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[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]

Can't coach it, you can only coach it out of the players. Once you have taught the fundamentals just SHTFU and let the kids play its no secret. Creative players just play that way typically from playing pick-up and just fun juggling games, no coach is going to make a player creative, maybe they can cultivate one by staying out of the way. You want to create creative players, leave the coaches out of the actual playing (no Joysticking) of soccer and go play pick-up like they do everywhere else there is a soccer culture. Don't tell me pick-up doesn't exsist either, its out there its just not being posted on DCUM for you to show up in your gas guzzling monster SUVs in neighborhoods you would politely call "rough"[/quote]

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