Not much info on the match. Pitt struck first. The Hounds' new signing Steeven Dos Santo leveled right before half time.
Pitt drew the Riverhounds 1-1
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As there shouldn’t be. It’s spring soccer and a glorified walk thru.
On a separate note, my daughter has a spring game this weekend, and her coach notified the team that the game time has been moved to accommodate ESPN. Again, it’s spring soccer and I’m not even sure they wear their uniforms, let alone broadcast the games. Weird.
Well that would make for great ratings for ESPN then
Who does your daughter play for?
And no matter what it is, why do you not want it to get exposure? Soccer needs any exposure it can get.
Why not play it up and try to get fan interest in a Pitt vs. Hounds game? Pitt sports fans and local soccer fans.
I know we've talked about our kids previously. I don't recall if your daughter played for the Riverhounds, but I think possibly another team. My daughter just played Riverhounds ECNL team this past weekend. It got ugly quickly. We won 5-0. The wind was pretty awful, but our girls just made their defense look silly.
Ha! Well you know if I give away too much, I’ll no longer be anonymous! But I’ll just say this, she just plays for a mid-major in the south that you may be familiar with during NCAA tourney bracket time...but she is playing a larger school this weekend.
My kids have never played for the hounds. But right now, they are the #3 club in Pittsburgh. They still struggle to attract the top talent. That said, they have a very forward thinking and charismatic academy director (if that’s the title-I’m not sure). He’s now the Director of the ECNL boys. If I had younger kids coming up, which I no longer do, that’s where I would now send them due to the league that they are in and the opportunities that it presents. You’re in a good spot with your kid(s).
That's cool, it's just interesting to hear about other kids who play soccer and all of their adventures so to speak. My daughter played at a small high school was a 2 year starter, and various 3rd rate club teams, she wasn't recruited by any real schools to be honest. and never planned to play college soccer, but in the end, she did get an offer to play for Howard CC in Maryland, and decided she wanted to do it, no scholarship, but a lot of good perks that regular students don't get. It's actually a power house for NCJAA women's soccer, they finished 5th at the National Championship Tournament in Chicago last year, And they have an academic major she's interested in and pretty much said they'd get her into a Maryland State U of her choice after 2 years... so anyways, surprisingly, I get to watch her play soccer for 2 more years. Unless she surprises us and get's recruited again
That’s awesome. I just had a conversation with another coach today, and we discussed the advise given to players regarding playing soccer in college. My experiences make me one who will strongly encourage college athletics, whether its a place like UNC or its a place like Howard CC. Your daughter is having experiences and benefits that non student athletes don’t have. These benefits also aide in the classroom and community. Hope she’s having fun.That's cool, it's just interesting to hear about other kids who play soccer and all of their adventures so to speak. My daughter played at a small high school was a 2 year starter, and various 3rd rate club teams, she wasn't recruited by any real schools to be honest. and never planned to play college soccer, but in the end, she did get an offer to play for Howard CC in Maryland, and decided she wanted to do it, no scholarship, but a lot of good perks that regular students don't get. It's actually a power house for NCJAA women's soccer, they finished 5th at the National Championship Tournament in Chicago last year, And they have an academic major she's interested in and pretty much said they'd get her into a Maryland State U of her choice after 2 years... so anyways, surprisingly, I get to watch her play soccer for 2 more years. Unless she surprises us and get's recruited again
I feel the same, the coach sent out the schedule for the fall and they have two 4 day trips for away games, Jersey Shore in August and NYC/Brooklyn in October. I'm excited for her, I think it will be a great experience, plus a job on campus, tutoring for free, preferred scheduling of classes, I feel good about it.
While we have all the girl's soccer dads together, what do you guys think of this? I'm not sure women's pro soccer has such great potential that I would do this with my daughter even if she was ALL THAT....
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/sports/olivia-moultrie-us-soccer.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/27/year-old-female-soccer-player-turns-pro-signs-with-nike/?utm_term=.c078b7389d66
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/sports/olivia-moultrie-us-soccer.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/27/year-old-female-soccer-player-turns-pro-signs-with-nike/?utm_term=.c078b7389d66
This is pretty nuts if you ask me. I have a kid the same age. I watched some highlights and she does have the skill and game IQ, but from the games I watched the other team and goalie looked highly suspect. So I don't really know what this kid can do until she starts lacing it up with a national team.
I can say with lots of experience from my days playing to all of my kids, boys should do everything, if they can to play pro and go to college later. Girls, do everything you can to play in college. This kid is pretty unique to be 13 and have an offer from UNC. There must be some serious connections somewhere to have lined her up with a scholarship to UNC, now Nike and pro deal. The thing is, I'd wait and see what happens to her when she is 16 or 17. Girls can go through different changes with soccer, and when they hit that 16-17 you really get an idea of what the player is going to be. My oldest was on par with lower level D1 ability, but at some point physically her body broke down and the injuries kicked in. She ended up playing on scholarship D2, and never could shake the injuries. Her quad is like ground meat.
My youngest is already showing signs of D1 ability and player IQ. Determined, fit, skilled, and getting better the more she loosens up and lets loose. But, in 3 years, who knows what happens.
I agree, she's too young to pass on the playing and educational opportunities she would of had. I think it's nuts to be home schooled just to have more time for soccer training. At least wait until after high school to go pro and keep the UNC opportunity open until the last minute. My daughter was the opposite, to be honest at 13 she was about to quit and getting cut from teams, then later got stronger and faster and more serious about it and ended up beating out kids in high school that seemed way superior to her at 13. 13 to me is too young to decide this, especially since women's pro soccer is not necessarily that lucrative unless you become a USWNT super star and get endorsements. And I feel like she's being used by Nike taking advantage of the "girl power" thing, having ads about this empowered 13 year old "woman".
Freddie Adu didn’t pan out. But girls are easier to judge. They mature younger and you can get a good grasp on their abilities and project their body types at a younger age. The problem is girls are committing to college way before they have any idea what they want to do with their lives. They’re barely even in HS in many situations.
But you can often tell with a female. About 5 years ago, we identified a girl on the field that was unbelievable. And she was 3 years younger at the time, playing up in an age group 2-3 years older, yet she was unstoppable. She had to be 11 years old and she dominated our girls. My coaching friend left the field and immediately called Erica Walsh who’s the PSU Head coach and US National Team World Cup and Olympic champion assistant coach. He told her that she needed to get involved with this girl, and Erica already knew of her. Lol. Btw, I see articles on this girl occasionally. She still tearing it up. I just saw an article on my twitter feed about her this week. I just chuckle because we saw this coming years ago. She just scored a couple goals playing internationally for the U18 WNT...and she’s currently U16. If interested, her name is Allyson Sentnor and she’s from the Boston area.
But it still kind of seems to me anyways, that, at this point in time, a college scholarship is worth more to a female player than the potential of women's pro soccer, unless of course maybe you are the star of the USWNT? This girl is now devoting herself full time to soccer and the high end pay of typical women's pros seems like not much more than a middle class job.
Yes. there are the few outliers like you mentioned, Freddie Adu and Allyson. But majority of the girls show signs early, but you don't really know until the other girls start to fill out and develop. By 16 years old, you pretty much know. By 11-13 no idea what the player will look like when becoming a true young woman.
Here’s a little known fact. National teams dictate to their players that they must play collegiately at certain schools. Pitt is one of those schools because of their affiliation with the ACC. So if a girl is on a U16 national team and being offered a full ride at a place like Dayton, Pitt can offer her a 50% scholarship and know that she’s going to come to pitt because she wants to stay on the national team.
Because very few other countries take women's sports seriously/fund women's sports. College women's soccer is really the only high-level "development academies" in the world pretty much.
That's the only reason the USA dominates women's soccer, because the other countries still think girls should be dancing or cooking, and that's the truth. I have a niece that lives in Athens, Greece. She's around 15 now, when she was around 12 she visited here and came and watched my daughter play for club teams and she was so jealous wishing she could play! She lives in Athens, one of the biggest cities in Europe and there was not a single girls league that they new of, they said a few girls tried to play with the boys, she wished she could play with all girls, but it didn't exist, she seemed to have a little skill, but is tiny, I can't see here playing with boys, it's a shame she never had any venue to play even for a little.
If this girl is that good, I wonder how the NT feels about here not being eligible to play anywhere? Since it says she can't play for the NWSL until age 18 and can't play in Europe either, so who will she play with and against for 5 years?
And I always wonder about these parents that do stuff like this? Are they independently wealthy? I mean these people that even move across the country or even out of the country to be a less loud LaVar Ball? I mean if my daughter was as good as this girl, she'd still be going to school locally, and I'd push her into the UNC scholarship. I certainly wouldn't quit my job and move for better soccer teams for a teenager.
About the only thing I'd try to orchestrate is to get her a scholarship to maybe an elite private high school known for sports, like in my area, McDonough for example, great school, but tuition is $35K per year, but they kick butt in every sport, so I assume they recruit and pay. I doubt those 4 and 5 star black kids on the hoops and football teams from Baltimore City have their parents pay?
This kid took money from Nike. Her options are now exceptionally low at this age, considering she can no longer play for certain teams except a pro team. Not even certain what she can do at her own age national team and rules about being a paid athlete. Is there really a minimum age for the NWSL?
It's in the NY Times article linked above about the age 18 rule in the NWSL
That's what I'm saying, where can she get game reps now? I think her dad just Lavar Balled her
On the other hand, I think she got $300K, maybe they just figured they should take the money while it's on the table? Because if she ends up not being ALL THAT, it might take a decade in woman's pro soccer to make that much. I read in the NWSL rules, max player salary is $44K/year.
Doed Greece even have a women's national team? If they do, they probably just put an ad on the internet for any women who want to come to Athens to try out. These would not be full-time soccer players. Then they go and lose to USA's seasoned pros 6-0 and everyone says how great the USA is and why cant the men dominate. Ummm.....women dont play soccer in most other countries!
They do
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_women's_national_football_team
But they don't even seem to have a website
Says here they are #66 in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_women's_national_football_team
But they don't even seem to have a website
Says here they are #66 in the world.
A lot of these USWNT games really are like the USMNT team playing like a rec league team of former high school players and winning 7-0. Of course they looked awesome.
Yea, pretty much. Once you get past maybe the top 10, these women are pretty much all part-time rec players. Heck, the Mexican team are all Americans with Mexican ancestry because Mexico, as soccer-crazed as it is, has no soccer infrastructure for girls.
I wanted to check the Greek Women's Team for Americans, but I couldn't find a current roster. I was thinking maybe I could get my daughter in the Olympics, LOL
Haha. They wont make the olympics but I'd think she'd have a realistic chance of making the national team. She'd need citizenship which would be a difficult process.
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+1. Thanks for the laugh.
