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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did using 3 big biobanded kids on every team work out for the BSC U14's and U15's this weekend?[/quote]

Bethesda U14's and U15's even with their multiple biobanded big kids were totally dominated by DCU teams with small players playing up.

Boot and Chase ball has severe limitations at top levels [/quote]

I'm all for bashing Bethesda's misuse of the bio-banding rule.   I was hoping that they would have changed the practice this season for the 2010s.  They were blatantly floiting the rule last year playing 3 fully developed 2009 players.

At the same time, let's not understate DCU's physicality by saying "DCU teams with small players playing up."  Sure there are some standout smaller players they play up and play portions of the matches, but on the whole, the U15 team is big fast and physical.  [/quote]

I haven't seen a small U15's team anywhere in MLS Next since the puberty testosterone and growth spurts are kicking in at those ages.
That said, DCU has multiple 2011's playing U15

What does playing portions of the match mean?
Everyone plays portions of matches, no?[/quote]

you sound really defensive.  its a big physical fast team.  It's ok.  [/quote]

Because you sound simple and stupid discounting their individual technical skills and creativity they use to dominate a Bethesda who on average has a bigger,  older more physically aggressive team. [/quote]

now you sound extremely defensive.  I love the players on that team.  I'm not a Bethesda parent, or fan, and DCU U15 is not small.  You said, "dominated by DCU teams with small players playing up."  nobody discounted anything, just calling out your implication that DCU U-15 is small players playing up.[/quote]

I thought the PP was talking about the U14's as well?[/quote]

Whether the kids are small or big, the reality is that if you really watch any DCU game at pretty much all ages, what you'll see is a very unsophisticated way of playing (i.e. glorified kick and run football) and very weak philosophical/tactical underpinning at the club coming from the top of the academy and the leadership overall.  DCU has most of the physically developed kids in the area (for the most part) with a few late bloomers thrown in (and kids who are playing up) which allows them to physically dominate most opponents.  But, what you'll see very fast is that when a team can match their physicality and speed and actually knows how to play football against them, they are VERY weak.  Not in one age, but all ages.  It isn't the kids, it is how they are coached and assembled. 
 Bethesda is just trying to keep things together to stay competitive because they have realized that the clock is ticking on their relevancy.  Why they bio band so much.  Its sad actually because at the end of the day the only ones that are losing are these kids because they aren't getting developed like the rest of the world develops youth football talent. They are getting used to win games and, in DCU's case, keep them credible in MLS Academy world, and in Bethesda's case, keep the dumb parents paying ridiculous money for their kid to seem "elite". [/quote]

True, think DCU wiped SYC this past weekend all age groups.[/quote]
No.  The DCU U15s lost to SYC 1-0.  The other age groups won.  Think about the gravity of that in the context of the competitive landscape.  Here you have a club that takes the best players from the all the local clubs and STILL can’t consistently beat them.  If that isn’t an indictment on the coaching and development methodology at DCU I don’t know what is.

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Only in America where the soccer dunce feel a comfortable right to speak loudly in public would someone say a U15 team lost a game 1:0 to a good opponent so it's a statement on the organization's overall individual player development methodology 🤣🤣

How soccer dumb are some of you folks?

Please tell us how that scoreboard tells the story of the individual development methodology? Be specific.

(I guess academies in South America, Africa, Europe and the rest of America never lose games at U15, or they all have bad player development?) lol

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Professional academies in Europe don’t lose to local teams because they have the best players and the best coaches. If they do it is because they are playing older kids. It would be like Real Madrid losing to the town team in the 4th division.  It just doesnt happen. Of course u15 teams in Europe lose games.  Just not to non professional academies. And if they do it is VERY rare. DCU has the best players but loses to local teams.  Draw whatever conclusion you want about that.

If you have the best kids in the area and you’re a professional academy, you can’t draw the conclusion that the kids are developing if those teams are losing to local teams.  If anything they should be absolutely shredding them. Your argument works if SYC and DCU are similarly situated but the reality is they aren’t.  Winning doesn’t equal development.  I agree. But no professional academy wants to lose to local teams.

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