High School Soccer is the new teen recreational soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:For those club soccer elitists, you must support calendar year-based teams. No reason for school year teams when club players come from large geographic areas.

Yes. I do.

+1 Who said kids can only have friends in their same grade? They should be more accepting of others.

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Anonymous wrote:The more I look at how high schools handle their programs, the more I feel like I’m seeing recreational soccer for teens.

Go watch the top 10 teams in the DMV plate each other then report back. These teams are not rec soccer level. They are made up for MLS (yes- even the mighty do play Hs soccer) ECNL, and other RL players.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/29/boys-soccer-top-10/

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Anonymous wrote:I guess this is why all the Clubs have 19U teams.

Nah they have 19-u teams because of the trapped player debacle.

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Last year's VA high school championship game had 6 D1 commits, so this thread is stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:But what about Glenelg?

Genuine question...is anyone actually scouted through high school soccer? Are there even talented players only doing high school soccer and not club as well?

Teh most talented kids do not play HS - they dont want to get hurt by some field hockey kid from another team trying outside back for the first time.

This is absolutely not true. I would bet 90+% of ECNL boys play and 75% of MLS Next kids. Some DC United players risk repercussions and play against their coaches instructions. They all LOVE playing HS.

Calling BS on this

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Ask the kids! ALL MLS Next and ECNL players who play high school soccer will tell you that it’s a joke compared their other teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Last year's VA high school championship game had 6 D1 commits, so this thread is stupid.

And the rest of the kids were rec. Must’ve been a hoot!

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Anonymous wrote:Last year's VA high school championship game had 6 D1 commits, so this thread is stupid.

No, high school soccer is stupid.

I guarantee the "6 D1 commits" were club players and would have played in college if they played in HS or not.

Sorry private school parernt you're just not that special.

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Anonymous wrote:The more I look at how high schools handle their programs, the more I feel like I’m seeing recreational soccer for teens.

What are you looking at?

I saw last night a game between Whitman and Churchill where every single player out there was playing high club soccer. MLS Next, ECNL, E64, EDP regular.

They all moved the ball around, they all had technical skills.

The entire rosters in both teams were almost all seniors and juniors.

The JVs are stacked too. If you see a varsity team with only one or no freshmen and maybe one or two sophomores - and all of those are MLS Next or ECNL (not ECNL-RL!), then you know you are facing a great team.

If varsity has like 5+ underclassman playing regular travel (Bethesda C or Potomac B or lower), they are just trying to build for next year or the year after that (or just don’t know what they are doing)

No team is winning a state championship with underclassmen. You need size, strength, and speed of seniors to win. Seen too many freshmen and sophomores getting career ending injuries playing on varsity. It’s just rough sometimes and they don’t have the size or stength.

It's way more than size.

You are clueless

Man I’m old school but after watching that game you need size (not height) but you need to beef up a bit and work on athletic part as well. It was technical but very physical. I saw some viscous tackles out there where if the guy had been some lightweight kid he would have been broken in half

You are the equivalent of the "old school" American football coaches that think players should be able to tackle head down and spear opponents. Don't let the kids that become paralyzed change your thinking.

When players are getting hurt playing a game this is a blinking red light that something is wrong.

Overly physical play is the hallmark of less skilled players. They get frustrated when more skilled players get around them and lash out to try and compensate. This is the main reason really good teams don't want to play bad teams. It's not worth the effort it takes to run up the score if your opponent is just going to cheap shot to get you out of the game.

I'm actually an old school soccer player. I did not fully explain myself. I was very very technical and I will always favor that over speed and size. HOWEVER, after watching that game last night I realized that just having good ball skills is not good enough. You better get strong or else you won't be able to cut it.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmmm...interesting discussion.

My son played club soccer (classic level in VA) and also HS soccer. His HS soccer experience was really disappointing due to the coach's ineptitude. Just poor play, organization on the field, favoritism with time, etc.

He had a couple of friends on the local boys ECNL team who wanted to play their senior year and didn't last the entire season because it was so bad. One is playing at a Sun Belt D1 program now and the other at a local DIII school as freshman in college.

There are some HS boys programs locally here that are better, but it's still not great.

My daughter, freshman ECNL player, choose not to play HS - her ECNL club field a combined "Super Cup" team and played other local girls ECNL clubs and even a few younger ECNL boys squads. Much better experience compared to public HS girls soccer for her.

Now, there are a few privates that have good coaching and good squads overall, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

Which high school in VA was so bad?

https://www.maxpreps.com/va/soccer/24-25/division/visaa-di/rankings/1/?mobile=1&statedivisionid=4153afb7-591e-4ab1-a538-b1e0477c9ea3

I actually played against a few of these schools back in the day. Back then these teams were a mix of club mixed with rec. So I can imagine now. Thx for sharing.

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Anonymous wrote:The more I look at how high schools handle their programs, the more I feel like I’m seeing recreational soccer for teens.

Go watch the top 10 teams in the DMV plate each other then report back. These teams are not rec soccer level. They are made up for MLS (yes- even the mighty do play Hs soccer) ECNL, and other RL players.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/29/boys-soccer-top-10/

Awful soccer. Come on. There is maybe 1 semi competitive game in the entire WCAC.

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This is a ridiculous post - high school soccer is incredibly hard for kids to make.

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This varies -- bous vs girls.

This varies by school.

So there is not one answer.

I do ask one question though. If you are at a top private in Honors and AP classes (most rigor) with several hours of homewrok a day and playing club with four practices a week plus work out plus private coach plus games on weekend, how do you do fit in HS soccer? DD could not even if she wanted to.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a ridiculous post - high school soccer is incredibly hard for kids to make.

At our private it is just about anyone who wants to try out. Not hard.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a ridiculous post - high school soccer is incredibly hard for kids to make.

Hahahaha 😆

You have no idea.