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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The more I look at how high schools handle their programs, the more I feel like I’m seeing recreational soccer for teens.[/quote]

What are you looking at?

I saw last night a game between Whitman and Churchill where every single player out there was playing high club soccer. MLS Next, ECNL, E64, EDP regular.

They all moved the ball around, they all had technical skills.

The entire rosters in both teams were almost all seniors and juniors.

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The JVs are stacked too. If you see a varsity team with only one or no freshmen and maybe one or two sophomores - and all of those are MLS Next or ECNL (not ECNL-RL!), then you know you are facing a great team.

If varsity has like 5+ underclassman playing regular travel (Bethesda C or Potomac B or lower), they are just trying to build for next year or the year after that (or just don’t know what they are doing)

No team is winning a state championship with underclassmen.  You need size, strength, and speed of seniors to win.  Seen too many freshmen and sophomores getting career ending injuries playing on varsity.  It’s just rough sometimes and they don’t have the size or stength.[/quote]
It's way more than size.

You are clueless[/quote]

Man I’m old school but after watching that game you need size (not height) but you need to beef up a bit and work on athletic part as well. It was technical but very physical. I saw some viscous tackles out there where if the guy had been some lightweight kid he would have been broken in half [/quote]

You are the equivalent of the "old school" American football coaches that think players should be able to tackle head down and spear opponents. Don't let the kids that become paralyzed change your thinking.

When players are getting hurt playing a game this is a blinking red light that something is wrong.

Overly physical play is the hallmark of less skilled players. They get frustrated when more skilled players get around them and lash out to try and compensate. This is the main reason really good teams don't want to play bad teams. It's not worth the effort it takes to run up the score if your opponent is just going to cheap shot to get you out of the game.[/quote]

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