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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people just don’t want to  acknowledging how bad the Alexandria MLS teams currently are.  Cant blame them.  Hopefully the future is better for that club.  [/quote]

Among MLS Next teams in area (other than DCU), only the following are ranked higher in each group

05/06:  Bethesda, Armour (barely)

07:  Nobody

08:  Armour

09:  SYC, Bethesda, Armour

10:  SYC, Bethesda, Armour

011: SYC (barely)

So Armour is ahead in 4/6, Bethesda and SYC are ahead in 3/6.  I'd say that's pretty solid.
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Yeah.  I think they hold their own fairly well except in the 2010 and 2009 age groups.  I think some of that might be attributed to a young coach working to find his footing.  Some of it is talent.  And some of it is organizational philosophy.  [b]Alexandria's train by playing approach [/b]might not be the best fit for a 4-day a week practice schedule.  I think they'd do well to incorporate more individual skill work and team conditioning/speed training.  [/quote]

Can you elaborate on this? And any particular years that you know of specifically?  Ds is considering trying out there for next year. [/quote]

Ex-ASA parent here.  The traditional Alexandria philosophy was that individual/technical work and fitness were activities that can and should be done outside of practice.  I happen to agree with this, strongly.  And ASA top players tend to play futsal as well, which enhances technical/individual skill development, at least in the off season.  But it is also noticeable that ASA players may be a little less fit or 1 v 1 oriented than players developed at other clubs, with some very notable exceptions among ASA players who have gone to DCU.

Practices are heavy on buildup, shape and positional play.  My son learned more at early ages there than the rest of his years in soccer combined.  He took care of skills at HP.[/quote]

The club has a philosophy that goes against 1v1's and focuses primarily on team tactics?

What about dribbling and creativity?[/quote]

How do you coach creativity?[/quote]

Every player wants to be creative.

Creativity can be coached out of them by not allowing them to dribble and be imaginative. 
Critiquing them for doing ball mastery moves and constantly encouraging them to pass.

If you focus on decision making instead of joystick 🕹 coaching and allow them to make mistakes instead of just Booting It and Sending It.... You're coaching to be creative. [/quote]

Isn't there a time and place for that?  Luckily in areas of the world where soccer is everywhere, including just out on the street, that fosters individuals ability to be creative in 1 vs X situations.  Here there are private opportunities to get a large amount of touches against other players in small settings.  If you're lucky you live in an area that may have kids getting together to play some street ball or pickup at a field.

I don't think it's an awful thing for a coach to critique players that constantly make it all about themselves when they have the ball, doing fancy footwork and losing the ball in a team setting during a match when teammates are available to help.  Letting players learn to fail helps for sure but there always has to be some balance.[/quote]

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