totally

Worry about your own kid.

Can someone explain ID sessions verses regular travel tryout? New to area and kid has first “travel tryout” tonight. I’ve read posts here and talked to some parents(most seems gossip/ unreliable info). Strong athlete in multiple sports but best at soccer. Not thinking college at all(at least at this point)but loves the sport and wants more than one day a week. Wants to play on HS team(2 years away). Is my kid going to automatically be placed in a “lower” field as stated above because they’ve never been seen?

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Anonymous wrote:So confused. ID session tonight and one of the bottoms two girls in the age bracket was on the top field for scrimmage.

Girls’ dad is one of the nightmares, that tries to be everyone’s friend, and everyone tolerates when they have to interact, but largely avoid.

And unbeknownst to me and a number of other mom’s, his daughter was one of the coaches favorites…that was a shock tbh. Considering the coach was constantly yelling at her for being out of position, making awful decisions, and sabotaging her teammates.

Everyone was shocked tonight.

Omg! A soccer parent trying to be friendly and chat with other parents! He sounds like a monster.

Yeah, it’s not that sort of friendly. It’s the manipulative sort. Gossipy, leveraged what people say to cause issues, uses other parents as pretext to work the coach, etc.

If you don’t understand and recognize that sort of parent, you’re lucky.

The hypocrisy of this post is almost palpable.

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Club soccer is the proven pathway to nowhere for 99% of club soccer players in most regions like the DMV. Read that again. And of the few that are actually recruited, they easily could have attended those schools (or better) without soccer. Lifelong lessons of enduring verbal and emotional abuse by coaches who are grown men? What financial gains could you possibly be referencing? Club soccer is nothing but a tremendous financial drain. Friends? Not likely over the last 7-10 years, now teams are churned every year, so there is no stability or long-term relationships, thus no chemistry on the field, and even teams that stay together cannibalize each other to be the unicorn and the coach's favorite.

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Anonymous wrote:So confused. ID session tonight and one of the bottoms two girls in the age bracket was on the top field for scrimmage.

Girls’ dad is one of the nightmares, that tries to be everyone’s friend, and everyone tolerates when they have to interact, but largely avoid.

And unbeknownst to me and a number of other mom’s, his daughter was one of the coaches favorites…that was a shock tbh. Considering the coach was constantly yelling at her for being out of position, making awful decisions, and sabotaging her teammates.

Everyone was shocked tonight.

Omg! A soccer parent trying to be friendly and chat with other parents! He sounds like a monster.

Yeah, it’s not that sort of friendly. It’s the manipulative sort. Gossipy, leveraged what people say to cause issues, uses other parents as pretext to work the coach, etc.

If you don’t understand and recognize that sort of parent, you’re lucky.

Anonymous wrote:So confused. ID session tonight and one of the bottoms two girls in the age bracket was on the top field for scrimmage.

Girls’ dad is one of the nightmares, that tries to be everyone’s friend, and everyone tolerates when they have to interact, but largely avoid.

And unbeknownst to me and a number of other mom’s, his daughter was one of the coaches favorites…that was a shock tbh. Considering the coach was constantly yelling at her for being out of position, making awful decisions, and sabotaging her teammates.

Everyone was shocked tonight.

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Anonymous wrote:So confused. ID session tonight and one of the bottoms two girls in the age bracket was on the top field for scrimmage.

Girls’ dad is one of the nightmares, that tries to be everyone’s friend, and everyone tolerates when they have to interact, but largely avoid.

And unbeknownst to me and a number of other mom’s, his daughter was one of the coaches favorites…that was a shock tbh. Considering the coach was constantly yelling at her for being out of position, making awful decisions, and sabotaging her teammates.

Everyone was shocked tonight.

Omg! A soccer parent trying to be friendly and chat with other parents! He sounds like a monster.

Anonymous wrote:Not valor.

But no, it was clear this team was the “made it” field. Middle field was “evaluating” and bottom field was “thanks for coming.”
Very confusing why this girl wasn’t on the middle field at highest. Slow, no technique, not tactically aware, bad teammate on field (good teammate off field), and parents are hard to deal with.

The team manager was basically losing her mind last night though, and she is extremely political. But you could hear her saying “everybody was looking forward to not having to play with her, what are the coaches thinking?” And the team manager is extremely forward with her politics, so she may make that choose painful for the coaches. We’ll see, next and last ID session is Friday, tbc.

Which tryout?

Not valor.

But no, it was clear this team was the “made it” field. Middle field was “evaluating” and bottom field was “thanks for coming.”
Very confusing why this girl wasn’t on the middle field at highest. Slow, no technique, not tactically aware, bad teammate on field (good teammate off field), and parents are hard to deal with.

The team manager was basically losing her mind last night though, and she is extremely political. But you could hear her saying “everybody was looking forward to not having to play with her, what are the coaches thinking?” And the team manager is extremely forward with her politics, so she may make that choose painful for the coaches. We’ll see, next and last ID session is Friday, tbc.

Was it Valor? They did some weird mixing on the boys side too. It wasn’t just all the top players on one field, second team on another, etc. I’m not sure what it was meant to accomplish. Was it the first tryout? Maybe they will group them at the second one.

Maybe he was trying to mix the players up so the parents couldnt tell which was the "go0d field".

Maybe coach put the player there so the parents could see for themselves that they aren't ready to be at that level. Being on a scrimmage field doesn't mean they are getting an offer.

Anonymous wrote:So confused. ID session tonight and one of the bottoms two girls in the age bracket was on the top field for scrimmage.

Girls’ dad is one of the nightmares, that tries to be everyone’s friend, and everyone tolerates when they have to interact, but largely avoid.

And unbeknownst to me and a number of other mom’s, his daughter was one of the coaches favorites…that was a shock tbh. Considering the coach was constantly yelling at her for being out of position, making awful decisions, and sabotaging her teammates.

Everyone was shocked tonight.

Cool story bro. 🥱

So confused. ID session tonight and one of the bottoms two girls in the age bracket was on the top field for scrimmage.

Girls’ dad is one of the nightmares, that tries to be everyone’s friend, and everyone tolerates when they have to interact, but largely avoid.

And unbeknownst to me and a number of other mom’s, his daughter was one of the coaches favorites…that was a shock tbh. Considering the coach was constantly yelling at her for being out of position, making awful decisions, and sabotaging her teammates.

Everyone was shocked tonight.