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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][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]

A. I'll be curious to see if the Escolas play only that formation and nothing else. They might, if only to reinforce the brand. Or they might not. We'll see. There are certainly ways to play fluid possession soccer with two CDMs -- a piece I have running tomorrow talks about a team reinventing itself from direct soccer by installing two players who could change the point of attack.

B. PAC generally doesn't have the luxury of picking players who can fit a system.

I have nothing against the Escola. Not at all. And Barcelona is one of my favorite clubs. I'm just bemused by the people who are so insistent that it's a revelatory club doing something no one else has attempted in the region (what's Cugini's style and approach?) and will threaten all the major powers in the region even though we already have scores of clubs here. (If we had only one youth club in the area and FCB was the second, sure, that'd be intense competition. But you're talking about a club that might take a couple from Loudoun, a couple from FCV, a couple from PWSI, a couple of SYA, etc., etc. I don't think any clubs will fold because FCB set up shop here, unless it's a really tiny club like FC Dulles or Cugini and ALL their players go to FCB.)[/quote]

You could make the case that rather than completely fluid possession, the double pivot allows for holding the ball and slowing the tempo, a more passive type of possession ala Man U under LVG or Juanma Lillo’s teams over the years. From what I have seen from FCB over the years, they will add more balance to the mid by sacrificing a forward and adding an extra centermid, creating a midfield diamond in a sort of 4-3-1-2 system. However the midfield base is usually the same. A single pivot to facilitate quick ball circulation by design, and 2 centermids in the channels rather than a single CAM, in a position from which they can support not only the center but also the wings of needed to open up the field.[/quote]

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