The NC Youth Soccer Association recently eliminated the use of promotion and relegation to form U11 through U13 divisions for the state’s top travel teams. Soccer Dad takes a look at why this decision may have been very short sighted.
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Picking An Assistant Coach
While many of you are already into your fall seasons, some of you still may be looking to recruit an assistant coach to help out. Our state soccer association recently started publishing a Recreational Soccer newsletter, called the Sideline Beacon and the first issue had some good tips. Bill Furjanic, the NCYSA Technical Director of [...]
2008 USYSA Southern Regionals
The 2008 USYSA Southern Regionals are underway here in North Carolina, with teams form across the southeast looking to advance to the USYSA National Championships. Here’s a look at the rather muddy and wet start to the event.
I’m only an hour or so away from the action, but don’t believe I’ll be able [...]
NCYSA To Offer New ‘F’ Coaching License
The NCYSA is looking to fill a gap between the Youth I/II Modules aimed at U6/U8 and U10/U12 coaching and the ‘E’ License which is aimed at coaching older players in 11v11 matches. So they have developed a new one day (8 hour) course called the ‘F’ License:
The Coaching Education Department of NC Youth Soccer [...]
In Support of the 60/40 Rule
IÂ’m not sure how widespread this is across USYSA affiliates, but in North Carolina, the NCYSA stipulates that new clubs applying for membership must have and maintain a 60/40 ratio between recreational players and travel/select players. While this strikes some as a barrier to entry (and it is), I believe it is there for good [...]
About That No Offside Thing…
Long time readers know that we’ve covered the elimination of offside for U10 Soccer in North Carolina in depth:
No U10 Offside Vaporizes Within Hours
Bye Bye U10 Offside
U10: Teach The Kids Right – Keep Offside
Should Offside Be Called For U10 Small Side?
U10: To Call Offside Or Not
So now that the Fall [...]
No U10 Offside Vaporizes Within Hours
As you all know, NC finally eliminated offside for U10 play at the Challenge (travel) level. One of the unanswered questions after this decision was made was what the tournaments would do as they weren’t affected by the decision. One of the bigger regional preseason tournaments in Winston-Salem, that used to be Classic only, added [...]
Bye Bye U10 Offside
North Carolina finally gave in to peer pressure and joined the rest of the country in prohibiting the enforcement of offside in U10 travel soccer (Challenge). I know this is old news for those of you in NC, but I felt it was still worth sharing for everyone else. Longtime readers know that I’ve talked [...]
U10: Teach The Kids Right – Keep Offside
The second proposal coming up at the next NCYSA Challenge Council meeting is to eliminate offside for U10 match play. This will be the second time this issue is considered, after it was rejected 27-24 last year. This is an issue I have written about before and feel very strongly about. I strongly encourage reading [...]
Let ‘Em Play – And Compete!
For those of you involved in travel soccer in North Carolina, there are two very important proposals coming up for a vote at the next NCYSA Challenge Council meeting (June 9th, 2007). One of them proposes the elimination of the NCYSA Challenge Cup for U10, U11, and U12 and replacing it with a festival, similar [...]
Gotta Love A Good Sense of Humor
I found this over at the NC Soccer Forums, apparently an email from the NCYSA to the coaches who have teams going to the State Cup Final Four in Greensboro. I agree with the poster – I’ll have some of what they’re smoking:
Important Notes Regarding the Final Four. Please review with your players, parents and [...]
NCYSA Academy Program Passes
I’m about a month late posting about this, mostly because it was passed right as our season was winding down and the end of season tournaments and such were ramping up. I’m still playing catchup.
I forgot my folio, so my notes were sparse and the official minutes aren’t out yet. There were somewhere around 40 [...]
NCYSA Academy Proposal – BOD Meets April 14th
The NCYSA Board of Directors will be meeting on April 14th to vote on the proposed Academy Program. A working committee, primarily made up of league DOCs and Presidents, worked to produce the current version of the proposal. I’ve written a variety of opinions on the Academy program, so I won’t rehash them here. I’m [...]
1989 NC Boys Win ODP National Championship
Congratulations to the 1989 North Carolina Boys ODP team for winning the ODP National Championship, defeating Arizona 4-1.
The Arizona 1990 boys are the first team from Arizona to make it to the tournament and were hoping for gold, but met a North Carolina side seeking the same. North Carolina won 4-1 after a tremendous team
effort. [...]
NCYSA Rec State Cup – R.I.P.
At the recent NCYSA Annual General Meeting, the VP of Tournaments noted during his annual report that he felt the existence of a ‘State Cup’ for recreational soccer below U13 was inappropriate and felt it needed to be done away with. At the Recreation Council meeting the day before, it was noted that attendance at [...]
