Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 10:05     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Anonymous wrote:Call me crazy, but I think parents have a right to know if a club they're considering is involved in competitive games or a long series of useless blowouts that develop neither the winning team nor the losing team.


(Silently bangs head against wall). For the8/9/10/11-year old---that one game per week is essentially nothing for their development.

Worry about your kid playing on their own and what they are actually doing in PRACTICE sessions.

You would be appalled at how absolutely shitty a lot of the $3k/per year travel practices are for developing individual players.

My kid has been on very winning teams and very losing teams. He actually got a lot more out of the losing Club because the coaches were so good. They weren't filling the field with just physical players that chased down the ball. In the teen years, these kids all replaced the little former A team CCL stars.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 09:59     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

So basically travel soccer does not provide that information as a policy decision, and not due to lazy webmasters. If only there was a forum where people could post that kind of information.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 09:49     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Call me crazy, but I think parents have a right to know if a club they're considering is involved in competitive games or a long series of useless blowouts that develop neither the winning team nor the losing team.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 09:11     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

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Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


LOL how stupid. Comparing Rec statistics to travel statistics. It is all relative. Virginia Tech beat East Carolina 64-17 last week. VT must be as good as the New England Patriots!


What the hell are you talking about? Just want to know if a travel team we will be playing beat or lost to another travel team we played. Not looking to compare Rec teams to Travel teams, just would like to have the basic information from our travel league that our Rec league provides on wins and losses and scores.


Ok here it is. CCL does not post scores. They just don’t. And what would comparing them prove? Read the CCL site and you would know this. Leagues in general do not post scores for U9 and U10 age groups because they don’t matter. No matter how you asked the question it was stupid to ask.

No matter WHO or WHAT you are trying to compare the scores to it is stupid to do so.

No it's not. You can look at a few different scores to see how competitive an upcoming match up might be. Relax! You are the one acting stupid.


Worrying about how competitive a 9 year old’s league soccer game is going to be is pretty stupid.


I don't care about league play, after a few years you know which club/age groups are good. For our age group Loudoun, SYA, Arlington, Beach FC, SOCA and Potomac are the toughest ones to play. I do however troll gotsoccer to see who we play prior to a tournament just out of curiosity. I never share any info with my kids though, I always tell them they should only worry about what they control which is contribute to moving the ball with the team and scoring. Any team can loose depending on the day.


I'm not opposed to this kind of research, but man, gotsoccer is totally useless for the younger ages. (I can't speak for U14 and up). In U13 boys, our club's B team is ranked ahead of its A team on gotsoccer.


My kid's B team continually beats the A team in scrimmages...which is why the # of scrimmages we have in practice has dropped off .

I am one of those old former soccer players that hates the state of youth soccer these days. I'm sorry, but travel Clubs are not developing players.

After a hiatus from soccer, I had quick re-entry into this crap and within a year after we gave up coaching our son and put him in the system we saw how much development he was missing being on a travel team at one of these coveted big CCL clubs.

We pulled him out and he's done a ton of individual training and moved to an Academy. It's been a world of difference.

I kind of laugh when I hear parents chest-pound about leagues and status and teams. It is so misinformed.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 08:48     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

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Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


LOL how stupid. Comparing Rec statistics to travel statistics. It is all relative. Virginia Tech beat East Carolina 64-17 last week. VT must be as good as the New England Patriots!


What the hell are you talking about? Just want to know if a travel team we will be playing beat or lost to another travel team we played. Not looking to compare Rec teams to Travel teams, just would like to have the basic information from our travel league that our Rec league provides on wins and losses and scores.


Ok here it is. CCL does not post scores. They just don’t. And what would comparing them prove? Read the CCL site and you would know this. Leagues in general do not post scores for U9 and U10 age groups because they don’t matter. No matter how you asked the question it was stupid to ask.

No matter WHO or WHAT you are trying to compare the scores to it is stupid to do so.

No it's not. You can look at a few different scores to see how competitive an upcoming match up might be. Relax! You are the one acting stupid.


Worrying about how competitive a 9 year old’s league soccer game is going to be is pretty stupid.


You're taking this to a different place. Who is worrying? And if you don't hope that your 8 year old's game is closer to a goal or 2 difference than a 8 goal difference, then good for you. And if you don't think winning is important to a kid then I believe that you are mistaken. Few kids can get beat every week and still love showing up to train. Winning is important for morale at any age. You can't tell an 8 year old not to care about their 10-1 beating because in 5 years he'll be better for it. They don't give a shit about 5 years from now.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 08:44     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

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Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


LOL how stupid. Comparing Rec statistics to travel statistics. It is all relative. Virginia Tech beat East Carolina 64-17 last week. VT must be as good as the New England Patriots!


What the hell are you talking about? Just want to know if a travel team we will be playing beat or lost to another travel team we played. Not looking to compare Rec teams to Travel teams, just would like to have the basic information from our travel league that our Rec league provides on wins and losses and scores.


Ok here it is. CCL does not post scores. They just don’t. And what would comparing them prove? Read the CCL site and you would know this. Leagues in general do not post scores for U9 and U10 age groups because they don’t matter. No matter how you asked the question it was stupid to ask.

No matter WHO or WHAT you are trying to compare the scores to it is stupid to do so.

No it's not. You can look at a few different scores to see how competitive an upcoming match up might be. Relax! You are the one acting stupid.


Worrying about how competitive a 9 year old’s league soccer game is going to be is pretty stupid.


I don't care about league play, after a few years you know which club/age groups are good. For our age group Loudoun, SYA, Arlington, Beach FC, SOCA and Potomac are the toughest ones to play. I do however troll gotsoccer to see who we play prior to a tournament just out of curiosity. I never share any info with my kids though, I always tell them they should only worry about what they control which is contribute to moving the ball with the team and scoring. Any team can loose depending on the day.


I'm not opposed to this kind of research, but man, gotsoccer is totally useless for the younger ages. (I can't speak for U14 and up). In U13 boys, our club's B team is ranked ahead of its A team on gotsoccer.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 08:36     Subject: Re:Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

^^ CCL man, you left out quite a few Maryland teams that could kick all those teams asses. But, alas, in your limited league there's not a lot of local competition.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 08:33     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


LOL how stupid. Comparing Rec statistics to travel statistics. It is all relative. Virginia Tech beat East Carolina 64-17 last week. VT must be as good as the New England Patriots!


What the hell are you talking about? Just want to know if a travel team we will be playing beat or lost to another travel team we played. Not looking to compare Rec teams to Travel teams, just would like to have the basic information from our travel league that our Rec league provides on wins and losses and scores.


Ok here it is. CCL does not post scores. They just don’t. And what would comparing them prove? Read the CCL site and you would know this. Leagues in general do not post scores for U9 and U10 age groups because they don’t matter. No matter how you asked the question it was stupid to ask.

No matter WHO or WHAT you are trying to compare the scores to it is stupid to do so.

No it's not. You can look at a few different scores to see how competitive an upcoming match up might be. Relax! You are the one acting stupid.


Worrying about how competitive a 9 year old’s league soccer game is going to be is pretty stupid.


I don't care about league play, after a few years you know which club/age groups are good. For our age group Loudoun, SYA, Arlington, Beach FC, SOCA and Potomac are the toughest ones to play. I do however troll gotsoccer to see who we play prior to a tournament just out of curiosity. I never share any info with my kids though, I always tell them they should only worry about what they control which is contribute to moving the ball with the team and scoring. Any team can loose depending on the day.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 08:24     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

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Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


LOL how stupid. Comparing Rec statistics to travel statistics. It is all relative. Virginia Tech beat East Carolina 64-17 last week. VT must be as good as the New England Patriots!


What the hell are you talking about? Just want to know if a travel team we will be playing beat or lost to another travel team we played. Not looking to compare Rec teams to Travel teams, just would like to have the basic information from our travel league that our Rec league provides on wins and losses and scores.


Ok here it is. CCL does not post scores. They just don’t. And what would comparing them prove? Read the CCL site and you would know this. Leagues in general do not post scores for U9 and U10 age groups because they don’t matter. No matter how you asked the question it was stupid to ask.

No matter WHO or WHAT you are trying to compare the scores to it is stupid to do so.

No it's not. You can look at a few different scores to see how competitive an upcoming match up might be. Relax! You are the one acting stupid.


Worrying about how competitive a 9 year old’s league soccer game is going to be is pretty stupid.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 08:08     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Anonymous wrote:PP discussing switching clubs. A few things are causing me to rethink our decision - 1) the coach that was supposed to work with the kids is no longer coaching the age group, 2) my son misses playing games (program is mostly training), 3) not a super well-organized program.

Would I just email the other coaches and ask if my son could come practice? Is Fall too early to do this or should I wait until the Spring?


I don't think it's too early. My son's team (06) has had a few inquiries like this and our coach will invite them to join 2-3 sessions for both parties to get a feel for each other...We don't really have a need to add more players, but we consider it relationship building...and you never know what will happen with players in between fall and spring. Some people move. Some people get injured. Some people just quit or move clubs. Email the coaches or team managers of the most convenient clubs for you and just go from there.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 07:51     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


LOL how stupid. Comparing Rec statistics to travel statistics. It is all relative. Virginia Tech beat East Carolina 64-17 last week. VT must be as good as the New England Patriots!


What the hell are you talking about? Just want to know if a travel team we will be playing beat or lost to another travel team we played. Not looking to compare Rec teams to Travel teams, just would like to have the basic information from our travel league that our Rec league provides on wins and losses and scores.


Ok here it is. CCL does not post scores. They just don’t. And what would comparing them prove? Read the CCL site and you would know this. Leagues in general do not post scores for U9 and U10 age groups because they don’t matter. No matter how you asked the question it was stupid to ask.

No matter WHO or WHAT you are trying to compare the scores to it is stupid to do so.

No it's not. You can look at a few different scores to see how competitive an upcoming match up might be. Relax! You are the one acting stupid.
Anonymous
Post 09/29/2017 06:56     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


LOL how stupid. Comparing Rec statistics to travel statistics. It is all relative. Virginia Tech beat East Carolina 64-17 last week. VT must be as good as the New England Patriots!


What the hell are you talking about? Just want to know if a travel team we will be playing beat or lost to another travel team we played. Not looking to compare Rec teams to Travel teams, just would like to have the basic information from our travel league that our Rec league provides on wins and losses and scores.


Ok here it is. CCL does not post scores. They just don’t. And what would comparing them prove? Read the CCL site and you would know this. Leagues in general do not post scores for U9 and U10 age groups because they don’t matter. No matter how you asked the question it was stupid to ask.

No matter WHO or WHAT you are trying to compare the scores to it is stupid to do so.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 21:22     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Anonymous wrote:Yeah ... folks? The ones saying "you're only talking about McLean"?

Braddock Road is also in ECNL.


Someone brought up ECNL inside the beltway...which there is one...MCLean
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 19:33     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Anonymous wrote:My kid plays in the CCL league. The CCL website does not update or provide much information on younger year wins or scores. And for older groups, it does not provide scores and is not updated very frequently. Is there another way to find out some of the scores / wins in the CCL leagues? And no, I don't think my kid is messi, or CCL is the greatest, etc.. I just like stats and find it funny that our Rec team has better statistics than a travel league.


I thought they used to post the scores but that has obviously changed. Some of the clubs probably got tired of seeing how badly they get blown out on the CCL website.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2017 16:50     Subject: Travel Soccer teams around NOVA let's discuss Part II

Yeah ... folks? The ones saying "you're only talking about McLean"?

Braddock Road is also in ECNL.