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Post by oraclesfriend on Mar 19, 2019 11:58:03 GMT -5
It was more than a hand slap....that coach is no longer there. He coaches at Inter now So, given all of these implications, is UFA aware? I would say "no." I do know that there are several players who played fall DA who electing not to play DA in spring and played HS instead. There are part time DA players playing HS. But a full time, public high school player...it would surprise me if they are aware and just looking the other way.
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Post by SoccerMom on Mar 19, 2019 14:07:17 GMT -5
It was more than a hand slap....that coach is no longer there. He coaches at Inter now So, given all of these implications, is UFA aware? Im not talking about UFA, I was talking about the Weston coach, he "resigned" and came back to GA. He used to be an AFU coach and now coaches at Inter
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Post by SoccerMom on Mar 19, 2019 14:08:47 GMT -5
It was more than a hand slap....that coach is no longer there. He coaches at Inter now True, I was referring to the club as a whole. The punishment put forth initially by US Soccer was them losing a year of DA with the affected boys n team...FG Yes, him leaving was good enough for them I guess lol. It was a little ridiculous when some teams would show up to play them and they didn't have a team because all their girls were playing HS....they were also participating on ODP
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Post by SoccerMom on Mar 19, 2019 14:19:42 GMT -5
If your talking about the girl on the Lassiter team, she quit DA in the fall, thanks for investigating. I don't intend to call out a specific girl. I just assumed UFA was open to waivers in some situations. Or it is possible that she quit after playing DA through the fall. I'm not familiar with Lassiter's players. This is another school. If you're talking about the girls at West Forsyth or Lambert. They also quit DA.
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Post by krazykickers on Mar 20, 2019 5:12:52 GMT -5
I know a boy when on U12 DA played middle school ball. The coach was made aware by other parents because he was skipping practices for school games but was still a starter 100% of the time on the DA team. The coach nor the club did anything to punish the player.
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Post by 4theloveofsoccer on Mar 22, 2019 17:47:01 GMT -5
I don't understand why DA is all held up on players not playing High School soccer. When I played HS soccer I was playing against the likes of Josh Wolff and Clint Mathis - both ex. national US team players. Again...what is the reasoning of USDA not allowing youth soccer players to play High School soccer and other activities!?
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Post by soccerparent02 on Mar 22, 2019 18:05:01 GMT -5
DA wants control of who they play or dont play. It's ok if they lose to another DA team but not so much if they do versus others. DA is gone once MLS leaves. MLS wants control so in order to do that they will form their own league for same reason. Look at the DA age groups folding, clubs dropping DA, etc. It has begun IMO.
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Post by oraclesfriend on Mar 22, 2019 20:22:35 GMT -5
I don't understand why DA is all held up on players not playing High School soccer. When I played HS soccer I was playing against the likes of Josh Wolff and Clint Mathis - both ex. national US team players. Again...what is the reasoning of USDA not allowing youth soccer players to play High School soccer and other activities!? There are a multitude of legitimate reasons and then some that are questionable depending on your view. Number one reason is they want to have their DA players playing together under the same coach for a full soccer year. Many people here have discussed the benefit of keeping a team together, building chemistry, staying on the same page...etc. I totally see their point of view here. So parents argue that they can play both...however this is not good for their health and overuse injuries. There are multiple studies on overuse injuries and playing sports in 2 leagues concurrently. So I see this as a legitimate reason that people should see as reasonable. Other reasons can be viewed through very different perspectives. The viewpoint of US soccer wanting to control the curriculum could be viewed as too restrictive by some. The theory of trying to limit the number of games to training sessions (high school definitely not anywhere close to USSF's ratio) could also be viewed as too restrictive by some but I played 3 games per week in high school with too training sessions per week. That is definitely not ideal for learning from mistakes, getting in enough touches for ball mastery, or for injury prevention. I am sure others could go on in more depth, but I definitely see the advantages of playing soccer for DA and NOT playing for school just from looking at those issues. Then if you start adding in the other arguments of quality of play that makes the argument more muddy. There is too much variability by region, state and city to make a good case there.
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