MFA Morris Should be prepared for an exodus

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Bucci, how are you? I mean, where are you?

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it’s not one parent take a poll of your club
you don’t want to fix it
please please please send out anonymous surveys please

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no one cares about kicking it long if it works but when the defender kicks the ball and 52 times it goes to the other team and the coach keeps calling for it we have a problem. Then another 14 punts goes to the other team goalie we have a problem. then we play it out of back maybe 2% of time and a kid makes a mistake or a bad pass pass and the coach screams like a mad man at a player but will never say a word about the 52 turnovers the defender made we have a problem. ( btw the defender is an incredible player but coach is telling to go long go long and the result stinks) Then the coach tells the kids they were awful today and holds zero accountability for playing with 3 -5 kids instead of the 9 on the field . These clubs want to charge an arm and a leg. don’t want any communication with parents. god forbid you challenge there way(for fear of playing time on their 10 year old then cry like girls when you come on here and bash the **** out them. ) I’m gonna use these clubs the same way they use my kid for there badge and exposure it gives them doesn’t mean I can’t hate the system and these bull**** coaches . This whole thing is about money and about the **** brand of MFA . You tell me one other thing in life that you put so much time, money, and energy into and you don’t have a voice about it . do me a favor when you hand out you bull**** evaluations at end of year that you want my kid to work on in OUTSIDE TRAINING CAUSE YOU DONT DEVELOP **** send us all a coaches evaluation and a club evaluation so we can mail in anonymously . wait here is mine
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HERE IS MATCHFIT MODEL
Sucker as many young clueless parents and kids in with free winter clinic. Have dan sell them some line of bull**** who seems to be very good at it. Get them paying there way to fund the system. try and win as much as possible with the best 3 to 4 athletes on team. use the 3/4 every way possible (playing up playing for different branches of mfa and putting them on pedestal . win at all cost at the expense of the other 13 kids on team you are just billing . then demote kids to white team and replace at 15/16/17 with better talent and most likely the 3/4 so called athletes as well or they just go to pda cause they actually play real soccer. Parents aren’t stupid and clueless we all see what we are in for. No one knows what your in for when they reel u in at 7/8 then kids become part of team and form bonds with kids and then it’s hard to leave and no one wants to drive 1.5 hours to pda until it’s absolutely necessary but most good kids will cause MFA OBVIOUSLY doesn’t give a **** about your kid it’s all about $$ and also the reason why most kids in it from an early age quit at age 13. Use mfa don’t let them use you and when it’s time to go it’s time to go just like every other good player but you already know that

There needs to be more ECNL badges. MFA is profiteering off a monopolistic situation. It enables bad behavior. There is talent to support it, especially in North Jersey.

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Even Professionals kick and run when the spacing calls for such strategy. Soccer like Chess or Checkers is about countering your opponent's move not being daft.

Watch some good soccer videos and learn

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Professionals play long because the object of the professional game is to win. When you play long, goalie punting to striker, you bypass the other 7-9 players on the team. If you don’t care about winning, you would let the kids suffer under the high press, give up some goals, make a bunch of mistakes…but LEARN how to break a press. When you launch/send/boooooot it up field, or whatever you parents yell these days, you sacrifice development for wins. Keep score by how many times your team crosses midfield with the ball on the ground. Far more valuable at youth level than goals

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Professionals play long because the object of the professional game is to win. When you play long, goalie punting to striker, you bypass the other 7-9 players on the team. If you don’t care about winning, you would let the kids suffer under the high press, give up some goals, make a bunch of mistakes…but LEARN how to break a press. When you launch/send/boooooot it up field, or whatever you parents yell these days, you sacrifice development for wins. Keep score by how many times your team crosses midfield with the ball on the ground. Far more valuable at youth level than goals

Finally a person who understands! If your kid wants to be elite playing long ball is a disservice to their development at the youth level. Wake up parents!!

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Hey Mr. DICK Bentley - how many times you build out each game? All I see is punts and defenders booting. *** you doing?

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1. Tactics need to change. Play more of a possession based game, that’s what the top players train outside of club. That’s what the top clubs in the NA play. See PF, Bethesda PDA blue. Cut the players who can’t play that style, the low skill players. Stop with the nepotism and favortism and stop demeaning your players on the pitch. They hate playing for you when you act like a d bag and it’s not helping anyone get better. These are little girls remember that.

2. pda players and MFA players train outside at the same places, same groups and play on the same select teams in many cases. They are very similar in skill but you are not allowing them to grow at equal rates by stifling their game play with long ball kick and run tactics. Also, not putting quality players around the elite players at all positions that can actually play a possession based style. Players need to be able to receive and pass at a high level and retain the ball. Understand off the ball movement. Pass with purpose and detail. Typically daddy ball relationship players are ruining game flow because all they do is clear the ball most times without purpose which frustrates the heck out of players who understand the better decisions on the pitch. It’s clear that many kids playing significant minutes aren’t at the level if you watch just a single practice. If they aren’t good enough bench them or cut them. Stop protecting players for the sake of relationships. Change coaches more often to prevent this type of favortism from occurring. Hold all players to the same standards.

3. Don’t understand your question. Please rephrase.

I like your sincerity in response but think you might be missing the point in your own submission and I will elaborate a bit.

1. Do you really think MFA talent pool is on par with PF, PDA Blue, or Bethesda? You rightfully pointed out that Top Players train on possession style of play outside of Club so how many of your current players are accurately deemed as Top Players and how many of them can effectively play possession style of play under tremendous pressure from top ECNL opponents? You suggested cutting low level team players, how many players will remain on the roster after such cut? Are your teams currently overflowing with Top Players to accommodate such cuts? I don’t know too many MFA teams that can afford such cuts.

2. I agree there are some supplemental cross-training btwn PDA and MFA players however you again seem to miss the nuanced point you make about the overall quality of players on each team. You can only play possessive style with players equipped with the requisite skillset to support such style in achieving the ultimate objective of winning games. You can’t rely on possessive style when most of the team struggles to connect passes consistently or hold on to the ball against opponents’ pressure. You don’t develop players by pretending you have Top players when you don’t or forcing players to play a style they simply incapable of executing. Constant turnover of the ball or game losses is never a formula to player development/ confidence/ success.

This invariably leads to the next natural question… “How do you recruit Top players?” Unfortunately Top players rarely troop to losing teams unless there are significant financial or other compensatory benefits being offered. Hence playing possession style that amounts to heavy game losses won’t result in Top Players recruitment windfall instead the few remaining Top Players will most likely leave the team for a winning club.

It’s easy for us to be a Monday morning quarterback but if the solutions were as easy as posted on TS I think many of us will own soccer clubs already. Make no mistake, I totally concur possession style of play is preferred to kick and run in most cases but you need requisite talent level on the team to pull it off. Recruitment unfortunately is not as cut and dry as it seems so the few Top Players available have a bigger say than the clubs on where they play. Often these Top Players are drawn to clubs that give them the best chance to WIN and be prominent on the national stage.

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Professionals play long because the object of the professional game is to win. When you play long, goalie punting to striker, you bypass the other 7-9 players on the team. If you don’t care about winning, you would let the kids suffer under the high press, give up some goals, make a bunch of mistakes…but LEARN how to break a press. When you launch/send/boooooot it up field, or whatever you parents yell these days, you sacrifice development for wins. Keep score by how many times your team crosses midfield with the ball on the ground. Far more valuable at youth level than goals

FWIW- you are not wrong. Having seen MFA play more than once… they don’t have the talent to do otherwise.

Parents prioritize winning and kids rarely leave winning teams to go to another winning team (and BLue is super hard to make).

said this before and will say again… aren’t enough athletes with to play the game what currently is considered the correct way (possession).

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Finally a person who understands! If your kid wants to be elite playing long ball is a disservice to their development at the youth level. Wake up parents!!

It’s the same **** at most clubs besides pda north.

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I like your sincerity in response but think you might be missing the point in your own submission and I will elaborate a bit.

1. Do you really think MFA talent pool is on par with PF, PDA Blue, or Bethesda? You rightfully pointed out that Top Players train on possession style of play outside of Club so how many of your current players are accurately deemed as Top Players and how many of them can effectively play possession style of play under tremendous pressure from top ECNL opponents? You suggested cutting low level team players, how many players will remain on the roster after such cut? Are your teams currently overflowing with Top Players to accommodate such cuts? I don’t know too many MFA teams that can afford such cuts.

2. I agree there are some supplemental cross-training btwn PDA and MFA players however you again seem to miss the nuanced point you make about the overall quality of players on each team. You can only play possessive style with players equipped with the requisite skillset to support such style in achieving the ultimate objective of winning games. You can’t rely on possessive style when most of the team struggles to connect passes consistently or hold on to the ball against opponents’ pressure. You don’t develop players by pretending you have Top players when you don’t or forcing players to play a style they simply incapable of executing. Constant turnover of the ball or game losses is never a formula to player development/ confidence/ success.

This invariably leads to the next natural question… “How do you recruit Top players?” Unfortunately Top players rarely troop to losing teams unless there are significant financial or other compensatory benefits being offered. Hence playing possession style that amounts to heavy game losses won’t result in Top Players recruitment windfall instead the few remaining Top Players will most likely leave the team for a winning club.

It’s easy for us to be a Monday morning quarterback but if the solutions were as easy as posted on TS I think many of us will own soccer clubs already. Make no mistake, I totally concur possession style of play is preferred to kick and run in most cases but you need requisite talent level on the team to pull it off. Recruitment unfortunately is not as cut and dry as it seems so the few Top Players available have a bigger say than the clubs on where they play. Often these Top Players are drawn to clubs that give them the best chance to WIN and be prominent on the national stage.

Here you have it folks. Coach saying your kids suck which is why they can’t play the right way and resort to kick and run. 5-6 branches of player pools you can’t find 14 that can ball. I don’t believe that hogwash for a second. It’s lazy coaching and lack of development on your part to win by any means necessary. You fall behind because you’re not providing the right in game environment for players to develop. Get the big booting daddy ball defenders off the field and put players who can get the job done on the pitch and pass accurately to the mids/fwds. Put your best players on the field and develop the kids in different positions. There is plenty of talent you clearly just don’t see it which is an issue in itself.

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MFA has one of 4 ECNL badges in the state m, an oligopoly, a huge competitive advantage and the coach is claiming to not have the requisite talent to play the right way? All these kids do is train and play soccer. What a crock of dung.

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Professionals play long because the object of the professional game is to win. When you play long, goalie punting to striker, you bypass the other 7-9 players on the team. If you don’t care about winning, you would let the kids suffer under the high press, give up some goals, make a bunch of mistakes…but LEARN how to break a press. When you launch/send/boooooot it up field, or whatever you parents yell these days, you sacrifice development for wins. Keep score by how many times your team crosses midfield with the ball on the ground. Far more valuable at youth level than goals

You folks are delusional with your sense of what constitutes youth development in soccer. You truly believe your young players will develop by constantly losing the ball under pressure or they will miraculously learn how to break a press via osmosis of losing the ball and or the game. Haha don’t we all wish that was the case then Town teams ought to be shunning out massive numbers of Top Developed Players who represent us at the national level.

Again development is critical but it’s not achieved on the basis of whether a team plays possession style or not. IQ development is critical at this stage for players to make the right decisions on what style they should deploy to beat opponents. Teaching youth players technical skills on how to effectively read space on the pitch and move within spaces is imperative in their development and lends itself to the style of play they can execute.

Sorry no club can turn a house cat into a tiger in the name of development. You can enhance but can’t create a Top Player.

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Here you have it folks. Coach saying your kids suck which is why they can’t play the right way and resort to kick and run. 5-6 branches of player pools you can’t find 14 that can ball. I don’t believe that hogwash for a second. It’s lazy coaching and lack of development on your part to win by any means necessary. You fall behind because you’re not providing the right in game environment for players to develop. Get the big booting daddy ball defenders off the field and put players who can get the job done on the pitch and pass accurately to the mids/fwds. Put your best players on the field and develop the kids in different positions. There is plenty of talent you clearly just don’t see it which is an issue in itself.

Just a disclaimer… that post was made by me and while I’m indeed a licensed coach I’m not affiliated with either MFA or PDA but are very familiar with players across various teams and their skill sets. Sorry if the TRUTH hurts your sensitive egos and eyes!!!

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most parents think they will be getting the proper training and development when joining matchfit at early ages that’s what they are sold. That’s why we open our wallet's. Then you get here and it becomes winning at all cost crap and stop telling up to wake up we are wide awake. moving your kid is a big decision.
1.has to be somewhat convenient
2. how many times you want to move your kid if it’s same at another club
3 your kid is doing well in a **** system and doesn’t really see all the crap and developing cause of outside training
4. hard to go down a level cause your kid will hate playing with lesser players
5. your kid needs to have some input they are the ones sacrificing there time and youth and they may not want to go.
so you deal with the bs and hope it changes
we are fully aware of the nonsense we just want to play soccer at a top level and not drive 8 hours in a car a week

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you folks are delusional with your sense of what constitutes youth development in soccer. You truly believe your young players will develop by constantly losing the ball under pressure or they will miraculously learn how to break a press via osmosis of losing the ball and or the game. Haha don’t we all wish that was the case then town teams ought to be shunning out massive numbers of top developed players who represent us at the national level.

Again development is critical but it’s not achieved on the basis of whether a team plays possession style or not. Iq development is critical at this stage for players to make the right decisions on what style they should deploy to beat opponents. Teaching youth players technical skills on how to effectively read space on the pitch and move within spaces is imperative in their development and lends itself to the style of play they can execute.

Sorry no club can turn a house cat into a tiger in the name of development. You can enhance but can’t create a top player.

boooooot it, timmy!!!!!!!