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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I was talking to a technical director at another club recently about the competitive level of current U9 boys teams and stuff.  He asked, "Have you seen Vienna play? (rhetorical) They are Fing pathetic.  Sure they score goals and get results but they can't string 3 passes together.  They have 4000 kids over there and that's what they are putting on the pitch. I'd be embarrassed."[/quote]

Said technical director sounds like someone who just got his butt kicked by Vienna's U9 boys.  I'd pit their Best XI against anyone in the state. [/quote]

Um, no.

I've been in this thread defending Vienna and its U9 boys. But first of all, results are secondary at this age. Second of all, plenty of other clubs have terrific first teams as well. Alexandria's passing game is brilliant. Herndon's a little more physical but quite skilled. Reston is the other NCSL team that has impressed me. Then add the CCL teams -- I haven't seen Loudoun's top team, but I can't imagine they're pushovers.

Unfortunately, we won't get to see VYS's top U9s against top competition at the Virginian Elite tournament. The top tier has Loudoun, Alexandria, Herndon and FPYC (more physical, less skilled than Herndon), but not VYS. I think the VYS team will have a pretty easy time winning its bracket.[/quote]

I've seen the VYS's U9 top team play.  They are very athletic and very technical. When they learn to start passing, everyone else better watch out.

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Now this VYS U9 team may indeed be special...but VYS has had a lot of "special" U9 boys team only to see them stagnate in their development and subsequently lose all their talent to other clubs that actually develop talent throughout the player's developmental years

What really needs to be taken out is the youth soccer mafia of this area and the parents that are in bed with them.  You have a bunch of coaches and directors from the lowest to the highest levels (including state and regional levels) that effectively bully parents into submission and parents that buy or annoy their way into becoming heavily influential.  The rest of the parents are the paying customers and it completely reasonable to expect some value out of the money that they pay to these so-called "professionals".

Let me break it down simply.

-If you are a vindictive asshole that punishes young boys and girls by black-listing them because their parents have the audacity to demand a certain level of professionalism from you as a trainer, coach or director then you shouldn't be in youth soccer.  If parents decide that another club is best for their sons or daughters, accept it and then do a better job the next season - don't blacklist Johnny or Susie at every club you have a mafia connection in.  Thats how you keep players and families happy not by scaring them into silence.
-If you are a lazy asshole with your high-level coaching license in charge of a high-level team that misses or cancels training, shows up to a training session late, hungover or unprepared without a lesson plan, you are stealing people's money and should be fired. Don't peacock around with your damn license.  It doesn't mean shit.  Work hard and give people their money's worth.
-If you are the hypocritical asshole that goes out and recruits other club's players and then whines when your players leave for another club, then you should work a little harder and make sure that no one WANTS to leave your program and good players WANT to come and join.  
-If you are the arrogant asshole that thinks no matter what you do, people will still come to play for you or under your club, then you need to be ready for a wake-up call.  More and more parents aren't going to deal with this crap any more.  There are more and more alternatives to your bullshit clubs and camps.

If you are a parent that has experienced any of these types of assholes, speak up!  Posts the names of these assholes and specifics of what they say or do all over every message board you can find and let's get back to making the early years of youth soccer about THE KIDS again.  If you are an asshole parent that is in bed with all of these assholes then your name should be plastered all over these boards as well.

The biggest challenge will be cleansing youth soccer in this area of this vermin.  Over 3/4 of the higher ups in youth soccer are one of these assholes.  Speak up people and either the assholes will change or they will be replaced.

And if you are a coach, trainer, director or parent that reads this and actually cares about your own level of professionalism, then take this as constructive feedback.  The kids deserve better.[/quote]

If there is a mafia and you know their names, why don't you start by posting them? Who are the assholes?[/quote]

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