Arlington Tryout/Offer Notification

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Anonymous wrote:EIGHT long balls in 45 minutes! Arlington can be proud.

An '04 player making his pro debut for Loudoun United and committed to the University of Virginia, yes, Arlington should be proud!

Eight long balls in 45 minutes in his debut game tells you a lot about the style of play. And the long balls had 62.5 percent accuracy so it is not like he was pinging the balls accurately.

Hard to know how accurate he was without seeing the game don't you think?

The tweet from Arlington about his debut, provided the stats, including the number of long balls attempted and long balls completed.

Sorry, the tweet was from DMV soccer, I misidentified it, but the stats are there.

I know - but my point was that completion percentage doesn't really give you the full picture without the context of the game. The incompletions may have been accurate passes into tiny spaces where the payoff could have been a goal. Or they may have been hurried clearances where completion was less important than the clearance. Or they may just have been inaccurate passes.

Right. I am sure he made no mistakes and never has. Good grief relax.

Relax? Me? I'm not the person who jumped on a kid who just made his professional debut and, instead of applauding or celebrating, decided to rip his performance on the basis of one stat, revealing not only your ignorance of soccer, but your mean and spiteful character as well.

Good grief. Fix your problems, whatever they are.

[Anonymous]

09B Academy invite accepted.

Re: MLS Next digging into the Arlington talent pool I will say this. 1. The one thing Arlington has no shortage of at this age group is really good talent. 2. I would be cautious about jumping from a club with a long-standing tradition of churning out really good players to a brand new hyper-competitive league. SYC’s MLS Next tryouts were an unfettered S-show and my understanding is Alexandria didn’t draw a whole lot of talent outside their red and white teams. And the one thing I can assure you is that SYC and Alexandria didn’t get the selections right this first go. So kids are getting it in their mind that they want to leave. Let them play and nurture a love of the game. There is so much pressure to find something better and from what I’ve seen, Arlington is a great program with really great coaches. Not without faults of course, but the more you look around the more you realize every club has issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:09B Academy invite accepted.

Re: MLS Next digging into the Arlington talent pool I will say this. 1. The one thing Arlington has no shortage of at this age group is really good talent. 2. I would be cautious about jumping from a club with a long-standing tradition of churning out really good players to a brand new hyper-competitive league. SYC’s MLS Next tryouts were an unfettered S-show and my understanding is Alexandria didn’t draw a whole lot of talent outside their red and white teams. And the one thing I can assure you is that SYC and Alexandria didn’t get the selections right this first go. So kids are getting it in their mind that they want to leave. Let them play and nurture a love of the game. There is so much pressure to find something better and from what I’ve seen, Arlington is a great program with really great coaches. Not without faults of course, but the more you look around the more you realize every club has issues.

You don't have to badmouth MLS Next clubs' tryouts simply because you did not get an offer. Having more options is good for players, there is no need to attack other clubs to make yourself feel better about your club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:09B Academy invite accepted.

Re: MLS Next digging into the Arlington talent pool I will say this. 1. The one thing Arlington has no shortage of at this age group is really good talent. 2. I would be cautious about jumping from a club with a long-standing tradition of churning out really good players to a brand new hyper-competitive league. SYC’s MLS Next tryouts were an unfettered S-show and my understanding is Alexandria didn’t draw a whole lot of talent outside their red and white teams. And the one thing I can assure you is that SYC and Alexandria didn’t get the selections right this first go. So kids are getting it in their mind that they want to leave. Let them play and nurture a love of the game. There is so much pressure to find something better and from what I’ve seen, Arlington is a great program with really great coaches. Not without faults of course, but the more you look around the more you realize every club has issues.

Are you new to the club or existing Arlington family?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:09B Academy invite accepted.

Re: MLS Next digging into the Arlington talent pool I will say this. 1. The one thing Arlington has no shortage of at this age group is really good talent. 2. I would be cautious about jumping from a club with a long-standing tradition of churning out really good players to a brand new hyper-competitive league. SYC’s MLS Next tryouts were an unfettered S-show and my understanding is Alexandria didn’t draw a whole lot of talent outside their red and white teams. And the one thing I can assure you is that SYC and Alexandria didn’t get the selections right this first go. So kids are getting it in their mind that they want to leave. Let them play and nurture a love of the game. There is so much pressure to find something better and from what I’ve seen, Arlington is a great program with really great coaches. Not without faults of course, but the more you look around the more you realize every club has issues.

Congratulations. How do you know SYC and Alexandria didn't get their selections right this first go?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:09B Academy invite accepted.

Re: MLS Next digging into the Arlington talent pool I will say this. 1. The one thing Arlington has no shortage of at this age group is really good talent. 2. I would be cautious about jumping from a club with a long-standing tradition of churning out really good players to a brand new hyper-competitive league. SYC’s MLS Next tryouts were an unfettered S-show and my understanding is Alexandria didn’t draw a whole lot of talent outside their red and white teams. And the one thing I can assure you is that SYC and Alexandria didn’t get the selections right this first go. So kids are getting it in their mind that they want to leave. Let them play and nurture a love of the game. There is so much pressure to find something better and from what I’ve seen, Arlington is a great program with really great coaches. Not without faults of course, but the more you look around the more you realize every club has issues.

Congratulations. How do you know SYC and Alexandria didn't get their selections right this first go?

Went for tryouts and didn’t get an offer.

[Anonymous]

I am not the PP, and I don't have a good grasp on what the talent level that tried out elsewhere is, but we were concerned about the substitutions rules for MLS Next. Seems like it could encourage some kids not getting played much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:09B Academy invite accepted.

Re: MLS Next digging into the Arlington talent pool I will say this. 1. The one thing Arlington has no shortage of at this age group is really good talent. 2. I would be cautious about jumping from a club with a long-standing tradition of churning out really good players to a brand new hyper-competitive league. SYC’s MLS Next tryouts were an unfettered S-show and my understanding is Alexandria didn’t draw a whole lot of talent outside their red and white teams. And the one thing I can assure you is that SYC and Alexandria didn’t get the selections right this first go. So kids are getting it in their mind that they want to leave. Let them play and nurture a love of the game. There is so much pressure to find something better and from what I’ve seen, Arlington is a great program with really great coaches. Not without faults of course, but the more you look around the more you realize every club has issues.

Congratulations. How do you know SYC and Alexandria didn't get their selections right this first go?

And how does the poster know that kids are already thinking of leaving? Huh? Just an enormous pile of steaming bs.

[Anonymous]

It is not because Alexandria and SYC are better, it is because players think things could be different.
In reality, they are the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not because Alexandria and SYC are better, it is because players think things could be different.
In reality, they are the same.

Honestly I cannot follow what you are saying. But it’s been a long day so maybe just me. In any event congrats.

[Anonymous]

I don't think he/she is badmouthing the clubs and I really don't understand why that would be your first thought... what they were saying is there was a ton of kids there. SYC ran their MLS Next tryouts and their Academy tryouts at the same time on the same fields with all the same kids. From everything I've heard there were easily over 200 kids out there and this isn't the first time I have heard the term "S-show" used to describe the scene.

Thanks for posting and congrats to your boy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think he/she is badmouthing the clubs and I really don't understand why that would be your first thought... what they were saying is there was a ton of kids there. SYC ran their MLS Next tryouts and their Academy tryouts at the same time on the same fields with all the same kids. From everything I've heard there were easily over 200 kids out there and this isn't the first time I have heard the term "S-show" used to describe the scene.

Thanks for posting and congrats to your boy.

PP said that nobody showed up at Alexandria tryouts other than kids from Alexandria lower teams, which I find hard to believe. PP also described SYC tryouts with the s word and said that the coaches got their selections wrong. These were pretty negative things to say.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not the PP, and I don't have a good grasp on what the talent level that tried out elsewhere is, but we were concerned about the substitutions rules for MLS Next. Seems like it could encourage some kids not getting played much.

This is absolutely true and that's why Alexandria's MLS Next team also plays CCL so that the kids that didn't get much or any playing time in the MLS Next match, they can get time in the CCL match. I wouldn't be surprised if some kids on the MLS Next roster get barely any time in those games.

[Anonymous]

PP said that nobody showed up at Alexandria tryouts other than kids from Alexandria lower teams, which I find hard to believe.

That is not what the person said! The red and white teams are the top two Alexandria teams.

[Anonymous]

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PP said that nobody showed up at Alexandria tryouts other than kids from Alexandria lower teams, which I find hard to believe.

That is not what the person said! The red and white teams are the top two Alexandria teams.

They were scheduled until 10pm on a school night for current 12-year olds (2008). I think right there you are going to limit who comes out, especially if they live any distance from the field.