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Anonymous wrote:Which is better for DD's development, to play at age (u13) on a higher quality team or up (u14) on a lesser quality team? Both teams play in same league so overall competition is similar (other than age effects), quality of coaching is also similar, and she would start on both teams. Seems to come down to whether it's better to play with and against bigger / faster / stronger players or with teammates who have significantly better skills.

Playing up generally doesn't mean playing against better quality (mostly bigger not faster) if those are your options. My daughter's team wasted an entire spring season "playing up" for the bigger field against just horrible teams to get used to the bigger pitch. I get how some smaller clubs are forced to combine age groups, but you are almost always better playing against the top age competition assuming it's actually available near you.

Most of the teams playing up at u13 are playing mostly 2 or 3rd teams. Take the GA teams, they can’t play GA or Aspire teams so they are in EDP no mans land. Most of their tourneys are the same. Also, there is a reason why most of the world wants to hold off on 11v11 until u14 let alone 10/ 11 year olds. Most parents love the idea of playing up for the perception of an early advantage. However, it’s the long game. IYKYK

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

Funny, the BSC 2014G E1s last year were never outside the top 200 ever. Hmmm 🤔. Yeah it must be the coach but looks like it’s the current coach, instead. Create an environment of fear and mind games, and you get the results you are seeing now. Last year’s team is broken up by KL and then you blame the previous coach? Pipeline 1-4 and Maryland United 0-2 (I think last year’s team beat them). Struggling in most matches. Pathetic. Play up in a second bracket and still can’t be successful. Stop Blaming a previous coach for this year’s team failures and take responsibility and accountability. This team needs a mentor and leader! Empower and encourage them, not humiliate and destroy them. The emperor (KL, everyone is looking at you) has no clothes and it shows. He needs to Focus on that 2014G second team of his before he loses them too. Rumor has it some are about to bail. Ooppps one just did this week, the smartest thing CB could ever do. But I guess we will blame last year’s coach for that too. Ridiculous. Do better and stop blaming others.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Prior coach horrendous? Practically started from scratch? I see KL's mom is on here. I don't recall last years team losing to some of the "difficult" league teams Pipeline or Maryland United last year and smashed Ukrainian Nationals 5-0. Just because they played differently last year, doesn't mean the coach was horrendous. If you compared their results and the outrageous behavior from the sidelines this year, many would say this years coach is "horrendous".

Anonymous wrote:Which is better for DD's development, to play at age (u13) on a higher quality team or up (u14) on a lesser quality team? Both teams play in same league so overall competition is similar (other than age effects), quality of coaching is also similar, and she would start on both teams. Seems to come down to whether it's better to play with and against bigger / faster / stronger players or with teammates who have significantly better skills.

Playing up generally doesn't mean playing against better quality (mostly bigger not faster) if those are your options. My daughter's team wasted an entire spring season "playing up" for the bigger field against just horrible teams to get used to the bigger pitch. I get how some smaller clubs are forced to combine age groups, but you are almost always better playing against the top age competition assuming it's actually available near you.

Which is better for DD's development, to play at age (u13) on a higher quality team or up (u14) on a lesser quality team? Both teams play in same league so overall competition is similar (other than age effects), quality of coaching is also similar, and she would start on both teams. Seems to come down to whether it's better to play with and against bigger / faster / stronger players or with teammates who have significantly better skills.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

I am not w BSC, but we played them and I would say the Rankings App has issues and/ or incorrect data with the name changes and levels at BSC. The Rankings App generally does a good job, except with BSC rankings due to naming for some reason.

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Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

Easy killer. Just asking. Coaching situation makes sense, but not sure league competition explains the gap in results between this and prior BSC U12 E1 teams, or between this and other current E1 teams. Rankings app has them outside top 200, which seems like an outlier for a first team at Bethesda. Will they pick up any players from the 2013s?

Anonymous wrote:BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

A down year? You are probably the same person that has trolled the BSC thread with this stupidity. Get a life and look at the difficulty of their league competition as they “rank” nationally. The team’s prior coach was horrendous and the new coach practically had to start from scratch.

BSC seems to be having a down year at 2014G. What is going on there?

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Anonymous wrote:You need to reach out to each club you're willing to drive to fit soccer practices and do ID sessions at each. Stay and watch from a distance and from that and your daughter's feedback you should get a pretty good feel for whether a club/team is a good fit. In general there is a big talent gap between 2013 and 2014 girls teams locally. Blame it on COVID or whatever you want; but if your top team daughter is moving down make sure she lands on a competitive team as there are less in that age group.

There are some very good 2014 teams in the area. The question will be whether the best players go GA or ECNL at this age group. The coach is very important but level of competition in play is almost as important. Pre ECNL 2014 teams we've seen play are much much better overall than the 2014 GA teams.

Which Pre ECNL teams have you seen play? Because overall the 19 Pre ECNL teams are not better than the GA teams.

Valor? Bryc? GFR? ARL? Which teams?

Troll. I meant troll.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to reach out to each club you're willing to drive to fit soccer practices and do ID sessions at each. Stay and watch from a distance and from that and your daughter's feedback you should get a pretty good feel for whether a club/team is a good fit. In general there is a big talent gap between 2013 and 2014 girls teams locally. Blame it on COVID or whatever you want; but if your top team daughter is moving down make sure she lands on a competitive team as there are less in that age group.

There are some very good 2014 teams in the area. The question will be whether the best players go GA or ECNL at this age group. The coach is very important but level of competition in play is almost as important. Pre ECNL 2014 teams we've seen play are much much better overall than the 2014 GA teams.

Which Pre ECNL teams have you seen play? Because overall the 19 Pre ECNL teams are not better than the GA teams.

OMG stop trip. Enough with this league non sense. Who cares

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Anonymous wrote:You need to reach out to each club you're willing to drive to fit soccer practices and do ID sessions at each. Stay and watch from a distance and from that and your daughter's feedback you should get a pretty good feel for whether a club/team is a good fit. In general there is a big talent gap between 2013 and 2014 girls teams locally. Blame it on COVID or whatever you want; but if your top team daughter is moving down make sure she lands on a competitive team as there are less in that age group.

There are some very good 2014 teams in the area. The question will be whether the best players go GA or ECNL at this age group. The coach is very important but level of competition in play is almost as important. Pre ECNL 2014 teams we've seen play are much much better overall than the 2014 GA teams.

Which Pre ECNL teams have you seen play? Because overall the 19 Pre ECNL teams are not better than the GA teams.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to reach out to each club you're willing to drive to fit soccer practices and do ID sessions at each. Stay and watch from a distance and from that and your daughter's feedback you should get a pretty good feel for whether a club/team is a good fit. In general there is a big talent gap between 2013 and 2014 girls teams locally. Blame it on COVID or whatever you want; but if your top team daughter is moving down make sure she lands on a competitive team as there are less in that age group.

There are some very good 2014 teams in the area. The question will be whether the best players go GA or ECNL at this age group. The coach is very important but level of competition in play is almost as important. Pre ECNL 2014 teams we've seen play are much much better overall than the 2014 GA teams.

Hello…Arlington’s dad!

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Anonymous wrote:And if you spend a whopping $10 you can see all the game history and decide for yourself which games are important or even get a feeling of what team showed up that day.

All that aside, I go back to the fact that the teams are going to be so different it doesn't even matter how they're performing now. Adding in that they don't even play as the same teach each week currently just adds fuel to that fire.

game history is free now FWIW

Oh interesting, thanks for the correction! I used $10 of google play credits around Jeff Cup at last year and it was well worth it.