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Post by Keeper on Jan 24, 2023 13:34:06 GMT -5
So do a national championship for U19 boys for what 5 states? Is FL even done with HS or would it have to be Feb for those teams?
I’d rather see ECNL force teams to play in the spring nationwide. Zero reason why HS soccer shouldn’t be in the Fall/Winter across the country.
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Post by Keeper on Jan 21, 2023 20:57:05 GMT -5
Hearing that NASA decided NOT to have their teams included. I've heard they have not been very cooperative with AU. Strange... not sure why Dave Smith wouldn't want to give his players the opportunity to be seen in front of 100+ college coaches in quality matches in a world class facility! NASA had already committed a lot of boys and coaches to Charlotte showcase this weekend. AU was just late the game.
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Post by Keeper on Jan 21, 2023 20:55:57 GMT -5
Event: Atlanta United Academy College Cup 2023 Date(s): February 4th and 5th 2023 Age Groups: U16 - AU, CF, GSA, UFA U17 - AU, CF, GSA, SSA, UFA U19 - AU, CF, GSA, UFA Location: Atlanta United Training Ground (participants & parents only) Format: All Showcase matches will be 40-minute halves, with unlimited substitutions 4-Feb CF U16 vs UFA U16 4-Feb ATL U16 vs GSA U16 4-Feb CF U17 vs GSA U17 4-Feb UFA U17 vs SSA U17 4-Feb ATL U19 vs UFA U19 4-Feb GSA U19 vs CF U19 5-Feb ATL U16 v CF U16 5-Feb GSA U16 v UFA U16 5-Feb ATL U17 v CF U17 5-Feb GSA U17 v SSA U17 5-Feb ATL U19 v GSA U19 5-Feb CF U19 v UFA U19 Good luck 😊⚽😊 Why no NASA? Is that surprising? NASA Boys ECNL are at the Charlotte Independence showcase this weekend.
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Post by Keeper on Dec 27, 2022 20:04:21 GMT -5
UFA has at least one Boys team down there as we ran into the team at Miller’s. Down in Orlando on vacation and didn’t expect to see soccer people we knew. 🤷🏻♂️
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Post by Keeper on Dec 1, 2022 14:18:05 GMT -5
Pulisic needs to suck it up or go play something else. Tired of hearing how great he supposedly is but he can’t finish a game. The greats play through it…
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Post by Keeper on Nov 4, 2022 14:15:38 GMT -5
Sounds like Dave finally gave Mike Gailey his walking papers and fired him from NTH. Who takes over NTH Milton now? Why is it "finally" ?? Was there something going on there that the average person didn't know.. say me for instance. LOL Mike and Dave never saw eye to eye and there seemed to be a lot of turmoil with Mike not wanting to follow the NTH way. Add in didn’t Mike blow the deal with the city of Milton allowing Rush to get the old UFA Milton fields and a new park up there?
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Post by Keeper on Nov 2, 2022 16:08:44 GMT -5
Our team has played multiple MLS Next teams in E64 already this season - both in GA and FL. The kids even have MLS Next patches on their jerseys. I've seen MLS Next "players" and ECNL "players"-- but not full teams. Maybe that changes by age group. Did SSA finally play an Elite 64 game? For a minute I thought it was just Norcross and Concorde traveling to Florida.... Is it Norcross? I thought a lot of UFA’s teams ended up being forsyth ones due to Norcross not having numbers.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 31, 2022 19:14:05 GMT -5
Does anyone know what level teams are playing in this new E64 league? Can MLS teams play E64 games? Or does they fall under no outside leagues? “Elite” level teams silly.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 30, 2022 15:44:57 GMT -5
Sounds like Dave finally gave Mike Gailey his walking papers and fired him from NTH.
Who takes over NTH Milton now?
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Post by Keeper on Oct 10, 2022 15:54:28 GMT -5
You are correct. NASA played essentially half the game (if not a little more) with one man up so they certainly had the advantage but could not capitalize. Teams succeed when they treat each other as teammates and play as a team. Kids become better players when they know what they have to improve on. Parents can support their kids when they know what is going on with team. None of this is going on, hence the drastic turnaround from last year. Question: Isn't this the same coach as last year? How are things different if it's the same coach? Is there new players? New parent dynamic? What has changed on this team that they are so different from last year? Same coach, couple new players, 2 returners with ACLs another injured from Premier on Saturday. And about 4 ECRL players called up too
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Post by Keeper on Oct 10, 2022 15:52:19 GMT -5
Two Concorde and NASA players got tangled up halfway into the 1st half. NASA player gets a red, Concorde player initially gets a yellow. After conferring with the AR on the other half of the field (🤷🏻♂️), ref changes Concorde player’s yellow to straight red. Later in the half, Concorde player gets a second yellow for a foul so half finishes with 10 NASA players, 9 Concorde players. With 5-10 minutes left in the 2nd half, NASA player gets two yellow cards back to back for mouthing off to the ref. Both teams finish with 9 on the field. Concorde 3, NASA 0. pretty typical to ask the AR what s/he saw in a “tangled up” situation. Ref didn’t ask AR2 who was 10 feet from it, only with talking to AR1 who was 50 yards away that he gave the nasa player a straight Red.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 10, 2022 15:50:51 GMT -5
Respectfully, I think the boys did decide the outcome. Concorde controlled the game and even scored playing with a man down. 3-0 is a decisive win. Not sure what happened but that NASA 08-team is a shell of what I remember from last year. Watch the Veo. Ref dictated the game with numerous home cooking calls from the 2 minute mark. Add in him taking one of NASA’s top players out on a bogus call. Then the CF 2nd goal never should have happened, the GK clearly had two hands on the ball which the AR called but the Ref refused to overturn the goal. Again had the boys been able to play it would have been a game, but the Ref’s ego decided otherwise. NASA 08s have two out with ACLs and on Saturday Premier hacked on a couple others so one starter was nursing a serious injury.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 9, 2022 22:40:08 GMT -5
I don’t have scores but NASA won U13, 14, 17. Platinum won U15, 16, 19. These games were all really close and most were 1 goal games either way. Interesting that the the current U15 and U16 NASA teams who both finished first in their division last year are struggling under Austin this year. The U15 game turned out to be a red card frenzy without any malicious or dangerous plays by either team. Yeah Red card frenzy from an egotistical ref. Would have loved to seen the players decide the game instead of the center Ref.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 9, 2022 22:36:29 GMT -5
That place has been a revolving door of coaches and players for years. Worst thing they did was fire the McNabs years ago, Neil ended building up Chiefs and now run Rush Union. Every great coach leaves within a year or two and they barely field teams at U13s so maybe for U8-U10 but top players leave when they realize it’s just a Rec club.
Go to Rush Union or GSA if you’re in that area.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 5, 2022 9:30:18 GMT -5
Actually, your first line is largely accurate. "The road ahead for talented male youth players in the US seems to not exist," should be written instead. US Soccer is all about networking and marketing! It's about having a parent, coach, teammate's dad, mom, cousin, or college roommate who dares to do a favor, gives you a second look, or just likes your parents and performs their job, I'll say this also, we have what we have today because of that, along with a terrible network of scouts and scouting. While I'm glad that AU is in our backyard, to give the unjaded local lads the belief that they can make the first team if they work hard and concentrate on their craft. It's truly impossible to say the best players across the board are at AU. There are lads that can match-up at almost every level, but for one reason or another(usually finances and scouting) they never get a chance at the top levels. Therefore they don't get a chance to be seen or get that one-in-a-million chance. Get your highly brilliant child to Europe right away if he or she is head and shoulders above both his or her peers and older non-peers! Everyone worth their salt in the world tries to travel to the US to try to wrangle a spot in the NBA since the NBA has the best basketball players. Get your child to Europe if it is a sincere passion and calling for him. They will at least gain an experience unlike any other, develop as a player, and perhaps even succeed. One final thing and a true test is do they consistently make the US Nat'l team? If the answer is no, please recognize that Junior may only be destined for an MLS Academy Homegrown signing where careers go to die in the USL, or College... p.s. The World is catching up to our Women btw In 3-5 years if your boys club is not MLS Next affiliated you will be second tier in US Soccer hierarchy. That’s not necessarily a bad thing to have a clear top tier across the country. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 in 3-5 years MLSNext will be replaced with the next DA. Or will be exclusively MLS clubs only.
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Post by Keeper on Oct 4, 2022 10:23:37 GMT -5
NASA being nasa there. Money goes a long way.
Couple were 50/50, definitely a lot missed too. The Yellow was odd though.
This isn’t just Ga Refs though, been homecooked like that nearly every time at BUSA.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 27, 2022 22:24:32 GMT -5
Pretty sure E64 is suppose to be a supplemental league like the old NPL days. 7-8 games in between SCCL/ECRL type seasons to get USClub players back in the USYS system.
Quote from E64 site,
“Up to 14 league games over a 10-month season, with a schedule created to aid a player’s periodization and involvement in high school soccer.”
So I wouldn’t be surprised to see 5-6 in the Fall, 3-4 in January and then 3-4 in April/May/June.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 26, 2022 17:14:16 GMT -5
If you’re a soccer family playing at E64 level then yes everything revolves around soccer so of course your weekends are soccer weekends. And the blame is USYS, as this is the same people that runs National League. Elite 64 is more chaotic than the time I watched my kid play in a 7 v 11 game. My youngest plays ECNL and my oldest plays E64. The issue is not that there are games every weekend. From late August - Mid December I'm marked as busy on every calendar I have. I expect that. The issue with E64 at least in this region is the lack of communication and planning ahead. OLC (girls side) dropped out of E64. Meaning we are down from the original 10 games promised to 8. We are headed to Florida with a TBD on our schedule for the first day. Our club has attempted to makeup for this by adding at least one "E64 Friendly" to the schedule. I assume more will be added. The game is scheduled for early Oct. It's late Sept and we just got the info. NCYFC and CSA are in the middle of their HS season and cannot field a full team for the fall so those games have been moved to Jan. Right about the time that kids here will start HS season. Down from 8 games this fall to 5 as both clubs have dropped out but we gained one through friendlies. I hope that games scheduled for January will happen, though who is to say that it won't be us with player issues? To compare to ECNL. We got her schedule in mid August and it has not changed and there is no talk of it changing. I couldn't even begin to imagine a team dropping out of ECNL because it could not field enough players. GA, NC, and FL three different HS seasons. GA - Spring. NC - Fall. FL - Winter. I don't understand how USYS could have overlooked something that big. Maybe they were under the assumption that players would be dying to play on their teams so they would risk their standing during their HS season. I begin to blame clubs when it comes to the communication of issues. If USYS is having internal issues, let parents know. Don't go along as though everything is alright and then add in games last minute to try and makeup for what USYS screwed up. Parents are fed up (at least on my team). Several have asked for refunds. My kid is one of the most committed players I know. Has never missed a practice or a game. She is talking about quitting. This also has to do with the coach, but that combined with the disorganization of the league is too much for her. Is the lack of communication USYS or AFU related? ECNL is still the best League around.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 26, 2022 11:01:26 GMT -5
E64 scheduling is a cluster. I can't understand why the schedule isn't locked down with times and places with it already being the Fall. It's like these leagues expect parents to pick up and drop everything to make plans around a fluid soccer schedule. For the registration fees and travel expenses that are being incurred, the whole thing is unacceptable. I'm not sure where the fault lies. USYS or the club. Maybe both. Other leagues are better organized. If you’re a soccer family playing at E64 level then yes everything revolves around soccer so of course your weekends are soccer weekends. And the blame is USYS, as this is the same people that runs National League.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 26, 2022 10:59:01 GMT -5
I hope they have consulted "soccer" people and don't spend millions on narrow turf/grass fields..... should be interesting, 183 acre park, the plan was for "a quadrant" of soccer fields, with cricket overlay. No idea what the current plan looks like and how much it has been scaled back.... the million dollar question -- what club is getting "ownership" of these fields....Please not concorde please not concorde! (Don’t they run the Newtown/Johns Creek soccer Rec programs?)
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Post by Keeper on Sept 25, 2022 20:45:03 GMT -5
Ambush all the way. Minus the coaching and “level” business, their U8 junior academy is all in house so limited travel. Mostly on turf too between North and Webb Bridge. Unlike concorde north which uses whatever random Elem school field they can find, and then typically gets combined with Central, Cobb and West’s academy schedule.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 21, 2022 16:42:59 GMT -5
For those who have been through the process if you haven’t received an offer but you also haven’t been told “thanks for coming but try again next year” would you expect to go to the last night of tryouts? Don’t want to show up if there is no reason to but also don’t want to miss out if there is still a chance. Email earlier this month said selections would go into early October but kid said he heard if you don’t get an email after the previous tryout then you didn’t make it. If they haven’t cut you yet, they’ll probably offer you a spot if you keep showing up. Ie they want your money.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 12, 2022 8:19:47 GMT -5
My thoughts on what will and won't work to fix the problem. Forcing kids to certify and referee younger ages in club would result in ambivalent teens standing around in the middle of the field. Not good. Some would be great, many would not. I've never liked the idea of making financial aid kids work - concession stand or anywhere else. It's not their fault the family has little $$ and it only stigmatizes them as all the teammates and clubmates would learn their status. Sure, most already know, but why throw it in their face? I'm by no means a socialist, but punishing kids for their parents issues isn't right. What will work: Each club should have a Director of Referees responsible for the recruiting, development, assigning, and maintenance of referees. How many full-time DOCs and coaches does each super club have? Tens, right, if not more. How many full-time adults focusing on referees? Zero. Most clubs have one or more assignors, which is mostly a part-time job aimed mostly at putting bodies on the field. They have neither the time or resources to recruit, develop, and assess referees. This is not a knock on any assignor - they are simply not given the tools needed. Clubs put mongo dollars into developing high level players then act surprised when there is a dearth of high level referees. Want better referees? Clubs need to open their wallets. Well the clubs are kind of starting that thanks to that USSoccer blood money. www.georgiasoccer.org/innovate-to-grow-grant/
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Post by Keeper on Sept 10, 2022 22:00:06 GMT -5
This idea is great. Also players earning financial assistance should be required to referee. I would also like to see clubs promote and even subsidize referee certification classes and uniforms. It’s not inexpensive to start working as a ref - same for annual recertification. Agreed on the annual certification costs. If you do it in December it is around 100 bucks. My son was gone from 2:30 to go to his game and got home at 6:30. Made 50 bucks over two games. That is just over 12 bucks an hour, or the starting hourly wage to work at mc donalds. Anyways, he would need to work a full eight hours just to get to break even on his recertification without needing a watch, shorts, socks, flags, cards, yellow, green, etc jersey... In the end the actual hourly wage sucks. I am not sure why anyone thinks its a good job? The ONLY reason I even have my son do it is, its a low commitment way to make some extra money and lets him learn to deal with aholes. This is all relative to kids looking for some extra money not the serious refs doing a U17 ECNL game. Only $50 for two games? Jeez poor kid is at one of those clubs that pay their Refs terribly. I mean you can ARs two U13 games for at least $50 and that’s only 3 hours.
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Post by Keeper on Sept 9, 2022 18:44:50 GMT -5
So many assignors hoping for rain!
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Post by Keeper on Sept 8, 2022 10:25:41 GMT -5
Right on the heels of Miles Robinson getting arrested at The Battery over the weekend 🤦♂️ There has to be more to the story --- took a $5 shot and then refused to pay for it. come on nobody in his near vicinity just pony upped the 5 bucks. and then how can you get arrest over $5, doesn't seem possible. how can a cop waste so much time and effort for $5 bucks and again, nobody else was willing to just say here, take my 5 bucks. If i was there, I'd given the $5 bucks to resolve the matter. very odd. and back to Josef -- dude's furious, he's pissed off. I love the emotion, shows he cares, can't say that for most of this team besides Gutman, whose salary is 18th on the roster.... Injury or not, this team went from the envy of the league to the cellar. Arrogance goes a long way. Same for Martinez. And he doesn’t deserve a statue, if anything this shows why Almiron should get one while Martinez was just a role player.
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Post by Keeper on Aug 28, 2022 20:15:12 GMT -5
Was told SSA doesn’t allow it.
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Post by Keeper on Aug 25, 2022 23:20:45 GMT -5
ECNL-RL is not the problem. Campbell and Nuno at Gsa are the problem. You have to remember that Ambush, Santos, Rush, AFC, and a couple others pushed for ECNL-RL but it was vetoed by GSA since that would open them up to adding ECNL in later years. Sidebar - I have seen comments like this before. Is there merit to this assumed influence that GSA/Concorde have over ECNL decisions (boys)? Are they really able to dictate who is awarded an RL or ECNL spot in the Southeast? Yes. Each of the ECNL clubs, at least the original ones, have territorial veto rights as to not water down the level. Gregg at Concorde has never seemed to care, but Campbell at Gsa has always been adamant about keeping other clubs out. It’s like he knows the writing is on the wall and it’s game over when others can be treated equally.
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Post by Keeper on Aug 25, 2022 10:33:29 GMT -5
Can anyone help with the MLS Next schedules for this Fall? Have they been released to the public or is MLS following in ECNL footsteps with info.
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Post by Keeper on Aug 25, 2022 10:31:48 GMT -5
ECNL-RL is not the problem. Campbell and Nuno at Gsa are the problem. You have to remember that Ambush, Santos, Rush, AFC, and a couple others pushed for ECNL-RL but it was vetoed by GSA since that would open them up to adding ECNL in later years.
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