Anonymous wrote:Take your player to a local soccer field when he doesn't have practice and let him play pickup with the Hispanic kids that can't afford a team but feel their soccer and are crazy about it. Your player will improve by leaps and bounds on a technical level, might learn some tricks and footwork that he would never learn from a coach, and he will make some soccer friends that are for life. You won't regret it and your player will have a blast getting an occasional reprieve from the shackles of organized soccer.

Anonymous wrote:I just saw that Arlington Soccer Assoc's Executive Director has now joined DC Stoddert Soccer as Recreational Program Director. It sounds like he will be in charge of a mid-level soccer between Rec and Travel. Anyone know why he switched clubs and is not the Executive Director?

http://www.soccerwire.com/notes/dc-stoddert-soccer-hires-justin-wilt-as-recreational-program-director/

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Anonymous wrote:Take your player to a local soccer field when he doesn't have practice and let him play pickup with the Hispanic kids that can't afford a team but feel their soccer and are crazy about it. Your player will improve by leaps and bounds on a technical level, might learn some tricks and footwork that he would never learn from a coach, and he will make some soccer friends that are for life. You won't regret it and your player will have a blast getting an occasional reprieve from the shackles of organized soccer.

Anyone care to PM me about where and when some of those pick-up games are played in Northern VA or DC ? I won't repost. I've asked this question several times, and answer still remains elusive since nobody wants to ruin a good thing. I'd like to get my elementary aged travel boys roughed up playing in some pick up games.

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NoVaRTP wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Take your player to a local soccer field when he doesn't have practice and let him play pickup with the Hispanic kids that can't afford a team but feel their soccer and are crazy about it. Your player will improve by leaps and bounds on a technical level, might learn some tricks and footwork that he would never learn from a coach, and he will make some soccer friends that are for life. You won't regret it and your player will have a blast getting an occasional reprieve from the shackles of organized soccer.

Anyone care to PM me about where and when some of those pick-up games are played in Northern VA or DC ? I won't repost. I've asked this question several times, and answer still remains elusive since nobody wants to ruin a good thing. I'd like to get my elementary aged travel boys roughed up playing in some pick up games.

I always assumed weekend play, but maybe some of the lighted turf fields off limits to organized play in the evening, i.e. Thomas Jefferson Rec in Arlington?

Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

FPYC allocates a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm. During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm. Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons. Not sure why. Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed. I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

FPYC allocates a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm. During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm. Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons. Not sure why. Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed. I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )

Scheduling pick-up games is kind of like trying to conjure innovation and creativity out-of-nothing. Not sure about you all, but I played a lot of pick-up basketball as a child/teenager, and somedays the court would be me and this other guy, and other days we'd be running 4v4 games with several people waiting to come on. I would say find a place to go to play with your son/daughter and see who shows up. By the way I'm Latino, college-educated, wife and three kids, and find the type of stereotypical comments on this board about pick-up soccer amongst Latinos means your kid will get "roughed up" to be completely ignorant bordering on prejudicial, untrue and have to believe the people posting are misinformed. This is where other whites get the idea that Latino men will violate their women because they are blinded by their rage and are naturally sexually deviant.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

FPYC allocates a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm. During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm. Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons. Not sure why. Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed. I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )

Scheduling pick-up games is kind of like trying to conjure innovation and creativity out-of-nothing. Not sure about you all, but I played a lot of pick-up basketball as a child/teenager, and somedays the court would be me and this other guy, and other days we'd be running 4v4 games with several people waiting to come on. I would say find a place to go to play with your son/daughter and see who shows up. By the way I'm Latino, college-educated, wife and three kids, and find the type of stereotypical comments on this board about pick-up soccer amongst Latinos means your kid will get "roughed up" to be completely ignorant bordering on prejudicial, untrue and have to believe the people posting are misinformed. This is where other whites get the idea that Latino men will violate their women because they are blinded by their rage and are naturally sexually deviant.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

FPYC allocates a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm. During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm. Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons. Not sure why. Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed. I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )

Scheduling pick-up games is kind of like trying to conjure innovation and creativity out-of-nothing. Not sure about you all, but I played a lot of pick-up basketball as a child/teenager, and somedays the court would be me and this other guy, and other days we'd be running 4v4 games with several people waiting to come on. I would say find a place to go to play with your son/daughter and see who shows up. By the way I'm Latino, college-educated, wife and three kids, and find the type of stereotypical comments on this board about pick-up soccer amongst Latinos means your kid will get "roughed up" to be completely ignorant bordering on prejudicial, untrue and have to believe the people posting are misinformed. This is where other whites get the idea that Latino men will violate their women because they are blinded by their rage and are naturally sexually deviant.

Dirtiest play we've seen this year is by entitled white kids on PAC and McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

FPYC allocates a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm. During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm. Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons. Not sure why. Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed. I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )

Scheduling pick-up games is kind of like trying to conjure innovation and creativity out-of-nothing. Not sure about you all, but I played a lot of pick-up basketball as a child/teenager, and somedays the court would be me and this other guy, and other days we'd be running 4v4 games with several people waiting to come on. I would say find a place to go to play with your son/daughter and see who shows up. By the way I'm Latino, college-educated, wife and three kids, and find the type of stereotypical comments on this board about pick-up soccer amongst Latinos means your kid will get "roughed up" to be completely ignorant bordering on prejudicial, untrue and have to believe the people posting are misinformed. This is where other whites get the idea that Latino men will violate their women because they are blinded by their rage and are naturally sexually deviant.

Dirtiest play we've seen this year is by entitled white kids on PAC and McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

FPYC allocates a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm. During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm. Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons. Not sure why. Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed. I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )

Scheduling pick-up games is kind of like trying to conjure innovation and creativity out-of-nothing. Not sure about you all, but I played a lot of pick-up basketball as a child/teenager, and somedays the court would be me and this other guy, and other days we'd be running 4v4 games with several people waiting to come on. I would say find a place to go to play with your son/daughter and see who shows up. By the way I'm Latino, college-educated, wife and three kids, and find the type of stereotypical comments on this board about pick-up soccer amongst Latinos means your kid will get "roughed up" to be completely ignorant bordering on prejudicial, untrue and have to believe the people posting are misinformed. This is where other whites get the idea that Latino men will violate their women because they are blinded by their rage and are naturally sexually deviant.

Dirtiest play we've seen this year is by entitled white kids on PAC and McLean.

Really?? I am curious what age groups. In my experience, these two clubs seem less physical than others.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.

FPYC allocates a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm. During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm. Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons. Not sure why. Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed. I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )

Scheduling pick-up games is kind of like trying to conjure innovation and creativity out-of-nothing. Not sure about you all, but I played a lot of pick-up basketball as a child/teenager, and somedays the court would be me and this other guy, and other days we'd be running 4v4 games with several people waiting to come on. I would say find a place to go to play with your son/daughter and see who shows up. By the way I'm Latino, college-educated, wife and three kids, and find the type of stereotypical comments on this board about pick-up soccer amongst Latinos means your kid will get "roughed up" to be completely ignorant bordering on prejudicial, untrue and have to believe the people posting are misinformed. This is where other whites get the idea that Latino men will violate their women because they are blinded by their rage and are naturally sexually deviant.

Dirtiest play we've seen this year is by entitled white kids on PAC and McLean.

Really?? I am curious what age groups. In my experience, these two clubs seem less physical than others.

That latin team Barcelona (not the FCBEscola) is really dirty. Coaches are unruly and kids target hits. Seen them more that I'd like and everytime someone leaves injured.