Week 4 Scores - 04 Girls - EAL, SDL, PTCL, DIAL - FINAL

Week 4 Scores - EAL, SDL, PTCL, DIAL and PSA

What a great weekend!!!

SDL 04G
Solar Crushers White Stricker vs Solar Chelsea East 04 Wilson

Is canceled since Solar Chelsea East did not get a full team together for the season. SDL could not get another team to fill in for tomorrow so the Crushers White team will have another game added onto the end of their season instead. I know other teams that have this team scheduled have had the same issue.

Solar '04 Kennington 4
Sting Blue '03 Goodman 0

DT North 04 Manchester Rosales - 3
Sting 04 Goodman - 0

Liverpool Barnes 3
Sting Serls 0

Liverpool Suarez (now 'Owen') 0
Sting Scarfone 1

FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Dallas Texans South 04: 4
Texas Spirit North Red: 2

Did FC Extreme used to be the Wizards or no?

Dallas Texans North Deleon (7)
Liverpool Redknapp (0)

lovesoccer wrote:

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Having been in this situation more than a few times, I can tell you it's not that easy. At an age group where you have to call a girls name 2-3 times on a dead ball just to get them to sub off the field, it's not so simple to address them during the game to make them perform X number of passes before they shoot. In fact, even the better teams will rarely put together 5+ unbroken passes as on the short fields, it really is mostly a short-short-long combination to the forwards or defense to outside mid, exchange a few passes then shooting opportunity.

You cannot punish a team's development by making them try to play down to the opposition. There are things to learn by getting your butt whooped (been there plenty of times before also) and also in the whooping. If a teams ego (or rather parents, 99% of the time the kids lose count after 3 or 4 goals whether they are on the winning or losing, I've been winning 5+ and had kids on my team ask if we're winning!) cannot cope with losing by 5+ goals then they shouldn't enter academy soccer.

And again, by sticking defenders up front, you'll get an avalanche of goals. Those kids just want to score plain out and they'll do everything to knock 5 goals in within 10 minutes.

You should try coaching 7 and 8 year old girls and see how easy it is to stop them scoring without just wasting the whole point of turning up. If they wanted to play keep-away, they'd have saved the league fee and practiced it in training.

lovesoccer wrote:

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Its funny how Xtreme is being called out in this case. Liverpool 05G Hyypia (Drake) beat Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker 11-0 last weekend. Was the Liverpool 05 team unsportsmanlike as well? Can we just call a spade a spade???

Dial U8 Girls

Sting 04 Parker(Parker) 6
Sting 04 Mendoza(Mendoza) 4

04Soccer wrote:Did FC Extreme used to be the Wizards or no?

No. Dallas Kicks SC 04 used to be Wizards FC

Oh ok, Thank you for clarifying that

PTCL

Dallas Kicks SC 04 - 1
Odyssey 04 - 1

Game was called off 2 minutes into the 2nd half due to no lights.

Working on getting the game rescheduled.

Don't all the leagues keep score, that's why we play at this level and not rec. I hate when teams start to take it easy on you, it takes the satisfaction away when you do something well. Personal preference I guess. I'd rather take the beating at least you know where you stand next time around.

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:

lovesoccer wrote:

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Its funny how Xtreme is being called out in this case. Liverpool 05G Hyypia (Drake) beat Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker 11-0 last weekend. Was the Liverpool 05 team unsportsmanlike as well? Can we just call a spade a spade???

My comment is to all teams that have done so just used FC Xtreme as my example. Last weekend it was the TX Spirit teams. Don't get your tail feathers in a ruffle and try to start something that is not there.

fc dinamo 4 fever black 2

wolf2.0 wrote:

lovesoccer wrote:

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Having been in this situation more than a few times, I can tell you it's not that easy. At an age group where you have to call a girls name 2-3 times on a dead ball just to get them to sub off the field, it's not so simple to address them during the game to make them perform X number of passes before they shoot. In fact, even the better teams will rarely put together 5+ unbroken passes as on the short fields, it really is mostly a short-short-long combination to the forwards or defense to outside mid, exchange a few passes then shooting opportunity.

You cannot punish a team's development by making them try to play down to the opposition. There are things to learn by getting your butt whooped (been there plenty of times before also) and also in the whooping. If a teams ego (or rather parents, 99% of the time the kids lose count after 3 or 4 goals whether they are on the winning or losing, I've been winning 5+ and had kids on my team ask if we're winning!) cannot cope with losing by 5+ goals then they shouldn't enter academy soccer.

And again, by sticking defenders up front, you'll get an avalanche of goals. Those kids just want to score plain out and they'll do everything to knock 5 goals in within 10 minutes.

You should try coaching 7 and 8 year old girls and see how easy it is to stop them scoring without just wasting the whole point of turning up. If they wanted to play keep-away, they'd have saved the league fee and practiced it in training.

I have coached this age before so I know it's hard to communicate during a game but I bet in most cases like this the score was up there at halftime. The coach can tell the players what needs to be done to not run the score up. I am not saying not score but they must pass 5 times or do some many skills before a shot can be taken. This way the players are working on passing & skills in a game situation.

Your right most times it's a 2 or 3 passes tops before the shot is taken on these small sided fields but these girls move up in field size next season (fall) and will need to do more passing & skill work to move the ball up the bigger field. Why not work on that in a situation where they can.

Your wrong when these kids lose count at 3-4 goals. Most of my dds team mates can tell you the exact score of each game. And saying saying if they can't handle it then they shouldn't be playing academy or there is something to be learned with a butt whooping? Please tell me what 7-8yr old is learning? I get this argument a few years down the road but we are talking about 2nd graders for Pete's sake. That is the parent talking there.

lovesoccer wrote:

wolf2.0 wrote:

lovesoccer wrote:

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Having been in this situation more than a few times, I can tell you it's not that easy. At an age group where you have to call a girls name 2-3 times on a dead ball just to get them to sub off the field, it's not so simple to address them during the game to make them perform X number of passes before they shoot. In fact, even the better teams will rarely put together 5+ unbroken passes as on the short fields, it really is mostly a short-short-long combination to the forwards or defense to outside mid, exchange a few passes then shooting opportunity.

You cannot punish a team's development by making them try to play down to the opposition. There are things to learn by getting your butt whooped (been there plenty of times before also) and also in the whooping. If a teams ego (or rather parents, 99% of the time the kids lose count after 3 or 4 goals whether they are on the winning or losing, I've been winning 5+ and had kids on my team ask if we're winning!) cannot cope with losing by 5+ goals then they shouldn't enter academy soccer.

And again, by sticking defenders up front, you'll get an avalanche of goals. Those kids just want to score plain out and they'll do everything to knock 5 goals in within 10 minutes.

You should try coaching 7 and 8 year old girls and see how easy it is to stop them scoring without just wasting the whole point of turning up. If they wanted to play keep-away, they'd have saved the league fee and practiced it in training.

I have coached this age before so I know it's hard to communicate during a game but I bet in most cases like this the score was up there at halftime. The coach can tell the players what needs to be done to not run the score up. I am not saying not score but they must pass 5 times or do some many skills before a shot can be taken. This way the players are working on passing & skills in a game situation.

Your right most times it's a 2 or 3 passes tops before the shot is taken on these small sided fields but these girls move up in field size next season (fall) and will need to do more passing & skill work to move the ball up the bigger field. Why not work on that in a situation where they can.

Your wrong when these kids lose count at 3-4 goals. Most of my dds team mates can tell you the exact score of each game. And saying saying if they can't handle it then they shouldn't be playing academy or there is something to be learned with a butt whooping? Please tell me what 7-8yr old is learning? I get this argument a few years down the road but we are talking about 2nd graders for Pete's sake. That is the parent talking there.

i gotta go with wolf on this one. and just so you know, when he (or she) says they have "been in this situation before", it was the losing situation. also, my team loses most of the time and many times by the same large margin as you (and others) have. i am not advocating running up the score and poor sportsmanship. but you are applying a grown up conscience in an 8 year old's game. it takes a long time to get these girls to get after the ball and move to spaces to set up opportunities and once they get it, they get it. they want to play, they want to score, and they don't have the sophistication to move the ball around for the sake of the other team's parents. my team's solution was to move down a division b/c kids can't learn when they are getting hammered. if your team lost 11-0 and 12-0 in consecutive weeks that is shaping up to be an unfortunate season. sdl has high level talent playing high level games and i don't think, even with the opposing coaches best intentions, they can tone it down much.

they don't have the sophistication to move the ball around for the sake of the other team's parents

What he said! We've been there, both sides. When our team is way ahead I know our coach really tries to mix things up--give someone who has never been a keeper a try, change positions, etc. On the other hand, if I were a coach I would never tell them they "have to take 5 passes before they can score" because your job as a coach is to teach your own team to play the right way in a "game" (it's not practice), you know? And the losing team's keeper and defense gets to play a bunch in these games and everyone appreciates a great save and perserverance under those tough circumstances, I think. And keep in mind that when you have a defender on a "mostly winning" team, they don't always see a lot of action. I'm probably a softie but I feel proudest of our team when they lose after a hard game but they still try hard--I tell my dd that it's easy to be a good sport when you win (at least, we would hope so!) but it's really a test when you can tell the other team "good game" after a pounding.

Anyway, I hope that whatever team was on the losing end of a lopsided game THIS week gets to face another team next week that they might beat!

bobmac15 wrote:

lovesoccer wrote:

wolf2.0 wrote:

lovesoccer wrote:

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Having been in this situation more than a few times, I can tell you it's not that easy. At an age group where you have to call a girls name 2-3 times on a dead ball just to get them to sub off the field, it's not so simple to address them during the game to make them perform X number of passes before they shoot. In fact, even the better teams will rarely put together 5+ unbroken passes as on the short fields, it really is mostly a short-short-long combination to the forwards or defense to outside mid, exchange a few passes then shooting opportunity.

You cannot punish a team's development by making them try to play down to the opposition. There are things to learn by getting your butt whooped (been there plenty of times before also) and also in the whooping. If a teams ego (or rather parents, 99% of the time the kids lose count after 3 or 4 goals whether they are on the winning or losing, I've been winning 5+ and had kids on my team ask if we're winning!) cannot cope with losing by 5+ goals then they shouldn't enter academy soccer.

And again, by sticking defenders up front, you'll get an avalanche of goals. Those kids just want to score plain out and they'll do everything to knock 5 goals in within 10 minutes.

You should try coaching 7 and 8 year old girls and see how easy it is to stop them scoring without just wasting the whole point of turning up. If they wanted to play keep-away, they'd have saved the league fee and practiced it in training.

I have coached this age before so I know it's hard to communicate during a game but I bet in most cases like this the score was up there at halftime. The coach can tell the players what needs to be done to not run the score up. I am not saying not score but they must pass 5 times or do some many skills before a shot can be taken. This way the players are working on passing & skills in a game situation.

Your right most times it's a 2 or 3 passes tops before the shot is taken on these small sided fields but these girls move up in field size next season (fall) and will need to do more passing & skill work to move the ball up the bigger field. Why not work on that in a situation where they can.

Your wrong when these kids lose count at 3-4 goals. Most of my dds team mates can tell you the exact score of each game. And saying saying if they can't handle it then they shouldn't be playing academy or there is something to be learned with a butt whooping? Please tell me what 7-8yr old is learning? I get this argument a few years down the road but we are talking about 2nd graders for Pete's sake. That is the parent talking there.

i gotta go with wolf on this one. and just so you know, when he (or she) says they have "been in this situation before", it was the losing situation. also, my team loses most of the time and many times by the same large margin as you (and others) have. i am not advocating running up the score and poor sportsmanship. but you are applying a grown up conscience in an 8 year old's game. it takes a long time to get these girls to get after the ball and move to spaces to set up opportunities and once they get it, they get it. they want to play, they want to score, and they don't have the sophistication to move the ball around for the sake of the other team's parents. my team's solution was to move down a division b/c kids can't learn when they are getting hammered. if your team lost 11-0 and 12-0 in consecutive weeks that is shaping up to be an unfortunate season. sdl has high level talent playing high level games and i don't think, even with the opposing coaches best intentions, they can tone it down much.

No more words needed.

wolf2.0 wrote:

lovesoccer wrote:

4DaLuvofTheGM wrote:FC Xtreme 04G Marin: 1
FC Dallas 04G Kim West: 1

Solar Chelsea Gold 04G Kovarik: 1
Solar 04G White Kennington: 1

FC Xtreme 04G Alvarez: 12
Solar Crusher 04G Black Stricker: 0

I think it's unsportsmanlike to run the score up like FC Xtreme did in this case. It happened before in other games but I think a good coach would see the lopsidedness in a game in the first 5 goals scored to know to change things up. Ex: have the players pass the ball a certain number of times before allowing to score. Or move players to positions they predominantly don't play to give them experience in a game setting. Just so not cool in my book to do that to a bunch of 7-8yr old little girls. I know technically we are not keeping score in most leagues but come on they know at this age if they won or lost and they do know how to count.

Having been in this situation more than a few times, I can tell you it's not that easy. At an age group where you have to call a girls name 2-3 times on a dead ball just to get them to sub off the field, it's not so simple to address them during the game to make them perform X number of passes before they shoot. In fact, even the better teams will rarely put together 5+ unbroken passes as on the short fields, it really is mostly a short-short-long combination to the forwards or defense to outside mid, exchange a few passes then shooting opportunity.

You cannot punish a team's development by making them try to play down to the opposition. There are things to learn by getting your butt whooped (been there plenty of times before also) and also in the whooping. If a teams ego (or rather parents, 99% of the time the kids lose count after 3 or 4 goals whether they are on the winning or losing, I've been winning 5+ and had kids on my team ask if we're winning!) cannot cope with losing by 5+ goals then they shouldn't enter academy soccer.

And again, by sticking defenders up front, you'll get an avalanche of goals. Those kids just want to score plain out and they'll do everything to knock 5 goals in within 10 minutes.

You should try coaching 7 and 8 year old girls and see how easy it is to stop them scoring without just wasting the whole point of turning up. If they wanted to play keep-away, they'd have saved the league fee and practiced it in training.

I actually like using the number of passes to keep the score down. If your team can't string more than 3 to 5 passes together against a weaker opponent then your team isn't very good they are just very athletic. We have had games where the girls had to pass 10 times to score. It helped when the coach actually counted out the numbers because the girls seem to forget anytime they see a scoring opportunity. While they don't score as fast, the downside is it seems to drive them to play even harder in pusuit of those 10 passes so they can then score. Long term the team being scored on has to move down in competition or raise it's level of play. The lopsided score is not good for either team.

PSA

Allen Elite 04 Blue-Tallal 3
Solar 04G White-Kennington 2