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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These type of threads are always a blast on this forum...they always devolve in a similar fashion where it's well this or that or whatever.

I realize that the VDA 2009 team has pulled in a bunch of quality players from many different teams and they have been the recipients of getting a lot of positive PR from their current coach.  They most likely would have ended up where they have regardless.

And the RU 2009 team has mostly been made of girls who have come up from the RU program and who also had a coach who was well connected... they probably would have had the same occur as the VDA group.

And similar things can be said at some of the other top programs in the MA as well...

At this point at U17 the top players are concentrating not on recruitment but on development and growth...

Oh well, this seems to be a whole lot about nothing...

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That’s what you get in Richmond. Those teams come up together and there isn’t much turnover except when they bring in players from the beach area or Charlottesville or Roanoke. They also don’t have players leaving for greener pastures like all of the northern Virginia teams do.

There’s always a lot of turnover in northern Virginia. When you get into the later high school ages, most of the best players congregate to the best team.

I think it’s wrong to discredit the core Vda team though. It’s a really good team that started off not as a good team. They got better and they added some amazing players.

Vda won the MA and Richmond went further in the playoffs. They are easily the best two teams in the age group in Virginia.

[b]They also love playing each other. There is healthy respect between the players and coaches. Something that crazy northern Virginia soccer dads don’t understand.[[/b]/quote]

This has developed over time.  I think as the girls have grown older, they have gotten to know one another a little bit more through playing in league events, USYNT events, etc.  But it wasn't always that way.  There was some venom between the groups, especially after an RU player's lower leg was broken on a hard foul when they were younger - U14 IIRC.  But, again, I do see them as having a healthy competition on the pitch.  Both teams will be missing top players opening weekend as they are attending USYNT U-17 events in Chula Vista.  Good Luck to all this upcoming season.  Should be fun![/quote]

I guess the photos of what really happened on that tackle never made it to Richmond?[/quote]

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