FCGB Names New Director of Girls Programs

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KC is an adult - go after him if you feel the need, but leave the kids out of it.

I'd prefer to see the tough guy/tough gal internet forum bully's go after these coaches and players in person.

Funny how an anonymous forum gives everyone such guts. Most of you would be reduced to a quivering tub of goo if forced to voice your criticisms to the coaches face.

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How did the FCGB tryouts go?

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Amazing how these things escalate. One poster declares a player the best in the world and another questions that. Now just to question it has been interpreted as an insult. It is just a debate as to who might be the best in the world. North Korea who won the U17 Women's World Cup might question it. Japan who beat the US in this tournament might question it. Mana Iwabuchi who plays for Japan and won the Golden Ball award might question it. Dzsenifer Marozsan of Germany who won the Golden Shoe award might question. Even her own sister who was named Young Athlete of the Year might question it. It just goes to show you how insular most Americans are when it comes to soccer.

Note to original poster. Best not to annoint anyone "the best" unless you are prepared to back it up, otherwise we just get into these ridiculous discussions.

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SM is gifted, probably the result of a combination of great genetics and great training. I don't see how you could read a post as saying she's the best player in the world in her age group as a post that is negative! Seems like quite a compliment. She played almost every minute of every game in the World Cup, and she was playing a year up for a team that made the final. If she's not the best player in the world in her age group, she's in the conversation.

Agree with this.

I'd go one step further and say she would likely be in the same position regardless if the club she played for.

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I love the bull that is posted. First, saying lots of MPS players at try-outs "at a certain age" and then we find out it was U12's who have been told they did not make the U13 premier team. Plus a few players on the bubble. This is like when a team beats either an MPS or Stars B team and we hear all about it, until corrects the parent(s) with no knowledge about it being a B team.

Coaching? the best at BOLTS? Another uneducated parent. The BOLTS do have some wonderful coaches. But they are clearly not overall in the league of Stars and MPS. I'd have said Scorpions as well, but right now I believe KC is coaching 4 teams, which is a little absurd. He is a great coach though. As a whole, can we stop the claims of best coaching and simply admit many teams have good to great coaches and its about a fit for your own child and be done with the boating and the bashing? Oooops, that's silly we live in MA where boasting and bashing is critical to our own well being.......

It was not bull, no one said lots of MPS players, but some. And it was not in reference to the 12's, it was an older team. Tell me who the coaches for MPS are that are great? Can't wait for that list.

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Amazing how these things escalate. One poster declares a player the best in the world and another questions that. Now just to question it has been interpreted as an insult. It is just a debate as to who might be the best in the world. North Korea who won the U17 Women's World Cup might question it. Japan who beat the US in this tournament might question it. Mana Iwabuchi who plays for Japan and won the Golden Ball award might question it. Dzsenifer Marozsan of Germany who won the Golden Shoe award might question. Even her own sister who was named Young Athlete of the Year might question it. It just goes to show you how insular most Americans are when it comes to soccer.

Note to original poster. Best not to annoint anyone "the best" unless you are prepared to back it up, otherwise we just get into these ridiculous discussions.

This is the original poster. Sam Mewis is not in the age group of all those players you mentioned, she is in the age group below. That was the point. I said Sam Mewis might be the best player in her age group. That does not include her sister, Iwabuchi, or Marozsan, all three of which don't qualify because they are too old.

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Coaching college players and having high licenses means very little when coaching players who are younger than 16. This has always been the problem with the Bolts model. The other problem with all those college coaches is that the Bolts is just a paycheck for them, it's not they're priority. That's why coaches like Desmond also failed, never really put in the effort necessary to develop good teams.

So, did your daughter play for Desmond and that is why you rally against college coaches so much? Because if she did, then I would agree it was a bad situation. However, that is one coach and in case you didn't notice, she was not invited back to the Bolts.

It is unfair for you to say that the Bolts is a paycheck for the rest of them based on a one year mistake. I have no complaints about my daughter playing for a college coach and there is no one, without a doubt no one at all on the team that ever felt they were not a priority to their coach. As a matter of fact, she was the most dedicated coach we've had, and that includes the high school coaches my daughter played for.

And BTW, college coaches don't get awarded those jobs without prior experience. Many start off coaching high school/club age players, and almost all also run camps for those age groups in the summer. Saying that having coaches like that means very little in the younger age group is again an unfair and uneducated statement to make.

One last BTW, does it mean that Darren Gallagher will now not be an effective club coach because he is a college head coach? Or is that only when its a Bolts coach?

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This is the original poster. Sam Mewis is not in the age group of all those players you mentioned, she is in the age group below. That was the point. I said Sam Mewis might be the best player in her age group. That does not include her sister, Iwabuchi, or Marozsan, all three of which don't qualify because they are too old.

Iwabuchi is a 93, about 6 months younger. Marozsan is a 92, about 6 months older.

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So, did your daughter play for Desmond and that is why you rally against college coaches so much? Because if she did, then I would agree it was a bad situation. However, that is one coach and in case you didn't notice, she was not invited back to the Bolts.

It is unfair for you to say that the Bolts is a paycheck for the rest of them based on a one year mistake. I have no complaints about my daughter playing for a college coach and there is no one, without a doubt no one at all on the team that ever felt they were not a priority to their coach. As a matter of fact, she was the most dedicated coach we've had, and that includes the high school coaches my daughter played for.

And BTW, college coaches don't get awarded those jobs without prior experience. Many start off coaching high school/club age players, and almost all also run camps for those age groups in the summer. Saying that having coaches like that means very little in the younger age group is again an unfair and uneducated statement to make.

One last BTW, does it mean that Darren Gallagher will now not be an effective club coach because he is a college head coach? Or is that only when its a Bolts coach?

Desmond is now listed as a Scorpions coach.

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Desmond is a good coach. She's knowledgable, fair, and a great role model for young women. Good hire, Scorps.

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HUH...something was posted on talking-soccer that "might" be considered as saying nice about someone....

We all must be on our medication today....

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Did the G14 Bolts get back into MAPLE?

Doesn't look like it. MAPLE website now lists them as being on the waiting list to get back in.

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Desmond is a good coach. She's knowledgable, fair, and a great role model for young women. Good hire, Scorps.

Agree with the above, but she was definitely guilty of paying priority to her NU responsibilities over the Bolts team she was with. This caused a lot of issues with the team, the parents, and the overall performance of the team that year. It may be that it is because she is an assistant coach at a D1 program and has to do a lot of the recruiting, whereas the head coaches can plan out their own schedules more in their own favor when it comes to this type of thing. I don't think it was with any malice on her part, just a hard thing to balance that year for her.

I expect that within a few years she will be a head college coach somewhere. She's due.

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This is the original poster. Sam Mewis is not in the age group of all those players you mentioned, she is in the age group below. That was the point. I said Sam Mewis might be the best player in her age group. That does not include her sister, Iwabuchi, or Marozsan, all three of which don't qualify because they are too old.

Iwabuchi is a 93, about 6 months younger. Marozsan is a 92, about 6 months older.

See what I mean? You just make assumptions without even bothering to look and learn.

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Desmond is a good coach. She's knowledgable, fair, and a great role model for young women. Good hire, Scorps.

You've got to be kidding. She doesn't have a great track record when it comes to club. She is the epitomy of what the previous poster was talking about.