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| NCSL lets you shuffle entire rosters at young ages, and CCL does too. The key is that the coaches or technical directors need to work things out in advance so Club 1 does not bring mixed U9 rosters while Club 2 is going with "A" and "B". Mixing them up for training at least once a week and for games sometimes is the best way to help them all develop at U9. The issue is tournaments- you have to roster them in for those since there are not unlimited movements there, so then how does the club choose to go (mixed or A/B) there? Again though, the development is the key and listening to how training and games will be handled is just critical if you're a U9 parent. Training philosophy remains crucial the whole way through of course. |
Anonymous
| An "A" player at age 8 is an "A" player for life. At least that's what the "A" parents say to each other when violently resisting any caste-mixing on Sundays. |
Anonymous
| What's the best summer soccer camp in Northern Virginia for travel-level players but open to all? |
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Well if you listen to the scuttlebutt, everyone is losing players and everyone is recruiting players. McLean losing more than they're gaining, Arlington was the hot place to be until the last 2 weeks. CYA recruiting but getting raided. BRYC struggling to keep their players and recruit others. PWSI promising the world. FCV losing players. Loudoun losing players. Annandale recruiting everyone. Bethesda trying to grow its Virginia presence and chapping everyone. SYA having trouble keeping talent. LMVS stabbing everyone in the back. Have no idea what Herndon is doing. VYS using smoke and mirrors to keep whatever is left there. JOGA screwing everyone over they can. If I have left your favorite club out, please add to the list. Youth Soccer at its finest. |
Anonymous
House league is looking better and better all the time. |
Anonymous
Anything bad happened in last two weeks for Arlington? |
Anonymous
Not sure what the original poster was getting at but lots of top kids are moving around from what I have heard too. Arlington and McLean have definitely been mentioned as clubs that may losing top boys and girls to other clubs. On the girls side, it wouldn't surprise me if the McLean/Arlington ECNL deal ends badly. On the boys side, it feels like the Wild West out there with teams chasing others teams' kids. |
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Like the prior poster said, it's tryout season and the rumors are flying. And while I think he's being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, realize that it's hard to make accurate generalizations about clubs* because things are different at each age/gender group -- what may be true about the U15 boys doesn't apply to the U11 girls, for example. *It is always accurate to say that Annandale and FCV are recruiting everybody.
I don't know any details about Arlington but they did release the coaching assignments for next season in the last week or two so that maybe that's the reason why it's no longer "the hot place". |
Anonymous
| The curse of Eddie Lima?!? Suspicious timing. |
Anonymous
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I'm not from the area but am moving there this summer so I thought this would be a good thread to read to see what club/travel team would suit my son.
He will be U17 this coming season and we will live in haymarket. Are there clubs to avoid? A club that's better? Are the rec teams good enough for a kid who has played club since U8 good enough or would he get bored? |
Anonymous
| Is it a bad omen if the team your child just made is the worst of the age group and doesn't have a coach hired for it? Does that mean they might disband it? |
Anonymous
| Not necessarily. If there are a full complement of players, it's likely that the team will continue. Lots of clubs/teams are still filling coaching positions and sometimes a team doesn't identify a coach if s/he is still coaching at a different club. |
Anonymous
| To the parent moving to Haymarket: most likely your child will be bored to tears in rec. Both VSA and SYA have decent rising U17B teams. I'd check both, see what the coach and players are like and pick the best fit. |
Anonymous
I think things are so big there now and there is no consistency with coaching. You have winning teams turned into losing teams depending on which ciach shows up that week for games. There is great variety in coaching ability. I am sure that is probably true most places. But--when your kid is stuck with the weak spot and it's just not the coaching --but also the Jedi mind fuck he does with top players that blows their confidence at a young age--it's not a good place for your kid. |
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You are going to see entire teams leaving big clubs. There is so much dissatisfaction out there and the big clubs don't care. Each player is soley seen as $. They figure if a player leaves because he/she is unhappy-so what--they are the problem--not us. With so many kids in the area they can just plug the spot with the next $.
The personal attention to player development is for the shits. Parents with no prior knowledge of the sport/travel soccer have the wool pulled over their eyes. Those that have moved through the system themselves see it for what it is. Some of the coaching is truly horrid. The factory style-system is not the way to run things. It always takes a shake-up/revolt to make change. Some of the best teams in the area came about by reforming elsewhere--branching off and starting with a new club. Some clubs really need a split. The smugness needs to stop. |