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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are currently an SYC family and our DS is in the older age brackets. Been at SYC for a long time. People on here who complain about lack of development are mostly right because they are talking about lack of teaching soccer positioning, rotation on the field, IQ you might call it.

But they are very good at helping a player develop individual skills. On the ball, intensity of the press, winning mentality. I really wish they could take that individual development and graduate to the bigger IQ development.

Again, most people will complain and say they don't develop, which I would agree with on a certain level. But there's an aspect to developing players many other clubs overlook which SYC is very good at.

And they do recruit, but it's not nearly as bad as everyone here makes it seem. My DS older MLS Next HG team has one starter recently added from another club. All the other players have been at SYC and moved up through the teams. [/quote]

Ha, I was going to post that there are certain positions that will do well at SYC (attacking wingers, strikers, goalkeepers, and probably defenders) based in part on what you wrote above about SYC being a good environment to develop tenacity.

These positions have less play making responsibilities (based on how SYC plays) so don’t need to really have super high IQ.

I would hazard a bet that those are the positions that are scouted for the USYNT and academies. [/quote]

Good observation (kind of makes me think you're an SYC parent too  :) ) I would refine this even further to say the weakness in development is combination/link up play and positional play. Individual creativity development is actually very high. I would take an SYC player against any other club's player one on one any day of the week. Problem is you can't dribble 11 people. So that's where SYC begins to run into problems and why everyone says their just puberty ball. It's not really a fair analysis, but I get the intent.

But who knows, positional play is already fading at the higher levels of football, so the next decade plus could be good for kids who develop in a less positional environment. [/quote]

l am not! But when your kid is MLSNext, the soccer world shrinks and you see the same teams and players.

What is consistent at SYC since U-littles is tenacity and the will to win.

I feel seasoned enough of a parent to know that there is a high level club that can maximize your kids position and skills to wherever they want to go.

I think if ur playing at an MLSNext/ECNL level in the DMV, assuming player is doing the work to get recruited, and college (Low D1 to D3) is the ultimate goal, SYC and other dmv clubs can get u there.

The fighting has always been whether DMV clubs can produce pros - especially pros who succeed abroad.

I think that question is still open[/quote]

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