Allocating players on travel teams
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Anonymous
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Based on experience/club, when starting young teams, say for 2011s next Fall:
1. How do the TD coaches allocate players over multiple travel teams of same age? Are players tiered by ability and all placed on Team A then team B then C or some other way? 2. Are players truly rotated through positions equitably? Irrespective of physical ability i.e. slow players are placed on wings. 3. Are best coaches assigned by tiering as well? Specifically curious at Loudoun, Herndon, Vienna, CYA, GFR |
Anonymous
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general u9 info
grouping is by a balance of athleticism and technical abilities, but athleticism will probably come first.
Players will probably not be rotated that much.
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Anonymous
Is your child male or female? Curious why SYA and FCV not on your list too? Does your child have any experience? Skill? Speed? |
Anonymous
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Your range of clubs is pretty broad from a driving perspective. Where do you live? Agreed with previous poster, SYA > CYA in that FFX area, Herndon > GFR, McLean > VYS. If you are shopping at Loudoun > FCV for boys FCV > Loudoun for girls. Barca is also making a splash in that Loudoun area as well.
BRYC? |
Anonymous
SYA had an insane coach for one of the younger boys' teams this year so I would investigate that before committing. |
Anonymous
Please tell? |
Anonymous
OP was asking about young players. Loudoun > FCV by a long shot for any girls younger than U13. |
Anonymous
...if you like kick and run |
Anonymous
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1. How do the TD coaches allocate players over multiple travel teams of same age? Are players tiered by ability and all placed on Team A then team B then C or some other way? Yes, but each age-group coach is looking for different things. Some might weigh technical ability more than raw athleticism and other coaches the other way around. It matters less for U9 but they may already be looking at different players for specific positions. 2. Are players truly rotated through positions equitably? Irrespective of physical ability i.e. slow players are placed on wings. At U9 coaches should be regularly rotating players but IME it's really coach dependent. Why would slow players be on the wings? Do you mean wing back? At this age many coaches play a format where the kids that play in the wings are midfielders and they are usually the fastest because they have to cover up and down the field. There usually aren't enough players to have defensive players in the wings at this point in developmental soccer and the fields are quite small. On DS's U9 team they did rotate kids through 2-3 different positions in the fall. In the spring things are getting more fixed. FWIW the slowest kid on DS's team is a striker. He has good skills and scores a lot, but when he was in defense or mid he could not catch up to the opposing team's players. 3. Are best coaches assigned by tiering as well? Yes, usually. |
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Anonymous
1. Yes. Grouping takes into account athleticism, technical ability, and IMO, to a degree, physical size. 2. Generally yes. But if there is a particular position that a kid shows talent for throughout the season, and no other kid particularly wants to try it, they may leave the kid in that position. For example, my son's team had one kid who was a really good goalie, and no one else was particularly interested in it. The coach made other kids try it for parts of a game, just to learn about the position, but the kid who liked it and was talented at it played goalie most of the time. 3. The most experienced coaches go to higher tiered teams. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are inherently "better," but they have more coaching experience. But honestly, the "best" coaches will generally be working with older kids. |
Anonymous
Whomever posted this, could you add any color to this? I have a incoming U9 and SYA is our home club, would love to know more about this coach. Not sure if it's the same guy that presented at the parent meeting, but he seemed ok. |
Anonymous
| We played them a few times and yes, SYA"s U9 coach is a psycho, an angry short white guy. Kids were pretty good, but they played like a bunch of scared kids. |
Anonymous
Could you be confusing passionate for psycho. Some tend to do that but I have never seen him. Could it be over coaching at U9? |
Anonymous
Does your child play in SYA rec U8 now, or do the Academy? |