The Girls 2007 Thread

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What's the big offseason topics. Any good indoor or futsal talk, any rumors of movement between teams??

Bunch of fired EPL coaches are coming over to run GPS...

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Size is a tricky one. Everyone is small at the younger ages but some of those kids just don’t grow and if they are work horses they just start to be too small. If you can’t stay on the ball you are going to have a hard time.

* sorry, if they AREN’T workhorses...

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* sorry, if they AREN’T workhorses...

Too many lazy coaches, especially at this age, who will fill their rosters with the biggest athletes they can find, passing over smaller technically skilled players for kids who grew early.

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Too many lazy coaches, especially at this age, who will fill their rosters with the biggest athletes they can find, passing over smaller technically skilled players for kids who grew early.

Total bs.
Any club worth their salt will take talented players, regardless of size.
This is a tired lame excuse used by unhappy parents.

And based on the never-ending slam on coaches, why do any of you pay or have kids play soccer?
I don’t get it...

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Top two reasons kids fall off the top team:
Work ethic/attitude
Size

We have seen it over and over at our club. Some of the kids who were on the top team when they were 7/8 have an attitude that the are the bomb no matter what and they don’t grind it out in practice. Eventually the kids who are working their butts off surpass those kids skills wise. My daughter is on an 05 team and we’ve seen bottom kids keep working and growing and become top kids.

Size is a tricky one. Everyone is small at the younger ages but some of those kids just don’t grow and if they are work horses they just start to be too small. If you can’t stay on the ball you are going to have a hard time.

Biggest problem in US soccer is the premium put on size. Absolutely killing us on the MNT. It's about skill and soccer IQ more than size.

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Huh. I totally disagree. The question was why do kids drop off. Kids drop off due to size when they get picked early when size matters less and then when other kids grow those early growers aren’t the “stellar” player anymore.

If you are smaller you do have to have a high work rate to play good soccer. And you often take a beating. Don’t be ridiculous and say the whole problem with us soccer is blah blah blah.”

A good coach is going to have a mix of players on their team. The tiny players will get dropped if they can’t match up. Often bigger players take longer to get to the same technical level but once they do why would you keep the tiny if the bigger girl has the same skills, or even better because that bigger girl has often had to work harder to prove herself.

We have seen this often. The smaller players who don’t cop an attitude and keep working hard stay on the best teams but about half of them just don’t. They ride their early success and that runs out about 9/10 grade.

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Biggest problem in US soccer is the premium put on size. Absolutely killing us on the MNT. It's about skill and soccer IQ more than size.

That is just one of the many things that ails us

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Biggest problem in US soccer is the premium put on size. Absolutely killing us on the MNT. It's about skill and soccer IQ more than size.

So the “biggest problem” really
Only applies to the MNT. The women’s team is a fair mix of size and the bigger players are absolutely good and not there just because they are big.

I agree the CB on the men’s team is not great, just hulking.

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Which of the local teams are doing Jefferson Cup 2020?

I believe last year it was SOL, Stars, Scorpions, Select & GPS?

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Biggest problem in US soccer is the premium put on size. Absolutely killing us on the MNT. It's about skill and soccer IQ more than size.

Same for us menfolk...

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Serious question, do any of you let your u13 players drink Red Bull before her games?

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Serious question, do any of you let your u13 players drink Red Bull before her games?

Mountain Dew.....

Total game changer!

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Serious question, do any of you let your u13 players drink Red Bull before her games?

NFW. I drink the Red Bull. Coaching from the parent's side can be draining.

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Serious question, do any of you let your u13 players drink Red Bull before her games?

Vodka shot after the game to help bring them back down

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Mountain Dew.....

Total game changer!

Code Red MD works best.