State Cup

3leches said:
I agree the fields at Ryan Park were awful especially if your team practices on turf. I saw a ref call a header when a kid got kicked in the back of the head with the ball and a lot of questionable offsides.
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Yes, Fields were less than desirable. Some good hard fought games, some teams getting farther than expected. Saturday had two games with good comebacks almost as good as superbowl. Two games back to back, team down by 3 goals in games where you thought the outcome was obvious and momentum shifted and both ended up loses one 4-3 the other tied 5-5 going into 2nd overtime end at 6-5.

Any Predictions for Semi & Final?
 
The LAUFA vs. LAGSD comeback from 2-0 to 3-2 was equally as incredible.
 
I am a neutral who was just interested in seeing TFA play after seeing them at Surf Cup(?) and being impressed.

One team on Saturday played a 4-2-2 against TFA that basically became a 6-2 with no midfield. Outcome inevitable.

The Sunday morning I saw a better match with Arsenal pre-academy(?) v. TFA. Still a gulf in class but more competitive. Highlight was a very nice bit of play leading to a perfectly weighted through ball to a first time finish. Here's a video of the goal.

The lowlight was the Arsenal coach calling his players over to the sideline after they were scored upon and proceeding to curse out his ten and eleven year olds. I was right above them on the hillside by field one and heard it clearly.
 
seesnake said:
I am a neutral who was just interested in seeing TFA play after seeing them at Surf Cup(?) and being impressed.
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Wait, you showed up at two 8 am games to take video of a team you're not affiliated with, and then you edited and posted them?

You, sir, have my respect.

How would you describe the way Arsenal played?

For everyone else, he's got more videos up than the one he linked to. Awesome.
 
Bubbles said:
Wait, you showed up at two 8 am games to take video of a team you're not affiliated with, and then you edited and posted them?

You, sir, have my respect.

How would you describe the way Arsenal played?

For everyone else, he's got more videos up than the one he linked to. Awesome.
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I am a fan of the game who coaches, has a son at the same age group, a surfer and dad who gets up early every day, and on a specific mission to improve/alter style of play for one/many of my teams, thus the video. But honestly, I would've just enjoyed watching the matches nonetheless:) I live close to lots of quality tournaments so I go and watch a few games if they interest me... and lots do:) My favorite of the last year was a Nomads match at Surf Cup at the u14(?) level. Very, very intense and well played match.

No editing done, posted to help some other coaches refer to at a later date.

Arsenal played like they expected to compete for the first twenty minutes but fell apart with lots of individual mistakes after the first TFA goal. They got caught ball-watching and kids were trying to do too much instead of just making sure they connected a few passes to build some rhythm. Coach didn't help by going slightly unhinged. All the players just got nervous and shut down, from my vantage.
 
Arsenal pre academy is a great team
The team as a whole has been together for only 9 months. We have outplayed many teams that have been together for a long time. This team was a finalist at Dallas Cup this past june and Finalist at Disney Cup in Orlando last November. This weekend were short one key player to injury. In my opinion we had a good first half, second half TFA dominated but we played toe to toe, the whole game I hear teams park the bus on TFA and they still get 3,4 or 5 goals against. It's
a shame how the brackets were placed .
I don't think there are many teams that will give them a battle like we did.
Good luck TFA parents were also classy this weekend
 
66 GTO said:
Arsenal pre academy is a great team
The team as a whole has been together for only 9 months. We have outplayed many teams that have been together for a long time. This team was a finalist at Dallas Cup this past june and Finalist at Disney Cup in Orlando last November. This weekend were short one key player to injury. In my opinion we had a good first half, second half TFA dominated but we played toe to toe, the whole game I hear teams park the bus on TFA and they still get 3,4 or 5 goals against. It's
a shame how the brackets were placed .
I don't think there are many teams that will give them a battle like we did.
Good luck TFA parents were also classy this weekend
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Have to agree. I thought the Arsenal kids played really well, just got a bit deflated once the first goal went in. Here's 18 minutes of the first half.
 
66 GTO said:
Arsenal pre academy is a great team
The team as a whole has been together for only 9 months. We have outplayed many teams that have been together for a long time. This team was a finalist at Dallas Cup this past june and Finalist at Disney Cup in Orlando last November. This weekend were short one key player to injury. In my opinion we had a good first half, second half TFA dominated but we played toe to toe, the whole game I hear teams park the bus on TFA and they still get 3,4 or 5 goals against. It's
a shame how the brackets were placed .
I don't think there are many teams that will give them a battle like we did.
Good luck TFA parents were also classy this weekend
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Going into the game, TFA knew they were in for a battle. Early games are not kind to TFA, as it usually takes a bit for them to warm up which was the first concern secondly, the majority of the team watched Arsenal's Saturday game and noticed the teams size and speed. Usually, teams don't park the bus on TFA until they've played prior and want to slow down their attack or, have seen them play before. Most of the teams, including TFA are relatively new teams because of calendar birth year implementation they just got extremely lucky putting these boys together. The chemistry is unbelievable.
 
66 GTO said:
Arsenal pre academy is a great team
The team as a whole has been together for only 9 months. We have outplayed many teams that have been together for a long time. This team was a finalist at Dallas Cup this past june and Finalist at Disney Cup in Orlando last November. This weekend were short one key player to injury. In my opinion we had a good first half, second half TFA dominated but we played toe to toe, the whole game I hear teams park the bus on TFA and they still get 3,4 or 5 goals against. It's
a shame how the brackets were placed .
I don't think there are many teams that will give them a battle like we did.
Good luck TFA parents were also classy this weekend
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Didn't you guys have borrowed player's for those tournaments in Dallas and Orlando:rolleyes:
 
Babas15 said:
Didn't you guys have borrowed player's for those tournaments in Dallas and Orlando:rolleyes:
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Dont know about Dallas as we weren't on the team yet, but for Orlando no borrowed players and we didn't have our full squad either..
What's your point?
 
66 GTO said:
Dont know about Dallas as we weren't on the team yet, but for Orlando no borrowed players and we didn't have our full squad either..
What's your point?
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I believe everyone just would like to know if the info they are hearing is correct or what they see on the field is what to expect. I know during the tournament months a lot of teams were borrowing players or trying them out for their squads so not until rosters were frozen did anyone really know who was playing where, so of course Dallas was in question. Disney might have just been a probe of sorts since it was Thanksgiving weekend and the freeze had been lifted. Thanks for the info. Were you only missing your striker this weekend? Just wondering where he was after seeing him put in a late goal last weekend in Temecula for a victory.
 
Legit_play said:
I believe everyone just would like to know if the info they are hearing is correct or what they see on the field is what to expect. I know during the tournament months a lot of teams were borrowing players or trying them out for their squads so not until rosters were frozen did anyone really know who was playing where, so of course Dallas was in question. Disney might have just been a probe of sorts since it was Thanksgiving weekend and the freeze had been lifted. Thanks for the info. Were you only missing your striker this weekend? Just wondering where he was after seeing him put in a late goal last weekend in Temecula for a victory.
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Hello everyone, I'm the coach for the Arsenal FC Pre Academy team..

First of to seesnake.. I did not curse AT my kids when I called them in during the 2nd half, I did curse in front of them. Does it make right or wrong? probably not. What was said, is between me and my boys... but you are way off.

Dallas - The only other player that attend the tournament with us, is AS currently playing with 04/05 Arsenal Academy team. Great player, good for him that he made the Academy otherwise he would of been part of our squad. He also played with us in Cerritos.

Orlando... No borrowed players, we actually had one kid not show up cause he had a family emergency the night before his travel departure. Played the whole tournament with one sub.

To Legit_Play, - our striker, my son, fractured two toes on Thursday nights training session.

to Uburoi - No deep pockets, just dedicated parents. This year we will be doing COPA Chivas in Mexico.

To Everyone, how TFA came out against us in the second half was incredible, they took their game to another level.. Hands down best team I've seen this year... From Florida, to Dallas, To California.. Hope they win it all.
 
I met alot of great parentsthis weekend also from other teams we have never played what I got is that everybody knows everybody specially here in the forum.
So here is your factual information
What you saw this weekend and other tournaments that's our team. For Dallas
The only 2 players who are not in this team that were there was our 07 goalie from our second team. We also had Alex an 06 from our team who actually made the 04/05 Academy in July. We played up in 05 tournaments over the summer
Check out the stats from our last Arsenal Tournament. The team doesn't borrow players to win tournaments. This is a new team with probably 3 or 4 players from last year's 05 .Yes every team is new due birth year change but I day 8 of 10 teams combined within their own club. We did not do that This is a new team. Why you didn't see much of us during season is because we played up in the 05 flight one I'm sure you are going to check out stats
Every game we played the opposing team never scored on the first half we'd start leading first half and of course fatigue would kick in. This is a very strong team
It actually hurt us not being able to do headers in state cup. This team will stay together and will be one of the best possession teams. As far as our striker
He got injured during practice during the week so he did not play Saturday either and the boys were still able to put it down against the eagles.
 
soccer21 said:
Hello everyone, I'm the coach for the Arsenal FC Pre Academy team..

First of to seesnake.. I did not curse AT my kids when I called them in during the 2nd half, I did curse in front of them. Does it make right or wrong? probably not. What was said, is between me and my boys... but you are way off.
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Yeah, I think you are right on this. You didn't curse AT your boys and it is class of you to admit it probably wasn't the right way to speak. I was twenty feet away and up a hill. I heard everything. Also, good of you to reach out the hand to TFA's coach at final whistle even though you had gone at each other a touch.

I also think if you'd had your first-choice #9 it could've made some difference in the match. You could've madet he ball stick a bit and started to grow into the game a bit. Credit to you for building a strong team.
 
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