TOP TEN 08’ BOYS TEAMS

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So I think it’s time for a new Top 5:

1. The 08s on the FCD U12DA Best team it’s not even close.
2. Solar McKinney great team! Stong at every spot with a Great coach.
3. Solar west 08s on the U12DA team. Great attacking players maybe alittle soft on D.
4. Kicks when they are on form.
5. FCD Suarez. Great coach getting every bit of skill form his team.

I added non classic league teams since the name of the thread is top 10 08 teams. Discuss...

I would agree with you for the most part, but the FCD DA team Mixes 07’s in with the 08 boys. Plus speaking to some of the parents of that team, it sounds like a lot of those 08 kids are gonna either stay with the u13 DA team next year, OR play up with one of the 07 classic league D1 teams. It would make no sense in terms of development to drop them to calssic league 08. If they did drop back to 08 division, then yes, they are clearly the top team. However, it looks like they will be a part of the 07 landscape instead.

1. Solar McKinney. Agree with your points.

2. Solar west (formerly solar south, or Texans south depending how far back you go). They have not been doing too well in DA this year, but should still be a top 08 team if they return to 08 division. Interesting to see if some of these kids join solar mckinney’s Squad
3. Kicks. Gonna give this spot to them for now. But could change based on their upcoming match with suarez.

4. Suarez. I’m not a fan of suarez style of play. They are boring by stacking the defensive line, and just not very exciting on the offensive end. But they get the job done more times than not.

5. Liverpool Heighway. If this team finds a goalkeeper and returns their best player back to his natural position, this team jumps ahead of kicks and suarez IMO

Agree with soccerfanatic2008. Liverpool Heighway belongs in the top 5.

I agree for the most part BadKnees. With the exception of Solar DA. Solar DA didn’t impress me at all. I’m not even sure they could play evenly with some of the top Classic D1 teams. Solar McKinney 08 is better than the Solar DA team IMO.

Liverpool Heighway takes that teams spot IMO. Losing their keeper mid season, they have proved the point that one player doesn’t make or break a team. I like the way they play. Interested to see what they can do with a keeper and the big defender back in his normal position. I see them finishing out CL in #3 or #4. I don’t think they’ll finish out above Kicks in CL, but I would rank them above them.

[quote="soccerfanatic2008"]I would agree with you for the most part, but the FCD DA team Mixes 07’s in with the 08 boys. In the Fall this was true, a couple of 07's were mixed in with the 08's, but this spring the two teams have been split by age group. Plus speaking to some of the parents of that team, it sounds like a lot of those 08 kids are gonna either stay with the u13 DA team next year, OR play up with one of the 07 classic league D1 teams. Interesting, pretty sure that hasn't been conveyed to the team or the parents but you never know. It would make no sense in terms of development to drop them to calssic league 08. 100% agree with this and guarantee you this isn't happening. If they did drop back to 08 division, then yes, they are clearly the top team. However, it looks like they will be a part of the 07 landscape instead. Maybe a few will be a part of the 07 landscape but not all of the 08's will be playing 07. Best guess is the DA clubs form a league to play the DA kids in with a lot less travel, just won't be governed by USSDA, and I think that '08 U12 DA team will remain in tack with a few players possibly playing up on the U13 DA.

http://magiccity.soccer/2019/03/04/florida-academy-league-u12-kendall-sc-inter-miami/

Think the U12's will end up with something similar?

Badknees wrote:
I added non classic league teams since the name of the thread is top 10 08 teams. Discuss...

This makes no sense. The name isn’t “top 10 ‘08 and ‘07 /‘08 mixed teams”?

Sorry my bad. I meant entire season to this point and I was only referencing the first teams and not taking into consideration the second DA teams that are playing as counting as other game played. I am not counting that one team played 2 games in one day because that would be the 1st team and the 2nd team playing and therefore would not count towards the amount of games that one BB would have played the entire season...up to this point.

oops. wrong thread. hahahahahahaha

Guys what about fc Dallas DA south 08 I saw them yesterday and they do have a good 08 players too.

I don’t think that team has many 08’s on them, and definitely not the top ones. All of the top 08 players went to the main FCD DA team. The south team did get a few of the backup players from some strong 08 teams, but nothing to really build the team around. I would still put McKinney solar team ahead of both the solar west DA 08 team (formerly solar south Estrada) and the FCD south team

Anyone catch the Alligence vs solar McKinney game? Looks like it was a good game according to the score.

Yes. Allegiance played a tough game. Hats off to those kids. I dont think it had anything to do with their development or coaching though. They have 2 new players that came from solar and fc dallas DA. Those 2 players are 100 percent the reason allegiance is playing well. I didnt see any 40 pass sequences. Their one goal came from a single player dribbling through about 4 defenders and scoring from close range. In fact, after going down 2-0 at half, pedro went to some kick ball of his own by putting his center mid (former fc dallas DA player) back at center back, where he prety much launched the ball to his 2 best players up top.
But i will give credit where it is due. Game plan and tactics aside, The allegiance kids showed up to play. They played well. And they were very. physical. Should have had one kid red carded though for some pretty dirty play

LiverpoolDad wrote:Yes. Allegiance played a tough game. Hats off to those kids. I dont think it had anything to do with their development or coaching though. They have 2 new players that came from solar and fc dallas DA. Those 2 players are 100 percent the reason allegiance is playing well. I didnt see any 40 pass sequences. Their one goal came from a single player dribbling through about 4 defenders and scoring from close range. In fact, after going down 2-0 at half,  pedro went to some kick ball of his own by putting his center mid  (former fc dallas DA player) back at center back, where he prety much launched the ball to his 2 best players up top.
But i will give credit where it is due. Game plan and tactics aside,  The allegiance kids showed up to play. They played well. And they were very. physical. Should have had one kid red carded though for some pretty dirty play

Here I fixed this for you.....
“IN MY OPINION,

LiverpoolDad wrote:Yes. Allegiance played a tough game. Hats off to those kids. I dont think it had anything to do with their development or coaching though. They have 2 new players that came from solar and fc dallas DA. Those 2 players are 100 percent the reason allegiance is playing well. I didnt see any 40 pass sequences. Their one goal came from a single player dribbling through about 4 defenders and scoring from close range. In fact, after going down 2-0 at half,  pedro went to some kick ball of his own by putting his center mid  (former fc dallas DA player) back at center back, where he prety much launched the ball to his 2 best players up top.
But i will give credit where it is due. Game plan and tactics aside,  The allegiance kids showed up to play. They played well. And they were very. physical. Should have had one kid red carded though for some pretty dirty play

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Props to them, I was expecting a 4-0 type game. No credit lost for having DA players it could have been any team they could have gone to. I wonder how they stack up against kicks black now.

We will see how they do against kicks and suarez. Those are 2 big games coming up. If allegiance plays the way they did today, they could pull off an upset or 2.

Thanks Bo, care to give your opinion?

In my opinion LiverpoolDad was spot on, Scuba couldn't have been happy with the "ugly long ball" that Allegiance was playing. There were very few pass sequences of more than 4 passes let alone 40. Also in my opinion this was the by far the worst game I have seen Solar play in all the games I have witnessed. Their kids looked tired, slow to the ball, not finding the open player, all around not very good.

Allegiance was the more aggressive team, pressing every pass, much more physical, probably the best game I have ever seen them play, and they still lost. There were multiple dirty plays from the Allegiance kids, at one point one of their kids up to slid cleats up right into the Solar goalie, it wasn't even close, at a minimum should have been a yellow card, but probably a red, and he got nothing. At that point Allegiance smelled blood in the water, they could literally do anything they wanted, and they did. I don't blame them, it was their only chance to win.

Based off of what I saw it looked like Solar was missing at least 2 players, maybe 3 which is to be expected during spring break. It looked like they only had 2 subs where they usually have 3 or 4. Either way, Allegiance played out of their mind, and Solar didn't bring it, any team on any given day rule I guess.

Saw the game, no dog in this fight just wanted to see what this Pedro dude is all about with all these posts.  

The score isn’t always indicative of the battle.  Allegiance dominated the game just couldn’t hit the net.  Could’ve easily been a lopsided score the other way if they could’ve finished.  Dirty play?  Nah that’s great physical soccer.  Great give n gos, strings of passes and smart play. I wouldn’t call a perfectly placed through ball from back to wide mid kick ball. I’ve never witnessed this before but three times the ref scoffed at the Solar players for flopping, that was greatness (oh no, you get up!).  

Maybe McKinney was off, missing players etc but if we’re considering that a top team I can understand why US men’s soccer is in trouble.

Tahoe08SoccerMom! Didn’t you praised Perdo in the past? That if you lived closer you would join them? So why say that you wanted to see what the dude was about? It seem that he had already won your heart in the past. Oh and there is a difference between dirty/tough. Siding cleats up is a red card. Going off what seed said the kid kept doing it and no card? Yea I would consider that dirty play. I’m not happy that McKinney won as my sons team need them to lose. But I will say those boys are well coached. Pedro seem to just be a great recuriter as he has to advertise to get attention. We will face them pretty soon. So I will give my opinion on these new kids that Liverpool is speaking up. We beat them in the past. Not impressed at all with the team. They always have had that one dangerous lefty. Besides him I don’t see any more talent from that team. Again this is just my opinion. Not trying to upset Pedro nor the parents on his team.

Oh one last thing. You said “if we’re Considering that a top team I can understand why the US men’s soccer is in trouble” I will tell you this.. even the best teams out there have bad games. Look at barca, Madrid.. they don’t win every game. These boys are 10. They can have bad days.. or does allegiance bring it at every game?

Tahoe08SoccerMom! Didn’t you praised Perdo in the past? That if you lived closer you would join them? So why say that you wanted to see what the dude was about? It seem that he had already won your heart in the past. Oh and there is a difference between dirty/tough. Siding cleats up is a red card. Going off what seed said the kid kept doing it and no card? Yea I would consider that dirty play. I’m not happy that McKinney won as my sons team need them to lose. But I will say those boys are well coached. Pedro seem to just be a great recuriter as he has to advertise to get attention. We will face them pretty soon. So I will give my opinion on these new kids that Liverpool is speaking up. We beat them in the past. Not impressed at all with the team. They always have had that one dangerous lefty. Besides him I don’t see any more talent from that team. Again this is just my opinion. Not trying to upset Pedro nor the parents on his team.

Oh one last thing. You said “if we’re Considering that a top team I can understand why the US men’s soccer is in trouble” I will tell you this.. even the best teams out there have bad games. Look at barca, Madrid.. they don’t win every game. These boys are 10. They can have bad days.. or does allegiance bring it at every game?

In my opinion, allegiance did play better than Solar over all. Solar looked off, sluggish, disinterested. Probably the worst they have ever played. Allegiance played better than i have ever seen them play So basically allegiance, on their best day, couldn't beat solar on their worst day

In regards to the dirty play, absolutely, that kid should have been carded. Solar goalkeeper clearly had the ball and that kid slid cleats up straight into the keeper. He didn't get a card, so the kid committed another dirty foul taking out a solar defender after he had already passed the ball. The ref called the foul and talked to the kid, but again, no card. Should have been a straight red for the foul on gk, but at minimum should have been 2 yellow cards.

Oh. And agree with liverpooldad that allegiance is playing better because if their new players. Nothing to do with his coaching or development.

Anyone know the score of the Suarez game... Asking for a friend.

Looks like FCD Suarez took care of business today.

Tahoe08SoccerMom wrote:Saw the game, no dog in this fight just wanted to see what this Pedro dude is all about with all these posts.  

The score isn’t always indicative of the battle.  Allegiance dominated the game just couldn’t hit the net.  Could’ve easily been a lopsided score the other way if they could’ve finished.  Dirty play?  Nah that’s great physical soccer.  Great give n gos, strings of passes and smart play. I wouldn’t call a perfectly placed through ball from back to wide mid kick ball.  I’ve never witnessed this before but three times the ref scoffed at the Solar players for flopping, that was greatness (oh no, you get up!).  

Maybe McKinney was off, missing players etc but if we’re considering that a top team I can understand why US men’s soccer is in trouble.

I think of all the profiles of Pedro's this one is my favorite. McKinney was definitely off, the refs were horrible, and Solar still won. Maybe US Men's soccer is in shambles, but that's got nothing to do with this game, stay focused. Maybe Pedro can post a video of his kids booting the ball to the boys up top, a little dump and run, unfortunately his boys up top aren't as fast nor as skilled as the Solar back line even on their worst day, hence the score. Enough about this game.

Great win by Suarez today, Kicks looks cooked. Tough part of their schedule is wearing on them and they still have to play Pedro's 11th place super crew.