Anonymous wrote:How is the Samba Boyz's national schedule going so far? We know they were below average in the Texas tournament. What else is happening with that crew?

I'm sure they are busy telling us how it's a big deal their 3v3 teams are dOmiNaTiNg games as their 11v11 MLS Next teams are all getting embarrased in MLS Next.

How is the Samba Boyz's national schedule going so far? We know they were below average in the Texas tournament. What else is happening with that crew?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can this person explain why SYC stopped posting scores to their MLS Next games?

Because the fall season is over 🤷‍♂️

Their fall season ended back in September?

Anonymous wrote:Can this person explain why SYC stopped posting scores to their MLS Next games?

Because the fall season is over 🤷‍♂️

Can this person explain why SYC stopped posting scores to their MLS Next games?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC MLS Next parent. This “program” is not what was pitched to us. The practices have been the same, the competition has been much better than us, and it’s really becoming clear that we’re not even a feeder team to DC United. There has been no exposure, and having talked to some parents from out of state MLS Next clubs here (non MLS academies), we’re not doing several basic level elements of development. This “philosophy” of “play all the time” is a joke. Our teams are slower, less technical, and less intelligent than our opponents.

Leave the club. Every year on these boards there is a parent like you. Just leave the club! After a while people just get tired of the constant whining. Nobody cares.

You’re unhappy, we get it, but it was your decision to join SYC and it is your decision to stay.

You can leave and shut up at the same time.

Parents don’t shill for the club. They may disagree but often times they’ll find commonalities and offer a different opinion. These defense “then just leave” immediate responses are from club personnel. Honestly, EM. You, HG, JO, and the rest need to focus on improving this embarrassment of a “program” instead of trying to recruit your way to success. You’ll never be Arlington, and at this rate you’ll never even be Alexandria. VDA and McLean are miles beyond you.

I’m suggesting and have suggested that you leave. You’re unhappy. Leave. Nobody will care. You’re wasting way to much energy and emotion on this. LEAVE!!!

Move on with your life.

Someone is really hurt that Sally didn't make the top team

Wow. SYC paid employees live on this site

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC MLS Next parent. This “program” is not what was pitched to us. The practices have been the same, the competition has been much better than us, and it’s really becoming clear that we’re not even a feeder team to DC United. There has been no exposure, and having talked to some parents from out of state MLS Next clubs here (non MLS academies), we’re not doing several basic level elements of development. This “philosophy” of “play all the time” is a joke. Our teams are slower, less technical, and less intelligent than our opponents.

Leave the club. Every year on these boards there is a parent like you. Just leave the club! After a while people just get tired of the constant whining. Nobody cares.

You’re unhappy, we get it, but it was your decision to join SYC and it is your decision to stay.

You can leave and shut up at the same time.

Parents don’t shill for the club. They may disagree but often times they’ll find commonalities and offer a different opinion. These defense “then just leave” immediate responses are from club personnel. Honestly, EM. You, HG, JO, and the rest need to focus on improving this embarrassment of a “program” instead of trying to recruit your way to success. You’ll never be Arlington, and at this rate you’ll never even be Alexandria. VDA and McLean are miles beyond you.

I’m suggesting and have suggested that you leave. You’re unhappy. Leave. Nobody will care. You’re wasting way to much energy and emotion on this. LEAVE!!!

Move on with your life.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC MLS Next parent. This “program” is not what was pitched to us. The practices have been the same, the competition has been much better than us, and it’s really becoming clear that we’re not even a feeder team to DC United. There has been no exposure, and having talked to some parents from out of state MLS Next clubs here (non MLS academies), we’re not doing several basic level elements of development. This “philosophy” of “play all the time” is a joke. Our teams are slower, less technical, and less intelligent than our opponents.

Leave the club. Every year on these boards there is a parent like you. Just leave the club! After a while people just get tired of the constant whining. Nobody cares.

You’re unhappy, we get it, but it was your decision to join SYC and it is your decision to stay.

You can leave and shut up at the same time.

Parents don’t shill for the club. They may disagree but often times they’ll find commonalities and offer a different opinion. These defense “then just leave” immediate responses are from club personnel. Honestly, EM. You, HG, JO, and the rest need to focus on improving this embarrassment of a “program” instead of trying to recruit your way to success. You’ll never be Arlington, and at this rate you’ll never even be Alexandria. VDA and McLean are miles beyond you.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay so…. SYC is not in MLS Next. They’re in the MLS Next Intra-League. The only academy SYC will play is DC United. If DC United doesn’t take any SYC players, that shows you just how poorly SYC is doing. The purpose of MLS Next Intra League is to move played in MLS academies.

You don’t understand what is going on with the league. They also play Red Bulls and Philadelphia Union at all age groups. The MLS academy matches are in addition to regional schedules.

Agreed, people keep getting confused about the league vs. intra-league on the MLS Next website. If you look at it, you will see everyone plays everyone else twice each year. One at home, one away. Everyone that is in their division. The local division is Mid-atlantic. DCU red bull and union are in that mid-atlantic division and play each other and every other team in the mid atlantic division twice. one counts as league the other as inter-league. They split up the games between league and inter-league just to confuse everyone I guess. but there is no other secret MLS NEXT league where only DCU is going out to secretly play other MLS pro team's academies. You are either in or out. This isn't an ECNL vs. ECNL-R situation. At least not today.

You're wrong about there not being "another league" where only DCU goes out to play other MLS pro team's academies. The U15 and U17 DCU teams play a large number of games against many of the other MLS academies from Toronto in the north to Chicago in the west to Orlando in the south - games which non-DCU teams do not play. This doesn't happen at U16 because most MLS academies don't have a U16 team. It's not quite as split as ECNL and ECNL-R - but there is definitely a two tier league.

Proof?

Show us that schedule? The results? Where is this all posted?

It's not hard to find. Use this link https://www.mlssoccer.com/mlsnext/standings/2021-2022/u15_mls-next-standings and scroll down. You wll notice that the bottom four divisions are all MLS only.

If you scroll down to the Boys U15 East (North) division and expand the list under DCU, you will see that they have played games against Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando, Nashville, NYCFC, PU, New England, and have further games scheduled against NYRB, Toronto, Montreal, New England, NYCFC, PU, Montreal, and Miami.

The same is true for the U17s. Since there are no MLS teams in the U19 age bracket and only DCU fields a U16 team this is really not all that different from ECNL and ECNL-R. Also the best eleven players start all these games. Against the non MLS clubs, DCU (and I assume the other MLS clubs too) typically plays most of the game with its top players on the bench.

And at the current showcase the U15 and U17 MLS teams are playing an entirely separate tournament. There are very few MLS U16 teams and no U19 teams, so in effect there are two separate competitions going on - one for MLS and the other for non-MLS teams.

Anonymous wrote:SYC MLS Next parent. This “program” is not what was pitched to us. The practices have been the same, the competition has been much better than us, and it’s really becoming clear that we’re not even a feeder team to DC United. There has been no exposure, and having talked to some parents from out of state MLS Next clubs here (non MLS academies), we’re not doing several basic level elements of development. This “philosophy” of “play all the time” is a joke. Our teams are slower, less technical, and less intelligent than our opponents.

Leave the club. Every year on these boards there is a parent like you. Just leave the club! After a while people just get tired of the constant whining. Nobody cares.

You’re unhappy, we get it, but it was your decision to join SYC and it is your decision to stay.

You can leave and shut up at the same time.

Continuing… if was the SYC coach that keeps saying “our younger teams are good” that’s not true. It’s the style that is SYC that these coaches brought from LMVSC. Run and gun until the other team gets better. Usually about U14 to U15. If there’s no leadership change, we are done.

SYC MLS Next parent. This “program” is not what was pitched to us. The practices have been the same, the competition has been much better than us, and it’s really becoming clear that we’re not even a feeder team to DC United. There has been no exposure, and having talked to some parents from out of state MLS Next clubs here (non MLS academies), we’re not doing several basic level elements of development. This “philosophy” of “play all the time” is a joke. Our teams are slower, less technical, and less intelligent than our opponents.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay so…. SYC is not in MLS Next. They’re in the MLS Next Intra-League. The only academy SYC will play is DC United. If DC United doesn’t take any SYC players, that shows you just how poorly SYC is doing. The purpose of MLS Next Intra League is to move played in MLS academies.

You don’t understand what is going on with the league. They also play Red Bulls and Philadelphia Union at all age groups.

Well not at all age groups, since those clubs don't have teams at U16 or U19 age groups. And DCU doesn't have U13, U14 or U19 teams.

Explains why SYC is somewhat competitive at those two age groups and U15 and up falls off.

No it doesn’t. Bethesda is the top team in U13 mid Atlantic and one of the top nationally, both bethesda and SYC play Red Bulls and Philly Union, and SYC just beat bethesda. You don’t know what you are talking about so stop embarrassing yourself. The absence of DCU doesn’t make either of those teams great. They are really good period. The presence of dcu would not explain why SYC is not doing great, unless syc were losing all of its players to dcu. This has already been explained elsewhere, and if you don’t get it, you won’t and probably ought to stop infecting this board and your family and the gene pool with stupidity.

Imagine saying best 12 year olds and thinking you can get away with it smh lol

And imagine saying that kids who are not near the top at 12 are somehow going to be so much better in two or three years than players who are on top u13 teams right now. We know things change. But they don’t change that much among top players. Every one of the top players at DCU and elsewhere were top players at this age.

That's pretty much true. However they weren't all on a DA team at that age - there are top players outside these teams and obviously not every player on those teams is a top player. More importantly coaching matters for player development. Exactly which top players eventually get to DCU is definitely impacted by the quality of coaching they receive between 12 and 15.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay so…. SYC is not in MLS Next. They’re in the MLS Next Intra-League. The only academy SYC will play is DC United. If DC United doesn’t take any SYC players, that shows you just how poorly SYC is doing. The purpose of MLS Next Intra League is to move played in MLS academies.

You don’t understand what is going on with the league. They also play Red Bulls and Philadelphia Union at all age groups. The MLS academy matches are in addition to regional schedules.

Agreed, people keep getting confused about the league vs. intra-league on the MLS Next website. If you look at it, you will see everyone plays everyone else twice each year. One at home, one away. Everyone that is in their division. The local division is Mid-atlantic. DCU red bull and union are in that mid-atlantic division and play each other and every other team in the mid atlantic division twice. one counts as league the other as inter-league. They split up the games between league and inter-league just to confuse everyone I guess. but there is no other secret MLS NEXT league where only DCU is going out to secretly play other MLS pro team's academies. You are either in or out. This isn't an ECNL vs. ECNL-R situation. At least not today.

You're wrong about there not being "another league" where only DCU goes out to play other MLS pro team's academies. The U15 and U17 DCU teams play a large number of games against many of the other MLS academies from Toronto in the north to Chicago in the west to Orlando in the south - games which non-DCU teams do not play. This doesn't happen at U16 because most MLS academies don't have a U16 team. It's not quite as split as ECNL and ECNL-R - but there is definitely a two tier league.

Proof?

Show us that schedule? The results? Where is this all posted?