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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington
http://www.arlingtonsoccer.com/travelsoccer/tryouts-fees-registration/ [/quote]

Anyone go to the Arlington U9 tryouts? Took my DS yesterday and seemed like there were 100 kids scrimmaging on over 10 fields. This was our first tryout experience and DS enjoyed it.[/quote]

Yes.  My child enjoyed them--but it was soooo late for the little boys.  Many were not showing their best because they are usually asleep by 8pm.  It's a very long day for kids that wake up at 6:30am, coupled with rec games the same day.

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1) time of tryouts was bad. the boys got stuck with the late times all 3 sessions.
2) My impression only (not sure if it will turn out to be the case) the second day a few of the evaluators really were just choosing pure physical Size of the players over Skill. Big kids toe-balling from one side to the other and just knocking kids down seemed to be in favor.  It wasn't that way the first night, but it was almost a completely different group of evaluators.  Hopefully, things will sort out.

But- they ran very smoothly, were well-organized and the kids really seemed to be having fun.  [/quote]

I thought it was run pretty smoothly too. I would agree that there was a lot of physical play. DS saw a lot of hard tackles and slide tackles that he normally does not see. I was glad that he was able to move up to play with the bigger kids because we started from what looked like the bottom of the ladder where my short DS was grouped with others similar in size. Actually I am glad he came out alive with some of the tackles he took lol. It seemed like he got settled on one field where he was neither moved up or down after multiple sessions.[/quote]

I thought it was idiotic that the youngest kids in the program have the latest tryouts minus the '98s.  The last ones are almost 7-8:15 again.

I have a short, skilled tough guy and agree with first poster.  The big kids got away with just toe-balling or knocking kids over.  I wish ball skill/moves and completed passes (no matter the players size) were valued higher.  But--maybe they will be.  After all, tryouts aren't even over yet.[/quote]

Welcome to relative age affect and coaches looking at size and speed over skill. They always believe they can teach skill. [/quote]

Except some of the small kids were fast as shit!![/quote

Think first speed is way more than important than physical first speed.

Those dolts can't tell the difference.

Thinking, smart players were rated lower.  Coaches that taught their kids to make space, think first (as they should!!!) basically fucked these kids over for tryouts.  thats not what they look for,  but I'll take that any day.

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