Surrey United as a club represented BC amazingly well on the boys side:
U14 SILVER
U16 GOLD
U18 BRONZE
On the Senior side of things, BC also did well:
Mens Open: BRONZE
Mens Masters: GOLD
Womens Masters: GOLD
Other than the Masters result, BC females didn't medal - a cause for concern?
Do the games before re-tiering count in the overall season standings?
After league is all done, I take it there are league cup competitions, correct? Does everyone get to play in a cup competition (5DL, 4DL, MSL)?
Cheers,
Regs.
Girls ended up losing 1-0 to Manitoba :(
BTW, had the time wrong above as they are playing in PEI, not Newfoundland (so only 4 hour time difference) :)
PEI is awesome as a host, these teams will enjoy the experience on the Island immensely - I was lucky enough to play in the Senior Nationals...
U18 Surrey United off to a good start with a 1-0 win over Manitoba this morning!
For those who are interested, U18 games are being streamed LIVE:
Community One - U18 Soccer
U18 Surrey United plays at 10:30AM Pacific (I think... listed as 3:00PM Newfie time).
Klopp gives us hope for this season still I think for a top 4 finish.
While I agree for the most part, City are the favorites... they like everyone else it seems have stumbled.
Sorry Man U fans but your squad is still smoke and mirrors stuff :)
My personal view is that TD's should be educating / mentoring coaches as much as possible - it is the coaches' job from there to educate the players (with help of course from staff hired to support the TD).
Good luck to all the BC teams!
Quite the year for Surrey United, especially on the boys side... I believe the BC final for the U18s was between Surrey's U18 and U17 squads :eek:
Might try and get down to South Surrey this week to catch a game or 2 of the U16s - anyone here getting out there at...
Sorry @rich - totally forgot to let you know to delete the PVR recording!
:)
I last 15 minutes or so when I turned it on... at least got a chuckle out of it when the commentator mentioned the Sounders had a free kick opportunity when a Sounder was fouled just outside the box. The problem being...
Paul has a big event going on this week, great stuff and we need more of this kind of exposure for kids in BC:
First ever Feyenoord Camp in Vancouver underway - News overview - News - Feyenoord
Must win tonight I believe if the Caps want to move on in this competition.
Not expecting too much out of the match to be honest and may skip watching at all.
BTW, indoors I was doing wall passes down the hall, off the couches, everywhere.
Best soccer tool ever for a youngster - can you even buy them anymore?
I think you are reading a bit more into it than what Ian really meant.
Even if he did mean it the way you read it, there is value and merit in stopping and thinking about it - which is one of the goals in the series.
The quote you refer to above - I personally agree with 100% from experience...
Good discussion happening!
While it has veered off topic, I'll let this thread go in different directions for now and 'clean' it up later.
For those who believe youth soccer is all about developing players, can I ask the question: developing for what?
@rich
You were pretty much bang on with your starters, quite surprised to see Mattocks & Earnshaw on the pitch at the same time.
Watching Mattocks makes my eyes bleed.
A much needed 3 points in a match where I thought the refereeing was poor - both ways. How Waston was not called for a PK...
Back line I could live with but the rest is too many changes... plust I think RT needs to be slotted in there somehow for some minutes.
I can see the need for Octavio to be spelled off for a match but does it have to be Mattocks?!?!?
:)
Interesting match tonight for the Caps, hopefully Robbo doesn't muck around too much with the lineup, we need a result if we want to have any hope of progressing further out of the group.
I've reached out to a couple of places and for TCYSA stuff, I'm told everything was delayed a week, i.e., there are no games this weekend... please don't just take my word for it though and confirm with your club!
Aside from TCYSA, are any of the other league schedules "suffering" for this...
Thanks for the insights!
How did your teams do this weekend - not you @TKBC as you're not coaching I believe this year :) ?
Any surprise performances from individual players?