coaches and trainers around here who are deeply knowledgeable and committed to helping kids succeed. Anyone who claims otherwise hasn't done their due diligence.

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Anonymous wrote:The strongest tears in VPL are the Richmond teams, across age groups and gender.

Considering their best girls play ECNL and Boys play DA...VPL Richmond teams are weak...heck..their ECNL teams are weak

They're ginormous clubs. Metro area of 1.2 million people with two dominant clubs. It's not surprising to see their B teams beating the best of Chantilly, Annandale, Vienna and Haymarket.

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Anonymous wrote:All these Club DAs mean nothing. They aren't MLS-clubs (not that I think those are the way to go)...they are your typical travel soccer club. They just found a way to give more parents the feeling their kid is truly 'elite' and will pay $. Now you have an "A" team and a "DA" team in these Clubs so now you have more happy parents that puff their chests out and act like their kid has really made it to the big times.

I can't even count on one hand the number of people that truly know how to train and develop players in this area...and they ain't affiliated with any of this sh*t.

You people worry about the wrong things. All this team-centric nonsense in the younger ages is stupid. A player needs to develop and perfect their technique (highly perfect their technique) and they need to take risks, be challenged and not have their creativity squashed. That doesn't happen in Club DA or travel DA. The system doesn't work. What have the past decades upon decades told you about this model?

And, no Pulisic, wasn't a product of this. Bob Lilly and his parents protected him from having his game changed. They didn't want his creativity stifled and they wanted him to take on bigger, faster kids in older age groups without changing his game or playing 'somebody's" way.

Are you one of the 4-5 people in this area who truly know how to train and develop players? Where can we find you or one of your brethren if so?

Well actually he said he couldn' t count them on one hand so there are apparently zero qualified coaches in the area. I stopped reading the post there.

I think they actually have a point--even if the delivery was bad. Over the past 30 some years that since I started playing, and then coaching, in this area--the number of leagues and clubs has exploded. It has caused a serious dilution in the talent pool. The talent pool is spread so thin at this point. It has allowed for people to take advantage of parents that don't know much about the sport or the scene and fooled by people that don't have their player's development in mind or truly care about helping them reach their best.

All of these announcements that are "coming soon...big news" are just a battle for one Club to try to draw the areas players over----then the Club that is one-step behind has to announce or create something that sounds even better. In a type-A area where parents really only care about what they can tell other parents about who their kid is playing for and how that reflects on them and their gene pool.

If the same players are being spread all over the place---how good is anything? When Clubs can't fill teams, nobody is doing Super Y anymore and we solely care about winning titles---and picking players that might fit a cog in a wheel---how is that developing the whole player?

We also have a system where all age groups practice at different places and times. Some kids only ever practice against kids on teams below them. Some kids are only in leagues with unmatched talent.

Nobody is going pro and very few area getting college scholarships worth anything. Everyone is just wasting a ton of $ and creating worse traffic all over the DMV.

That's a very big problem where the competition across leagues is diluted. One of the issues is entry access. They try to be exclusive. Even NCSL who is falling behind puts difficult entry requirements for small clubs where they end up having to compete in lower level leagues where they don't have competition. This topic has been discussed many times it needs to be brought up again. Many of those clubs are from the latino communities who can't afford to play the big travel fee at higher clubs and because those clubs don't get in, the leagues miss out on very good talent and it makes the growth or survival of these clubs difficult.

You are quoting me---and 100% yes. Access is huge. It was easier to start up and be an underdog when I was a kid because there were enough fields and the entry for teams to leagues wasn't as exclusionary---bad but nothing like today. Today--it is impossible with the monopoly out there. I, personally, can't take the arrogance. I have said time and time again my kids play with better kids and adults at our pick-up park than they do in the travel system. They enjoy it more too--I can never get them to leave! This is one of the many reasons we are looking forward to summer where they can stay out there late. No stupid super y for us.

I'd like to clarify that not every Latino family or community is a poor one, economically speaking. I as a Latino male, raised by Latino parents, just can't bring myself to pay for all of the extras that are put out there by clubs and individual training. My experience is that other Latino families quickly see through the facade and either choose to keep their son in rec or join/start their own team through DFC or VISTA. If we're all being honest with ourselves, few of our children will play past their high school age, if they even are good enough to play for their high school. My sons elementary school has a lot of travel soccer players, cant imagine what it will be like when the Middle Schools combine.

For myself, my son is in a large club playing travel, that doesn't mean I've drank the Kool aid, i just don't mind paying the club fees and my wife stays at home so uber-early practice times arent a big deal. I think sometimes the language barrier is too much to overcome for other Latino parents. I have a hard time doing the mindless chit chat in English as a fluent speaker with the other parents, I imagine I would stay mum or look for other Latinos during practices or games instead of embarrasing myself trying to talk in broken English if I my first language was Spanish. For next year I'm actually looking to join one of the several independent teams that have been created in NOVA area.

Just a bit of perspective...

Never meant to say that Latino families are poor but agree with you that many see through the facade and aren't willing to pay for those very high fees. Regardless of the money, small clubs should be given the same opportunities to compete as those larger ones.

Can you give us some kind of definition for small clubs? And maybe some examples. Arlington is a big club, no doubts. Would BRYC count as a small club, I don't think so. Would FPYC count as small club, maybe, but they're still in a lot of competitions. TAFC count as small club, there are lot of Latinos in that club, not sure if that's where you were going with it though.

I think the clubs you mention besides Arlington are mid-sized clubs. I think of small clubs as those that don't have enough teams to move to a higher league like NCSL from ODSL. I think part of the reason they are not able to grow is because people automatically exclude them from their clubs to tryout at since they are only in ODSL so their talent goes elsewhere. There are many kids now playing at mid-to-large sized clubs that started at these smaller clubs but the access to better competition didn't allow the clubs to continue working with these players. I would think that some of these clubs currently in ODSL are Dynamite, Cougars, Mannassas FC, Real World FC. Just like these there were others that no longer exist today. These clubs end up playing against the lower level teams of the bigger clubs. I think all clubs in NCSL are considered mid-to-large sized.

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Anonymous wrote:All these Club DAs mean nothing. They aren't MLS-clubs (not that I think those are the way to go)...they are your typical travel soccer club. They just found a way to give more parents the feeling their kid is truly 'elite' and will pay $. Now you have an "A" team and a "DA" team in these Clubs so now you have more happy parents that puff their chests out and act like their kid has really made it to the big times.

I can't even count on one hand the number of people that truly know how to train and develop players in this area...and they ain't affiliated with any of this sh*t.

You people worry about the wrong things. All this team-centric nonsense in the younger ages is stupid. A player needs to develop and perfect their technique (highly perfect their technique) and they need to take risks, be challenged and not have their creativity squashed. That doesn't happen in Club DA or travel DA. The system doesn't work. What have the past decades upon decades told you about this model?

And, no Pulisic, wasn't a product of this. Bob Lilly and his parents protected him from having his game changed. They didn't want his creativity stifled and they wanted him to take on bigger, faster kids in older age groups without changing his game or playing 'somebody's" way.

Are you one of the 4-5 people in this area who truly know how to train and develop players? Where can we find you or one of your brethren if so?

Well actually he said he couldn' t count them on one hand so there are apparently zero qualified coaches in the area. I stopped reading the post there.

I think they actually have a point--even if the delivery was bad. Over the past 30 some years that since I started playing, and then coaching, in this area--the number of leagues and clubs has exploded. It has caused a serious dilution in the talent pool. The talent pool is spread so thin at this point. It has allowed for people to take advantage of parents that don't know much about the sport or the scene and fooled by people that don't have their player's development in mind or truly care about helping them reach their best.

All of these announcements that are "coming soon...big news" are just a battle for one Club to try to draw the areas players over----then the Club that is one-step behind has to announce or create something that sounds even better. In a type-A area where parents really only care about what they can tell other parents about who their kid is playing for and how that reflects on them and their gene pool.

If the same players are being spread all over the place---how good is anything? When Clubs can't fill teams, nobody is doing Super Y anymore and we solely care about winning titles---and picking players that might fit a cog in a wheel---how is that developing the whole player?

We also have a system where all age groups practice at different places and times. Some kids only ever practice against kids on teams below them. Some kids are only in leagues with unmatched talent.

Nobody is going pro and very few area getting college scholarships worth anything. Everyone is just wasting a ton of $ and creating worse traffic all over the DMV.

That's a very big problem where the competition across leagues is diluted. One of the issues is entry access. They try to be exclusive. Even NCSL who is falling behind puts difficult entry requirements for small clubs where they end up having to compete in lower level leagues where they don't have competition. This topic has been discussed many times it needs to be brought up again. Many of those clubs are from the latino communities who can't afford to play the big travel fee at higher clubs and because those clubs don't get in, the leagues miss out on very good talent and it makes the growth or survival of these clubs difficult.

You are quoting me---and 100% yes. Access is huge. It was easier to start up and be an underdog when I was a kid because there were enough fields and the entry for teams to leagues wasn't as exclusionary---bad but nothing like today. Today--it is impossible with the monopoly out there. I, personally, can't take the arrogance. I have said time and time again my kids play with better kids and adults at our pick-up park than they do in the travel system. They enjoy it more too--I can never get them to leave! This is one of the many reasons we are looking forward to summer where they can stay out there late. No stupid super y for us.

I'd like to clarify that not every Latino family or community is a poor one, economically speaking. I as a Latino male, raised by Latino parents, just can't bring myself to pay for all of the extras that are put out there by clubs and individual training. My experience is that other Latino families quickly see through the facade and either choose to keep their son in rec or join/start their own team through DFC or VISTA. If we're all being honest with ourselves, few of our children will play past their high school age, if they even are good enough to play for their high school. My sons elementary school has a lot of travel soccer players, cant imagine what it will be like when the Middle Schools combine.

For myself, my son is in a large club playing travel, that doesn't mean I've drank the Kool aid, i just don't mind paying the club fees and my wife stays at home so uber-early practice times arent a big deal. I think sometimes the language barrier is too much to overcome for other Latino parents. I have a hard time doing the mindless chit chat in English as a fluent speaker with the other parents, I imagine I would stay mum or look for other Latinos during practices or games instead of embarrasing myself trying to talk in broken English if I my first language was Spanish. For next year I'm actually looking to join one of the several independent teams that have been created in NOVA area.

Just a bit of perspective...

Never meant to say that Latino families are poor but agree with you that many see through the facade and aren't willing to pay for those very high fees. Regardless of the money, small clubs should be given the same opportunities to compete as those larger ones.

Can you give us some kind of definition for small clubs? And maybe some examples. Arlington is a big club, no doubts. Would BRYC count as a small club, I don't think so. Would FPYC count as small club, maybe, but they're still in a lot of competitions. TAFC count as small club, there are lot of Latinos in that club, not sure if that's where you were going with it though.

I think the clubs you mention besides Arlington are mid-sized clubs. I think of small clubs as those that don't have enough teams to move to a higher league like NCSL from ODSL. I think part of the reason they are not able to grow is because people automatically exclude them from their clubs to tryout at since they are only in ODSL so their talent goes elsewhere. There are many kids now playing at mid-to-large sized clubs that started at these smaller clubs but the access to better competition didn't allow the clubs to continue working with these players. I would think that some of these clubs currently in ODSL are Dynamite, Cougars, Mannassas FC, Real World FC. Just like these there were others that no longer exist today. These clubs end up playing against the lower level teams of the bigger clubs. I think all clubs in NCSL are considered mid-to-large sized.

If it's' only 4 or so clubs, why wouldn't NCSL just allow them in? I'm sure they would benefit from a few extra competitive teams.

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Anonymous wrote:All these Club DAs mean nothing. They aren't MLS-clubs (not that I think those are the way to go)...they are your typical travel soccer club. They just found a way to give more parents the feeling their kid is truly 'elite' and will pay $. Now you have an "A" team and a "DA" team in these Clubs so now you have more happy parents that puff their chests out and act like their kid has really made it to the big times.

I can't even count on one hand the number of people that truly know how to train and develop players in this area...and they ain't affiliated with any of this sh*t.

You people worry about the wrong things. All this team-centric nonsense in the younger ages is stupid. A player needs to develop and perfect their technique (highly perfect their technique) and they need to take risks, be challenged and not have their creativity squashed. That doesn't happen in Club DA or travel DA. The system doesn't work. What have the past decades upon decades told you about this model?

And, no Pulisic, wasn't a product of this. Bob Lilly and his parents protected him from having his game changed. They didn't want his creativity stifled and they wanted him to take on bigger, faster kids in older age groups without changing his game or playing 'somebody's" way.

Are you one of the 4-5 people in this area who truly know how to train and develop players? Where can we find you or one of your brethren if so?

Well actually he said he couldn' t count them on one hand so there are apparently zero qualified coaches in the area. I stopped reading the post there.

I think they actually have a point--even if the delivery was bad. Over the past 30 some years that since I started playing, and then coaching, in this area--the number of leagues and clubs has exploded. It has caused a serious dilution in the talent pool. The talent pool is spread so thin at this point. It has allowed for people to take advantage of parents that don't know much about the sport or the scene and fooled by people that don't have their player's development in mind or truly care about helping them reach their best.

All of these announcements that are "coming soon...big news" are just a battle for one Club to try to draw the areas players over----then the Club that is one-step behind has to announce or create something that sounds even better. In a type-A area where parents really only care about what they can tell other parents about who their kid is playing for and how that reflects on them and their gene pool.

If the same players are being spread all over the place---how good is anything? When Clubs can't fill teams, nobody is doing Super Y anymore and we solely care about winning titles---and picking players that might fit a cog in a wheel---how is that developing the whole player?

We also have a system where all age groups practice at different places and times. Some kids only ever practice against kids on teams below them. Some kids are only in leagues with unmatched talent.

Nobody is going pro and very few area getting college scholarships worth anything. Everyone is just wasting a ton of $ and creating worse traffic all over the DMV.

That's a very big problem where the competition across leagues is diluted. One of the issues is entry access. They try to be exclusive. Even NCSL who is falling behind puts difficult entry requirements for small clubs where they end up having to compete in lower level leagues where they don't have competition. This topic has been discussed many times it needs to be brought up again. Many of those clubs are from the latino communities who can't afford to play the big travel fee at higher clubs and because those clubs don't get in, the leagues miss out on very good talent and it makes the growth or survival of these clubs difficult.

You are quoting me---and 100% yes. Access is huge. It was easier to start up and be an underdog when I was a kid because there were enough fields and the entry for teams to leagues wasn't as exclusionary---bad but nothing like today. Today--it is impossible with the monopoly out there. I, personally, can't take the arrogance. I have said time and time again my kids play with better kids and adults at our pick-up park than they do in the travel system. They enjoy it more too--I can never get them to leave! This is one of the many reasons we are looking forward to summer where they can stay out there late. No stupid super y for us.

I'd like to clarify that not every Latino family or community is a poor one, economically speaking. I as a Latino male, raised by Latino parents, just can't bring myself to pay for all of the extras that are put out there by clubs and individual training. My experience is that other Latino families quickly see through the facade and either choose to keep their son in rec or join/start their own team through DFC or VISTA. If we're all being honest with ourselves, few of our children will play past their high school age, if they even are good enough to play for their high school. My sons elementary school has a lot of travel soccer players, cant imagine what it will be like when the Middle Schools combine.

For myself, my son is in a large club playing travel, that doesn't mean I've drank the Kool aid, i just don't mind paying the club fees and my wife stays at home so uber-early practice times arent a big deal. I think sometimes the language barrier is too much to overcome for other Latino parents. I have a hard time doing the mindless chit chat in English as a fluent speaker with the other parents, I imagine I would stay mum or look for other Latinos during practices or games instead of embarrasing myself trying to talk in broken English if I my first language was Spanish. For next year I'm actually looking to join one of the several independent teams that have been created in NOVA area.

Just a bit of perspective...

Never meant to say that Latino families are poor but agree with you that many see through the facade and aren't willing to pay for those very high fees. Regardless of the money, small clubs should be given the same opportunities to compete as those larger ones.

Can you give us some kind of definition for small clubs? And maybe some examples. Arlington is a big club, no doubts. Would BRYC count as a small club, I don't think so. Would FPYC count as small club, maybe, but they're still in a lot of competitions. TAFC count as small club, there are lot of Latinos in that club, not sure if that's where you were going with it though.

I think the clubs you mention besides Arlington are mid-sized clubs. I think of small clubs as those that don't have enough teams to move to a higher league like NCSL from ODSL. I think part of the reason they are not able to grow is because people automatically exclude them from their clubs to tryout at since they are only in ODSL so their talent goes elsewhere. There are many kids now playing at mid-to-large sized clubs that started at these smaller clubs but the access to better competition didn't allow the clubs to continue working with these players. I would think that some of these clubs currently in ODSL are Dynamite, Cougars, Mannassas FC, Real World FC. Just like these there were others that no longer exist today. These clubs end up playing against the lower level teams of the bigger clubs. I think all clubs in NCSL are considered mid-to-large sized.

If it's' only 4 or so clubs, why wouldn't NCSL just allow them in? I'm sure they would benefit from a few extra competitive teams.

Manassas SC is run by Karl and started their inaugural season this spring. I can assure he won't stay in ODSL for long. Dynamite is a club that takes in independent teams, as long as they play in 1st division they are getting the appropriate level of competition and can seek presidents and state cup to increase their standing. Most of the families at the last two clubs are made up of Latinos who, as one posted noted recently, probably didn't want to pay the high fees for small to large clubs to play in NCSL or NPL.

RWFC came from Real Mundial, a rec league that is mostly Latinos. All of the teams are extremely competitive, they're looking for more competition and may find ODSL to be a tad too easy. I don't think they would do well at all in their respective age group on D1 or D2 NCSL. I actually don't know anything about Cougars, they could possibly be a team within their club that would do well in higher level of competition l, I would say show it by entering the president and state cup and going to deep in the tournament. Otherwise you're just assuming Latino based teams are naturally better than other teams that are more based geographically.

Other than Manassas SC teams trained by Karl (very important differentiator) I would say none of the teams currently registered have what it takes to play competitively consistently in EDP, R1, etc. It's moot to discuss VPL or CCL cause they are a club based league. I would argue the travel involved for EDP or R1 would be discouraging and defeat the purpose for the parents of the kids who joined the teams within these clubs in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone post about this yet but more competition in the Loudon area. Wonder what league they will play in. Wonder if they'll get in to one of the top leagues in the area because of name.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/fc_barcelona_to_launch_soccer_school_in_loudoun_county432

Did anybody here go to their tryouts? Care to share?

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone post about this yet but more competition in the Loudon area. Wonder what league they will play in. Wonder if they'll get in to one of the top leagues in the area because of name.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/fc_barcelona_to_launch_soccer_school_in_loudoun_county432

Did anybody here go to their tryouts? Care to share?

Pretty good turnouts with the expected variance of talent.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone post about this yet but more competition in the Loudon area. Wonder what league they will play in. Wonder if they'll get in to one of the top leagues in the area because of name.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/fc_barcelona_to_launch_soccer_school_in_loudoun_county432

Did anybody here go to their tryouts? Care to share?

Pretty good turnouts with the expected variance of talent.

Was it impressive enough to join?

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Re: ODSL-only clubs like Dynamite, Cougars, etc.

Dynamite tried to get into NCSL in 2015 but was rejected, mostly because of concerns over field availability.

http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/bod-meetings/880484.html

IFC ran into similar problems.

http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/bod-meetings/887958.html
http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/bod-meetings/904046.html

Note that IFC has put teams in EDP. And they've done OK -- their U14s won their first five games rather handily.

(Cugini's U18s, on the other hand, have a goal difference of -23 through three games. How/why are they in EDP?)

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone post about this yet but more competition in the Loudon area. Wonder what league they will play in. Wonder if they'll get in to one of the top leagues in the area because of name.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/fc_barcelona_to_launch_soccer_school_in_loudoun_county432

Did anybody here go to their tryouts? Care to share?

Pretty good turnouts with the expected variance of talent.

Was it impressive enough to join?

That depends on your kids age. U8-U12 I think the training would be worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone post about this yet but more competition in the Loudon area. Wonder what league they will play in. Wonder if they'll get in to one of the top leagues in the area because of name.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/fc_barcelona_to_launch_soccer_school_in_loudoun_county432

Did anybody here go to their tryouts? Care to share?

Pretty good turnouts with the expected variance of talent.

Man...come on. What's is this BS. Lol....I hope they buy out evergreen and kick FCV off the fields so they have to practices at FCV fusion fields...lol

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Anonymous wrote:Re: ODSL-only clubs like Dynamite, Cougars, etc.

Dynamite tried to get into NCSL in 2015 but was rejected, mostly because of concerns over field availability.

http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/bod-meetings/880484.html

IFC ran into similar problems.

http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/bod-meetings/887958.html
http://www.ncsl-soccer.com/bod-meetings/904046.html

Note that IFC has put teams in EDP. And they've done OK -- their U14s won their first five games rather handily.

(Cugini's U18s, on the other hand, have a goal difference of -23 through three games. How/why are they in EDP?)

The cynic in me would say the emphasis on economically challenged communities was what killed the deal. Field availability and competitiveness was the official reason. I truly believe people aren't out to help other people, and the clubs maybe thought their teams might be challenged by a few of the DFC teams.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't seen anyone post about this yet but more competition in the Loudon area. Wonder what league they will play in. Wonder if they'll get in to one of the top leagues in the area because of name.

http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/fc_barcelona_to_launch_soccer_school_in_loudoun_county432

Did anybody here go to their tryouts? Care to share?

Pretty good turnouts with the expected variance of talent.

Man...come on. What's is this BS. Lol....I hope they buy out evergreen and kick FCV off the fields so they have to practices at FCV fusion fields...lol

What is your beef with FCV?