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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNot sure why you said GPS is an outcast in Mass Youth Soccer. GPS is dominate on the boys side. In the next 2 years their girls side will catchup to the top 3.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNot to dump on the accomplishment because it was extraordinary but let's be somewhat objective. Soccer is like boxing now in that every promoter has their own championship. That team won two watered down championships during the middle school years when a lot of the major competition still is in a developmental mode. At those ages teams with holes can win because all it typically takes is 1-2 dominant players. Let's see if they can repeat the task at either U15 or U16 when most of the clubs around the country merge their best players together and those holes represent places other teams can exploit before we go anointing what NEFC has been able to accomplish as the model.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostGPS is now the largest non-town based soccer club in the state and it is rather amusing how their impact gets so arrogantly dismissed.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSadly, I agree with this statement. Occasionally we get a team that hits the mark, but for the most part the truly elite are spread out among the big clubs, and a few of the mom nd pops. The mom and pop player usually drifts away. I don't know for sure why, but my guess would be the competition level isn't high enough in training. The big clubs try to recruit each others stud, and they all end up chasing their tails. The question I ask, every time this conversation comes up, is there a club in Mass positioned to train these players seperate from the elite team close to their homes, and then be able to come together for training and elite league/tournaments? Right now the closest we have is GPS. They have figured something out. They now have local training/teams, that allow the top players to come together to compete in the NPL, and tournaments. Looks a lot like a club and country model. The coaches are following a curriculum for every level, and age. Not much rogue coaching going on over there. They are so far ahead of the rest right now, that I don't think the other 3 can catch up.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostGPS HAS figured it out and NEFC is following right behind them with their regionalized approach and their special programming like RDC and IDP. That is why they are now the two largest clubs in the state. Families get what they are offering and can see where it benefits them. From a club point of view, the key is expanding the base of the pyramid to capture a huge number of players and then offer them a pathway to the pinnacle of the pyramid. Where the two ECNL are faltering is they are not expanding their bases fast enough to keep pace with these two and the pathway to their top teams is suspect at best.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostStars opened up a new facility in Lancaster and will dominate Mass soccer. Breakers will fade away like their older teams that have no talent. The longer a kid stays with FM the worse they get.
BTNT, is the research you said you were doing using TS published anywhere yet? I think many here would like to take a look at it.
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