Reply to Soccer Coach in Northern VA

Forum Index » Soccer

Reply to "Soccer Coach in Northern VA - Ask me anything"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=asksoccernova]I don't know the people actually involved behind the scenes with the girls DA happenings locally, but I'm reading these forums and trying to stay on top of what is going on.

There's the "soccer" part of the DA and the "$$$" part of the DA - I'm not a good resource for knowing the business model, marketing, fees, and who gets paid what and how the pie is divided and all of the politics/turf war shakeouts, but I think I have a good feel for the "on the field" stuff.

So my thoughts on the Girls DA is just my 2 cents without the knowledge of the marketing machine behind the boys and girls DA programs.

I think the choice between ECNL and DA would be heavily dependent on the coaching staff and what people say about their ability to develop players, not just win games or prep for showcases. The coach ALWAYS make or breaks the program. The coach is always has more direct influence over your player's development than the club or the league the team plays in, despite what anyone tells you.

If you take a summer class at Harvard and get a bad/inexperienced teacher who doesn't know what they are doing, you are paying a lot of money not to learn anything. But, it still looks good on paper to everyone else that you took a class at Harvard, and they start to assume that you must be bright, even if you're not.

Same with soccer! See the product on the field - it doesn't lie. Getting a hodgepodge of good players on the field together does not make a team. It takes a great coach to mold a great team together after working with them consistently for a longer time period.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics