I don't see the promotion of the SYC players from lower teams to their upper team, as I do on other clubs. They almost never promote players to their upper team from within their Academy. They are one of the best Academies around at actively recruiting players from other clubs, or their sister clubs like Manassas United, directly onto their upper team.

Plus, SYC is great at branding and selling both players and parents on the MLS Next name and logo. I've personally talked to several parents who where sold on being part of the MLS Next team, but were later told their player would only be able to practice with the MLS team.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?

+1000 very hostile environment at the younger ages. Since teams play up, they always have 1 year older kids play down an age to help stack wins.

How does this happen since refs are required to check roster player cards prior to the game?

If a team is playing up a year, a year older player is playing on age.

Yeah, teams that play up are full of talented kids but we’ve played enough of them to know a few of the kids are on age, especially goalkeepers.

SYC sort of "plays up" some age groups, but then will put a few key on-age players on the team (e.g., a strong on-age goalkeeper) making it just a mixed team with some players playing up and some players playing on-age. They get to pretend they're "playing up" though because they are all such superstars lol.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?

+1000 very hostile environment at the younger ages. Since teams play up, they always have 1 year older kids play down an age to help stack wins.

How does this happen since refs are required to check roster player cards prior to the game?

If a team is playing up a year, a year older player is playing on age.

Yeah, teams that play up are full of talented kids but we’ve played enough of them to know a few of the kids are on age, especially goalkeepers.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?

+1000 very hostile environment at the younger ages. Since teams play up, they always have 1 year older kids play down an age to help stack wins.

How does this happen since refs are required to check roster player cards prior to the game?

If a team is playing up a year, a year older player is playing on age.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?

+1000 very hostile environment at the younger ages. Since teams play up, they always have 1 year older kids play down an age to help stack wins.

How does this happen since refs are required to check roster player cards prior to the game?

Anonymous wrote:From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?

+1000 very hostile environment at the younger ages. Since teams play up, they always have 1 year older kids play down an age to help stack wins.

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Anonymous wrote:The 2012 SYC second team just beat Bethesda 2012 Academy 1 in the OBGC final. Is SYC's second team better than Bethesda's first?

Boys?

No, boyz

Samba boyz?

2012 = Samba Boyz!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:The 2012 SYC second team just beat Bethesda 2012 Academy 1 in the OBGC final. Is SYC's second team better than Bethesda's first?

Boys?

No, boyz

Samba boyz?

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Anonymous wrote:The 2012 SYC second team just beat Bethesda 2012 Academy 1 in the OBGC final. Is SYC's second team better than Bethesda's first?

Boys?

No, boyz

Anonymous wrote:From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical skills and teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?

They do not GAF about the cost. They view it as on the parents (who for the most part are nuts) and if the parents even advocate for it, it is what is. Supply and Demand.

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Anonymous wrote:They added a really good coach on the girls side this year. Also they are one of the few girls programs with female coaches

As in there are now 2 women coaches on girls side? Because last 2 seasons SYC already had a woman coach.

LOL, yeah congrats on 2 women coaches. I think that might put them a notch above VYS and Valor in that regard.

From what I've seen at the younger ages, SYC is very good about recruiting fast, strong kids with some technical skills and teaching them how to play a rough, physical game. The boys get yelled at a lot by parents and coaches throughout games. They know how to win. But at what cost?

Anonymous wrote:SYC aggressively recruits at the younger age groups to stack up talent. I do not know about the boys side but it does not workout at the older ages for them. Everyone catches up.

I think it's more about the quality of coaching to be honest. SYC does not teach an attractive style of soccer. As the other teams improve, SYC does not. At older ages the teams are noticeably slower with transitions, uncoordinated in their press, unimaginative with movement upfront, and the teams do not know how to adjust their shape on the fly. The result is a lot of long balls, and not a lot of possession or opportunities. They still have plenty of technicaly talented kids though.

Anonymous wrote:The 2012 SYC second team just beat Bethesda 2012 Academy 1 in the OBGC final. Is SYC's second team better than Bethesda's first?

Boys?

The 2012 SYC second team just beat Bethesda 2012 Academy 1 in the OBGC final. Is SYC's second team better than Bethesda's first?