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Anonymous wrote:There won't be any future if FCV doesn't provide a plan going forward. Players won't sit around in the dark hoping for the best.

The backbone of FCV left. GA is dead.

Nah. I might have believed that statement a couple of years ago when FCV was beating GA teams 10-0 and their only real competition was strong ECNL teams. But that's not the case anymore.

At least in the Mid Atlantic GA FCV, has a harder time beating GA teams than decent ECNL teams. So either GA is getting stronger in the MA or ECNL is getting watered down weaker.

But true, if FCV goes away in the DMV, so does GA representation... at least for a while.

Yah ECNL is a big scam. Connections, networking, $$ are bringing recreational level players in front of colleges. Our team has a few committed players that show poor to zero IQ in the field. I am seeing coaches sabotaging some talented players cause they show up more than their favs.

Anonymous wrote:Any updates from FCV about their future plan?

It's been crickets

Any updates from FCV about their future plan?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There won't be any future if FCV doesn't provide a plan going forward. Players won't sit around in the dark hoping for the best.

The backbone of FCV left. GA is dead.

Nah. I might have believed that statement a couple of years ago when FCV was beating GA teams 10-0 and their only real competition was strong ECNL teams. But that's not the case anymore.

At least in the Mid Atlantic GA FCV, has a harder time beating GA teams than decent ECNL teams. So either GA is getting stronger in the MA or ECNL is getting watered down weaker.

But true, if FCV goes away in the DMV, so does GA representation... at least for a while.

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Anonymous wrote:Valor will take anyone with a pulse to coach.
They have no standards. Some of their lower teams are just coached by random parent. They also will take any player with a pulse willing to pay the fees, so at least its consistent.

That is completely untrue in regards to random parents coaching. Valors main issue is Ellis has not set any standard or expectations in the coaches. Meaning if a new coach takes over a new age group its like a reset. Training is not consistent, and game management is even worse. The club should have a uniform approach for development and playing style. The CYA merger really killed the progress SYA made.

Nonsense, I know very few people and there were several random unqualified parent rec coaches who became Valor coaches this year to coach their own kids team. They don't disclose that to the other parents and charge them like its a real coach. Usually the 4th or 5th teams in the age group. The 2012 worst team for boys and the 2011 worst team for girls were both random parent former rec coaches. Its hard to recruit travel coaches to coach a team that's basically worse than a rec team (most rec teams have a few good athletes/players).

Anonymous wrote:There won't be any future if FCV doesn't provide a plan going forward. Players won't sit around in the dark hoping for the best.

The backbone of FCV left. GA is dead.

There won't be any future if FCV doesn't provide a plan going forward. Players won't sit around in the dark hoping for the best.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s get away from the other clubs on an FCV post and talk about FCV. Are their girls and boys really “the future?”

No.

Why not?

Anonymous wrote:Let’s get away from the other clubs on an FCV post and talk about FCV. Are their girls and boys really “the future?”

No.

Let’s get away from the other clubs on an FCV post and talk about FCV. Are their girls and boys really “the future?”

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Anonymous wrote:PWSI's 2011 team was better than the VSA 2011 prior to becoming VDA yet they couldn't keep the majority of it together. Probably due to something like that clash of ideologies.

There are 9 PWSI players on VDA 2011.

Seems like a good amount rolling over. Wonder how that compares to the other 2011's clubs that merge like Union, or NVA.

Union 2011 has mostly McLean kids and NVA has mostly Loudon kids.

Varies by age, but the Union 11's are about about 50% Mclean, 25% SYC, 25% external.

FCV is only going to be better now!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PWSI's 2011 team was better than the VSA 2011 prior to becoming VDA yet they couldn't keep the majority of it together. Probably due to something like that clash of ideologies.

There are 9 PWSI players on VDA 2011.

Seems like a good amount rolling over. Wonder how that compares to the other 2011's clubs that merge like Union, or NVA.

Union 2011 has mostly McLean kids and NVA has mostly Loudon kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PWSI's 2011 team was better than the VSA 2011 prior to becoming VDA yet they couldn't keep the majority of it together. Probably due to something like that clash of ideologies.

There are 9 PWSI players on VDA 2011.

Seems like a good amount rolling over. Wonder how that compares to the other 2011's clubs that merge like Union, or NVA.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:So now VDA, Loudoun and FCV have coaching positions available. Yikes.

Wonder which pays the most? That is all that is going to matter to possible hires because each of these clubs has successful teams.

Loudoun then FCV then VDA.

FCV and Loudoun are more attractive jobs than VDA. Vda does not have the talent.

Problem with VDA is half of the program wants to play reasonably skilled possession football (QP & PWSI) and the other half wants to play trash, concussion ball (ML & VSA).

Between PWSI/VSA/VDA do any of the teams show that they encourage a possession based game? Most of the games I've seen from VDA have all been a direct style, often skipping the midfield.