Great coaches, a large talent pool, and unlimited funds. Enough said.
Favorite to take United Cup
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Great coaches, a large talent pool, and unlimited funds. Enough said.
Legit_play
SILVER
Let's be clear as to who won the tournament, TFA fielded 3, 06 squads. All 3 were slated in the Superliga brackets. TFA Academy 0 loses won the tournament. TFA Blue lost to Albion South in the semi finals in pks, TFA Red came just short of a wild card spot. TFA Academy ( Top Squad) has not lost a tournament game this summer and has captured 4 Championships, Man City Americas Cup, Slammers Futbol Classic, Surf Cup and finally United Cup just to be clear
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Legit_play
SILVER
Don't forget their reputation for excellent training and focus in development not only as players but also as positive citizens of the community.
SoccerDad77
SILVER
LOL... Cmon buddy. Took it one step too far there. if you condone cursing at little kids, then yeah you're right in developing positive citizens. Otherwise, you're full of it
Legit_play
SILVER
I have not seen Coach Wille cuss at any of his players as of yet, get hot tempered? maybe, he's not there to be their friend he's there to coach and train. Has he torn down a player? no Shown disappointment when they're on the pitch ? Of course. At least he doesn't try to manage every second of the game and have his players wondering if their decision is right, right before they are able to make the decision and understands that they are just 10 yrs old, if they make a bad decision he'll explain why is was a bad decision. Son, I've been involved with club soccer for a better part of 16 yrs between 3 boys, I've seen excellent players torn down by a-hole coaches who thought their s#!t don't stink and has ruined their love for the game. This club is far from that. You can never remove the human element from the game. Their commitment statement is a good one. Can they completely conform to it? It's a learning process but, you don't have that kind of success by being an a-hole hiring a-holes to run the club. If you don't like it leave, there's no one forcing anyone to stay. Just keep this in mind, the soccer community is small and those who club jump around are known by all that they club jump around. Parents tend to believe that their kid is better than they actually are and get butt hurt when things aren't laid out there perfectly for them, if you go to a club of good reputation, step back and allow them to make their decision on where that kids talent lies and where he/she will best suit the needs of the team they play for. If the child is not happy there, leave. TFA is just another soccer club and has just as many emotional coaches as the next club but, I see the commitment with them affiliating themselves with UCLA and hiring a technical director from Loyola and having the kids focus on striving for future goals outside of soccer when they are older...still think I went too far? Can you say the same for your club?
MostlyDisappointed
BRONZE
Why doesn't TFA mix their top teams? What's the point of having all the oldest '06s on one team, kicking the shit out of everyone?
Have to think they would have had to know that's not kosher with how ussf wants the DA clubs to operate.
Have to think they would have had to know that's not kosher with how ussf wants the DA clubs to operate.
Ricardo Torres
SILVER
TFA has 2 or 3 kids that are late 06 but the difference with this team they played against 05 last year.....
It doesn't make a difference late 06 or early the kids are developing the right way....
Better training...
Better coaching....
And better kids...
From the first kid on the roster to last excellent little players
It doesn't make a difference late 06 or early the kids are developing the right way....
Better training...
Better coaching....
And better kids...
From the first kid on the roster to last excellent little players
MostlyDisappointed
BRONZE
What does that even mean.
Look. To the degree that winning matters at 10 (it doesn't) and to the degree the kids are getting good coaching (I'll take your word for it), I'm sure everything is awesome at TFA.
Personally, I'm absolutely okay with them running rampant all over teams with the exception being that it's not a good thing to have your ages imbalanced like that. 10 is too young to let age be a deciding factor in who gets the good training you speak of.
Wow a TFA smackdown. Usually this doesn't happen until after league or state cup.
Don't have a dog in this fight myself but one thing I'll say is that the times I've seen TFA at tournaments I've always seen parents from other teams sitting with their kids telling them "see, that's how soccer should be played" pretty sure I've done that myself. In my opinion we're lucky in Socal to have at least one club who is totally dedicated to possession soccer you see so much win-now kickball crap.
As far as recruiting I've never heard of TFA tapping up kids in the parking lot or other unethical stuff. No doubt if the manager has a lead on a kid he likes he'll pursue it but that happens at every team from flight 3 up. Presumably if this team is a recruiting miracle parents here will have experienced it. So let's hear about B06 parents anyone hit up by TFA coaches or officials?
Don't have a dog in this fight myself but one thing I'll say is that the times I've seen TFA at tournaments I've always seen parents from other teams sitting with their kids telling them "see, that's how soccer should be played" pretty sure I've done that myself. In my opinion we're lucky in Socal to have at least one club who is totally dedicated to possession soccer you see so much win-now kickball crap.
As far as recruiting I've never heard of TFA tapping up kids in the parking lot or other unethical stuff. No doubt if the manager has a lead on a kid he likes he'll pursue it but that happens at every team from flight 3 up. Presumably if this team is a recruiting miracle parents here will have experienced it. So let's hear about B06 parents anyone hit up by TFA coaches or officials?
MostlyDisappointed
BRONZE
Not from me, and certainly not over recruiting. I think it's totally okay that the best kids aggregate to one club. It's totally okay that one team wins everything, too, as long as their focus is on development.
Separately, it'll be neat to see how LAFC and Galaxy handle the '06s as they age into DA.
You're telling me this wasnt a bit of a wind-up?
yeah that's an interesting question about the MLS teams. I'm rooting for TFA over the pro academies. Someone said tfa has unlimited funds but I don't think that's true.
Because of calendar year implementation and the unsure nature of what the former club had in mind for the 2006 boys, we decided to have our son tryout at different clubs just in case. TFA was 1 he said he was interested in so he showed up, there were at least 70-75 kids there just for the 06 tryout, his reputation must have preceded him because he played for a team that had beat TFA twice before and he was picked out of the 70 or so kids. Impressed with the training, he decided to stay. We were never approached by any one from the team/club as far as being recruited as a matter of fact, they were surprised we were there because they would have never imagined us leaving our former club.
MostlyDisappointed
BRONZE
You're telling me this wasnt a bit of a wind-up?
Lol. Okay, a bit busted on that one.
Honestly, I think a bit of push back is in order when the teams/parents start to act like these trophies are meaningful.
I do think it'd be great if TFA can give the pros a hassle. Contrary to one of the comments up thread, there are a lot of kids who can play at this age, and a lot of changes ahead as kids mature.
That's funny, you make it seem as though TFA is the only club who has a top squad. Albion takes the cream of the crop as does Surf, LA Galaxy as well. Someone seems bent cause a team has mowed down everyone they have faced. What's good for the goose is good for gander we just happen to put it together better than most can and it is a treat to be able to watch them play at a level everyone else is striving to get to. Who wants to go to Barcelona and get embarrassed, this team is trying to be able to compete at a European level when it is their time to enter the tournament. What's wrong with that?
That's funny, you make it seem as though TFA is the only club who has a top squad. Albion takes the cream of the crop as does Surf, LA Galaxy as well. Someone seems bent cause a team has mowed down everyone they have faced. What's good for the goose is good for gander we just happen to put it together better than most can and it is a treat to be able to watch them play at a level everyone else is striving to get to. Who wants to go to Barcelona and get embarrassed, this team is trying to be able to compete at a European level when it is their time to enter the tournament. What's wrong with that?
MostlyDisappointed
BRONZE
If your goal is to be competitive in a European youth tournament, then I agree that keeping your most effective 14 players together is consistent with that goal.
TFA is a very good team with definitely a good club behind their back .
I know this is 2006 forum but anyone know anything about the Ac Brea Green team 07? It seems like they did very well and I also heard they moved the ball pretty good even against a top team like TFA beating them 3 0 in final!!
They won a few tournaments, I'm surprised they didnt play Surf Cup.
Anyone know about them and their coach, also heard he's Premier teams are pretty decent
I know this is 2006 forum but anyone know anything about the Ac Brea Green team 07? It seems like they did very well and I also heard they moved the ball pretty good even against a top team like TFA beating them 3 0 in final!!
They won a few tournaments, I'm surprised they didnt play Surf Cup.
Anyone know about them and their coach, also heard he's Premier teams are pretty decent
Ricardo Torres
SILVER
Great team,great coach....
Marius is one of the top coaches out there,my son plays for TFA now but I could tell you that Marius developed my son a lot to be where he is now....
Thanks
Marius is one of the top coaches out there,my son plays for TFA now but I could tell you that Marius developed my son a lot to be where he is now....
Thanks
elpelotero
BRONZE
hey legit.. I know its a done deal already... but just thought I would point this out to you since you also thought it was kind of weird that the tournament decided to do some last minute changes due to wild card being from same group which was supposedly against so called tournament rules jajajajaja.
Take a look at the 2005's superliga group. wild card was celtic sc academy harps. Group A winner was Boca Jrs OC. Semi final A shows boca playing celtic..which seems odd since per tournament rules semis cant be played by teams from same bracket group. oh well, just something to point out that I thought was odd
Caltek
SILVER ELITE
We (ac brea b01) played as a wild card and got moved as we were supposed to play against fullerton rangers who were in our bracket and moved and played lag sd.