Is BC Youth Soccer Okay? Apparently so...this year

[djones]

Bravedart is spot on
There is no need to take the player's out of the club program to be in the BC Program. There are arguably better coaches in the clubs than they have at BC Soccer,yet they never get a chance to coach at a higher level.
The only reason that they used to have a program where the player's were kept as a squad for 3 months, was years back when there was no such thing a "summer soccer".
They had to keep the "All Star Player's" fit and ready for the Nationals,when the rest of the Country were in mid-season.
That is now redundant as the more serious player is playing year round.
The best player's should be scouted and identified by the coaches and have a 2 week camp to prepare them for the Nationals, then you will be getting the player's who are in form and not the ones selected in April and who have paid their money. Who can predict if a player who has paid up the fee of somewhere between $2500-$3000 will not be injured or out of form when the tounament is played.
There is no need to have to take this group away from the clubs and have trips at the player's expense to Mexico or the UK.
It is not making them perform any better at Nationals.
What they are saying by their actions of taking the player's out of the clubs, is "we can coach better than anyone else, no one else knows what they are doing".
There are more qualified coaches in the clubs now, who should be rewarded for their sucesses by coaching a Provincial Team.
I would have no problem having some of the Head Coaches at some of the clubs in BC,get a chance to step up and be noticed along with the player's that they themselves might be future National Team Coaches.

The Questions are still out there:
How can it be that we have no player's selected to the U23 National Team?
Who is reponsible for this?
What is the purpose of the Select Team Program?
How can we start to put things right and get back on track?
What has happened to oyr player development program over the last 10 years?

I am happy to see some good discussion on this topic.
If we don't speak up as "Soccer People",then we are part of the problem.

I totally agree. At one time, the program was much needed back in the 80's and 90's. Now it's just redundancy!

 

[bettermirror]

It's not redundant to the coaches in the provincial team program I jest.