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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last night, HYS presented their side of the story versus Total Futbol’s version. Were any questions left unanswered?
Do you have any comments about the meeting?

Here are mine:

-Hiring more females as coaches or placing them on the board does not give the girls’ teams better representation. 
-Total Futbol ended up coaching so many HYS girl teams because they filled a void. Girls teams were left without coaches, or were offered underqualified ones. 
-Total Futbol teams have offered stronger players a path to being recruited by colleges. Their teams have better results and compete in more prestigious tournaments. 
-My DD started playing for TF fairly recently, when her HYS coaches left for personal reasons. She was perfectly happy with them, but now she has developed into a much stronger player, and has been contacted by college coaches without any effort from our part. 
-Could the older teams be grandfathered in?  
-Most of the older TF teams will follow their coaches. The oldes players can probably drive themselves, so distance will not be a major factor.
-TF also gave my DD the opportunity to play on older TF teams. She can also practice with girls who are in her same grade. 
-This will not sound nice, but having myself experience in Latin America, girls soccer has not been supported. Only recently have girls programs received some support. Many of the HYS coaches come from this background. When they were kids, barely any girls played soccer. There were hardly any organized programs for them. Were these coaches interested in supporting the girls on HYS teams?  Did Total Futbol fill in that void?  If so, why punish the girls with a change in coaches?

I understand HYS has good intentions, and they have been working hard, but it seems they are trying to emulate many of TF’s positive aspects. Why fix TF if it ain’t broke?[/quote]

After watching this meeting last night it sounds pretty clear that if HYS plans on improving its status in this area and opening itself up to more opportunities it has to sever ties with TF since it is for profit. It was noted that none of the other premier teams in premier leagues around here operate with a for profit entity coaching some of their teams in a team centric approach. It is not viewed favorably by specific leagues, and clubs do not want to partner with clubs who operate like that.

It was stated that HYS held discussions with TF on how to move forward but apparently TF won’t budge. I can see why TF wouldn’t want to give up this arrangement but at the same point what club will they take their teams too?  What’s the guarantee all the players will follow if they CAN find another club?  (Okay maybe LMVSC will...)

I don’t envy the players stuck in this position but if had a DD on a TF coached team I’d be asking some pretty hard questions of TF as well about what HYS had discussed within about keeping the current coaches on as HYS employees, etc. because the feeling I got is that HYS will absolutely separate from Total Futbol

I don’t envy the players stuck in this position, but the feeling I got from watching this is that HYS WILL separate from Total Futbol. [/quote]

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