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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

If you care about the coach then your kid ain't it.

🤡 who knows nothing

If your kid is top tier, you are looking for exposure, connections, and opportunity. Coaching is irrelevant. If you need to know who the coach is so you can gauge if your kid will fit in or play...your kid ain't it. Ask me how I know. There are levels to this.

Broski, read the heading. You must be in the wrong chat. Lay off the weed man.

If your kid is top tier now at U12, they probably won't be around in the top tier once puberty kicks in without quality coaching. Our kids are 11. The next three years are about technical foundation. Point blank. If you don't understand that, you are the typical American driving their talented kid off the cliff.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

If you care about the coach then your kid ain't it.

NOT true. All coaches aren't good. Some lack social skills, commitment ( coach other HS teams), training standards, etc. Too many various factors to make silly comments like that. There is a reason why certain coaches bring talent when recruiting for various sports like football, basketball, and soccer.

No...if your kid is the talent you will know it. Coaches don't matter at this level.

I disagree 100% with this. Coaching always matters. They have a direct impact on a player wanting to be a team player and learning to push teammates to be better (a learned skill), versus making it all about them.
Plus, if you kid is talented, why let that talent the have go stagnant with poor coaching? If the team dynamic sucks, players don't have fun.
News flash, 12 year olds want to have fun.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

If you care about the coach then your kid ain't it.

🤡 who knows nothing

If your kid is top tier, you are looking for exposure, connections, and opportunity. Coaching is irrelevant. If you need to know who the coach is so you can gauge if your kid will fit in or play...your kid ain't it. Ask me how I know. There are levels to this.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

If you care about the coach then your kid ain't it.

NOT true. All coaches aren't good. Some lack social skills, commitment ( coach other HS teams), training standards, etc. Too many various factors to make silly comments like that. There is a reason why certain coaches bring talent when recruiting for various sports like football, basketball, and soccer.

No...if your kid is the talent you will know it. Coaches don't matter at this level.

Anonymous wrote:About 2/3rds of the NVA 2014 team seems to be settled. They are having another tryout on Sunday and the players who have an offer still need to attend. Sounds like a mix of Loudoun and SYC players are making up the offers that are out. My son accepted his spot.

Do you happen to know the general mix? More Loudoun or SYC? My son went to the Loudoun AD tryout and was surprised to see how many of the current top team Loudoun players were there. I guess they didn't get an offer from NVA? We figured most of them would, but I guess not if SYC kids were trying out too. That is such a long drive to Loudoun if you live near Springfield. Clearly we are not in that world because I have a limit to how far I will drive my kid for soccer practice. I guess if you have multiple teammates from your area and you know you can set up a carpool...

About 2/3rds of the NVA 2014 team seems to be settled. They are having another tryout on Sunday and the players who have an offer still need to attend. Sounds like a mix of Loudoun and SYC players are making up the offers that are out. My son accepted his spot.

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Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

If you care about the coach then your kid ain't it.

🤡 who knows nothing

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

If you care about the coach then your kid ain't it.

NOT true. All coaches aren't good. Some lack social skills, commitment ( coach other HS teams), training standards, etc. Too many various factors to make silly comments like that. There is a reason why certain coaches bring talent when recruiting for various sports like football, basketball, and soccer.

Anonymous wrote:My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

If you care about the coach then your kid ain't it.

My favorite part of tryouts is when teams send out offers but have no coaching skate. Favorites part by a long shot.

This thread has been quiet. Any 2014s get offers from NVA? How about Arlington, VDA, Union?

Anonymous wrote:We are Q4 2014 and registered with ASA. No video required. Everything is being triggered by the birthdate though so that we not worry about the U12's yet.

Except the HG teams arent aligned with the age change. 2014s are 2014s, regardless of what month you are born in.

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Anonymous wrote:Mclean wants you to send in a hughlight reel for a chance to try out for the mls next B teams? LOL

I don’t have a child at McLean but a neighbor told me Alexandria also asks for highlight videos when registering for their MLS Next 2 team.

I guess that’s the norm now on the Next side

Nope, not yet it isn’t

The video requirement feels very McLean. Maybe we should submit all the insane faux offsides calls the McLean parents scream and yell about every time we play them. I'm pretty sure one of those nutty moms tried to give my kid a 5 minute major penalty for high sticking until she realized he was just helping with the corner flag. Get a grip....

It wasn't a requirement. It was Optional. OP probably did not read carefully. Alexandria was required

Sorry to ruin your false sense of superiority over a random Internet poster, but I’m well aware it said optional for McLean. But in my mind it seems that not including it could hurt if you’re not coming from a big name club/team. So I hesitated to submit until I could figure out to put something together.

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Anonymous wrote:Mclean wants you to send in a hughlight reel for a chance to try out for the mls next B teams? LOL

I don’t have a child at McLean but a neighbor told me Alexandria also asks for highlight videos when registering for their MLS Next 2 team.

I guess that’s the norm now on the Next side

Nope, not yet it isn’t

The video requirement feels very McLean. Maybe we should submit all the insane faux offsides calls the McLean parents scream and yell about every time we play them. I'm pretty sure one of those nutty moms tried to give my kid a 5 minute major penalty for high sticking until she realized he was just helping with the corner flag. Get a grip....

It wasn't a requirement. It was Optional. OP probably did not read carefully. Alexandria was required

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Anonymous wrote:Mclean wants you to send in a hughlight reel for a chance to try out for the mls next B teams? LOL

I don’t have a child at McLean but a neighbor told me Alexandria also asks for highlight videos when registering for their MLS Next 2 team.

I guess that’s the norm now on the Next side

Why even have tryouts in person at all.... just send in videos.

Just use Instagram, seems parents love seeing their kids on those stupid short “look at me” videos