How’s the 2023-24 season going?

SuperSoccerStar said:
simple. SoCal dominance started with 2010 births:) I would expect 2012 and on to be just as dominate in SoCal on the girls side.
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I think the bigger question is what happened from 2010 and the younger age groups that made SoCal so dominant? What were these 2010’s and younger players doing that the olders were not doing at the younger ages? The one thing the 2010’s and youngest have in common that the olders do not have is small sided games like futsal. Because of covid and not being able to play in the big field these younger players were developed different through small sided games. Mvla as well they all played futsal. And the trend continues…
 
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Veritas said:
I think the bigger question is what happened from 2010 and the younger age groups that made SoCal so dominant? What were these 2010’s and younger players doing that the olders were not doing at the younger ages? The one thing the 2010’s and youngest have in common that the olders do not have is small sided games like futsal. Because of covid and not being able to play in the big field these younger players were developed different through small sided games. Mvla as well they all played futsal. And the trend continues…
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100% bro. 3 x 3, 5 x 5 and futsol is how to teach the young players to play soccer. I have a dear pal from NoCal telling me Legends is playing lights out soccer. Go Socal in all the ages and bring home the hardware.
 
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Surf's cute game got slapped around again by Slammers Koge, 4-1. More evidence that US soccer is broken. Surf's talent and style of play should guarantee success more often than not, but in a tournamnet/playoff setting the old skool kick and run worked again. Its more effective when these two matchup with Koge haveing better athletes and Surf the better footballers but god damn is it ugly. Koge and most successful american girls teams play this overly aggressive direct football so hard to argue with changing it until Spain keeps kicking our butts at every major tournament. As long as this style of play keeps winnig these empty youth soccer titles US women's soccer is going to continue to fall behind when it once had such a lead, sad.
 
Veritas said:
I think the bigger question is what happened from 2010 and the younger age groups that made SoCal so dominant? What were these 2010’s and younger players doing that the olders were not doing at the younger ages? The one thing the 2010’s and youngest have in common that the olders do not have is small sided games like futsal. Because of covid and not being able to play in the big field these younger players were developed different through small sided games. Mvla as well they all played futsal. And the trend continues…
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The 2010 SoCal age groups down to 3-4 stacked teams. Parents don't like to lose, so each year they pick up their salty egos and move their kids. They typically leave teams their kids have choked on and move to a larger roster. Its a real easy way to hide your kid on an all star team so their deficiency's aren't magnified. I'm quickly learning that its never the individual player who cant get it done but its always the teams fault.
 
Game of Throw-ins said:
Surf's cute game got slapped around again by Slammers Koge, 4-1. More evidence that US soccer is broken. Surf's talent and style of play should guarantee success more often than not, but in a tournamnet/playoff setting the old skool kick and run worked again. Its more effective when these two matchup with Koge haveing better athletes and Surf the better footballers but god damn is it ugly. Koge and most successful american girls teams play this overly aggressive direct football so hard to argue with changing it until Spain keeps kicking our butts at every major tournament. As long as this style of play keeps winnig these empty youth soccer titles US women's soccer is going to continue to fall behind when it once had such a lead, sad.
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That's unfortunate. I was hoping Surf would win it this year.
 
Game of Throw-ins said:
Surf's cute game got slapped around again by Slammers Koge, 4-1. More evidence that US soccer is broken. Surf's talent and style of play should guarantee success more often than not, but in a tournamnet/playoff setting the old skool kick and run worked again. Its more effective when these two matchup with Koge haveing better athletes and Surf the better footballers but god damn is it ugly. Koge and most successful american girls teams play this overly aggressive direct football so hard to argue with changing it until Spain keeps kicking our butts at every major tournament. As long as this style of play keeps winnig these empty youth soccer titles US women's soccer is going to continue to fall behind when it once had such a lead, sad.
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Goforgoal said:
That's unfortunate. I was hoping Surf would win it this year.
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Looks like it was 4-3 not 4-1. Curious how others felt about the game and if they side with GOTins’ indictment of the quality or if GOTins might just be salty?

Same question re Legends/Hawks?
 
Veritas said:
Just getting word that we are going to have a Koge vs Legends final… Go SoCal
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MyKidsDriver said:
Looks like it was 4-3 not 4-1. Curious how others felt about the game and if they side with GOTins’ indictment of the quality or if GOTins might just be salty?

Same question re Legends/Hawks?
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oh that sounds better. It was definitely a salty post but I get it. It sucks to go over there and lose.
 
MyKidsDriver said:
Looks like it was 4-3 not 4-1. Curious how others felt about the game and if they side with GOTins’ indictment of the quality or if GOTins might just be salty?

Same question re Legends/Hawks?
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Keep in mind, we have teams from Cal spending over $100k as a team in parent/kid travel plus parent days off work for these National Events. I mean, sure, some teams play more direct, but the stakes for 14 year old girls are way too high imo for another league game basically. Of course the game is going to be tight with enormous pressure. The ability to capitalize on mistakes will go a long way as the pressure on the field must be enormous. A great coach told me that a great team can play possession and direct depending on match ups. When playing a team with great possession, you better have great athletes that can press, disrupt, and capitalize or you better be able to possess yourself and not allow them to control the game. Either way the winner can take pride with what worked. Looks like it was a great game just not a fan of the unneccessary travel which I think translates into very tight pressure filled ugly games, but what can we do?
 
Seems like there's no honor in playing prettier or more "correct" soccer, if it isn't performed well enough to win. These are the national finals, and the only objective is to leave the field with more goals than the other side. When two top teams compete for one spot, one of them is going to lose.
 
Game of Throw-ins said:
Surf's cute game got slapped around again by Slammers Koge, 4-1. More evidence that US soccer is broken. Surf's talent and style of play should guarantee success more often than not, but in a tournamnet/playoff setting the old skool kick and run worked again. Its more effective when these two matchup with Koge haveing better athletes and Surf the better footballers but god damn is it ugly. Koge and most successful american girls teams play this overly aggressive direct football so hard to argue with changing it until Spain keeps kicking our butts at every major tournament. As long as this style of play keeps winnig these empty youth soccer titles US women's soccer is going to continue to fall behind when it once had such a lead, sad.
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Isn't surf in the final of 3 out of the 6 ECNL age groups: 2011, 2009 and 2006 (which they won). Seems to me they are doing fine playing their brand of soccer.

As a SoCal side note, I think 8 of the 12 teams making it to the championship game are from SoCal. Crazy.
 
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