sandiegofutbolguy
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The main discussion had revolved around the 15u teams
Albion SC (East County specifically)
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RandomSoccerFan
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Right - but I believe that's a list of 30+ U15B Albion teams, and it's not clear, to me at least, which ones the questions refer to.
sandiegofutbolguy
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Sorry again.
IT was around the San Diego AD/EA/EA2 teams.
About as one might expect. EA and EA2 are now appropriately labeled: EA is considerably stronger than EA2, and both are middle of the table: EA has two ties, while EA2 is 2-3 so far. A lot of last year's EA2 kids declined to return, so it has a number of new-to-Albion kids on the roster. The Academy teams at Robb and Hickman are both playing Flight 1, and neither belongs: they are both winless at the bottom of their respective tables (They are in different SoCal SD F1 brackets, so don't play each other). Soccer Rankings shows the Robb Academy team has declined since their State Cup run (which makes sense, as they lost a number of quality players and most of the new additions are U14s playing up); the Hickman squad, on the other hand, does seem stronger than last year; I believe they picked up a couple of kids from the now-dissolved EC squad.
RandomSoccerFan
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It looks like the Albion San Diego teams are relatively well sorted at the moment from U14B and older, from HD/AD/EA/EA2 etc. But the U13 teams are still sorting themselves out, with the AD team performing a little better than the HD team, and the EA2 team performing a little better than the EA team. It looks like it's going to take a season for them to work out team placement and any other factors necessary for each team to play at its best.
sandiegofutbolguy
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No, but sounds juciy.
Games went on as planned yesterday?
sandiegofutbolguy
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Did you get any clarity yet?
Nope; nothing was said at practice yesterday--but I wouldn't expect it to have been since whatever it was didn't involve my kid's squad. Will see if I learn anything at the games this weekend.
socalgoalkeeperdad
BRONZE
Albion San Diego program is crap for HD teams under U15. The older kids program is much better because kids want to play MLS and move from ECNL teams to go there.
sandiegofutbolguy
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Does seem they do some good recruiting at the High School plus age group. Leaves all the Albion families that were promised a pathway out in the cold.
sandiegofutbolguy
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Watched a few AD matches against sporting yesterday. While the 17u sporting team is awful, Albion looked a lot better than they did a few years ago.
The 15u match was good. We didn't stay for the whole thing, but seemed like a good match up. The old EA2 center back played very well. The striker not so much.
The 15u match was good. We didn't stay for the whole thing, but seemed like a good match up. The old EA2 center back played very well. The striker not so much.
Glad to hear the center back continues to do well; it was clear from his play last year that he should have been at a much higher level.
As the first half (or the entirety, in the case of SoCal) of the season winds down, it's interesting to note that the EA squad has once again fallen below EA2 according to the rankings app (although the latter's record is padded by a couple of recent games where the opposition chose to forfeit or played short-handed). The Academy teams ended up at the bottom of their respective F1 tables, although the Hickman goalie (an erstwhile EC player, FWIW) guested for the Robb team this past weekend and sparked them to thier first two Ws of the season--one of which by a 7-1 margin---suggesting that perhaps there was a legitimate F1 team to be had, but they spread the talent across the locations.
On the flip side, while I haven't had a chance to see them play myself, HD's performance at the Next Cup qualifier suggests they at least got that roster right. All in at U15, Albion being Albion despite the coaching changes.
RandomSoccerFan
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If there are games in a team's record in SR that are actually forfeits, the app attempts to identify them and remove them from the rating/ranking history. But I believe it has to say that within the online results, and be easily identifiable as a forfeit. From the FAQ:
East County Soccer Dad
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I’d say the central keeper probably should have been on ea2, and possibly the ea2 keeper on EA.
AD definitely Holding their own, even if some bench players don’t belong still.
Those are players Albion probably looses with demotion.
Be curious if sporting does get homegrown next year what kind of shake up we see in ecnl clubs and AD teams elsewhere
I don't know if Elite Academy has a way to mark games as forfeit; if they do I've never seen it. Moreover, more than once have I seen an official score posted that did not reflect the game as played (or not, as the case may be). Seems to be a fair bit of side dealings between clubs when they don't want to/cannot actually play the match as scheduled for whatever reason.