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Yeah, but I got a good giggle out of 78-0! they probably felt like it was 78-0. They got crushed

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Anonymous wrote:How is Bethesda's DA compared to DC United? The first post did not mention Bethesda having a DA.

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.

Different Poster here. Every Coach at our Club has a UEFA A or UEFA B license as a minimum. The coaching is superior to anything we've seen. I'm generally not that big on the licenses holding that much weight because I know some really great coaches that have the lowest USSF licenses, but when I watch how thought out and different the training drills are from other places--there is something to it. Intelligence is being taught in the drills. There is no standing around-ever. There is also no running laps or wind sprints, but the kids come off exhausted because the full 90 minutes was used moving--hard. There is variety week to week and in all my years playing and watching practices drills I've never seen most of these prior. I just watched U15s scrimmage with neutral players and everyone had to play with their arms fully clasped behind their backs. I've seen our goalies train on tarps with hoses making them slick so the ball comes in faster and slicker. Every goal has additional goalie training--all age groups together 3 days per week in addition to their regular team practice---from the youngest to the oldest. I've seen kids at the younger ages doing numerical drills that would stump much older kids. Each day of the week is something new they are working on and as you watch the age groups they are similarly working on the same concepts---the difference is the complexity and layers as they age upwards.

What club?

That sounds like one of the Barca US club admins. They do a good amount of marketing on here.

You are so full of it, delusional and should be ashamed of yourself. Most don't even speak English natively. You don't like the fact that some families are happy with the Barca experience, and having Barca at Evergreen (or maybe even having them take some players) has gotten under your skin. Get over it, and move on.

Lmao, I’m a DP but the company who owns this venture is completely American and the owner is very articulate in the English language. There are also a few pretty rabid and vocal American parents who contribute.

And make no mistake, this is a thread jacking, presuming the Barca marketer didn’t actually start the thread as bait for the change in discussion. That has happened with numerous threads here also.

LMAO because you are full of it. The only one marketing anything is you people. No one eve brought Barca up until you clowns.

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.

Different Poster here. Every Coach at our Club has a UEFA A or UEFA B license as a minimum. The coaching is superior to anything we've seen. I'm generally not that big on the licenses holding that much weight because I know some really great coaches that have the lowest USSF licenses, but when I watch how thought out and different the training drills are from other places--there is something to it. Intelligence is being taught in the drills. There is no standing around-ever. There is also no running laps or wind sprints, but the kids come off exhausted because the full 90 minutes was used moving--hard. There is variety week to week and in all my years playing and watching practices drills I've never seen most of these prior. I just watched U15s scrimmage with neutral players and everyone had to play with their arms fully clasped behind their backs. I've seen our goalies train on tarps with hoses making them slick so the ball comes in faster and slicker. Every goal has additional goalie training--all age groups together 3 days per week in addition to their regular team practice---from the youngest to the oldest. I've seen kids at the younger ages doing numerical drills that would stump much older kids. Each day of the week is something new they are working on and as you watch the age groups they are similarly working on the same concepts---the difference is the complexity and layers as they age upwards.

What club?

That sounds like one of the Barca US club admins. They do a good amount of marketing on here.

You are so full of it, delusional and should be ashamed of yourself. Most don't even speak English natively. You don't like the fact that some families are happy with the Barca experience, and having Barca at Evergreen (or maybe even having them take some players) has gotten under your skin. Get over it, and move on.

Lmao, I’m a DP but the company who owns this venture is completely American and the owner is very articulate in the English language. There are also a few pretty rabid and vocal American parents who contribute.

And make no mistake, this is a thread jacking, presuming the Barca marketer didn’t actually start the thread as bait for the change in discussion. That has happened with numerous threads here also.

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.

Different Poster here. Every Coach at our Club has a UEFA A or UEFA B license as a minimum. The coaching is superior to anything we've seen. I'm generally not that big on the licenses holding that much weight because I know some really great coaches that have the lowest USSF licenses, but when I watch how thought out and different the training drills are from other places--there is something to it. Intelligence is being taught in the drills. There is no standing around-ever. There is also no running laps or wind sprints, but the kids come off exhausted because the full 90 minutes was used moving--hard. There is variety week to week and in all my years playing and watching practices drills I've never seen most of these prior. I just watched U15s scrimmage with neutral players and everyone had to play with their arms fully clasped behind their backs. I've seen our goalies train on tarps with hoses making them slick so the ball comes in faster and slicker. Every goal has additional goalie training--all age groups together 3 days per week in addition to their regular team practice---from the youngest to the oldest. I've seen kids at the younger ages doing numerical drills that would stump much older kids. Each day of the week is something new they are working on and as you watch the age groups they are similarly working on the same concepts---the difference is the complexity and layers as they age upwards.

What club?

That sounds like one of the Barca US club admins. They do a good amount of marketing on here.

You are so full of it, delusional and should be ashamed of yourself. Most don't even speak English natively. You don't like the fact that some families are happy with the Barca experience, and having Barca at Evergreen (or maybe even having them take some players) has gotten under your skin. Get over it, and move on.

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.

Different Poster here. Every Coach at our Club has a UEFA A or UEFA B license as a minimum. The coaching is superior to anything we've seen. I'm generally not that big on the licenses holding that much weight because I know some really great coaches that have the lowest USSF licenses, but when I watch how thought out and different the training drills are from other places--there is something to it. Intelligence is being taught in the drills. There is no standing around-ever. There is also no running laps or wind sprints, but the kids come off exhausted because the full 90 minutes was used moving--hard. There is variety week to week and in all my years playing and watching practices drills I've never seen most of these prior. I just watched U15s scrimmage with neutral players and everyone had to play with their arms fully clasped behind their backs. I've seen our goalies train on tarps with hoses making them slick so the ball comes in faster and slicker. Every goal has additional goalie training--all age groups together 3 days per week in addition to their regular team practice---from the youngest to the oldest. I've seen kids at the younger ages doing numerical drills that would stump much older kids. Each day of the week is something new they are working on and as you watch the age groups they are similarly working on the same concepts---the difference is the complexity and layers as they age upwards.

What club?

That sounds like one of the Barca US club admins. They do a good amount of marketing on here.

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.

Different Poster here. Every Coach at our Club has a UEFA A or UEFA B license as a minimum. The coaching is superior to anything we've seen. I'm generally not that big on the licenses holding that much weight because I know some really great coaches that have the lowest USSF licenses, but when I watch how thought out and different the training drills are from other places--there is something to it. Intelligence is being taught in the drills. There is no standing around-ever. There is also no running laps or wind sprints, but the kids come off exhausted because the full 90 minutes was used moving--hard. There is variety week to week and in all my years playing and watching practices drills I've never seen most of these prior. I just watched U15s scrimmage with neutral players and everyone had to play with their arms fully clasped behind their backs. I've seen our goalies train on tarps with hoses making them slick so the ball comes in faster and slicker. Every goal has additional goalie training--all age groups together 3 days per week in addition to their regular team practice---from the youngest to the oldest. I've seen kids at the younger ages doing numerical drills that would stump much older kids. Each day of the week is something new they are working on and as you watch the age groups they are similarly working on the same concepts---the difference is the complexity and layers as they age upwards.

What club?

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.

Different Poster here. Every Coach at our Club has a UEFA A or UEFA B license as a minimum. The coaching is superior to anything we've seen. I'm generally not that big on the licenses holding that much weight because I know some really great coaches that have the lowest USSF licenses, but when I watch how thought out and different the training drills are from other places--there is something to it. Intelligence is being taught in the drills. There is no standing around-ever. There is also no running laps or wind sprints, but the kids come off exhausted because the full 90 minutes was used moving--hard. There is variety week to week and in all my years playing and watching practices drills I've never seen most of these prior. I just watched U15s scrimmage with neutral players and everyone had to play with their arms fully clasped behind their backs. I've seen our goalies train on tarps with hoses making them slick so the ball comes in faster and slicker. Every goal has additional goalie training--all age groups together 3 days per week in addition to their regular team practice---from the youngest to the oldest. I've seen kids at the younger ages doing numerical drills that would stump much older kids. Each day of the week is something new they are working on and as you watch the age groups they are similarly working on the same concepts---the difference is the complexity and layers as they age upwards.

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.

Different Poster here. Every Coach at our Club has a UEFA A or UEFA B license as a minimum. The coaching is superior to anything we've seen. I'm generally not that big on the licenses holding that much weight because I know some really great coaches that have the lowest USSF licenses, but when I watch how thought out and different the training drills are from other places--there is something to it. Intelligence is being taught in the drills. There is no standing around-ever. There is also no running laps or wind sprints, but the kids come off exhausted because the full 90 minutes was used moving--hard. There is variety week to week and in all my years playing and watching practices drills I've never seen most of these prior. I just watched U15s scrimmage with neutral players and everyone had to play with their arms fully clasped behind their backs. I've seen our goalies train on tarps with hoses making them slick so the ball comes in faster and slicker. Every goal has additional goalie training--all age groups together 3 days per week in addition to their regular team practice---from the youngest to the oldest. I've seen kids at the younger ages doing numerical drills that would stump much older kids. Each day of the week is something new they are working on and as you watch the age groups they are similarly working on the same concepts---the difference is the complexity and layers as they age upwards.

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While the A and B license may take time to get, there is no evidence anywhere that they make a coach a better coach. US Soccer doesn't offer enough courses and gives preference to coaches from DA clubs making the licensing system more useful for protecting the status quo than for improving coaching. Acceptance into A/B license courses is not based on the merit of the individual coach. Saying DA coaching and the DA system is better is one person's opinion and can't be backed up by any evidence. Since the DA was created to support the USMNT, the quality of the USMNT should be a pretty good indicator of the quality of the DA--a country of over 300 million that can't qualify for the world cup. If anything the evidence suggests DA coaching is subpar, not "consistently good."

OK, many have UEFA A or B Licenses. Does that satisfy you? UEFA sent 14 teams to the last World Cup, including all four semifinalists.

What is the evidence you use to judge the competency and professionalism of a youth soccer coach? More importantly, what evidence do you use to judge the competency and professionalism of coaching at an entire club, since individual coaches come and go? My guess is that your answer is some version of "you know it when you see it". But people--like the OP--need something they can look at from outside, before they join a club. So you need something objective.

Licenses are objective. Who has good facilities is objective. Who retains their top players is objective. Who sends players to college soccer is objective. To some degree who wins big competitions is objective. It is possible to assess a club and their system fairly accurately without having to experience it first. You seem to imply that it isn't actually possible--or at least don't give any alternatives about how you'd suggest doing it.