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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the email from Barca a couple of times.  I think part of what they meant is players weren't put on a team for the year.  To compare, in most clubs, if you make the DA, ECNL, or whatever team, that is your team for the year.  Then if you aren't good enough, you have a year maybe to catch up.  And if maybe you should have been on an elite team, but were only classic or DP, or whatever, there's not really much hope of moving up, except the occasional guest playing opportunity.

Barca doesn't appear to do it that way.  If you are in an age group, you aren't part of a set team.  You can be moved from team to team, as seems appropriate.  And I have already seen a little of that with a couple of players.[/quote]

Last year, players were moved between the teams and age groups both up and down.  Another difference is that there is no drop off in terms of quality of coaching between the teams.   The teams in the same age group are generally practicing side by side on the same field doing the same drills under the same methodology.  [/quote]

This all sounds a bit like PAC, which has all its U9 through U12 teams practicing at the same time with coaches switching and sharing duties. Not much movement on gamedays, though. (Which has its pros and cons -- parents like to be able to plan around a game schedule, so moving up and down can throw a wrinkle in things.)[/quote]

Barca is absolutely nothing like PAC.  I wish people that want to constantly throw shade would actually go out and watch in person---or find a set of parents that actually have kids in the program to talk to.[/quote]

How is this "throwing shade"?

Conversely, how many PAC sessions have people attended? I guess you could watch from some Mosaic apartments.[/quote]

I know coaches from both places and have seen sessions and games from both. Yes they both try to play possession, but it’s very much a different style. Barcelona play with strictly 1 CDM for example, who’s really more of a deep playmaker than a Makelele-type destroyer.  This allows for 2 10/8s to support underneath for the trident up top and make runs into the box for the pullback.[/quote]

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