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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not throwing stones, but seems like some of their teams are struggling out of the gates in EDP - albeit its very early. Did they push some teams in too early or was this sort of expected by the leadership there?[/quote]

I think it is a little bit of both.  It is harder at earlier ages, when playing out of the back against hard pressing teams so some mistakes/growing pains were probably expected.  Their older teams are doing well in the top divisions.  This week-end, 2003s and 2001s won 3-0 and 4-0 respectively.  [/quote]

The fact that their older teams are doing well might also be attributable to the fact that those kids had a decade of training before they came to Barca. It’s hard to know. [/quote]

This is true in a sense that these players developed their technique at younger ages, while playing for other clubs.  However, Barca's top teams display a distinctly different style of play from what you normally see on soccer fields in this area.  This is not something these boys learned in their prior clubs.  My son is on one of their older teams and he is raving about how good the coaching is.      [/quote]

Yes, I'd say there is a very clear program that is consistently being taught across the board.  I've never seen anything quite like that.  I have kids of different ages and genders and have largely seen the gambit of clubs in youth soccer.  What is very consistent is that no club has a completely distinct, consistent style that every team displays across the board.  Barca teams do.  The practices also have a consistent theme.  You look out across all the teams practicing and they are all on the same curriculum.

What Barca can't control is if it necessarily got the top talent in all the age groups that NoVA has to offer.  I'd say they got some talented players, but programs like the DA still have that sense of credibility and recognition.  The draw of being in the "right" league hasn't gone away.  What makes it what it is is that regardless of the level of player, they are being developed to play a certain way and to work with their teammates in a certain way.  It is a heavily possession based style.

I also love that the coaches give the players some creative license to try things without the coach jerking the player out.  That's a great balance:  be creative, but do it as part of the style of play they are being taught.[/quote]

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