Maessner "taking time off"

Discussion in 'D.C. United' started by Sachin, Jul 29, 2008.

  1. Sachin

    Sachin New Member

    Jan 14, 2000
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    from GoffBlog:

     
  2. MattMathai

    MattMathai BigSoccer Supporter

    Jun 28, 2004
    Annapolis
    In my company, people are said to be "spending more time with [his] family"
     
  3. rwhgeek

    rwhgeek Member

    Aug 5, 2002
    Richmond, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    As of Friday my company is "allowing me to explore other career opportunities". Maybe I should see if DCU would hire me to develops some youths.
     
  4. Untroubled by Reason

    Dec 5, 2007
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I hope it works out for United's youth programs. It seems they had at least a few players in the program (at least one of whom is in the USSF player pool) with some promise. It would be a shame if that was lost because a couple coaches couldn't manage to control their emotions at the critical moment (if that's the case here)...
     
  5. John L

    John L Member+

    Sep 20, 2003
    Alexandria, VA
    1) Being a great player doesn't necessarily mean being a great coach - A great player might make a great mentor or player advisor, but not necessarily everything that goes into being a coach

    2) Being a good and especially a great coach at one level doesn't necessarily mean being a great coach at ALL levels of the game (kids, pre-teen, teens, rec, select, developmental, professional level in the US, professional level in the big leagues, national in the US, national in the big countries, etc, etc, etc)

    3) Being a good and especially great coach doesn't necessarily mean being a great administrator of a coaching program since you're now dealing with managing coaches, who may or may not be appropriate for the level or type of your program, and who you may or may not have selected
     
  6. nobletea

    nobletea Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 29, 2004
    HarCo
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That depends on what the definition of "is" is....
     
  7. JuanMa

    JuanMa Member

    Jul 22, 2003
    MD
    I hope things are being blown out of proportion. He seemed like a pretty cool headed and likable individual.

    Either way, it does not look good.
     
  8. uniteo

    uniteo Member+

    Sep 2, 2000
    Rockville, MD
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    What 'things'? Everyone creates these scenarios in their head then proceeds from there. But all our scenarios are probably completely off.
     
  9. DCUtd

    DCUtd Member

    Oct 26, 1999
    Buenos Aires
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Going purely on the quote above ("It was bizarre"), I am thinking that he turned into a green ogre, ripped the head off an opposing player, swallowed the head whole, and then proceeded to referee the match wearing only a diablo mask and speedos, issuing yellow cards for every player who played the ball out of bounds and red cards to anyone who dared question his authority - including the actual referee.

    In all seriousness, though, the Richie Burke aside surprised me - he always struck me as a great coach. I have refereed a lot of games that he was coaching and his teams always seem to develop well under him. Of course, that was several years ago. Before the green ogre incident.
     
  10. TOTC

    TOTC Member

    Feb 20, 2001
    Laurel, MD, USA
    FYBlanco.
     
  11. DCUtd

    DCUtd Member

    Oct 26, 1999
    Buenos Aires
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Thanks for fixing that - I don't know how I made that typo...
     
  12. Bolivianfuego

    Bolivianfuego Your favorite Bolivian

    Apr 12, 2004
    Fairfax, Va
    Club:
    Bolivar La Paz
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Kids now a days can be some serious A-holes in this country, and dont like to listen to authority. Maybe Maes' lost his cool and just couldnt take it anymore?

    I know, i used to see these kind of kids all my life as i was one just like back in the late 90s. :p
     
  13. JoeSoccerFan

    JoeSoccerFan Member+

    Aug 11, 2000
    this is why that I only coached U-5 through U-11 for several cycles after coaching NCSL.
     
  14. Vasco

    Vasco New Member

    Jun 8, 2003
    RIO
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Brazil
    who knows.

    only the people there know what happened, and then we don't know the why's.

    Somewhere it will turn up for us.
     
  15. Bolivianfuego

    Bolivianfuego Your favorite Bolivian

    Apr 12, 2004
    Fairfax, Va
    Club:
    Bolivar La Paz
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Haha. I want to coach U13 boys sooner or later, see what i can do, but because of how boys act at that age it makes me hesitant, and with how parents can be crazy too! :eek:
     
  16. JoeSoccerFan

    JoeSoccerFan Member+

    Aug 11, 2000
    parents - don't worry. start right from the first practice. tell them STFU (nicer than that).

    seriously, tell them to keep there mouths shut, I usually told them that I get to yell at there kids for 4 hours a week, they can yell the rest of the time. then, i wouldn't yell at the kids (because they really don't need another person yelling at them). instead, i'd set out my expectations - do your best (in my opinion), have fun, listen when I speak.

    Parents do suck, but I still love my kids. it's fun to see my kids play in high school, college, travel (though they never know that I'm watching them)!

    where is that BDT?
     
  17. Hedbal

    Hedbal Member+

    Jul 31, 2000
    DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Why is it that no one who posts here seems to have the slightest idea what happened? Some kind of volcanic eruption in the presence of several score soccer people can't be kept totally secret, can it? Well, can it?
     
  18. Bolivianfuego

    Bolivianfuego Your favorite Bolivian

    Apr 12, 2004
    Fairfax, Va
    Club:
    Bolivar La Paz
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    Dont you know, DC likes to keep things Hush Hush! LOL
     
  19. DCUtd

    DCUtd Member

    Oct 26, 1999
    Buenos Aires
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  20. beltwayrob

    beltwayrob New Member

    Jun 15, 2004
    Alexandria, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This reminds me of my U-5 coach who decided that he could coach us all the way through high school, he was so "dedicated" to all of us that he organized an ouster of our high school coaching staff just so he could see us through. Bless his heart, my last season in high school we went 6-12 :( because the guy just didn't know how to coach us past age 13!

    Oh and and by DCUntd when you say NE around here you might want to clarify that it's Nebraska and not New England....
     
  21. DCUtd

    DCUtd Member

    Oct 26, 1999
    Buenos Aires
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    DOH!

    And I think I may have messed up my verb tense, too. I think he's back now.

    Anyway... back when I coached I loved it. But back when I reffed, the parents were much much worse than as a coach. I agree with the observation that it is easy to set the tone early with the parents, and then you have a sort of corporate culture in place for new parents to adapt to.

    As a ref, I have had to throw the parents out of games. That was fun. My favorite incident was loudly instructing the coach that if he couldn't control the outbursts of his parents I would only let the game continue without spectators. He loudly agreed and then did nothing. 5 minutes later I threw all the parents out. After the game I called the league to report the incident and they patiently listened to me before saying "Yeah we have had problems with that team all season, that's why we assigned it to you. We figured if you had a problem with them, too, that we would kick them out of the league." And they did.

    The worst part was, it was a teenage girls game, and there were girls literally crying that their parents couldn't watch them play. I felt sort of badly about that. But there was a group of parents who were very loudly using inappropriate language and interfering with the game. (Insert joke here about your least favorite fan group)
     
  22. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
    La Norte
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    Vanuatu
    I thought NE was the part of DC that included Deanwood, Trinidad & Brookland. It seemed like a strange place for Maessner to take a vacation. ;)
     
  23. Hedbal

    Hedbal Member+

    Jul 31, 2000
    DC
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  24. nobletea

    nobletea Moderator
    Staff Member

    Sep 29, 2004
    HarCo
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He can make great money (read: better than DCU money) husking corn there this time of year. It's a workation.
     
  25. The Cold Sea

    The Cold Sea Señor Mejor

    Feb 17, 2005
    The District
    Club:
    Chelsea FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    I'm from Nebraska and it's not a bad place to visit. Lots of stuff to do and see, especially if you're into history.
     

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