Bethesda Premier Cup Tournament 2023

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like players/teams with technical skills have an advantage over the kick & runners

Wait, or is it the opposite? haha

Bad fields are the great equalizer. Hurts skilled teams ar more than lesser teams.
That's why lower league teams in the FA Cup tend to let their fields go to crap when playing top teams.

Yep. My prediction for the U14 boys age group this weekend is that Loudon and Laurel will do well, because of this (physical, running teams). Alexandria will be at a disadvantage (small, skilled team). This is based on seeing these teams over a couple years so this year's versions may be different.

The internet is an interesting thing. What makes a U14 team a "physical, running" team?
Do other teams take a seat or walk slowly?

the skilled team will make the running team keep running and tire them out. I've seen it. And no one should care about winning at u14.

What happens is that the small skilled team starts off that way--looks good, hanging in there....but then they break when the big guns start kicking balling. The teams always digress and stop 'playing their game'. When the physicality is stark at these younger age groups (middle school/early HS) the kick ball can prevail.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

Weird. Didn't the 2010 girls just make it to national semifinals or finals?

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

That's ridiculous. We left BSC a while back and I have absolutely no love for them, but all their teams that I've seen are quite skilled in addition to being fast, and occasionally big.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

Weird. Didn't the 2010 girls just make it to national semifinals or finals?

Probably a troll, but say what you want about the yelling abusive coaches and this shodddy tournament but the top teams at BSC MLS/ECNL they can all flat out ball mainly becuase of technical skill from years and years of private trainings. Its a simple formula if you have the loot and the infrastrucutre in place that BSC certainly has with so many teams at each age level to compete for a spot on

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

That's ridiculous. We left BSC a while back and I have absolutely no love for them, but all their teams that I've seen are quite skilled in addition to being fast, and occasionally big.

"...all their teams that I've seen are quite skilled..."
Well, that's a bit of a stretch.

Bethesda will always have an enormous pool to choose from to create their top teams.
It's quite easy to put together a strong 'Academy 1' team when you have 4, 5, 6 teams per age group and 300 kids showing up for tryouts because of name-brand, versus having to make quality out of a few players like small clubs do.

Big clubs mainly manage talented players who enter as such, versus creating/developing them.

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Anonymous wrote:Quick question: Does the tournament permit individual players the opportunity to get on a list in the event a team needs a player, like they can for the Jefferson Cup? Thanks in advance.

Yes. But GotSport guest pool sucks and no coaches check it. Email the age group coordinator and they can spread it to the teams if you want.

Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

That's ridiculous. We left BSC a while back and I have absolutely no love for them, but all their teams that I've seen are quite skilled in addition to being fast, and occasionally big.

"...all their teams that I've seen are quite skilled..."
Well, that's a bit of a stretch.

Bethesda will always have an enormous pool to choose from to create their top teams.
It's quite easy to put together a strong 'Academy 1' team when you have 4, 5, 6 teams per age group and 300 kids showing up for tryouts because of name-brand, versus having to make quality out of a few players like small clubs do.

Big clubs mainly manage talented players who enter as such, versus creating/developing them.

And Brazil is always gonna be a great team becasue they're the largest soccer-crazed county on earth.
So what's your point?

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

That's ridiculous. We left BSC a while back and I have absolutely no love for them, but all their teams that I've seen are quite skilled in addition to being fast, and occasionally big.

"...all their teams that I've seen are quite skilled..."
Well, that's a bit of a stretch.

Bethesda will always have an enormous pool to choose from to create their top teams.
It's quite easy to put together a strong 'Academy 1' team when you have 4, 5, 6 teams per age group and 300 kids showing up for tryouts because of name-brand, versus having to make quality out of a few players like small clubs do.

Big clubs mainly manage talented players who enter as such, versus creating/developing them.

And Brazil is always gonna be a great team becasue they're the largest soccer-crazed county on earth.
So what's your point?

Brazil and Bethesda Soccer, two peas in a pod

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

Weird. Didn't the 2010 girls just make it to national semifinals or finals?

Probably a troll, but say what you want about the yelling abusive coaches and this shodddy tournament but the top teams at BSC MLS/ECNL they can all flat out ball mainly becuase of technical skill from years and years of private trainings. Its a simple formula if you have the loot and the infrastrucutre in place that BSC certainly has with so many teams at each age level to compete for a spot on

Just like Brazil and Argentina

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

Weird. Didn't the 2010 girls just make it to national semifinals or finals?

Probably a troll, but say what you want about the yelling abusive coaches and this shodddy tournament but the top teams at BSC MLS/ECNL they can all flat out ball mainly becuase of technical skill from years and years of private trainings. Its a simple formula if you have the loot and the infrastrucutre in place that BSC certainly has with so many teams at each age level to compete for a spot on

Just like Brazil and Argentina

Except that the club pays all the fees, not the player (the parents). Then they get sold on and that hopefully collects a fee that pays for more than it cost to develop the player. So right on just like Brazil and Argentina...

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Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

BSC oldest girls side just had half the team commit high D1.

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Anonymous wrote:sad for some teams to travel from very far away and play on soggy grass, and sad for more locals to play each other there: GFR v. Alex and VYS v. PW can't be too excited to travel for to play other locals on soaked pastures

Kids in true soccer culture countries across Europe and South America would laugh at this whining about fields being soggy grass.

They are also playing for free, and for their lives in some siutations, so yes very broken soccer culture here in the US that has littel to do with cultivating talent no matter their zip code. What's your point?

Kids don't need Manchester United quality pitch to enjoy the beautiful game and have fun.
So stop whining because little Sarah isn't playing on FIFA World Cup quality approved hybrid pitch.

+1 Also, do any of you complainers appreciate how beautiful it is out there? Regardless of which way you travel to Muldoon’s, you will be surrounded by lovely scenery. Muldoon’s was our home field for many years of our son’s childhood, and I always loved going there.

The fields are horrendous but at least the drive is pretty. That's what you are going with to defend Bethesda charging $$$$ per team and using Muldoons.

Can someone please list the negatives of the Muldoon Farms fields that had noticeable and real impacts on the games?

Please be specific.

In the past, they shortened the soccer games to have less wear and tear on the fields after it rained for the week before, so 20-minute halves, vs. 30-minute halves.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a pretty clear Bethesda doesn't think this is a top tournament since they didn't even put their own top boys teams in it.

You don't understand the landscape of youth soccer at all. You should be asking questions not making incorrect statements on here. BSC has some of the best boys and girls teams in the country and different age groups.

The boys side is pretty good because of their size. The girls side is pretty small and has not done anything in recent history.

Huh? The girls u14 team made it to the ecnl national semi finals. They are phenomenal.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how this works?

Liverpool FC International is 'ranked' 9th in Maryland for U13's. They are in the 4th Bracket of the U13's for tournament.
Also in the 4th Bracket are the Baltimore Celtic ECNL and the Loudoun ECNL teams.

Based on Liverpool’s performance they were in the wrong bracket. Too high. Expensive Matching bags, warmups and kit don’t seem to translate to wins for Liverpool or The St James

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Some of the decision-making for brackets came down to individual team performance in last year’s Bethesda tournament- at least explanation given for a top ranked U15 team to be placed in third tier this year.