Pateadores Girls DA 03/04 - Observations

Juggle Luv said:
One rostered ECNL, not playing.
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The 04 ECNL circuit will be very strong this year. Top 99% of 04s will be there first year. especially for top South OC Teams. Those 04 parents will evaluate the landscape and may jump to Academy the following year. Maybe back and forth ECNL then Academy back to ECNL in the next coming years. Girls with this can at least play 2 years of high school and also be in Academy. Best of both worlds. If Academy shows strength and potential it will move to birth year - for all ages - not combined with 2 age groups. This will potentially happen within 1-2 years. Smaller clubs will have a problem covering 3 more DA age groups and will have a problem with this economically and by limited coaching manpower. The 2003, 2001, 1999 ECNL teams this year turns into EGSL. This is an easy forecast.
 
LadiesMan217 said:
You have no idea my DD talents and I really don't care what you think or your troll responses. I can only attribute your name calling and comments to jealousy or trolling. They have no basis.
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I don't need to have an idea about your daughter. Your statements about ME and MY daughter are so ludicrously off that it is funny. Again if YOUR daughter in this utopian DA future has half of the success and accolades that MY daughter had and has she will be a top 10 D1 recruit and go to a top school and will win some championships along the way. Regardless of how good you think your ULittle daughter is, even if by all accounts she is the best in whatever age group she is in, she isn't there yet and may never make it. I am looking in the rear view mirror talking about what HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Mine is on the biggest stage already. If mine showed up at your DD's practice YOUR's would want an autograph from MINE. Whatever you think you have is still a little girl playing little girl games. Mine is a woman competing against women.

Get a clue fool.
 
clueless parent said:
bababooey, Thank you for starting this post. Were the Pats DA tryouts structured differently than the typical open tryouts?

One of the stated goals of GDA is to develop individual players for the national team. I keep hearing that GDA will be looking for technically sound players (as opposed to big, strong, and fast athletes) with the goal of further developing them while tempering the win-at-all-costs-today approach. Here is where I become skeptical. The current ECNL clubs play to win - now. If the same ECNL clubs and coaches merely drop the team id of ECNL and replace it with GDA, will player selection change? Will these same clubs and coaches suddenly take the small, technically-solid child over the big, strong, fast kids (with less technical skill) for GDA? It seems against the grain of these clubs and coaches to switch gears and focus on individuals instead of team wins. These clubs and coaches have perfected the winning-team approach.
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This is a 100% spot on post. It's the same clubs for the most part with the same coaches teaching the same thing. The ones that do it best will continue to do it best. Focus on your player. Be the captain of her/his ship until she/he is ready to take the wheel. Trust your eyes. Watch what they teach. Forget what they say it is about what they do. Focus on your players goals. Make school number one. Play good soccer.
 
MakeAPlay said:
http://www.ussoccerda.com/161223-wnt-jill-ellis-headlines-girls-development-academy-launch-meeting

Vague as usual. Even the numbers! 1500+ full scholarships but for over 15,000 total DA players or just for girls? Also why no mention of travel costs? This is propaganda at its finest. No real answers just vague promises. I have seen and heard it before. They are literally making it up as they go along!
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No travel cost for Pats. It's wasn't offered to the parents in kool-aid cups so it's sounds solid. Tang was just as bad as kool-aid BTW. I won't call you a fool for drinking it but I would tell you that it won't get you into the space program.
 
MakeAPlay said:
I don't need to have an idea about your daughter. Your statements about ME and MY daughter are so ludicrously off that it is funny. Again if YOUR daughter in this utopian DA future has half of the success and accolades that MY daughter had and has she will be a top 10 D1 recruit and go to a top school and will win some championships along the way. Regardless of how good you think your ULittle daughter is, even if by all accounts she is the best in whatever age group she is in, she isn't there yet and may never make it. I am looking in the rear view mirror talking about what HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Mine is on the biggest stage already. If mine showed up at your DD's practice YOUR's would want an autograph from MINE. Whatever you think you have is still a little girl playing little girl games. Mine is a woman competing against women.

Get a clue fool.
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I have to ask as I am very concerned - do you take medication or drugs? I have NEVER made ANY statements about YOUR daughter but you continuously attack mine and others. I have no issue with your daughter or her achievements. You keep talking about my daughter without even knowing her achievements.
 
MakeAPlay said:
This is a 100% spot on post. It's the same clubs for the most part with the same coaches teaching the same thing. The ones that do it best will continue to do it best. Focus on your player. Be the captain of her/his ship until she/he is ready to take the wheel. Trust your eyes. Watch what they teach. Forget what they say it is about what they do. Focus on your players goals. Make school number one. Play good soccer.
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Some of these coaches cannot teach the same thing as they will be directed by US Soccer and have to fill out reports and assessments frequently. Some of the coaches are being replaced. One of the DA requirements is Futsol - I know only one ECNL club that even does that optionally today. Looking at a short news piece is like judging a book by its cover.
 
MakeAPlay said:
http://www.ussoccerda.com/161223-wnt-jill-ellis-headlines-girls-development-academy-launch-meeting

Vague as usual. Even the numbers! 1500+ full scholarships but for over 15,000 total DA players or just for girls? Also why no mention of travel costs? This is propaganda at its finest. No real answers just vague promises. I have seen and heard it before. They are literally making it up as they go along!
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I will interpret for you, 1544 scholarships with a base of 5000 girls. For every 3 girls in DA, one of them will be playing for free. The other 2 girls will be paying reduced costs as all teams have lowered their fees compared to ECNL. As for travel costs, 4 clubs in GDA are paying full travel costs in its inaugural season.
 
LadiesMan217 said:
Some of these coaches cannot teach the same thing as they will be directed by US Soccer and have to fill out reports and assessments frequently. Some of the coaches are being replaced. One of the DA requirements is Futsol - I know only one ECNL club that even does that optionally today. Looking at a short news piece is like judging a book by its cover.
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Will US Soccer mandate NOT playing out of the back like the U20's and lumping the ball over the top for the fast kids to chase? Will the coaches be evaluated based on wins and ability to go far in tournaments beyond creating any type of substantive playing style? Will coaching staff be hired based on having some kind of connection to Jill Ellis? Just curious, because that how it seems to work at the US National Team level?
 
MakeAPlay said:
I don't need to have an idea about your daughter. Your statements about ME and MY daughter are so ludicrously off that it is funny. Again if YOUR daughter in this utopian DA future has half of the success and accolades that MY daughter had and has she will be a top 10 D1 recruit and go to a top school and will win some championships along the way. Regardless of how good you think your ULittle daughter is, even if by all accounts she is the best in whatever age group she is in, she isn't there yet and may never make it. I am looking in the rear view mirror talking about what HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Mine is on the biggest stage already. If mine showed up at your DD's practice YOUR's would want an autograph from MINE. Whatever you think you have is still a little girl playing little girl games. Mine is a woman competing against women.

Get a clue fool.
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Fighting on the internets is so fun.
 
Sane65 said:
You have to be fast but you have to be strong too...hence the idea that size equals strength. Rodriguez,Pugh and Dunn are very fast, strong and agile. Period.
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be careful people might think you are calling them athletic, using those words to describe those soccer players.:)
 
LadiesMan217 said:
Some of these coaches cannot teach the same thing as they will be directed by US Soccer and have to fill out reports and assessments frequently. Some of the coaches are being replaced. One of the DA requirements is Futsol - I know only one ECNL club that even does that optionally today. Looking at a short news piece is like judging a book by its cover.
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Good points LadiesMan217. What do the reports and assessments look like? (I am referring to the form, not a private, completed assessment.) I am curious and want to learn. It would be interesting to hear from the boys side of the DA. How much change occurred when a club moved to DA?
 
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