Soccer is back in Arlington!!!

[Anonymous]

Just biked past a soccer field and caught a glimpse of people playing what appears to be a pickup game on a pitch - a first in what three months?! Joy to the soccer world from Arlington. Screw this quarantine already!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just biked past a soccer field and caught a glimpse of people playing what appears to be a pickup game on a pitch - a first in what three months?! Joy to the soccer world from Arlington. Screw this quarantine already!

Yep the governor saw it and now Virginia is back under lock down for another 3 months.

[Anonymous]

It’s not the first in three months. Just the first you’ve seen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just biked past a soccer field and caught a glimpse of people playing what appears to be a pickup game on a pitch - a first in what three months?! Joy to the soccer world from Arlington. Screw this quarantine already!

I saw a field full of kids from SAC, Armour and Pipeline in Columbia, including full-bore 3 v 3 games. And NOVA people wonder why those Maryland teams kick our butts. They are just a lot tougher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just biked past a soccer field and caught a glimpse of people playing what appears to be a pickup game on a pitch - a first in what three months?! Joy to the soccer world from Arlington. Screw this quarantine already!

I saw a field full of kids from SAC, Armour and Pipeline in Columbia, including full-bore 3 v 3 games. And NOVA people wonder why those Maryland teams kick our butts. They are just a lot tougher.

Except they don’t...

[Anonymous]

We need to do something positive for once on DCUM

We all need to come together and tell the governor to open the fields now!!!

[Anonymous]

Yes we need to go out. Kids need to go back to their sports or they’ll get sick of something else like depression W
if we all are going to get sick better to know sooner than later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not the first in three months. Just the first you’ve seen.

Yes sir captain obvious.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only cynic on this one? Why do I feel like OP only announced that people were using a field to cause a backlash?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to do something positive for once on DCUM

We all need to come together and tell the governor to open the fields now!!!

Try e-mailing him and see what response you get. Nada. You can get a response from the Fairfax County Chairman of the Board of Supervisors though. But he just says "there's nothing I can do - tell it to the governor" because he's not in the business of taking responsibility for anything.

[Anonymous]

Yeah and Arlington averages more twisted ankles and bruised shins.. Why? Bigger club than most. More players therefore more injuries. Life is full of risks . Are you sure you want to send your kids on a school bus without a seatbelt? Leave your snowflakes home teach them how to crochet or collect comic books.

[Anonymous]

I read threads from Recent Topics and have observed that there are more pro-opening-at-all-costs posters on the Soccer Forum than any other, even in Health and Medicine or Politics, where people battle it out every day.

Are any soccer parents concerned about balancing safety and continuing the sport? Do any understand that close contact will contribute to creating clusters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah and Arlington averages more twisted ankles and bruised shins.. Why? Bigger club than most. More players therefore more injuries. Life is full of risks . Are you sure you want to send your kids on a school bus without a seatbelt? Leave your snowflakes home teach them how to crochet or collect comic books.

You sound a lot like this guy:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/04/27/pastor-landon-spradlin-coronavirus-death/%3foutputType=amp

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I read threads from Recent Topics and have observed that there are more pro-opening-at-all-costs posters on the Soccer Forum than any other, even in Health and Medicine or Politics, where people battle it out every day.

Are any soccer parents concerned about balancing safety and continuing the sport? Do any understand that close contact will contribute to creating clusters?

Gee. We never thought of that. See 90,000 other posts on this in these soccer threads. The problem is that there is no "balance" in those who think that we cannot take any risks in resuming life because they may create clusters. If you are back to school indoors, even with distancing, there should be no problem with playing outdoors. In the first study examining the outbreaks in China, teams of researchers found 318 outbreaks of three or more people (clusters) between January 4 and February 11. NOT ONE ORIGINATED OUTDOORS. Is there no risk? I don't think anybody can say there is no risk. Is the risk low relative to multiple other risks in our daily lives outside of outdoor soccer? Yes. How about the risk for kids relative to others? Yes, very very low compared to others involving an activity that is very very very low risk for adults in an activity where there has been no identified outbreak germinus. So in balancing the incremental risk of this versus all else, do we stay in? Are you nuts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I read threads from Recent Topics and have observed that there are more pro-opening-at-all-costs posters on the Soccer Forum than any other, even in Health and Medicine or Politics, where people battle it out every day.

Are any soccer parents concerned about balancing safety and continuing the sport? Do any understand that close contact will contribute to creating clusters?

The same is true in the Facebook Soccer Parents group. There is a huge movement to get back on the field, and many of the comments are a bit simplistic.

I think for many parents there are very real financial / life changing issues at play in the next 12-24-36 months (i.e. college scholarships) and they've pineed so much on the soccer route they are fearful of anything that disrupts that path.

I also find it interesting that in the UK and Europe, many of the PLAYERS are the ones not wanting to return until everything is safe. There have been several high profile players, and the players union, speaking out against a rush back to the pitch. Quite a bit different from the soccer parents.