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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just saw an FCB Escola team scrimmage today. We beat them, but they made great decisions, were (mostly) very technically skilled, and were very well-coached and -disciplined. They didn't have as many players on their roster, so they got fatigued late.

From an unbiased observer: it looks like a great program that, unfortunately, is stuck out in Leesburg. [/quote]

"out in Leesburg." LOL

You do realize that Loudoun Soccer is the largest soccer club in Virginia right? And they also practice way out in Leesburg. [/quote]

Sure, but until FCBEscola (and soon DCU, I guess), there was absolutely no reason for anyone not already in Loudoun to go out there for soccer.[/quote]

The same can probably be said about wherever you are currently as well. [/quote]

Yep! If someone was driving here from Leesburg 4x a week to play at our club, that would be ridiculous.

The FCBEscola is something different, though. Lots of clubs say something about sacrificing a winning record in order to develop players, but it appears that FCB actually does it. They didn't win a single game, but kept them close most of the time against some of the best programs in MD and VA. It's very clear that these young men have been taught to play soccer together as a team, as opposed to just being a collection of fast kids on the playground that someone recruited to wear the same shirts.

That philosophy is the selling point for FCB, and it appears that at their Virginia academy they deliver on it.[/quote]

8 games: 8 defeats, 3 goals for and 30 against. Definitely delivering "something different" and "sacrificing a winning record". No doubt that they "kept them close most of the time against some of the best programs"... as long as you exclude the time when the other teams scored.
I have no problem with this, which is rather funny. The contempt for the other teams and their "fast kids on the playground that someone recruited to wear the same shirts" is more problematic...

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