I can only assume this is JP. You my friend are a cancer to this team and your daughter. We'd love nothing more than if you left. Your crazy antics have gotten old. You sure know how to take the fun out of kids sports.

We won 4-0 and advanced to the Semi tomorrow!

How did you do in the Semi?

This person is a dumb ass. You need to develop all your players so that when you move to 11 v 11 you can compete. Need 16 players minimum for a competitive team to play 11 v 11. And no offense, Chargers teams suck as they age because those players always go to WFF and TBU for the better girls programs

If you knew our parents you'd understand. We have some high maintenance parents who think their kids are better than the rest.

Your entie club is made up of these types of parents. Truth is your club as a whole sucks.

Lost


Lost on penalty kicks

To Orlando City 2nd team

It is quite obvious the person posting comments about the Chargers is not part of this team. All of the players on this team have more than earned their spot. Each player makes a major contribution. They are ALL a pleasure to watch play. All the girls have a mutual respect for one another.

Chargers tied in the semi-final(lost in PKs) to another talented team that ended up winning the gold. The Chargers have actually played a friendly game with the first team and tied that team as well.

The person posing as a member of this team is trying their best to create drama and spread rumors. Focus on your own child and team.

Everybody knows it is JD a parent of a kid formerly of lutz and formerly of TBU formerly of and Liverpool fca and probabably soon to be formerly of WFF that has an axe to grind against one of our parents and team in general is that is creating these posts. If you are parent of a kid on the team then you knowThere is no drama going on. Also the coach explained to everyone why he did what he did and is not coaching for now but what is best for the future. We are happy with the progress our kids are making we have played all three Orlando City u12 girls teams tied two and lost to one on pks. All three OC team were quality which speak well for their club.

This club as a whole is pretty horrible. All of us in Pinellas travel to other clubs to avoid them. DA hasn't proven to be very successful and they don't seem to have a good girls team outside of this team. As you see below, most of their success is pretty old from the 80's and 90's.



History of the Clearwater Chargers Soccer Club



The Clearwater Chargers Soccer Club was originally formed in 1972 as a men’s team. Over it’s 30 year history it has evolved into a successful training program for young people in the skills and techniques necessary to play quality soccer. Our goal has always been the total development of the player. This philosophy has produced numerous championship teams at the state, regional, and national levels. Our players learn the game, learn how to win, and most importantly how to transfer those important lessons into life experiences.



The Club fields competitive boys teams in the U-8 through U-19 age groups and girls competitive teams in the U-10 through U-18 age groups. The boys program has produced over 40 Florida State Champions. The girls program has produced over 12 State Champions. The Club routinely places several teams in the Final Four of the state competition and in 1997 placed a remarkable eight teams in the Final Four winning 5 State Championships with one team winning a National Championship.



In 1997 the Clearwater Chargers U-19 Boys team was victorious in the championship game of the National Final Four, winning the Snickers Cup USYSA National Tournament. The U-19 team was coached by Peter Mannino, Director of Coaching, and Rob O’Nan, President of the Club. We are very proud of this team’s accomplishments, and every team that wears the red and yellow. Several players from the team are currently assistant coaches for Charger teams.



The competitive Charger teams consist of more than 325 players who are trained by a skilled coaching staff that is dedicated to their improvement. Our coaches strive to develop individual skills and sportsmanship in the context of a competitive environment. Our strength lies in our sense of team and community loyalty. At our Annual Spring Awards Banquet, players who have been with the Club for three years are recognized becoming members of the Century Club. Players who have played their entire competitive careers for the Chargers are given a special award and honored as Lifetime Members of the Club. Over 30 former players now hold this distinction. Many graduating seniors from within the Club are given scholarships to assist with their college education. None of this success would be possible without the support and volunteer hours given by the parents in our organization and our Board of Directors.



In 2004, the Clearwater Chargers formed at recreation division of the club now called the Clearwater Rec Teams. This program was seeded from the old Clearwater Soccer Youth Program which closed. Coupled with the successful spring program called Micro Soccer, the Chargers are now reaching out beyond the competitive side of soccer to all levels of play in the local community to give every young player a chance to develop to their potential. These programs now make up a vital part of the overall Charger Program and many go on to be part of the competitive teams.


Chargers Competitive Soccer Program



The Chargers Soccer Club’s Competitive Program is for competitive and premier level players, between the ages of 8 and 18, who demonstrate the desire and ability to learn and play soccer in a higher competitive format where the mission is to train and develop skilled players. The Competitive Program is designed to develop each individual player to his/her fullest potential while at the same time inspiring responsibility and commitment to a team. We believe strongly in developing a club that has players that are technically sound, tactically aware and physically capable who are very comfortable with the ball and who live for the game. The Chargers are also committed to teaching valuable life lessons emphasizing personal character and to helping all players become the best people they can become through the principles of integrity, honesty, dedication and commitment.



The Chargers’ Competitive Program will operate at each of the club’s three community locations and will use a tiered team structure featuring Red, Yellow and White teams for the academy age groups U9 through U12 and Select, Elite and Premier teams for the U13 through U18 age groups at each location. This enhanced structure creates a natural progression for players as they develop their level of play within their community, and creates a clear path for upward mobility through the ranks. This 3-tier structure also allows coaches of Yellow, White and Premier teams to better focus on and develop the up-and-coming players, and those of Red, Elite and Select team levels to provide opportunities that challenge and stretch the players’ abilities and develop their advanced skills. The other advantage is the ability to form cross-community teams for certain competition.



The Competitive Program has been developed by highly credentialed and professional Soccer Directors. Through their professional and continuing education, affiliations and experiences, they bring the best programs and ideas from soccer programs throughout the United States and abroad for the development of Chargers coaches, teams and players.



Each Chargers Soccer Club competitive team is provided an experienced and competent coach whose role it is to train and develop the players individually and as a team and to provide game day coaching. The role of the Chargers SC professional Soccer Directors is to work in partnership with each team coach providing assistance, guidance, training and support with the goal of developing each player and to create development plans for each team as a whole.



In addition to competitive Charger boys and girls playing on their community based club teams, players will also have the opportunity to be evaluated throughout the season for participation in various club wide tournament teams and/or for consideration for the USSF Development Academy Teams (U13/14b, U15/16b & U17/18b). This evaluation process will regularly occur while players are playing with their club teams as well as at various player ID events that may be held throughout the season.



Being a regional club with competitive teams at each community site, there will also be internal guest playing opportunities. For example, if a Charger team has been accepted into a Disney Showcase tournament, the Jefferson Cup or the Orange Classic, to name a few, and is short a player or two, players on other Chargers teams throughout the club will be given the opportunity to guest play. This opportunity provides support to the team attending the tournament and provides additional exposure and experience for the guesting Charger player.



We believe that the Chargers Competitive Program model not only provides for player & team development, but also provides organized internal mobility and opportunities for added experiences.



Players are chosen for Chargers Soccer Club competitive teams through a tryout process held at each community site. Tryouts are typically held one week after the completion of State Cup and typically falls at the end of May or the beginning of June each year. Click here for more Tryouts information.



Depending on the number of players chosen for each age group during the tryout process, there may be multiple teams formed in each age group at each club location. Competitive teams play in area or regional leagues and typically travel throughout the region for their league games and may travel to several week-end tournaments both local and away throughout the season. Each competitive team practices a minimum of two, with a maximum of three, times per week, depending on the age group and development level, with league games played on weekends.



Players chosen for a competitive team will be provided more specific information from their coach about training, league and tournament play for their team following tryouts.




Age Group **

Player Age *

# of players on field including a goal keeper

Ball Size


U9 (Under 9)

8

6v6

4


U10

9

6v6

4


U11

10

8v8

4


U12

11

8v8

4


U13 - U19

12 - 18

11v11

5


* maximum age as of August 1st in the year of registration




Junior Teams – Chargers SC junior teams consist of teams in the U9 through U14 age groups. The junior season starts in late October or early November and runs through March. Usually, teams participate in tournaments or schedule "friendly" games against other teams during September and October to prepare for the regular season with possible tournaments that fall anywhere from August through May. Practice schedules for these teams may begin in August and run through the season and will include appropriate rest periods.



Senior Teams - Chargers SC senior teams consist of teams in the U15 through U19 age groups. These teams start league play in August and play through October. Although senior teams may participate in tournaments throughout the winter, the senior season league play pauses during November through January when players may choose to play high school soccer. After the high school season ends, our senior teams reconvene and play games in preparation for the Region C or State Cup tournaments.

There is no shame in losing in pk's. That's a tough way to lose against any team. I saw these girls play last year and they're strong.

Reasons Why Soccer is the Dumbest Sport Ever.





I can’t get into the World Cup. Yeah, go ahead and hate me. Call me anti-American, call me a communist, a contrarian, whatever you want. I don’t even care anymore.

Listen, it’s not that I’m not patriotic. I love shouting “USA!” “USA!” at the top of my lungs like a drunken lax bro, with Old Glory draped around my shoulders and a stars-and-stripes bandanna on my head.

I love doing the “I believe that we will win!” chant, in any situation, at any time, and I will watch any sporting event involving the U.S. because I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free and all that.

But I can’t get into the World Cup for a far more fundamental reason:

I think soccer is stupid.

Now, I understand that it’s the world’s most popular sport, that people from Lichtenstein to Latin America treat it like a religion. I respect their viewpoints as much as I respect people who root for the Miami Dolphins, though I may disagree with their life choices.

But to me, soccer is a sad, frustrating game. It’s a struggle that has no real reward–like midget wrestling or watching the Mets.

A smart dude once said, “Soccer is like a war where two countries are fighting each other, yet neither of them has enough ammunition to actually do any damage.” I think that’s the perfect description for it.

Soccer is like a presidential debate, if the candidates couldn’t use vowels. Or a rap battle, if you couldn’t use “Yo Momma” jokes.

Sometimes, you just want to run out on the field, pick up the ball and chuck it into the net. But you can’t.

And do you know why you can’t? The number 1 reason why soccer is stupid:

You can’t use your hands.

There’s something wrong with a sport that doesn’t allow its participants to utilize the two greatest tools that God gave to man. Think about it. Your hands are a huge part of your athleticism–they allow you to grip, catch, throw, shoot–your impact on every other sport in the world depends on your hands. And in soccer, they just throw that out the window.

Look–that’s fine–maybe a sport like that should exist–but don’t tell me a game that values the head as an athletic appendage more so than the hands deserves to be hailed on the same ground as football, basketball, baseball and hockey.

The lack of hand usage leads to all kinds of undesirable nonsense.

You want to tell me that Luis Suarez would have bitten that Italian dude like an angry Rottweiler if he wasn’t so accustomed to not using his hands? In basketball, that guy would’ve gotten punched. And everyone would have been mildly outraged. But it wouldn’t have caused Bob Ley to act like Bill O’Reilly on live television.

In soccer, the best players in the world sometimes miss the net by 12 feet. 12 FEET. That’d be like LeBron James chucking the ball over the top of the backboard. And do you know why this occurs? It’s because kicking is an inexact science. Your foot is like a foreign object. You don’t know exactly where the ball is going to go when you kick it–you just follow through and hope for the best.

Nah, give me a sport that allows you to use the things that separate us from the animals.

Reason No. 2 why soccer is stupid:

They don’t stop the freaking clock.

Seriously, how hard is it to have a guy sitting in a chair on the sidelines, flipping the timer up and down when the ball goes out of bounds? In what world does it make more sense to have the refs just estimate how much time has gone by, and then just add it to the end of the half?

They’re like parents who came to pick up their kids at a sleepover: “Yeah, five more minutes, what the hell!”

The fact that the sport operates this way is just asinine to me. It’s like basketball back in the 1800’s, when they didn’t think to cut a hole in the bottom of the peach basket. They just had guys standing on ladders on each side, throwing the ball back out when it went in.

Good Lord.

Just pay somebody $5 to sit there and hit the timer when play stops or someone acts like they just got shot after being tripped up.

Which brings us to reason No. 3:


The Flopping.

This is the most un-American part of soccer, GNKDLASM’FSMK’ F,MFNKL;ASND M.A,WEF . Sorry. I just flopped onto my keyboard.

In American sports, we fight and scratch and claw for every inch we get. We don’t cut corners, we don’t look for bailouts from the refs, and we don’t complain and make excuses. Flopping is like cheating on your taxes–it’s just wrong, and you don’t do it.

In soccer though, flopping is an art form. It’s so ingrained in their heads that they actually do it mid-air, sans collision, like some kind of stunt body double in a Bruce Willis movie.

This needs to be fixed.

Reason No. 4:

The lack of scoring.

This is the big one. Who wants to spend 2 hours watching a sporting event, when the only meaningful thing that happens occurs once or twice a game?

Can you imagine re-watching a soccer game on ESPN Classic? “Ohhh—I remember that kick! That was awesome! No one scores for another 45 minutes, but dude–the way that guy kicked the ball 17 feet past the net—he almost had that one!”

A soccer goal is such a rare occurrence that announcers feel the need to do this.

I mean, are you kidding me? Is he just trying to fill time until the next one is scored?

If it were up to me, I’d shrink the field, take some players off, and make it a little bit easier for these guys to put the freaking thing in the net.

A lack of scoring also minimizes the impact that the game’s great players can have–in basketball, you get to watch LeBron James or Kevin Durant impact the game on every possession. You know going in that you’re going to see the ball in their hands, and they’re going to make plays for their teams. In soccer, the great players have to navigate 12 other guys on a giant field–and most of the time, they don’t even get a shot off.

At least in hockey, there are constant scoring chances–constant shots on goal. In soccer, you almost have a heart attack every time someone actually has a modicum of a chance of scoring.

Reason No. 5:

The “No Substitutions” Rule.

They’re running around like Kenyans at the Boston Marathon out there, and you’re telling me we can’t sub anybody in and out? Why??

The lack of subs just makes for even more desperate and frustrating moments, like when a coach makes the decision to take somebody out because they cramped up like LeBron, and then the entire nation criticizes them because they wimped out.

For what?

What is the upside here?

It makes no sense to me.

Reason No. 6:
Brazil's goalie dove the right way, and that's why they beat Chile. (AP Photo)
Brazil’s goalie dove the right way, and that’s why they beat Chile. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The Penalty Kicks.

I get it—the sport is so fantastic that we’ve played for 120 minutes and we aren’t sure anyone is ever going to score again–so, we need to find some way to end this game before everyone on the field passes out and the fans go rogue and overtake the stadium.

So, let’s take some penalty kicks!

Man, what an atrocious idea.

It’s like deciding the NBA Finals with a free throw shooting contest, or ending an extra inning game in the World Series with a home run derby. It’s like a Mario Party mini-game.

If your sport is so fundamentally flawed that you need to do this just to finally end the game, I’m sorry….something’s wrong.

Reason No. 7:

The World Cup’s Knockout Stage.

Given soccer’s lack of scoring, and its flawed way of breaking ties, I don’t think a world tournament should ever be decided in one-and-done situation. Brazil advanced past Chile in the Round of 16 because–and this is the only reason–its goalie just happened to “guess” which way Chile’s kicker was going to kick the ball more often than Chile’s goalie did.

Soccer is like baseball–it’s about the body of work. You find out which teams are the best over a long period of time. No one play should ever decide a soccer team’s fate, just like no one pitch should ever decide a baseball team’s. There aren’t enough scoring plays to make up for bad calls from referees–or dumb decisions that eventuate in a goal.

So no more single elimination.

In fact, here’s how I would set up the World Cup:

1. Stick with 32 teams, but change it so that only one team advances from each Group stage.

2. The remaining 8 teams are placed into two more groups of 4, and one team advances again in each.

3. Those two teams meet in a best-of-three series for the title. If there’s a tie, it becomes a best of two. If they split the next two games, they play again. If it comes down to a final game, they play overtime UNTIL SOMEONE FREAKING WINS. No penalty kicks, no goalies guessing which way to dive, no Mario Party mini-games deciding world championships.

So there you have it. That’s why I don’t like soccer, and that’s what I’d do to fix it. Feel free to holler at me in the comments section below.

Oh, and GO USA!

Until the big clubs stop fighting over money. Nothing good will happen until we see a merger.