NEFC 4 state titles

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you idiot!!

Look at the web site! It's posted there right now.

Okay maybe they did, but our kids who play in the club love it.

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Okay maybe they did, but our kids who play in the club love it.

Great. But at U17, they'll be technically way behind the kids getting the proper focus and coaching. Then it will too late. Until then, have a great time.

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ma is the only r1 state that does not send it's u11 & u12 state champions on to regionals. Instead we call their state championship games the andre & irwin cups and keep them home. That doesn't change the fact that these are state championship titles, it just means that no one in this state has to bring their u11 & u12 state championship winners to wv. Which seems kind of sane actually.

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it is a maple cup and not a state cup -----also why are they even having a so called state cup at u11, u12, u13 -----get real, get real

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Great. But at U17, they'll be technically way behind the kids getting the proper focus and coaching. Then it will too late. Until then, have a great time.

Oh really? Well their technically handicapped BU15 boys just beat the R1 MPS Bulldogs in what was a very, very well played game by both teams. Those NEFC boys sure looked developed to me. And as I recall there were a number of former Andre and Irwin cup winners on the NEFC team. Didn't seem to hurt them a bit to think of that early accomplishment as a state championship win. Coaches develop players, not clubs (or whiney forum posters), and they have a good one.

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Oh really? Well their technically handicapped BU15 boys just beat the R1 MPS Bulldogs in what was a very, very well played game by both teams. Those NEFC boys sure looked developed to me. And as I recall there were a number of former Andre and Irwin cup winners on the NEFC team. Didn't seem to hurt them a bit to think of that early accomplishment as a state championship win. Coaches develop players, not clubs (or whiney forum posters), and they have a good one.

You may not like some of the coaches from the clubs that NEFC merged with in the past, but you cannot take away from the fact that they had a very good record at State Cups this year with the number of teams reaching the finals and then winning. Any disgruntled parent who says otherwise is just that. Getting real tired having the same old cry babies on this forum keep entering their bashing. This site would be a whole lot better if they required you people to identify yourselfs so we would all know that it is probably the same person in most cases doing all the bashing. Get a life and hopefully your kid will have one too.

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Absolutely agree....and your name is?

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Absolutely agree....and your name is?

Funny, I missed yours as well?
I was a referee at State Cups and choose to remain on the outside looking in for obvious reasons given the bashing that you people like to post for anyone who says anything positive about any club.

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Funny, I missed yours as well?
I was a referee at State Cups and choose to remain on the outside looking in for obvious reasons given the bashing that you people like to post for anyone who says anything positive about any club.

Thats not even close to something I believe from reading your first ranting post. You are obviously a parent who felt the need to stick up for their kids club but thinks a ref angle will make your post sound more like the truth. Refs dont come here to stick up for clubs...parents and coaches come here to spread propaganda or defend against it.

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Thats not even close to something I believe from reading your first ranting post. You are obviously a parent who felt the need to stick up for their kids club but thinks a ref angle will make your post sound more like the truth. Refs dont come here to stick up for clubs...parents and coaches come here to spread propaganda or defend against it.

Wrong again. Not sticking up for any club, and sorry if you cannot accept that a neutral person could have something positive to say about any of the clubs in MASS. Just tired of you parents wrecking what could have been a good forum for and open honest exchange, instead of your constant, uninformed comments and bashing. Have seen and heard enough from parents like you this past weekend to prove that there is a vocal minority of you who know nothing about coaching or playing this great game.

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So if you actually did ref then why only praise the Eagles and not the Stars multiple wins or the Blazers titles on the boys side or how the 14 Stars and the 15 Scorpions were extremely talented teams and far and ahead of the rest of the age group or even how NSU beat SJ for the 14 boys title in a battle of small clubs. How about praise one of the losers who played well like the 15 MPS boys team that easily could have won the game.

Sounds way too fishy when you praise one club and then claim to be a ref so "you must know what your talking about" is the message you are trying to give. People who do this usually are not what they claim. There are many know everythings here but almost no one stands on the soap box and claims "I am right" because I am a coach or an administrator or a ref and actually are what they claim.

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At some point in time most of you will realize three things about this forum.

1. That envy is a big problem in out society
2. When a kid fails to get what a parent believes is their due, some of those parents lash out and blame those associated with the decision.
3. That a number of coaches and club administrators use this forum to play out petty vendetta's

That said, sandwiched in between all the sniping and complaining is actually some valuable information. Here is my two cents. Once you get to the end of the road you realize that going down the club soccer path is really a gruelling marathon, not a glorious sprint. There is no perfect club, nor perfect situation and one size definitely does not fit all. The status quo in this soccer world changes pretty quickly so what was working yesterday, may not work today. Be careful about burning bridges, you never know when you may need to cross back. Most of all recognize that your kid is the one walking down the path, not you. Your job is to find the best environment you can for them and their job is to get all they can out of it. The key to this is finding the coaching style and expectations that match up best with your family's beliefs and seeking the level where your child is most comfortable. You will find that at the heart of most of the true parental discontent expressed on this forum is a situation where a square peg was being forced into a round hole and the blame can usually be spread out amongst several parties.

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At some point in time most of you will realize three things about this forum.

1. That envy is a big problem in out society
2. When a kid fails to get what a parent believes is their due, some of those parents lash out and blame those associated with the decision.
3. That a number of coaches and club administrators use this forum to play out petty vendetta's

That said, sandwiched in between all the sniping and complaining is actually some valuable information. Here is my two cents. Once you get to the end of the road you realize that going down the club soccer path is really a gruelling marathon, not a glorious sprint. There is no perfect club, nor perfect situation and one size definitely does not fit all. The status quo in this soccer world changes pretty quickly so what was working yesterday, may not work today. Be careful about burning bridges, you never know when you may need to cross back. Most of all recognize that your kid is the one walking down the path, not you. Your job is to find the best environment you can for them and their job is to get all they can out of it. The key to this is finding the coaching style and expectations that match up best with your family's beliefs and seeking the level where your child is most comfortable. You will find that at the heart of most of the true parental discontent expressed on this forum is a situation where a square peg was being forced into a round hole and the blame can usually be spread out amongst several parties.

I think it's your fault BTDT.

Just Kidding - good post. I'd like to add that for most young club players (say U11 and U12) the optimal situation is the closest club where the coaching is good. That may be down the street for some and further for others. Try to keep the drive to practice 30 minutes or less if you can. Beginning at U13 and U14 you start to see destination teams and if that is important for your kid and he/she will fit in soccerwise, then go for it.

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Oh really? Well their technically handicapped BU15 boys just beat the R1 MPS Bulldogs in what was a very, very well played game by both teams. Those NEFC boys sure looked developed to me. And as I recall there were a number of former Andre and Irwin cup winners on the NEFC team. Didn't seem to hurt them a bit to think of that early accomplishment as a state championship win. Coaches develop players, not clubs (or whiney forum posters), and they have a good one.

Just win, baby! If you win, you MUST be good, right? Because only losers lose. My kid is better than your kid because my team won, therefor I am a better parent and human than you are, because you are the parent of a kid whose team lost.

All this talk of development is just a bunch of hooey. If my kid is on a team that wins, then he must be good, his team must be good, and that is all that matters.

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You may not like some of the coaches from the clubs that NEFC merged with in the past, but you cannot take away from the fact that they had a very good record at State Cups this year with the number of teams reaching the finals and then winning. Any disgruntled parent who says otherwise is just that. Getting real tired having the same old cry babies on this forum keep entering their bashing. This site would be a whole lot better if they required you people to identify yourselfs so we would all know that it is probably the same person in most cases doing all the bashing. Get a life and hopefully your kid will have one too.

Two legitimate state cup wins.

The U19's area collection of college kids, that return for some fun.

And a MAPLE tournament win.

Even you know-nothing zealots that measure success by wins can't claim any dominance.

You want the people to stop bashing you? Stop being obnoxious glory hunting parents who can't stop boasting, gloating and brazenly predicting youth soccer dominance. As you see, when you lack class and dignity, there's a lot of peoplle who can't wait to see you fail and who will take greapleasure in weatching you wallow in your failure.

Your club has accomplished very little in the grand scheme of things.

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You may not like some of the coaches from the clubs that NEFC merged with in the past, but you cannot take away from the fact that they had a very good record at State Cups this year with the number of teams reaching the finals and then winning. Any disgruntled parent who says otherwise is just that. Getting real tired having the same old cry babies on this forum keep entering their bashing. This site would be a whole lot better if they required you people to identify yourselfs so we would all know that it is probably the same person in most cases doing all the bashing. Get a life and hopefully your kid will have one too.

Really? With 50 something teams and twice the kids that any other club has, they should have won a lot more. As for disgruntled parents...when your sold something and told that all the state team coaches are at this club and your kid will be able to walk onto the team if he/she just joins our club and works with this "super" coach... only to have it be the same story they told 1000 other kids and the same story they are telling hundreds of new players they are trying to recruit, then poeple tend to get upset when it does't happen for all 1000 of us and it starts to be clear that it was more a sales pitch than the truth.