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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think Arlington’s problems derive from coaches and directors who want to make money. Sure, many of them are meatheads who couldn’t do much outside of teaching kids how to kick a ball, but I don’t think they’re motivated by money. The problem is simpler: that they’re not motivated at all.

There is zero accountability built into the club structure, and so naturally there is zero expectation for success. Thus there is no picture of what success looks like. Because defining success means you might not achieve it, at which point the mirror becomes uncomfortable.

The DC/NOVA area is filled to the brim with people who live in the world of accountability, metrics, success, and advancement. Arlington Soccer sticks out like a sore thumb because of how casually it accepts incompetence and failure. The soccer leadership is one giant circle-jerk where the ethos is “it may be someone’s fault that we swim in the shallow end but it isn’t mine, and if I tell you who’s fault it is, next year you’ll come for me.” It’s the stark contrast between a consumer population that knows what it could be and a soccer program that is held captive by a middle management that is extremely confident in its mediocrity. [/quote]

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