Anonymous wrote:SYC if you wanna spend your weekends with screaming Karens stressed out about little kid soccer.

That's every team in Northern Virginia.

Anonymous wrote:You want a response so won't wastey your time with a question in response.

- Stay at your local club as long as long humanly possible or until they are 15/16 where I assume they are thriving currently, otherwise not sure why you would be seeking development advice for 10 and 11 years olds.

- Stay away from the big clubs, unless you are already there and are comfortabley in the elite 3 players on the team. You know if you are, if you aren't sure, you are not.

- Play with boys, until there is a consistent threat of injury. This is different for every girl because of mentality, physicality and team's style of play, you'll know when its not worth it anymore or even better your DD will tell you.

Good luck and always be your kid's biggest cheerleader, let everyone else critique her game.

As someone whose kid came up through I small club, I could not disagree more. The easiest jump from an EDP club to an ECNL or GA club is U13. That is the most open try outs will ever be. Only make the move if you get the ECNL/GA offer, but do not stick around if you do. Other girls will be making that move and as they do, the quality of the original team will go down. This effects training and the level of competition the team can play. You also have the problem of a small club's ability to field multiple teams when it becomes 11x11. At DD's former club, there was a very strong premier team and a very weak B team. At U13, they were forced to combine the teams both because neither had a roster large enough to support 11x11 and because girls were leaving for ECNL. The team went from winning EDP2 and regularly doing well in high brackets of good tournaments to being continually demoted and doing local only tournaments.

SYC if you wanna spend your weekends with screaming Karens stressed out about little kid soccer.

Anonymous wrote:1. SYC
2. NVA
3. Arlington
4. Union
5. FCV

Thanks, SYC mom.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
1. FCV
2. FCV
3. FCV
4. FCV
5. FCV

1. SYC
2. Other clubs

My daughter played against syc in the fall. Felt very kick and run/long ball

Anonymous wrote:
1. FCV
2. FCV
3. FCV
4. FCV
5. FCV

1. SYC
2. Other clubs

1. FCV
2. FCV
3. FCV
4. FCV
5. FCV

VDA is better than all these except SYC/NVA debatable on boys and girls side in the new NoVa landscape. FCV is a mess not in top 5

1. VDA
2. SYC
3. NVA
4. Union
5. Arlington

1. SYC
2. NVA
3. Arlington
4. Union
5. FCV

Anonymous wrote:You want a response so won't wastey your time with a question in response.

- Stay at your local club as long as long humanly possible or until they are 15/16 where I assume they are thriving currently, otherwise not sure why you would be seeking development advice for 10 and 11 years olds.

- Stay away from the big clubs, unless you are already there and are comfortabley in the elite 3 players on the team. You know if you are, if you aren't sure, you are not.

- Play with boys, until there is a consistent threat of injury. This is different for every girl because of mentality, physicality and team's style of play, you'll know when its not worth it anymore or even better your DD will tell you.

Good luck and always be your kid's biggest cheerleader, let everyone else critique her game.

This might smell of sarcasm but its actually spot on. Especially the boys thing. I think that depends on their position. Some boys are wild and really not up for getting embarrassed. If ur coach has the whole team doing this he is a good coach imo.

Guard your girlies energy n remind her to put competition over friendlies until off the field….

IFYNYN

Anonymous wrote:What does this even mean?

idk but it gets the posters going

Anonymous wrote:You want a response so won't wastey your time with a question in response.

- Stay at your local club as long as long humanly possible or until they are 15/16 where I assume they are thriving currently, otherwise not sure why you would be seeking development advice for 10 and 11 years olds.

- Stay away from the big clubs, unless you are already there and are comfortabley in the elite 3 players on the team. You know if you are, if you aren't sure, you are not.

- Play with boys, until there is a consistent threat of injury. This is different for every girl because of mentality, physicality and team's style of play, you'll know when its not worth it anymore or even better your DD will tell you.

Good luck and always be your kid's biggest cheerleader, let everyone else critique her game.

Agreed. I've seen alot of times parents move child to soon and it destroys development.

You want a response so won't wastey your time with a question in response.

- Stay at your local club as long as long humanly possible or until they are 15/16 where I assume they are thriving currently, otherwise not sure why you would be seeking development advice for 10 and 11 years olds.

- Stay away from the big clubs, unless you are already there and are comfortabley in the elite 3 players on the team. You know if you are, if you aren't sure, you are not.

- Play with boys, until there is a consistent threat of injury. This is different for every girl because of mentality, physicality and team's style of play, you'll know when its not worth it anymore or even better your DD will tell you.

Good luck and always be your kid's biggest cheerleader, let everyone else critique her game.

What does this even mean?

It looks like all the opportunities to show in this important transition year have been overtaken by DCUM arguments about GA vs NA vs ECNL with the landscape changes, particularly in NVA.

If you have a u12/2012 girl, what is her best development plan?