MFA Morris Should be prepared for an exodus

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How about the long throws ins to space which are usually turnovers. Trying to take yardage like this is the NFL. Reminds me of town rec ball. Do good teams do this, no, they play to feet, retain the ball, build, possess. Complete bush league town ball type **** from MFA. The only high level thing is their athletes.

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Here we go justifying kick and run. I hope you keep playing it and see where it gets you in 5 years. The kids won’t develop playing this crap style . Their decision making, ability to play in small spaces, passing, foot skills will stagnate when all they do is boot the ball up and run forward over and over. This is not soccer. Go watch some college soccer, premier league soccer whatever and you will quickly see this is bush league crap.

Hey Nitwit players make decisions on the pitch on how best to beat opponent. There are situations that call for kick and run wherein players should deploy such strategy. The ultimate idea of soccer as in any competitive sport is to win via legal means. Players should be allowed to embrace whatever strategies are necessary for them to beat the opponents in front of them and consistently adjust strategy as needed. No team gets extra points based on style of play in a league or tournament. It’s all about Wins or Losses - style and tactics are complimentary components but not the main dish.

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Hey Nitwit players make decisions on the pitch on how best to beat opponent. There are situations that call for kick and run wherein players should deploy such strategy. The ultimate idea of soccer as in any competitive sport is to win via legal means. Players should be allowed to embrace whatever strategies are necessary for them to beat the opponents in front of them and consistently adjust strategy as needed. No team gets extra points based on style of play in a league or tournament. It’s all about Wins or Losses - style and tactics are complimentary components but not the main dish.

Players aren’t making those decisions they are being instructed to get it up, get it up. That is not development that is bush league just like the nfl kickoffs from midfield and the defensive turnover machines at MFA that are kicking long ball low percentage passes over and over like Hail Marys in football. It doesn’t work!

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On a national level these kids will get spanked. We will all see this play out soon when we play national contenders. It simply doesn’t work this is not 90’s and early 2000s, the game has evolved. At a certain point kick and run long ball stops working and we are pretty much at that point and these kids are not prepared. You will see very soon.

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Hey Nitwit players make decisions on the pitch on how best to beat opponent. There are situations that call for kick and run wherein players should deploy such strategy. The ultimate idea of soccer as in any competitive sport is to win via legal means. Players should be allowed to embrace whatever strategies are necessary for them to beat the opponents in front of them and consistently adjust strategy as needed. No team gets extra points based on style of play in a league or tournament. It’s all about Wins or Losses - style and tactics are complimentary components but not the main dish.

Disagree, it's likely a coaching philosophy that instructs the kids to just kick it up. It's wrong and broken.

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MFA like PDA just like Red Bulls is not a good fit for everyone. You either like the club and its culture or get the hell outta dodge. No need being sour grapes if your child didn’t cut it, get significant playing mins, got replaced by a better player, or simply can’t keep up with the high expectations of playing in such environment. Maybe your child is just not ready or you over-exaggerated how good your child was as a player. Let it go - move forward and keep encouraging your child to do the best he or she can do. It’s not the end of the soccer journey realizing your child doesn’t fit into the elite athlete picture at this time.

Most of these negative posts are coming from MFA parents whose children didn’t make the Best of The Best team. I can imagine how disappointing that would be but rather than engaging in your current toxic behavior why don’t you take this as a Wake up call and get your child supplemental training if you are serious about pursuing the soccer dream or simply leave the club without all the drama. Always remember today’s Star Player is not guaranteed to be tomorrow’s Star Player.

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Disagree, it's likely a coaching philosophy that instructs the kids to just kick it up. It's wrong and broken.

It’s telling that you used the word “likely” a coaching philosophy. Assuming your child was an MFA Player you can easily ask what instructions were given by the coach. I don’t know too many coaches at Elite clubs like NYRB, PDA or MFA that will instruct players to just kick it up which is different from asking players to exploit the gap behind opponents. Whatever the case it really doesn’t matter if you don’t like club’s philosophy then your child shouldn’t be playing for the club in the first place.

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MFA like PDA just like Red Bulls is not a good fit for everyone. You either like the club and its culture or get the hell outta dodge. No need being sour grapes if your child didn’t cut it, get significant playing mins, got replaced by a better player, or simply can’t keep up with the high expectations of playing in such environment. Maybe your child is just not ready or you over-exaggerated how good your child was as a player. Let it go - move forward and keep encouraging your child to do the best he or she can do. It’s not the end of the soccer journey realizing your child doesn’t fit into the elite athlete picture at this time.

Most of these negative posts are coming from MFA parents whose children didn’t make the Best of The Best team. I can imagine how disappointing that would be but rather than engaging in your current toxic behavior why don’t you take this as a Wake up call and get your child supplemental training if you are serious about pursuing the soccer dream or simply leave the club without all the drama. Always remember today’s Star Player is not guaranteed to be tomorrow’s Star Player.

You are far off with your profile but good attempt. This has nothing to do with best of the best or playing time or anything individually, it has all to do with the development of elite players something MFA is lacking based on how they play soccer. Winning is important but not at the expense of playing **** kick and run. It’s short sighted. Your best of the best want to play real soccer, they want quality because they know they can and do play that way elsewhere. This is very simple and not about a single parent it’s about the collective. If you don’t change people will continue to leave hence the topic of this post. You could win every game playing that garbage and I guarantee your best of the best will leave. Just a fair warning people care about tactics and style and you should listen to your consumers wants and needs if long term success is the desired outcome. If not, proceed as usual and don’t say you weren’t warned.

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You are far off with your profile but good attempt. This has nothing to do with best of the best or playing time or anything individually, it has all to do with the development of elite players something MFA is lacking based on how they play soccer. Winning is important but not at the expense of playing **** kick and run. It’s short sighted. Your best of the best want to play real soccer, they want quality because they know they can and do play that way elsewhere. This is very simple and not about a single parent it’s about the collective. If you don’t change people will continue to leave hence the topic of this post. You could win every game playing that garbage and I guarantee your best of the best will leave. Just a fair warning people care about tactics and style and you should listen to your consumers wants and needs if long term success is the desired outcome. If not, proceed as usual and don’t say you weren’t warned.

Fair enough… now please kindly enlighten us on:

1. What specifically MFA should be doing differently?

2. Elaborate on the development of these “elite players” that MFA is failing to develop and point out how other clubs have succeeded in such player development.

3. Finally with a few players in each team (maybe 3 or 4 tops) who are the supposed elite players in MFA that are not being developed?

MFA like every other club in America can do a better job with player development but I doubt much can be achieved within 1.5 hours training 2 to 3 times a week. It’s just not that simple I hate to admit.

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Fair enough… now please kindly enlighten us on:

1. What specifically MFA should be doing differently?

2. Elaborate on the development of these “elite players” that MFA is failing to develop and point out how other clubs have succeeded in such player development.

3. Finally with a few players in each team (maybe 3 or 4 tops) who are the supposed elite players in MFA that are not being developed?

MFA like every other club in America can do a better job with player development but I doubt much can be achieved within 1.5 hours training 2 to 3 times a week. It’s just not that simple I hate to admit.

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.

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glad to see the one bitter parent got some rest and is back on it today. I guess he loves pretending to be the "voice of a generation"

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glad to see the one bitter parent got some rest and is back on it today. I guess he loves pretending to be the "voice of a generation"

Revert to this thread after next season. All we as parents can do is provide the feedback. It’s up to leadership to drive change. The outcome will be what it is. Good luck.

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glad to see the one bitter parent got some rest and is back on it today. I guess he loves pretending to be the "voice of a generation"

I think the "one bitter parent" probably has a valid point. I don't think very many families would consider MFA without the badge, which tells you everything you need to know. Personally, its far closer than my daughter's club, but I drive almost an hour each way because I wouldn't have her anywhere near that environment

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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

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This “one bitter parent” is speaking for a very large parent group. We all talk, most of us feel the same way. This place needs a leader who’s willing to make the changes above and it’s clear as day if you’re in this environment for an extended period. How any leader could think parents would stand by and pay 10-15k a year (w travel) for the stuff going on is unconscionable. They wonder why the best players left on 08,09,10,11,12.. hmmmmm I wonder why??!?