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Post by sailingaway on Sept 30, 2019 21:16:48 GMT -5
Seen over the weekend on the field, and apparently the "norm" as told to me by Concorde parent. The Concorde players are rostered Athena B, and play up to SCCL? What am I missing here? Concorde Athena B schedule is manipulated around SCCL games, so they can play both? Isn't Athena B to SCCL kind of a jump? Someone talk some sense into me here ...
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Post by soccerdad76 on Sept 30, 2019 21:40:24 GMT -5
Folks have often made the assertion that (in general) SCCL = Athena A / Classic 1 and SCCL-P = Athena B / Classic 2. If so the skill level should be about right.
Depending on the age, between ECNL (maybe 2 teams), SCCL, SCCL-P, Athena A, and Athena B... maybe they didn’t have enough numbers for the Athena B team and have dual rostered or guest players. Just a thought, I have no specific knowledge.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 30, 2019 22:34:49 GMT -5
Makes sense. Especially for clubs with SCCL-P, about the same level and they couldn’t make all these new teams with full rosters so as long as they have about 7-8 on each and a bunch to dual roster then it works out. Plus there’s no rules against it as Ga Soccer and USClub/SCCL are both separate.
This is actually smart for some clubs because if a player is ECNL or SCCL, and not on a Ga Soccer roster then they’re free game to legally recruit all year long. I can see clubs like Inter Atlanta, Santos, Ambush, and Impact trying to recruit those players back to their top teams.
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Post by atlfutboldad on Sept 30, 2019 22:50:49 GMT -5
I have no issue with it really. Because there is the possibility they're on the B team and play UP with the SCCL team, although the converse is certainly a possibility.
I find it somewhat humorous though, because it's always Concorde parents whining about patches.
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Post by slickdaddy96 on Oct 1, 2019 7:05:46 GMT -5
Heck my kid needs to get in on this action. He would surely be willing to play for other teams for Classic teams in SSA that need help. For some odd reason SCCL-p on the boys side in our age group had their last game on 9/21-9/22 weekend and don't play again till 10/12-10/13 weekend. I realize that two of those were due to Fall break for some schools on the North-side of metro Atlanta, but our kids didn't have a break, so we are just sitting here twittling our thumbs for 3 weekends straight. No doubt the drought will break mid October and we will be scrambling not to rain-out our remaining schedule. I don't understand why they would not have front loaded games instead of backloading them to save weekends for rainouts.
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Post by soccerguru on Oct 1, 2019 9:25:18 GMT -5
Other clubs whine about patches also. It truly is amazing the whining done by parents and team managers concerning patches. Uniforms usually last 2 years and kids move up and down between seasons. If they only could relax and let the kids play because 99.99% percent of them will be going Pro in something other than soccer.
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Post by soccerguru on Oct 1, 2019 9:27:47 GMT -5
I wonder what they would do if they knew at the u18/19 level, teams sometimes bring back college players to play for their state cup teams. That would truly drive them mad if they saw a player on the field and it looked like he had a college conf patch on their shorts.
Watch and let kids Play and enjoy the game!
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Post by atlfutboldad on Oct 1, 2019 10:53:31 GMT -5
It was particularly funny hearing Concorde parents whine last spring in an Athena A game about a few of our girls having ECNL patches when their keeper had an SCCL patch.
But even a couple weeks ago I overheard a couple Concorde parents recounting games from the previous year where this team had players with these patches and that team had those patches. All the clubs (including theirs) do it.
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Post by broadwayboogiewoogie on Oct 3, 2019 13:35:17 GMT -5
Saw this while playing against another big x team in Athena C last fall. SCCL-P didn't even exist then. Hard to imagine the justification of bringing down 5+ SCCL players to form a bench of 7 for an Athena C game.
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