The right choice?

Real Deal said:
Then if ECNL cares, they can put their product somewhere beyond the OC. As long as they refuse to spread out geographically in SoCal, DA wins
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Is it winning when the product on the field is diluted and overall worse than what ECNL has already been producing? And no I am not on the payroll of the ECNL, however, the platform and her coaches did a great job of getting my player a great scholarship and she is killing the game in college.
 
soccer4us said:
Agree DA will win in So Cal barring some bad mess up from US soccer. Most of the current ECNL clubs would prefer no change outside of maybe Legends, Albion, Carlsbad, etc where now their on even playing field. DA should win easily in any normal case in the whole country but US soccer has done so many dumb things through the years, it just makes you think can they mess this up? Maybe. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying ECNL is perfect. They made mistakes as well but I think putting all they mandates when in reality you're changing nothing is just a front. Same coaches, still training similar days, and playing similar teams. Good times.
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@soccer4us this is a well thought out post and very true. I am enjoying sitting back and watching. Plenty of soccer people that I have talked to aren't convinced that US Soccer can get out of it's own way. Too much of a honey pot to protect and too much of an old girls club to keep employed. What happened to hiring coaches with a successful record to coach the youth national teams? Every few months something has changed. We are 4 months away from the season starting and still no comprehensive directives just fluffy press releases. Dallas Sting , one of the most successful youth clubs in the country on the female side pulling out is pretty telling.
 
MakeAPlay said:
@soccer4us this is a well thought out post and very true. I am enjoying sitting back and watching. Plenty of soccer people that I have talked to aren't convinced that US Soccer can get out of it's own way. Too much of a honey pot to protect and too much of an old girls club to keep employed. What happened to hiring coaches with a successful record to coach the youth national teams? Every few months something has changed. We are 4 months away from the season starting and still no comprehensive directives just fluffy press releases. Dallas Sting , one of the most successful youth clubs in the country on the female side pulling out is pretty telling.
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Hiring successful youth national team coaches? good one. Depends if you're friends with Jill or were her assistant at UCLA once upon a time. My favorite is when you fail but then get a new job within us soccer in a different role. From what I understand April is the main DA person and isn't exactly liked by many you can say. Let's hope for so cal folks they don't have showcase events similar locations to the boys. Going to Florida early December for a week. Good fun
 
Sheriff Joe said:
See what happens when you are sober? You should try it more often.
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Who says that I wasn't sober? What you might not understand Joe is that this is pure entertainment for me. Watching people make it up as they go with the inevitable crash at the end is pretty funny. I showed my player some of these posts and she laughed and was confused at how ill informed most of the posters on this forum really are.

The difference is dickwad that I am looking in the rear view mirror. My player is there and thriving. She will have the opportunity to play pro, should she want to, and will likely end up in Europe for her gap year before medical school. I had a plan and executed it. How's your plan going?
 
soccer4us said:
Hiring successful youth national team coaches? good one. Depends if you're friends with Jill or were her assistant at UCLA once upon a time. My favorite is when you fail but then get a new job within us soccer in a different role. From what I understand April is the main DA person and isn't exactly liked by many you can say. Let's hope for so cal folks they don't have showcase events similar locations to the boys. Going to Florida early December for a week. Good fun
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You are 100% spot on and the rabbit hole goes deeper. I just don't want to post some of the other things I know but look closely at the ynt coaching tree...
 
MakeAPlay said:
Who says that I wasn't sober? What you might not understand Joe is that this is pure entertainment for me. Watching people make it up as they go with the inevitable crash at the end is pretty funny. I showed my player some of these posts and she laughed and was confused at how ill informed most of the posters on this forum really are.

The difference is dickwad that I am looking in the rear view mirror. My player is there and thriving. She will have the opportunity to play pro, should she want to, and will likely end up in Europe for her gap year before medical school. I had a plan and executed it. How's your plan going?
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I am surprised you can look at any mirror without it shattering.
The difference between us is I actually like to see everyones' kid succeed, even though you are what you are, I wouldn't wish bad things on your kid.
 
MyDaughtersAKeeper said:
Hey guys, my daughter will be age eligible for DA next year so I come to this forum to try to figure out the best path for her. I am disappointed to see how this thread seems to have gone off the rails. If you want to make it personal with another poster, I guess go ahead, but lets leave the kids out of this. Lets keep this a place where people with NO soccer experience (like me) can come and get thoughts and ideas. The forum is what we make of it.
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I use the ignore button- honestly some people on here are so stupid especially some ulitttle parents that it's necessary. Better for your health too!
 
NoGoal said:
IMO, why even worry about FIFA sub rules for women? 99.999% of club and college players won't be playing pro women or international soccer anyways.

College soccer players are so condititioned, if they had to play a full 90 min game, they easily could.
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It is not about conditioning, it is about learning to play the international game. If the goal is for the US to stay competitive in women's soccer (and become competitive in men's soccer), then our adult players need to play the international game. If we want to see our National Teams get schooled by teams that play possession soccer, then maintain the status quo. The US is different than the rest of the world due to the fact that we have college sports. We should use the strengths that we have and change the college game so that is helps with player development.
 
Since this is the most active thread about this certain 04 DA are already imploding and now playing up their 05 A Team players who are waayyyyyyy out of their league. Amazing!
 
outside! said:
It is not about conditioning, it is about learning to play the international game. If the goal is for the US to stay competitive in women's soccer (and become competitive in men's soccer), then our adult players need to play the international game. If we want to see our National Teams get schooled by teams that play possession soccer, then maintain the status quo. The US is different than the rest of the world due to the fact that we have college sports. We should use the strengths that we have and change the college game so that is helps with player development.
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Learning to play the international game? Then why are international national team players coming over to the US playing collegiate soccer, besides wanting to get a free education? Want the US to play possession soccer? It's pretty simple, fire the US YNT staff and head coaches and replace them with coaches from, Spain, Japan, Germany and or France. Oh, we tried that with Tom Sermani and weren't patient enough after incurring a few losses and he was fired.
 
I'm going to lay it all out for ulittle parents.

1. Girls DA is not increasing the amount of college soccer scholarships.
2. Playing GDA doesn't mean your DD's are going to get a collegiate scholarship to school of her choice.
3. Playing GDA doesn't increase your DD's chance of getting a YNT invite.
4. There will be many who's DD will not be playing soccer in a couple of years.
5. Your DDs are all be competing for the same college roster spots in their graduating class.
6. Posters in your age group will stop posting in a couple of years, because reality from #1-5 will be realized.

Lastly, enough watching your DD's playing and let them have fun, because the time is going to fly by!
 
NoGoal said:
Learning to play the international game? Then why are international national team players coming over to the US playing collegiate soccer, besides wanting to get a free education? Want the US to play possession soccer? It's pretty simple, fire the US YNT staff and head coaches and replace them with coaches from, Spain, Japan, Germany and or France. Oh, we tried that with Tom Sermani and weren't patient enough after incurring a few losses and he was fired.
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I find it hard to believe there are NO United States coaches who preach possession. The issue is, we care about winning even at the youth levels where we fire coaches who don't come close to winning a u17 World Cup even if their style is good. FYI not saying the previous one but some in the past. With Sermani he did the exact same thing Jill just did at that she believes cup where we got smoked by France. Tried new players and different things. Senior players complained to Gulati and what do you know? Fired.

my other question for GDA, are they really going mandate a style to all these so cal clubs, evaluate their sessions, etc? They do this for the boys or at least attempt too. Play 4-3-3 or else...unless your the main national team. This could be some fun if that's the case.
 
NoGoal said:
Real Deal don't be butthurt!

Seriously, did you think your DD was going to make money playing professional womens soccer? Your DD is only 5 yrs younger than my DD. You need to refocus your DD goals and that's playing college soccer and getting some kind of scholarship money, because that is not a guarantee playing for Girls DA or ECNL team.
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I stated (in post #71 as a matter of fact) that our goal was for her to play in college. I'm sure you will respond that she has no chance, since you find it acceptable to flame people by disrespecting their children because you disagree with an opinion. No problem-- that's on your Karma sheet.

You don't know my kid, me, or our situation at all.
 
MyDaughtersAKeeper said:
Hey guys, my daughter will be age eligible for DA next year so I come to this forum to try to figure out the best path for her. I am disappointed to see how this thread seems to have gone off the rails. If you want to make it personal with another poster, I guess go ahead, but lets leave the kids out of this. Lets keep this a place where people with NO soccer experience (like me) can come and get thoughts and ideas. The forum is what we make of it.
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Amen to this. The venom displayed by some posters towards other people's kids is disgusting,
 
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