Way to go Blazers and DC! Feel good? Way to go MAPLE.
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Problem on many levels here. The league for accepting so many teams and calling them "premier" or "club" teams. By doing this, the kids playing have false hopes and aspirations. The team for running up the score (not good.........unless they started moving kids around). However, it is how soccer is administered in this country which is a complete farce to begin with. I mean one could go on and on how much of a joke the sport is in this country and how it is run.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post -
good points. There have been changes to attempt to fix this. DAP is one of them. Locally, NEP league strives to focus on development and not this craziness.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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This would be the same coach that did not call players to let them know they were being cut from his team. No Class! At some point you have proven you are the better team with the better players, formost of us this happens well before the 19th goal. Why get nasty?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Don't necessarily buy the DAP and NEP. The leadership needs to come from above (USSF) about a drastic reorganziation. DAP Is a step in the right direction as long as the coaches are actively looking for kids from all avenues. Can't say that they do that now.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Another classless fool at the Blazer, yes the Abbey Villa team is weak, but that thrashing is in line with JD foolishness against the B team from Fuller Hamlets...Comment
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He's very smooth RECRUITER of players though. Almost fell for his snares. So glad I didn't have my son join.Comment
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have to say, these stories about DC are changing my opinion of him. Glad the Bolts axed him then. No one should have their kids run up the score like that. They can pass the ball around, practice possession, without going to the net. Would have been a good lesson in sportmanship. But obviously they don't have a coach that can practice something he doesn't understand.Comment
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Just a question, if a coach puts the defenders up front, the forwards in the back, the GK on the field, and plays down a man or 2, is he still suppose to tell the kids not to score? I mean isn't that the whole point of the game?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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....and makes them pass 3,4,5,6....10 times and then plays with their weaker foot.....Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
There are a host of things that the kids can do on the field before shooting on goal. Instead of trumpeting their own horns on a weaker team, they could take the opportunity to hone in these other skills. Who knows they may even get scored upon.
On the other hand, it is always tough to tell U11 players not to shoot on goal.....that is why you, as the coach, need to know how to redirect the team.
As for Abbey Villa, I am curious as to how their coach should respond to this thrashing and what he/she is supposed to tell their team. I also wonder how many of those kids are going to continue to play the season out. I doubt that this will be the only thrashing that they receive.......afterall, there are coaches from NEFC coming along.Comment
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Sorry, passing around as you suggest is far more embarrassing to an opponent and you are still missing the main point of the game which is to score goals. So why would you want to take that opportunity away from kids that might not ordinarily have the chance to do so?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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MAPLE should rethink their approach to U11 Fall, which mixes the weakest teams with the strongest. I recall when my kid did it that most of the games were a total boring waste of time, not worth the time or the drive. That was a long time ago, and you'd think they would have thought of a better way to do it by now.Comment
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When a game is a real competition, and the goal is being adequately defended - in particular, when the other team hasn't given up - then scoring goals is the point of the game. Embarrassing an opponent by running up the score is poor sportmanship. Maybe that's something hard for parents who visit this site to comprehend. A good coach will respond in several ways - move players around, such as forwards to the back (or to the bench), pass the ball around, asking the players to only score on passing inside the box, or playing down a man or two. Playing a team that goes down by 5 or more goals is not good training in any case, so nothing is accomplished by scoring goals under those circumstances.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Maybe MAPLE should limit the number of teams that enter their league......Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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As for Abbey Villa, I am curious as to how their coach should respond to this thrashing and what he/she is supposed to tell their team. I also wonder how many of those kids are going to continue to play the season out. I doubt that this will be the only thrashing that they receive.......afterall, there are coaches from NEFC coming along.[/QUOTE]
My kid played for a team made up of kids of mixed ability and age at U11. They didn't win a single game in the fall. They didn't win a single game in the winter indoor league either, but we all stuck with the team, because despite the fact that they were losing games, and in the early going by some pretty big scores, we could see that they were learning and getting better. They did so, because they had a terrific coach. Quite a few years later several of those kids are playing on top level club teams and committed to D1 college programs, several more, kids that other teams would have written off, were playing for their high school varsity teams as freshmen.
So what should the Abbey Villa coach do? Teach the kids how to play the game well and focus on the positive progress that is made. Whining about losses and looking for others to blame will get these kids nowhere in sports or in life.Comment
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