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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of clubs have field space set aside for pickup soccer once or twice a week. If your player is high school aged, Draper Park in Fairfax usually has some great pickup games in the evenings, you'll see some real talented players there all the time.
[/quote] FPYC allocates  a full turf field at Draper in the summer and winter twice a week usually Fridays 5:30-7:30 and Sundays 2-4pm.  During the seasons (spring and fall), they provide a grass field every Sunday 2-4pm.  Very few people have been turning up the past few seasons.  Not sure why.  Someone even invited everyone on this message board there over the summer on Friday nights and still no one showed.  I see that Vienna provides Jones Branch for pick up on Friday nights, but you have to be a member of the club...exclusive pick up! : )[/quote]

Scheduling pick-up games is kind of like trying to conjure innovation and creativity out-of-nothing.  Not sure about you all, but I played a lot of pick-up basketball as a child/teenager, and somedays the court would be me and this other guy, and other days we'd be running 4v4 games with several people waiting to come on.  I would say find a place to go to play with your son/daughter and see who shows up.  By the way I'm Latino, college-educated, wife and three kids, and find the type of stereotypical comments on this board about pick-up soccer amongst Latinos means your kid will get "roughed up" to be completely ignorant bordering on prejudicial, untrue and have to believe the people posting are misinformed.  This is where other whites get the idea that Latino men will violate their women because they are blinded by their rage and are naturally sexually deviant.[/quote]

Dirtiest play we've seen this year is by entitled white kids on PAC and McLean.[/quote]

Really?? I am curious what age groups. In my experience, these two clubs seem less physical than others.[/quote]

Dirty is not the same thing as physical.  This is boys side, preteen age group. Coaches encouraging bad fouls.  Intentionally violent fouls to disrupt scoring opportunities. Players bitching at the ref the whole game. [/quote]

Exactly, people that see soccer as the no-contact sport that is super safe and their child will not be pushed around have a misinformed perspective about how the sport is really played.  Just so that everyone knows, shoulder-to-shoulder contact is fine, even if one of the kids is launched 3-5 feet. What that shows is the player has not been properly trained in maintaining balance and to lower their center of gravity by bending their knees.[/quote]

This is incorrect. If a shoulder charge is carried out with excessive force, the ref can and should blow the whistle.

I saw an amusing scene in a pro game once in which a player -- a guy with a pretty big rep as an indoor/outdoor "enforcer" -- came sprinting over and leveled someone from the other team. He managed to make it shoulder-to-shoulder, but this was by no means a legal play. The ref blew his whistle. The player half-heartedly pointed to his shoulder but then walked away. He knew what he did.

There are a lot of parents who don't understand that shielding and shoulder-to-shoulder contact are legal in most cases. At the same time, there are a lot of parents (and coaches and players and refs) who think anything goes as long as a player makes shoulder contact first or happens to be near the ball.

I've never seen a ref in Northern Virginia who calls too MUCH. Only refs who call it right or do little but pace around and occasionally blow the halftime whistle on time.[/quote]

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