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Anonymous wrote:Anyone got DCU U14 video links to past weekend matches against SYC and Delco?

https://youtu.be/k2BlxHhs7bg

no video from delco match

Wow, is this the DCU U14 b team? Very little ball control going on in this game. DCU seems to be trying to play from the back and SYC is just booting it. Good defending from SYC though.

Go to the 29:45 mark and watch for 45 seconds. This is why US Soccer is hopeless.

That’s what I was thinking of when I wrote that there seemed to be little ball control going on in the game. I mean not a single player who got a head on the ball tried to take it down to their feet and back to the ground.

Yup, 45 seconds tells a full and complete story.
Case closed 🤣

If going watch or fast forward through the entire thing, it was the same the rest of the game. No ball control on either side. That 45 seconds encapsulates the entire game well.

I’m sure those players are solid players, clearly, it was an off day for most of them.

Yeah, and it is not an indictment of the players, it’s an indictment of a club (DC United namely) that doesn’t teach players an understanding of how to play.

Please explain further and educate

Most importantly, list the clubs in the DMV that have coaching staffs teaching high levels of tactical understanding & execution in addition to exceptional decision making?
We need those examples to gain context.

None of the other clubs in the area is a professional soccer club. Are you that obtuse?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

A person gives an opinion that DCU players can't control a ball after watching 45 seconds of a game tape.
Then proclaims they aren't being taught how to play the game (I guess he's privy to their training sessions)

It's only prudent he gives examples of who's doing it right so we can compare and understand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:let me translate, he expects more you know cause its an MLS Academy team

and who is "he" pray tell?

What's his background, experience, qualifications and expertise?
What's his history and current levels of contact, exposure and affiliation with youth soccer at the highest levels?

[Anonymous]

End of the day coach picked players, fire the coach!

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone got DCU U14 video links to past weekend matches against SYC and Delco?

https://youtu.be/k2BlxHhs7bg

no video from delco match

Wow, is this the DCU U14 b team? Very little ball control going on in this game. DCU seems to be trying to play from the back and SYC is just booting it. Good defending from SYC though.

Go to the 29:45 mark and watch for 45 seconds. This is why US Soccer is hopeless.

That’s what I was thinking of when I wrote that there seemed to be little ball control going on in the game. I mean not a single player who got a head on the ball tried to take it down to their feet and back to the ground.

Yup, 45 seconds tells a full and complete story.
Case closed 🤣

If going watch or fast forward through the entire thing, it was the same the rest of the game. No ball control on either side. That 45 seconds encapsulates the entire game well.

I’m sure those players are solid players, clearly, it was an off day for most of them.

Yeah, and it is not an indictment of the players, it’s an indictment of a club (DC United namely) that doesn’t teach players an understanding of how to play.

Please explain further and educate

Most importantly, list the clubs in the DMV that have coaching staffs teaching high levels of tactical understanding & execution in addition to exceptional decision making?
We need those examples to gain context.

None of the other clubs in the area is a professional soccer club. Are you that obtuse?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

A person gives an opinion that DCU players can't control a ball after watching 45 seconds of a game tape.
Then proclaims they aren't being taught how to play the game (I guess he's privy to their training sessions)

It's only prudent he gives examples of who's doing it right so we can compare and understand.

So you don’t disagree that the ball control was atrocious throughout the match? Or do you have an excuse for that too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When you're anonymously criticizing the skill levels of the players selected to be at the DC United Academy, please do the region a favor by saying who your son plays for so that DCU scouts can go watch him.

With all the scouting they are doing, it's hard to fathom how they selectively keep missing the exceptional, once in a lifetime generational talents of DCUM parents kids.

Which top clubs with top talents at U12 and U13 are so elusive in the small DMV pool that DCU can't find them and aren't told about them?

A bit defensive r we? I mean maybe it was just a bad day for the kids. It was also windy so that might have contributed to the ball going all over the place.

I don’t think anyone should think that DCU finds and develops all the talented kids in the DMV area.

It’s one club for a huge metro area. Other comparable cities in Europe have more than one youth academy and can sustain those academies with talented players.

There are other pathways outside of the DCU path.

Name me a professional academy in the world that can accommodate ALL the talented kids in their region?
Even the cities with two professional academies can't accommodate ALL the talented kids in their area.
So you're stating the obvious.

Academies all over take a calculated risk approach to select what they consider the most talented kids with the best future potential and the best fit for their culture.
The number of kids obviously has limits.

Most of us unfortunately can't be objective when it comes to Junior and spin all kinds of narratives and conspiracy theories in our heads to deal with not getting selected.

I don’t see anyone spinning all kinds of narratives or conspiracy theories. I think you’re just extremely defensive whenever anyone criticizes DCU academy even though those criticisms are very legitimate. And that clip above of the U14s (or whoever they have playing up) is pretty cringe.

Compared to other U.S. academies in similar metro areas and what they’ve done to recruit and cultivate relationships with local clubs to support recruitment efforts, DCU’s efforts have been dismal. That is a fact. Are you going to defend that as well?

If your DCU kid was recruited by DCU, they will do well in spite of being at DCU so not sure why you need to be so worked up about it.

PhilaU here, we saw Delco match was surprised DCU lost by that much, head office picked wrong crop of players to develop, specially defensive line, too slow to catch up with delco ball control and speed.

You might be correct, send some of your boys down here we need them.

You're one a those that want to use other people's kids to make yours look better, then you post medals on FB?

[Anonymous]

Man, the DCU defender on this thread is either a troll or a very insecure person. Hope he’s not a liability to this DCU kids success.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone got DCU U14 video links to past weekend matches against SYC and Delco?

https://youtu.be/k2BlxHhs7bg

no video from delco match

Wow, is this the DCU U14 b team? Very little ball control going on in this game. DCU seems to be trying to play from the back and SYC is just booting it. Good defending from SYC though.

Go to the 29:45 mark and watch for 45 seconds. This is why US Soccer is hopeless.

That’s what I was thinking of when I wrote that there seemed to be little ball control going on in the game. I mean not a single player who got a head on the ball tried to take it down to their feet and back to the ground.

Yup, 45 seconds tells a full and complete story.
Case closed 🤣

If going watch or fast forward through the entire thing, it was the same the rest of the game. No ball control on either side. That 45 seconds encapsulates the entire game well.

I’m sure those players are solid players, clearly, it was an off day for most of them.

Yeah, and it is not an indictment of the players, it’s an indictment of a club (DC United namely) that doesn’t teach players an understanding of how to play.

Please explain further and educate

Most importantly, list the clubs in the DMV that have coaching staffs teaching high levels of tactical understanding & execution in addition to exceptional decision making?
We need those examples to gain context.

None of the other clubs in the area is a professional soccer club. Are you that obtuse?

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

A person gives an opinion that DCU players can't control a ball after watching 45 seconds of a game tape.
Then proclaims they aren't being taught how to play the game (I guess he's privy to their training sessions)

It's only prudent he gives examples of who's doing it right so we can compare and understand.

So you don’t disagree that the ball control was atrocious throughout the match? Or do you have an excuse for that too?

Don't need to see the match or the tape to know it's exaggerated over-embellishment hogwash that those kids can't control a ball or that ball control in general is atrocious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, the DCU defender on this thread is either a troll or a very insecure person. Hope he’s not a liability to this DCU kids success.

The people responding to false narratives aren't defending DCU
They're just not accepting the new normal of truth doesn't matter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Man, the DCU defender on this thread is either a troll or a very insecure person. Hope he’s not a liability to this DCU kids success.

translation: you're actually hoping for failure for any kid that not yours

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:End of the day coach picked players, fire the coach!

What did I miss? Fire the coach of what team for what reason?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:let me translate, he expects more you know cause its an MLS Academy team

and who is "he" pray tell?

What's his background, experience, qualifications and expertise?
What's his history and current levels of contact, exposure and affiliation with youth soccer at the highest levels?

Name a player who has come through DCU’s Academy in the last several years, and I probably know them…Do you know them? Talk them? Both the “success” stories of guys who are pro and those who are not? Sounds like you probably should.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:let me translate, he expects more you know cause its an MLS Academy team

and who is "he" pray tell?

What's his background, experience, qualifications and expertise?
What's his history and current levels of contact, exposure and affiliation with youth soccer at the highest levels?

Name a player who has come through DCU’s Academy in the last several years, and I probably know them…Do you know them? Talk them? Both the “success” stories of guys who are pro and those who are not? Sounds like you probably should.

Freddy Adu

Checkmate in the name-drop contest lol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:End of the day coach picked players, fire the coach!

What did I miss? Fire the coach of what team for what reason?

Try to end this thread. LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:End of the day coach picked players, fire the coach!

What did I miss? Fire the coach of what team for what reason?

Try to end this thread. LOL

True. The reality is, the DCU Academy has little or nothing to do directly with 99.98% of the people here.

Let's end this and move on to ECNL and GA shenanigans

[Anonymous]

Bad enough loosing to next team, got spanked by another on same weekend.