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Anonymous wrote:Prediction - SSSAS beats STA this week, signaling a rise of its soccer program to match its lacrosse program.

Inapt analogy because the best HS lacrosse players do play for their school teams -- HS soccer has the best players scooped off by the Academy system. And IAC lacrosse is a top league nationally -- not so for IAC soccer teams, which would be beaten by California middle school teams. And, at least from this thread, unless you can beat the Landon team, closest thing around to the U.S. Men's National Team, you're nothing in the IAC. They only lost because they were so very tired from beating a TOP Jersey side the day before, after all! So, it's all about Landon. Right?

Having watched many a HS soccer game, the academy payers that end up coming back and playing for HS, have a much better experience than club. When the whole school is there watching your team take on a rival,that is camaraderie that you can't buy. It's too bad that club soccer took that away from so many.

I have seen the same thing. There's no question, the level of technical skill and consistency of the coaching is much higher at the top-end club level (with Academy at the top). This is an additional attempt to make the U.S. Youth Soccer experience closer to the successful European club model, all with the goal of having a stronger U.S. Men's National Team at the end of the day. Basically, in the short term, it has just ended up making the Academy system a recruiting feeder for American Division I colleges. So you can probably say it's good for the colleges, it's good for the national soccer federation, but there is a price to the kids themselves. I hope that soccer will be an outlier and HS sports participation can still be a reality for other youth club sports players in other sports, but who knows.

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Anonymous wrote:Prediction - SSSAS beats STA this week, signaling a rise of its soccer program to match its lacrosse program.

Inapt analogy because the best HS lacrosse players do play for their school teams -- HS soccer has the best players scooped off by the Academy system. And IAC lacrosse is a top league nationally -- not so for IAC soccer teams, which would be beaten by California middle school teams. And, at least from this thread, unless you can beat the Landon team, closest thing around to the U.S. Men's National Team, you're nothing in the IAC. They only lost because they were so very tired from beating a TOP Jersey side the day before, after all! So, it's all about Landon. Right?

Having watched many a HS soccer game, the academy payers that end up coming back and playing for HS, have a much better experience than club. When the whole school is there watching your team take on a rival,that is camaraderie that you can't buy. It's too bad that club soccer took that away from so many.

Anonymous wrote:Prediction - SSSAS beats STA this week, signaling a rise of its soccer program to match its lacrosse program.

Saints 2. Bulldogs 1.

IAC soccer predictions: 1) Landon; 2) STA; 3) Prep; 4) Bullis; 5) SSSA; 6) Episcopal

Anonymous wrote:Prediction - SSSAS beats STA this week, signaling a rise of its soccer program to match its lacrosse program.

Inapt analogy because the best HS lacrosse players do play for their school teams -- HS soccer has the best players scooped off by the Academy system. And IAC lacrosse is a top league nationally -- not so for IAC soccer teams, which would be beaten by California middle school teams. And, at least from this thread, unless you can beat the Landon team, closest thing around to the U.S. Men's National Team, you're nothing in the IAC. They only lost because they were so very tired from beating a TOP Jersey side the day before, after all! So, it's all about Landon. Right?

Prediction - SSSAS beats STA this week, signaling a rise of its soccer program to match its lacrosse program.

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Anonymous wrote:The Heights beat Landon yesterday.

Wow. Score? Is the Heights undefeated?

1-0. Heights has one loss (Dematha).

Is Freddie Adu playing for the Heights again?

Landon crushed Dematha. Maybe Landon was looking past the Heights and was caught flat footed? Or are key players injured?

What happened to DeMatha this year? Did they loose a bunch of seniors?

Has it occurred to you that nothing "happened" to Dematha. Landon was just that much better that day.

Anonymous wrote:College soccer even at the highest levels can be physically brutal.

Well, all soccer is physical. But HS soccer has a lot of kids with very poor technical skills, which makes the physicality just a bunch of hacking

College soccer even at the highest levels can be physically brutal.

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Anonymous wrote:My pretty good DD doesn't even play ECNL or DA and they are being advised by the club coaches not to play the majority of games on the private school HS team due to the potential for overuse injuries. Really too bad they make the teams so incompatible. She is going to pay a few games that don't conflict with practice days.

Classic example of how the club coaches operate. It is about lining their own pockets, in large part.

Actually, it's about HS soccer being just awful. It looks like rugby at times since the field is largely kids with very rough technical skills. But they can be big, strong, and fast, and use that to make up for poor technical skills. So it looks like rugbyb instead of soccer, and the good players get hurt.

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Anonymous wrote:The Heights beat Landon yesterday.

Wow. Score? Is the Heights undefeated?

1-0. Heights has one loss (Dematha).

Is Freddie Adu playing for the Heights again?

Landon crushed Dematha. Maybe Landon was looking past the Heights and was caught flat footed? Or are key players injured?

What happened to DeMatha this year? Did they loose a bunch of seniors?

I believe Landon tied one of top teams from Jersey the day before on Sunday.

Anonymous wrote:The Heights beat Landon yesterday.

Wait WHUT?!!! The indomitable, unbeatable, inimitable Landon Bears were not only scored upon but lost a game? Say it ain't so!

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Anonymous wrote:The Heights beat Landon yesterday.

Wow. Score? Is the Heights undefeated?

1-0. Heights has one loss (Dematha).

Is Freddie Adu playing for the Heights again?

Landon crushed Dematha. Maybe Landon was looking past the Heights and was caught flat footed? Or are key players injured?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Heights beat Landon yesterday.

Wow. Score? Is the Heights undefeated?

1-0. Heights has one loss (Dematha).

Is Freddie Adu playing for the Heights again?