Magic Vs Sockers Fc

Don't understand your point.

 

Actually I'm just breaking Zec's balls a little bit. That's it. U14 Wind v. Magic next week is the game to watch. Magic are gonna have their hands full with the mexican lad up top. He's big time.

Zec doesn't use a pooper scooper, he uses the hand in the plastic sandwich bag trick.

 

The perfect U14 forward. Born shortly after the August 1 cutoff, the height of an adult, the speed of an adult, and he has a boatload of foot skills.

But the Magic has been through this before, as it had to face Abdus Ibrahim in the Regional Finals last year. Ask the Magic kids about that guy! Wow.

 

I thought what you wanted were New Years Day babies....born January 1...etc...etc....

 

Not when the age groups are broken down from August 1 to July 31. Players born in January are 6 months younger than the oldest eligible players. Sometimes actually age does not matter but a younger ages being 6 to 9 months older than the other playes gives you an advantage simply because they are more developed physically and mentally.

 

I guess I was looking at the bigger picture, than league play. Because if we are dreaming about the perfect kid, we might as well dream National team and birth years rather than school years.

 

Interesting decision by the Magic to forfeit the final matches at its own tournament, so as to rest its teams for next week's State Cup. "Sorry, fellas, you paid your fees but no final game, we're going home to the air conditioning."

The Sockers ain't perfect, either, mind you.

 

A lot of coaches are making this decision. Last year my daughter's U12 coach at another club forfeited the final game as they had 2 important league games the following week that would have promoted them to a higher division. This year's coach would have also done the same with State Cup RR next weekend had not their opponent in semi-finals saved him the decision. Trend also seems to be that some are opting out of Memorial Day weekend tournaments all together. Too many of the top teams went into State Cups with too many injuries and not enough players after Memorial Day tournaments.

 

Maybe bigger IYSA rosters are the answer. US club and super y league have 26 player rosters I believe. This would give a coach the opportunity to rest players or have enough players if there is injury situations. Not to mention, the ability to throw off someone who may be scouting. I see a coaches point when they are forfeiting games, that in the big picture, mean nothing. However, not every team or club is at the state, regional, or national level. A holiday tournament has importance to to most of the kids who participate. If they make it to the final, we need to find a way to give them a game.

 

I see both Magic and Sickers lost at U-13 Boys State Cup, Magic lost to last years U-12 Champs Naperville Lightning and Sockers losing to the Wind.
Another surprise in the U14 division where the Magic were beaten 5-1 by the Wind.....

 

I said the magic would have their hands full with the wind.

 

Not surprising in the least if you know the teams. Wind has always been the best playing team at those 2 ages. It's just that one could always count on them to fall apart in the discipline category and find a way to beat themselves.

They have the cores for excellent teams from U14 down to U8 right now, so let's see whether A) they can win this year (which they should at U13 and U14) and B) they can make a habit of winning.

As for the Magic. They may only win one State Cup this year - that's unheard of over the last few years.

 

I was at the Wind-Sockers game.Was a very good match, Wind was down early, tied the game at 1-1 with 15 minutes left, then scored on a professional-quality header off a corner in extra time, with the attacker leaping over a well positioned defender to smack the ball just inside the post. The Wind is the most athletic U13 team I have seen this year, with the average starter being about 130 pounds and several of them very fast.

If anybody tells you free substitutions ruin American youth soccer, this match went 90 minutes, and about half the starters on each team played all 90.

 

I know they need the numbers, but I have never liked the MRL "free ride" for any of the teams. If you can't win your state then stay home.

 

Actually, you have it backwards. The freer ride is for the weaker teams that have the ball bounce right for them in a single-elimination game. If they had to play more games, as in MRL, they'd never make it.

Teams don't qualify for the World Cup through single elimination. Teams don't qualify for Champions League through single elimination. You might do single elimination because it's practical & exciting, but it's a silly way to pick teams to qualify for the next level of competition.

 

Not to mention that certain states' state cup champions can't compete at all at regionals, while other states could put 3 or 4 better teams in.

 

Yeah, that's true too. Not that I have a problem with the weaker states having entrants, in fact I'm glad that everybody gets a slot, but I don't think it's exactly backing in for a stronger team to qualify by winning MRL.

My kid's team was 4-0 this year against State Cup winners, with an aggregate score 10 goals for, 1 goal against. They'll be attending, his team won't. Ah well, could be worse -- in Southern California, the #10 team at the age group could waltz through many if not most of this Region's State competitions. And nobody will ever hear of those guys, they'll never get out of SoCal.

 

This is true. Last year, 13 of 16 Cal South champs became Region IV champs. At least in 2005, the hard part was getting out of Cal South.

 

Regional draws have been posted. The soccer gods have smiled upon us.

 

Hi Vago ...congrats and good luck at regionals

 

Would you share what you're sacrificing to the soccer Gods? because they seem to be smiting some teams...

 

We provided an offering and let RM go. You need to provide an offering. I'm thinking if you let one boy off your team you will not have this problem again. Sacrifice KB, let him go and good things will happen.