What's your best guess as to when trainings will resume?

Football practice & play will be the first test cases. If/when that happens and the results will influence soccer in a big way. If football goes smoothly should be no problems for soccer. If schools run summer sports programs that's a positive sign.

There are so many intertwined things with youth soccer from the state, counties, cities, schools, sanctioning bodies, insurance, fields it's difficult to predict when things change but I'm optimistic and there are solutions like alternating the amount of players at the same timeframe, etc.
 
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Stephen A smith said:
I saw a whole team practicing last night in South oc.
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Doesn’t surprise me.

Too many people think they can’t possibly be part of the problem.

So 1000 people hold small get togethers that “clearly don’t spread the virus.” 990 of them are right. 10 are wrong. Those 10 events infect 100 more people, and set all of us back.

This is why LA and OC are still growing at 3-4% per day.
 
Stephen A smith said:
I saw a whole team practicing last night in South oc.
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Yeah, I've seen this twice in the last week with a football team and a small soccer pod training. I get the frustration (I'm there with everyone) but seems like a big risk including fines, lawsuits if someone [I know it's unlikely] gets sick, pulling of permits [since as far as I know no Socal city is issuing them for pracitces], a loss of the club's insurance, and sanctions by CalSouth. There's a lot of PT going around SoCal too, but that world has always been a little more loose.
 
Founders Park in Ladera Ranch has had a boys team practice for the last 3-4 weeks. Maybe 12-13 years old. Maybe 14 year olds with some small kids. Hard to tell. They have been practicing 2-3 times per week. Way to go coach. Children learn by example, we can break the rules as long as we don't tell anyone or hurt anyone and besides, we are all healthy says the coach. If for no other reason than the ethics of it, it has been a poor decision. Signs have been posted and still they came.
 
Copa9 said:
Founders Park in Ladera Ranch has had a boys team practice for the last 3-4 weeks. Maybe 12-13 years old. Maybe 14 year olds with some small kids. Hard to tell. They have been practicing 2-3 times per week. Way to go coach. Children learn by example, we can break the rules as long as we don't tell anyone or hurt anyone and besides, we are all healthy says the coach. If for no other reason than the ethics of it, it has been a poor decision. Signs have been posted and still they came.
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Interesting.... do you know what club or they were not wearing club gear?
 
Eagle33 said:
Interesting.... do you know what club or they were not wearing club gear?
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Black practice jerseys, black shorts, couldn't read the print as I was driving all the times I saw them. Avendale the street that runs along side the park is single lane so you can't really stop.
 
Chalklines said:
Its is simple. This virus is political.

If Trump wins in November certain governors will say the second wave is wiping out their states and the pandemic is back 10 fold. Closures and lock downs will be back.....now if he loses some how, covid19 will be contained in a 2 week period with numbers reported lower then in April.
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So which way do I vote to get things back to normal quicker? I haven't noticed a dramatic economic difference between the last two presidents.
 
dad4 said:
Doesn’t surprise me.

Too many people think they can’t possibly be part of the problem.

So 1000 people hold small get togethers that “clearly don’t spread the virus.” 990 of them are right. 10 are wrong. Those 10 events infect 100 more people, and set all of us back.

This is why LA and OC are still growing at 3-4% per day.
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I wrote a while back that LA would be a slow burn. [As an aside: man I've nailed everything so far...got the school closures wrong by about 4 days, but even nailed the day of the stock market slide....hope I'm wrong about LA County and the mask thing]. Part of the problem is that LA never had a high wave like New York...there's some mathematical rigidity to these curves...you have to go through some in more vulnerable areas before it levels off (e.g., the homeless population, nursing homes and the jails, where some inmates are even deliberately trying to get sick). Second, LA was never in the ideal zone of weather transmission for it....last time we were in it was December-January before the thing took off so we never had the same spike some cities in the zone (Seattle, NY, Paris, Madris, Milan, London) got so it's going to take us longer to burn through the initial curve. Third, our lockdown policies haven't made a whole lot of sense (no beaches, but liquor and marijuana stores open, private construction and road work continues). Fourth, our testing has been slopping even in comparison to San Fran so part of the increase is getting more testing online (though our positivity rating is still over 10%, while San Francisco is down to 9%). Finally, there's a natural limit to the amount of time these lockdowns are effective: in the last weeks have seen a football team practicing in the park, a ton of PT soccer training, a soccer team pod, my son's bestie had a pool party (no, we didn't go), the girls in his class did a small birthday party, my bestie had mother's day brunch with her son and his extended family, my neighbor's had a socially distanced block party (complete with bagpipper), my son's girlfriend had a sleepover, my friend got a garage haircut, one of my clients has a nanny coming to help her not go insane, the In n Out line is full again, people are going out riding bikes and walking, and I got caught on my first traffic jam that surprised me (off Balboa) on the 101 last weeke.
 
Grace T you are so right about people relaxing on things. Oldest was dropping off gift for baby shower, supposed to be in car drop off, and other 9 girls from High School dance team all get out and hugged. She stayed in the car. I might start letting my younger daughter start keeper training next week. 2 keepers, one trainer, open park with a goal, Riverside County. Keep about 10 feet apart.
 
dad4 said:
arizona announced rules and phases for youth soccer.

www.azsoccerassociation.org

Arizona Soccer Association Return-to-Play Guidelines

Arizona Soccer Association Return-to-Play Guidelines
www.azsoccerassociation.org www.azsoccerassociation.org

starts with solo cone drills, 10 foot spacing, no 1v1.

Not sure when we will get there. I was betting June, but the growth in LA county may push that back.
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Heard a bunch of Blues and Surf parents moving for the Summer to AZ so their kids can start playing soccer next week.
 
I think the biggest challenge is fields for practices and games. If you practice Or game at the college or school site getting access to fields is going to be TOUGH. No schools legal teams are going to clear practices in the near future and sadly may not going into the fall. They don’t want to liable for an outbreak. With that most college is SoCal are going to be virtual learning sites. Why would they let a outside entity onto their fields if they are not allowing their own students onto them?
 
Chalklines said:
Its is simple. This virus is political.

If Trump wins in November certain governors will say the second wave is wiping out their states and the pandemic is back 10 fold. Closures and lock downs will be back.....now if he loses some how, covid19 will be contained in a 2 week period with numbers reported lower then in April.
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Was out and about yesterday in the South Bay;

Entire Beach girls team practicing at a private school with a coach, others at parks on smaller groups

Outdoor eating & drinking going on: "to go" only bar/restaurants packed with people standing drinking or eating at the outdoor tables or areas

Plenty of people at the beach, laying on the sand , swimming, by the water, biking, etc mask only with the older folks mostly. Seemed like a typical later spring day to me but with parking closed by the beach we just ride our bikes down.
 
lafalafa said:
Was out and about yesterday in the South Bay;

Entire Beach girls team practicing at a private school with a coach, others at parks on smaller groups

Outdoor eating & drinking going on: "to go" only bar/restaurants packed with people standing drinking or eating at the outdoor tables or areas

Plenty of people at the beach, laying on the sand , swimming, by the water, biking, etc mask only with the older folks mostly. Seemed like a typical later spring day to me but with parking closed by the beach we just ride our bikes down.
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I too have seen huge groups of kids wearing the same jerseys, big clubs, at parks with a coach. I'm shocked that the coach isn't telling the kids to refrain from wearing team gear. I know quite a few of the club DOC's have advised coaches they will be fired if they run practices.
 
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