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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington is kick and run club that only  plays all the athletic girls!!!! [/quote]

The number of exclamation points doesn’t add to the accuracy here. Not sure if this is just a troll being intentionally reductive, but it’s not accurate.

As a former Arlington parent, I didn’t see a push for kick and run, and I saw coaching that was built around rondos and building from the back. If anything, i thought the kids tended to be TOO coached, and when they played a team with an aggressive press they would fail to use the long ball to get them out of trouble. At least on the girls side I didn’t see lots of creative playmaking. I’d say the one real weakness (and this is probably more the kids and not the club) was they could get bullied by physical teams. Not a lot of willingness to be vocally or physically imposing. These are well behaved DMV kids who aren’t as comfortable in a fight.[/quote]

I don’t know when the last time u actually watched them play….. they are well behaved kids ready for a fight. [/quote]

When teams get full-on dirty, the Arlington girls tended to hope the refs would step in, and I have never seen an arlington girl step toe to toe with an opposing player after a really bad foul. There are other teams that are absolutely coached to essentially dare the ref to card them; most refs won’t. I witnessed an Arlington coach get a yellow card trying to get a ref to do something, but I have never seen the players take it into their own hands.

I know that’s not how anyone should play or should think about the game, but the reality is that you have to find solutions. College D1 teams are pretty damn dirty at times, and they use women who are just physical beasts to knock players around. I think that some colleges see Arlington play and may ask about how they will do playing against a team of thugs.[/quote]

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