Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This must be VA soccer because it's in the spring and MCPS is in the fall. Our experience with the Bethesda/Potomac/Rockville side of MCPS has been that most players are also club players, have talent, and the game is pretty good.
We must have been watching very different MCPS varsity girls games.
Anonymous wrote:In my experience, the club players just dance around with the ball, never move it forward, and lack speed and athleticism. So the non-soccer kids that just play kick and run win the games because they are superior athletes. My son is one of these types of players. He’s big and fast and soccer is his third sport, but he dominates the smaller and slower club players. A team full of really good club players that play a possession style might defeat them, but in practice the kick and run teams win so coaches stick with that.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Our HS. The coaches benches the club players and plays kick ball with athletes. Any type of shorter build out gets yelled at. And if a pass gets broken up ….the kid is benched for not kicking it down the field. Cant wait for it to be over.
OP here, my son learned the hard way he couldn't play the same in HS as he does in club. He was benched because his passes were not always going forward, and he was told he missed goal-scoring opportunities and needed more air under the ball.
Anonymous wrote:This must be VA soccer because it's in the spring and MCPS is in the fall. Our experience with the Bethesda/Potomac/Rockville side of MCPS has been that most players are also club players, have talent, and the game is pretty good.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What happened to high school soccer? My husband played in one of the FCPS high schools back in the 90s and he talks about how good hs teams were back then. ODP was a big deal back then too. is itjust because all the clubs took over? When did this all start? In the early 2000s?
Is it just because people realized club soccer was where the money was at? Sad since I would have loved for my son to play hs school soccer but reading all these stories makes me think it’s not a good idea.
All boys used to play it. You had all the usmnt and former US pros playing HS.
Now the best boys are at MLS academies and in MLS Next. They don’t play high school.
Yes. I played HS soccer with Mia Hamm. So true for the girls too.
Anonymous wrote:HS sports should really only be for the average non club playing kid to play on a team.
The fact that you all are here complaining about a high school extracurricular is pretty obnoxious. Not to mention taking away the opportunity for kids who don’t have other options to play. You guys are pathetic.
Anonymous wrote:The problem comes in early years. American coaches want to please parents - pleasing parents means making any activity ‘fun’
My kid was trained in my home country (Germany). There is no wish for soccer training to be ‘fun.’ It is a Teutonic and highly skilled trade that takes years to refine.
Americans have little to no technical skill. That’s what I see - sure a lot of pure athleticism but to what end? Speed and endurance are necessary part of game but without technical proficiency you have your average American high school soccer game. Unwatchable.