Academy season

Los Angeles united football academy continues to grow from 3 teams to 4 next season in the ussda league they seem to be making progress and getting promotion is a direct result. Don't know how many regular clubs team they have but was told there is growth there each year also.

Last seen at the winter showcase their team in this age group finished top of group defeating the Galaxy MLS affiliated team. During the other fall showcase, same thing top of the group but this time getting the better of the San Jose MLS team. Doing somethings right, they might not have the resources as the others but their making pretty good use of what they have.
 
mahrez said:
Los Angeles united football academy continues to grow from 3 teams to 4 next season in the ussda league they seem to be making progress and getting promotion is a direct result. Don't know how many regular clubs team they have but was told there is growth there each year also.

Last seen at the winter showcase their team in this age group finished top of group defeating the Galaxy mls affiliated team. During the other fall showcase, same thing top of the group but this time getting the better of the San Jose MLS team. Doing somethings rights, they might not have the resources as the others but there making pretty good use of what they have.
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Their academies are doing ok but all other teams including their 03 reserve suck. Plus it is a well know fact that they do not pay their non academy coaches and constantly bug parents who have some money for funds sometimes linking it to the amount of playing time.
 
play03 said:
Their academies are doing ok but all other teams including their 03 reserve suck. Plus it is a well know fact that they do not pay their non academy coaches and constantly bug parents who have some money for funds sometimes linking it to the amount of playing time.
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Total Bull Crap to put it a nice way. The reason why the 03 reserves are not consistent in they play is because the coach plays all his kids no matter their skill level. Are you one of the parents that left the team because your kid was not getting enough playing time. Most of the kids on that team are not paying a damn cent, but the coach let then play. Most of the coaches at LAUFA shows up and coach because they love doing it, not in it just to get a pay check, prime example the 03 reserve coach. so stop talking out of ass.
 
Runuts said:
Total Bull Crap to put it a nice way. The reason why the 03 reserves are not consistent in they play is because the coach plays all his kids no matter their skill level. Are you one of the parents that left the team because your kid was not getting enough playing time. Most of the kids on that team are not paying a damn cent, but the coach let then play. Most of the coaches at LAUFA shows up and coach because they love doing it, not in it just to get a pay check, prime example the 03 reserve coach. so stop talking out of ass.
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Why such aggressive response to well know facts? Are you the coach or from the management? Laufa's B03 has a terrible record of play in SCDSL and CRL, What does it have to do whether or not you are playing or not playing all the kids? Are you not supposed to play all the kids on the team? It is also a fact that LAUFA does not pay coaches outside their academy and it will most likely be bankrupt shortly.
 
play03 said:
Why such aggressive response to well know facts? Are you the coach or from the management? Laufa's B03 has a terrible record of play in SCDSL and CRL, What does it have to do whether or not you are playing or not playing all the kids? Are you not supposed to play all the kids on the team? It is also a fact that LAUFA does not pay coaches outside their academy and it will most likely be bankrupt shortly.
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Not the coach, my kid is on one of their team am I pay full price because I can. Never once has the coach ever ask me or any parent on the team for money, we don't give a damn about records. LAUFA had 1 academy team before the 16-17 season, if the coaches weren't getting paid why are they still with the club. The club sponsors about 200 kids to play soccer for free, way more than your sorry ass.
 
Runuts said:
Not the coach, my kid is on one of their team am I pay full price because I can. Never once has the coach ever ask me or any parent on the team for money, we don't give a damn about records. LAUFA had 1 academy team before the 16-17 season, if the coaches weren't getting paid why are they still with the club. The club sponsors about 200 kids to play soccer for free, way more than your sorry ass.
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Your statements make no sense. At first you claim that all kids play and then you state that some kids left because of lack of playing time. Then you state that coaches work for free because of their love for the game and then you state that coached do get paid. Then you state that kids are sponsored and coached do not ask for money and then you state that you pay the full amount because you can, more than my sorry ass. Too many contradictions--- you must be the coach.
BTW, my kid never played for LAUFA. WE played against your team and I just wrote what i heard from parents.
Your aggressiveness and insults show that you are not just a parent, you must be the coach or someone from the management. The main point of this discussion was that LAUFA is very short of funds and probably will cease to exist soon.
 
SuperNatural said:
The disservice is done to fully funded academy teams obviously.

And you've raised good points on how your pay-to-play teams benefit from playing the best. But who is pushing the best, week after week playing mid to bottom of the table flight 1 recreation teams?

You're not fooling anyone. Privileged kids playing under a pseudo label, that's it.
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I don't get what you are asking. Are you saying that the Galaxy kids are wasting their time playing versus pay to play teams like mine?
How is that my problem to solve? If Galaxy kids are suffering so much playing against my flight 1 rec kid, they are welcome to play up an age, move to Europe or whatever. That's not really my problem.

I don't understand who I am trying to fool. I am perfectly aware of where my kid sits in the pecking order and because he doesn't play for Galaxy, he is worthless and should just play for the local rec team? There is no middle ground? What is the option for my family?
 
Myleftfoot said:
Did Real So Cal had full team Sunday? 6-0 is a pretty scary result.
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Looks like they did by way of the the game report.

In another game report, Strikers / Pats, it's showing Strikers had 7 goals in the first half ... Final was 7-4.
Three 2004s got playing time for the Pats vs. one for the Strikers.
 
full90 said:
So what's my other option? My kid is better than the local club teams around us. Those kids won't push him, the training is sub par and players are ok but not good enough to make him stretch himself. There is no local fully funded academy team and we aren't moving. We want him to be around the best players he can so he can be as good as he can be. He won't be a pro...that's fine. His future will be his brain anyways. Soccer in college? Sure. If it opens a door and is a good fit, but not a necessity. But he's good enough to be around good kids and training and see how good he can get. He will also be a late bloomer so who knows what will happen when he catches up to these 03 man-children. I get it that we aren't at the top of the food chain and he's not a future super star. Ok. So I'm not allowed to ever say that "my kid is an academy player?" What should we do? His academy coach is great, training is good and he's having fun and getting better. How is this a disservice?
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full90 said:
I don't get what you are asking. Are you saying that the Galaxy kids are wasting their time playing versus pay to play teams like mine?
How is that my problem to solve? If Galaxy kids are suffering so much playing against my flight 1 rec kid, they are welcome to play up an age, move to Europe or whatever. That's not really my problem.

I don't understand who I am trying to fool. I am perfectly aware of where my kid sits in the pecking order and because he doesn't play for Galaxy, he is worthless and should just play for the local rec team? There is no middle ground? What is the option for my family?
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You're a trip. No one's asking you to solve anything...

You know where you stand playing for a p4p recreational team and that's fine; it's just about the parents who boast about academy status that's laughable.
 
Well, to be fair, there is quite a gap between a rec team and an academy team. And making an 18 man roster for one of 12 or so teams in so cal isn't too shabby. Even if you don't consider 9 of those "real" academy teams, it's still the highest level in so cal at this age group so it's a little noteworthy. Can the top few teams of SCDSL or CSL beat the bottom tier of academy teams? Maybe. But that doesn't undermine the entire academy system. It's not perfect but it's the best environment that currently exists for the top kids. It works for us, if it doesn't for you, ok. No one is making you play academy.
 
full90 said:
Well, to be fair, there is quite a gap between a rec team and an academy team. And making an 18 man roster for one of 12 or so teams in so cal isn't too shabby. Even if you don't consider 9 of those "real" academy teams, it's still the highest level in so cal at this age group so it's a little noteworthy. Can the top few teams of SCDSL or CSL beat the bottom tier of academy teams? Maybe. But that doesn't undermine the entire academy system. It's not perfect but it's the best environment that currently exists for the top kids. It works for us, if it doesn't for you, ok. No one is making you play academy.
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The dialogue between the two of you has been great. You both have made some great points and help put this whole thing in perspective. So thank you. One other food for thought is the joy for playing for something...academy players miss out on tournaments, playoffs, etc. And even though these tourneys may be "watered down" these days, when my boy's team made it to the Finals of Surf Cup over Thanksgiving, nothing replaces the fun and excitement they had. Even losing, it was one great experience. I guess the trade off for the boys playing academy is hopefully making a national academy team or getting a plum DI scholarship. And good for them. But bottom line is keeping things in perspective and that's where experience comes into play. I follow a younger girls board as well and you get the sense every parent is expecting their child to be playing on the national team in 12 years time. That will change...in time...but something they will have to realize on their own.
 
jfreddyss said:
The dialogue between the two of you has been great. You both have made some great points and help put this whole thing in perspective. So thank you. One other food for thought is the joy for playing for something...academy players miss out on tournaments, playoffs, etc. And even though these tourneys may be "watered down" these days, when my boy's team made it to the Finals of Surf Cup over Thanksgiving, nothing replaces the fun and excitement they had. Even losing, it was one great experience. I guess the trade off for the boys playing academy is hopefully making a national academy team or getting a plum DI scholarship. And good for them. But bottom line is keeping things in perspective and that's where experience comes into play. I follow a younger girls board as well and you get the sense every parent is expecting their child to be playing on the national team in 12 years time. That will change...in time...but something they will have to realize on their own.
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Tournaments can be a fun experience especially when you get to travel and play international or teams you don't normally play.

Academy teams don't really miss out in fact more opportunities; in addition to local ones that have ussda brackets (Surf summer, Man City Cup, etc) there is a bunch of other like Dallas Cup, Disney, etc not to mention the international ones like Mic Cup, Cayman Youth Cup, etc.

There are twice yearly DA showcase(s) that are mostly out of state or Playoffs so don't think your players will be missing out. After playing the local smaller tourneys for years kids like a change and a ussda team could play them if they get permission and enter age up even if there is no ussda bracket but most don't because they are so many other options.

Playing some of the local teams might be competitive for some of the ussda teams and that could be nice once in while, some see that is a drawback, others not so much.

The other things to remember is DA is playing 34 games + showcases or playoffs so they don't want to over do it by playing too many tournaments or games

Only a very small % of players get scholarships and the chance at the national team is a long-shot at best unless you player is one of tops in the age group so getting the best training, coaching, and environment so your play continues to develop and have fun is what I recommend.
 
younothat said:
Tournaments can be a fun experience especially when you get to travel and play international or teams you don't normally play.

Academy teams don't really miss out in fact more opportunities; in addition to local ones that have ussda brackets (Surf summer, Man City Cup, etc) there is a bunch of other like Dallas Cup, Disney, etc not to mention the international ones like Mic Cup, Cayman Youth Cup, etc.

There are twice yearly DA showcase(s) that are mostly out of state or Playoffs so don't think your players will be missing out. After playing the local smaller tourneys for years kids like a change and a ussda team could play them if they get permission and enter age up even if there is no ussda bracket but most don't because they are so many other options.

Playing some of the local teams might be competitive for some of the ussda teams and that could be nice once in while, some see that is a drawback, others not so much.

The other things to remember is DA is playing 34 games + showcases or playoffs so they don't want to over do it by playing too many tournaments or games

Only a very small % of players get scholarships and the chance at the national team is a long-shot at best unless you player is one of tops in the age group so getting the best training, coaching, and environment so your play continues to develop and have fun is what I recommend.
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Fair enough and obviously I didn't have all the facts. The buddies we have playing 03 academy haven't done much other than the regional games. But if those ussda brackets start showing up in the bigger tourneys then you are right, all the better for the kids. Thanks for the clarification.
 
Lol, this board is a trip! Personally, I don't think my son has much of a shot turning pro, less than 1% at best. Who cares? He's still a fantastic player and is way, way better than I ever was or dreamt of being. As long as he is working hard and improving and having fun (in that order) that's enough for me.

How many of the posters here were legit pros? My bet is almost none. If you couldn't be a pro, why would you expect your son to be that much better than you? I'm pretty sure most posters here, your son is better than they ever were. You guys should all be totally overjoyed that you completely outbred yourself, and not worry about whether your son is on the most prestigious, or fully funded team, or academy team, or whatever.

Even the kids that do become pro, the vast majority of them are going to be Galaxy 2 level players. I don't even care how skilled a kid is, unless he is extremely fast, he has almost no shot of being a top level pro from America.
 
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SuperNatural said:
The disservice is done to fully funded academy teams obviously.
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Roflmao, this guy. The sad thing is, once LAFC gets rolling, you know the number of idiot posters who think their kid will be the next great world class pro from America will triple.
 
JJP said:
You guys should all be totally overjoyed that you completely outbred yourself, and not worry about whether your son is on the most prestigious, or fully funded team, or academy team, or whatever.
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This is GOLD and spot on for me! :D
 
2-1 Los Angeles United Futbol Academy U-13 over Pateadores U-13

Hard fought physical game at a nice venue that held up well with all the rain. Hats off to all the players that participated.

Was a bit surprised that Patedores changed from a passing & procession team to one that runs & guns. Not sure this style suited them all that well, 6x or more off sides trying to play to the same striker who picked up a bunch of fouls, yellow card, etc. Nice to see the kids playing hard but when you're out of control sooner of later you end up sitting out due to wild play,.accumulation of yellows, etc.

LAUFA had many more chances , shots on goal, but had a bit of trouble finishing. Patedores 2 or 3? on goal, with a really nice blast for the 30rd that went in near the end. The Patadores had a different coach but didn't do himself or his team any favors by continually complaining to the officials, had to be warned multiple times and finally at the end they heard enough and blow the whistle in added time. The video should be very interesting if somebody put'st on-line please share.
 
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