Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a 2012 and has played all these teams. Right now, SYC Blue and Bethesda's top team are just miles ahead of everyone else in the 2012 group. A lot of it stems from the fact that they played 7v7 as U8s before COVID hit. They are very good but just a lot further along in patterns of play. It'll take a couple years but other clubs will catch up and beat them.

Both squads do have some really good players however. Very sound and technical.

Folks need to brush this off. Huge blowouts happen at this age. It's not what you should be focused on but on your child's individual development. And yes, my DS team has lost to both clubs badly.

All true, and the SYC coach is a pretty good guy and I would call him a friend.

But he is HORRIBLE on the sidelines during games. Every terrible stereotype of a youth soccer coach rolled into one pugilistic figure.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a 2012 and has played all these teams. Right now, SYC Blue and Bethesda's top team are just miles ahead of everyone else in the 2012 group. A lot of it stems from the fact that they played 7v7 as U8s before COVID hit. They are very good but just a lot further along in patterns of play. It'll take a couple years but other clubs will catch up and beat them.

Both squads do have some really good players however. Very sound and technical.

Folks need to brush this off. Huge blowouts happen at this age. It's not what you should be focused on but on your child's individual development. And yes, my DS team has lost to both clubs badly.

All true, and the SYC coach is a pretty good guy and I would call him a friend.

But he is HORRIBLE on the sidelines during games. Every terrible stereotype of a youth soccer coach rolled into one pugilistic figure.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a 2012 and has played all these teams. Right now, SYC Blue and Bethesda's top team are just miles ahead of everyone else in the 2012 group. A lot of it stems from the fact that they played 7v7 as U8s before COVID hit. They are very good but just a lot further along in patterns of play. It'll take a couple years but other clubs will catch up and beat them.

Both squads do have some really good players however. Very sound and technical.

Folks need to brush this off. Huge blowouts happen at this age. It's not what you should be focused on but on your child's individual development. And yes, my DS team has lost to both clubs badly.

All true, and the SYC coach is a pretty good guy and I would call him a friend.

But he is HORRIBLE on the sidelines during games. Every terrible stereotype of a youth soccer coach rolled into one pugilistic figure.

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a 2012 and has played all these teams. Right now, SYC Blue and Bethesda's top team are just miles ahead of everyone else in the 2012 group. A lot of it stems from the fact that they played 7v7 as U8s before COVID hit. They are very good but just a lot further along in patterns of play. It'll take a couple years but other clubs will catch up and beat them.

Both squads do have some really good players however. Very sound and technical.

Folks need to brush this off. Huge blowouts happen at this age. It's not what you should be focused on but on your child's individual development. And yes, my DS team has lost to both clubs badly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a 2012 and has played all these teams. Right now, SYC Blue and Bethesda's top team are just miles ahead of everyone else in the 2012 group. A lot of it stems from the fact that they played 7v7 as U8s before COVID hit. They are very good but just a lot further along in patterns of play. It'll take a couple years but other clubs will catch up and beat them.

Both squads do have some really good players however. Very sound and technical.

Folks need to brush this off. Huge blowouts happen at this age. It's not what you should be focused on but on your child's individual development. And yes, my DS team has lost to both clubs badly.

My DS is on the same boat with losing badly to both of them early in the season as well. His teammates were impressed by how good they were but their esteem wasn't hurt by the blowout. I can tell you that they were excited to play and have been working hard to improve. Having a good coach matters. My DS and team have improved and would probably still lose to them.

It's U9, I'm not worried. My DS is improving and that's all that matters.

Such blasphemy is against DCUM soccer forum standards. You must be worried. Personal improvement is way down the list here. If your u9 son is not at the best club (the one we choose during the current month to be the best), doesn't have a former ManU player as a coach, gets beat 22-0 and still has self esteem, then he might be better off going to lacrosse or one of those other drop out sports.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a 2012 and has played all these teams. Right now, SYC Blue and Bethesda's top team are just miles ahead of everyone else in the 2012 group. A lot of it stems from the fact that they played 7v7 as U8s before COVID hit. They are very good but just a lot further along in patterns of play. It'll take a couple years but other clubs will catch up and beat them.

Both squads do have some really good players however. Very sound and technical.

Folks need to brush this off. Huge blowouts happen at this age. It's not what you should be focused on but on your child's individual development. And yes, my DS team has lost to both clubs badly.

My DS is on the same boat with losing badly to both of them early in the season as well. His teammates were impressed by how good they were but their esteem wasn't hurt by the blowout. I can tell you that they were excited to play and have been working hard to improve. Having a good coach matters. My DS and team have improved and would probably still lose to them.

It's U9, I'm not worried. My DS is improving and that's all that matters.

Anonymous wrote:My DS is a 2012 and has played all these teams. Right now, SYC Blue and Bethesda's top team are just miles ahead of everyone else in the 2012 group. A lot of it stems from the fact that they played 7v7 as U8s before COVID hit. They are very good but just a lot further along in patterns of play. It'll take a couple years but other clubs will catch up and beat them.

Both squads do have some really good players however. Very sound and technical.

Folks need to brush this off. Huge blowouts happen at this age. It's not what you should be focused on but on your child's individual development. And yes, my DS team has lost to both clubs badly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all it is a u10 tournament. There are u9 teams playing in it but they probably expected to run up against u10 teams..

if it makes you feel any better, the finalist from the other bracket, steel united, won their group games 22-0, 11-0, and 4-2.

It would not surprise me if the tournament stops keeping score after 22 goals. It's suspicious that syc and steel both had 22 goals, that's too much of a coincidence so they must have stopped counting at that point.

Steel United must have had a lot of confidence going into the final game with a 37-2 goal difference but then they got smashed 8-1.

One team that shouldn't be in the bottom bracket? Shame on the coach for sandbagging. Two teams that shouldn't be in the bottom bracket? Shame on the tournament organizer and age group coordinator.

Their point system is bizArre as fucc. Goals give you one point. Wins give 6 points. Draws give 3 points. Losses give you 0 points. A clean sheet gives you one point...........so this tournament favors gapings of that caliber 22-0 and sh1t like that

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First of all it is a u10 tournament. There are u9 teams playing in it but they probably expected to run up against u10 teams..

if it makes you feel any better, the finalist from the other bracket, steel united, won their group games 22-0, 11-0, and 4-2.

It would not surprise me if the tournament stops keeping score after 22 goals. It's suspicious that syc and steel both had 22 goals, that's too much of a coincidence so they must have stopped counting at that point.

Steel United must have had a lot of confidence going into the final game with a 37-2 goal difference but then they got smashed 8-1.

One team that shouldn't be in the bottom bracket? Shame on the coach for sandbagging. Two teams that shouldn't be in the bottom bracket? Shame on the tournament organizer and age group coordinator.

Their point system is bizArre as fucc. Goals give you one point. Wins give 6 points. Draws give 3 points. Losses give you 0 points. A clean sheet gives you one point...........so this tournament favors gapings of that caliber 22-0 and sh1t like that

Anonymous wrote:First of all it is a u10 tournament. There are u9 teams playing in it but they probably expected to run up against u10 teams..

if it makes you feel any better, the finalist from the other bracket, steel united, won their group games 22-0, 11-0, and 4-2.

It would not surprise me if the tournament stops keeping score after 22 goals. It's suspicious that syc and steel both had 22 goals, that's too much of a coincidence so they must have stopped counting at that point.

Steel United must have had a lot of confidence going into the final game with a 37-2 goal difference but then they got smashed 8-1.

One team that shouldn't be in the bottom bracket? Shame on the coach for sandbagging. Two teams that shouldn't be in the bottom bracket? Shame on the tournament organizer and age group coordinator.