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[quote=Anonymous][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]

PAC? Really? What age group? Most of their teams are waaaaay too timid. We're talking "flinching when someone five yards away gently passes the ball to someone else" timid.[/quote]

Yeah, I'll tell you even though it may out me because I feel like people are too secretive about this stuff.  PAC 05 Navy Boys.  The coach was abusive, and encouraged bad fouls, and seemed to have rubbed off on the boys.  One player was ejected and the coach nearly was.[/quote]

Ah -- OK. I thought someone said "preteen" earlier, so I was thinking U12 and below, in which I would've been totally shocked. I don't know the U13s as well. Was it a tall coach or a medium-height coach?[/quote]

U13 players are 11 and 12.  I don't recall the height of the coach.  He was provoked apparently by the play of his own team, not ours.  We are not Calverton (though Calverton has zero cautions to PAC's 2).[/quote]

Actually PAC has 2 yellows and 1 Red.  Not sure if the red is via the two yellows but...[/quote]

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