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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=asksoccernova]The 2008's (U9s) are a victim of the age group change from US Soccer last year.

Basically what has happened is that you have players who already played travel soccer (along with training) for a full year who were "held back" for a year at U9. 
This has really messed things up, because you have players with a full year of experience mixed in with kids playing travel soccer (and with no advanced training yet) for the first time ever.

Its VERY obvious which players fall into which category when you see them in competitive games.

This favors large clubs because they have more players who are "repeating" U9 when in fact those players "should" be playing U10. I think this happened at Arlington, as one of their teams had a player at the Bethesda Thanksgiving tournament who was executing skills and decisions that aren't even taught to U9s because they don't have that level of spatial-reasoning ability developed yet after 1 season.

At that tournament, there were also girls playing in the U9 (2008) bracket who were dedicated goalkeepers and that you could tell had a lot of training, which doesn't add up for a player in their first season of U9 travel soccer.

Arlington -

1. Red 
2. White

3. Blue
4. Black

5. Silver
6. Gold

One coach works with 2 teams.

2008s U9: If your player is not on Red/White, don't go to Arlington for U9. There is a major gap in the level of play between Red/White and the other teams. It will be REALLY hard to make Red/White unless your player is very, very good because players have been held back from playing U10 already with a year of experience.

2007s U10: Excellent coaching staff with Red/White and Blue/Black but I'm sure still very hard to make a good team because of so many players in Arlington, and players "held back" from U11 that played U10 last year.

Bethesda -

2008s U9 - you want to be on Academy Blue. Theres a big gap between Blue and White.
2009s U10 - don't know this age group very well but I would think its a competitive group since bethesda has its act together *most* of the time

Stoddert -

I don't know Stoddert as well at these age groups, but I've heard that U9 is not that competitive, while U10 is better organized.[/quote]

The age change didn't allow anyone to play an extra year.  Actually, it was the opposite.  Most U8 players went up to U9, but some had to go from U8 straight to U10.[/quote]

Now this is correct.[/quote]

Yes, the coach has confused newbies on this board.  This 2016-17 year's U9 teams are composed of 2008 birth year players that finished U8 last year, as well as U7 last year.  Most U7 and U8 programs are rec, not travel, so no one had any advantage.

This 2016-17 year's U10 teams are composed of 2007 birth year players that finished U9 last year, as well as U8 last year.  If you look at many big clubs U10 teams, the kids who played U9 travel last year dominate the A teams at the club, and the kids who played U8 rec last year are down on the C, D, and below teams.  So, I guess that was the advantage of being born in the early part of the 2007 birth year.

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