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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where can you find game scores for the DCU U14 team?[/quote]

🤣 You can't.  There is no real team.  Welcome to DCU.[/quote]

There's a team but not a real team? [/quote]

You haven't been following.  Too much to explain again. Go through the thread to the part about how DCU decided to drop the U14s the year and have a makeshift "team" playing random games.[/quote]

Oh, they have a U14's Future Roster players program

Not sure that qualifies as makeshift and random 
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considering that most academies have an actual team that trains together all the time, and they had a team at that age group last year, I think "makeshift and random" is fair for what it is now.[/quote]

The meanings of makeshift and random is subject to interpretation apparently

If the current U14's have a roster, structure and schedule,  that by nature makes it neither random nor makeshift

Frequency of training and games isn't a qualifier[/quote]

Oh?  Do they have those things?[/quote]

DCU doesn't have a u14 team this year. FULL STOP.  However you want to dress that fact up or play it down...be my guest. But that fact doesn't change.  Anyone saying otherwise is lying.  All of the kids playing with DCU at the u14 age group are basically guest players for DCU while still rostered and playing full minutes at their normal pay to play club.  [/quote]

DCU has a U14 Future Roster team 
They have a set roster list with selected game-day rosters 
They have a dedicated coach
They train weekly 
They have already played multiple games

All factual statements [/quote]

Future Roster, what a joke.  Can't fully commit to our kids, why do we send them there.[/quote]

We who?

Also, if you have goals and ambitions for your kid to take the best path to the highest levels of soccer, which club is a better option in the DMV than the Professional Academy of DCU?[/quote]

[b]Arlington, Achilles and Bethesda each have at least one technical coach on staff that I trust more than the DCU coaches I have had exposure to.  [b]That is not a blanket statement the clubs are better.[/b]  I follow the model that up to U15, technical development and ball mastery are the most important facets of the game you can focus on.  I have not been impressed by visiting DCU coaches my son has trained with regarding this aspect of development [/b]but I also have not had exposure to the whole coaching staff.  I just remain open to the best options for my son.

For example, I only hear a few coaches discussing the foot you are receiving on and mastering your first and second touch into space to create a new 2v1 situation on the field.  IMHO, this is coaching that should exist at these younger levels versus mastering a 3-5-2, 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 and learning tactical elements to win.  Naturally, people are going to argue me down on this but the same people think D1 is elite in the US and I humbly don't because I am training my son to complete globally.

Arlington, Alexandria and Bethesda have those coaches with the level of detail to master the basics.  SYC "may" but their historic record of player production and focus on winning does not even attract me to look in their direction so I may be blind to what they are doing.  Alexandria and VDA may as well but they are too far for me to entertain.  If DCUA has those coaches, I just have not experienced them yet.

It's okay to send your kid to DCUA because it is your best option.  It's not okay to label any anti-DCUA commentary as rejects simply because we don't trust it is the best option available for our kids.  Do your research and make the best decision for you.  What I have found is that most parents and coaches are not skilled in this level of technical development.  Even coaches and parents that are former "D1" don't truly understand the game beyond our American "hustle hard" mentality.[/quote]

Is this a joke?

You want to see dcu coaches show you their U8 to U13 age range development skills compared to the Grass Roots clubs?

Does someone need to point out the issue here?[/quote]

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