Agreed

FC Westchester's Under-18 and U-16 teams both recorded wins over the New York Cosmos Academy on Friday night.

Every team at FCW is horrible. Look at the records. What is going on?

FCW's U18 in second place in U.S. Soccer Development Academy League. Both U16s and U18s beat Cosmos this weekend.

Overall, FCW 18s 4 out of 6, U16s 5 out of 6, and their younger teams are all in the bottom half of the table.

Overall, FCW 18s 4 out of 6, U16s 5 out of 6, and their younger teams are all in the bottom half of the table. [/quotte)


FCW U-16's will not win another game the rest of the season
FCW u-18's will finish in bottom three of their divison
teams and coaching below average

Northeast Preacad site shows 97 red bulls outscored two opponents by combined scores of 21-0 over weekend. Why would they do that?

Knowing some of the RBNY 97s and their behavior, I suspect it was because they enjoyed it. Also suspect that they were gunning for next year's academy team.

Or moreso, shouldn't someone start making the point that there are either:

a) too many USSF academies in the NYC area, or
b) too many USSF academies in general that recruit based on $$$ or politics or desperation

Have you ever seen a club thrown out because of horrible records? All I ever see is clubs added.

I would wholeheartedly support there being a USSF academy relegation system in place. If a club continually is beaten the crap out of (shut out continually, 5-0 or more scores by most teams except their compatriots in patheticness), they should be OUT.

Instead, these clubs bring in players for money, either from the players or through funding (Cosmos) and stink it up on the field.

It's embarrassing to see some of these teams play. RBNY 97s definitely have a few quality players, but a lot of fill-ins who are nothing special, and have tempers you wouldn't believe. PDA has the same problem but less so, they seem to keep their players in line more and less politics (but certainly not none).

When you see 13 and 14 year olds with their own webpages showing their soccer exploits, and letting EPL and La Liga agents know where to contact them, they've got chips on their shoulders.

because they can

There are a lot of things we could do in life, but choose not to for reasons of integrity, sportsmanship, and because we know the diff between right/wrong. Not impressed.