We play them Saturday. Got moved from Friday because of ref shortage. Unfortunately we are missing it because we'll be a the Lonestar Showcase in Austin.

Definite shortage. I took the season off after a lot of football and a ton of work travel that still is non stop.

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Been a horrible weather soccer season thus far. Hoping things normalize sooner than later. Grew up north Texas but parenting in the Houston area.

Without question, DFW soccer > Houston soccer - at least on the girls side. Makes no sense but 100% true.

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Womens soccer started in Dallas!

JV parents are flipping their **** as they cancelled the JV2 game, moved the Varsity to 5:30, and JV1 to immediately following the Varsity.

Weather.

Freshman parents who don't understand no one gives a **** about JV.

As the parent of a JV player---how dare you say that!!!!



They just did the same thing to us. The also moved us from the traditional grass field to the stadium. Big rivalry game tonight that I do not think gets played. Going to be a reschedule. Hopefully since its the same school district(we only have two high schools) the JVs also reschedule. We will see.

Only one game matters. Everyone is doing this tonight. At least the smart ones are.

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As the parent of a JV player---how dare you say that!!!!



They just did the same thing to us. The also moved us from the traditional grass field to the stadium. Big rivalry game tonight that I do not think gets played. Going to be a reschedule. Hopefully since its the same school district(we only have two high schools) the JVs also reschedule. We will see.

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Oh...I'm a JV parent.

What's the low down on PrepSoccer.com? My daughter got tagged in a "players to watch" post by one of their writers, but of course the link is behind a paywall. For all I know he just saw that she tagged the showcase and threw her name in his post hoping I'd pay to see the article

Our HS game reschedule for tomorrow got pushed again to Monday, which means my daughter doesn't have to miss. I swear she was born under a golden sun or something, it ALWAYS works out like that for her.

I meant to add the laughing emoji. I 100% get it.

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High school age and board related. This just popped up on my Twitter feed. An Aggie daughter popping OFF for the US youth team!

Why score one goal when you can score FIVE? 👏

Kennedy Fuller is on FIRE 🇺🇸 @USYNT pic.twitter.com/lUngbsrRn8

— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) February 2, 2024

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She graduated early and has been on a soccer tour in Europe.

Oh wow. Didn't realize that. I remember she changed her class but didn't realize she had already graduated.

Is there an option for her to go pro now in the US or Europe?

And her going to the YNT helped Marcus win state.

How'd the showcase match go? We got ours in before the lightening delays

Our striker was out of town and we had a few guest players and just had zero offense. We lost both games 0-2 but both were very competitive and my daughter played really well. The second game in particular the coach told her afterwards that that was one of the best games he's ever seen her play. She's an 08 so I don't think there were many coaches actually watching our matches but she definitely was peaking at the right time so it's good experience for the future. Thanks for asking.

Congrats King Koda! What a dominant performance. Proud dad moment.

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Thanks - we just returned from Mexico. The last match had a great atmosphere as the small contingent of parents were surrounded by Mexican fans. Good thing the girls took care of business. Thanks for supporting them. It's a talented group and we will see how they do in the U17 World Cup come October/November.

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The entire town of Flower Mound is greatful for your daughters call up last spring.

I saw the goal by #17. Looks like she shushed the crowd too. That was hilarious.

Albion 08?

Impressive investigative skills!

I guess. Saturday was brutal, especially with a 5:10 start. Today wasn't worth our time as most the recruiters had cleared out. I'm thankful for the few who hung in, but I find myself only hoping to not get an injury at that point. All in all it was a well attended event and a great venue to host.

💥 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥’𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐫💥
STATE COACH’S RANKINGS 2/22/24 pic.twitter.com/cAcFMTT1ma

— Lethal Enforcer Texas HS Soccer (@LethalSoccer) February 22, 2024

6A
18 of 33 In Region 1.
3 of top 10 in same district.

It's basically all region 1 and 3.

dallasag00 said:

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Impressive investigative skills!

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I've been told that the 08 ECNL team had a rough weekend.

Definitely not their best weekend. Played some high quality opponents though and other than that first game whipping they held their own.

Thankfully everyone got out uninjured. The 09s weren't as lucky.

This is nuts.

🔥🔥𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐫 🔥🔥
𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗢𝗡 1️⃣ 𝗖𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛’𝗦 𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝟸/𝟸𝟿/𝟸𝟺
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𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘴’ 𝘙𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘖𝘯 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘦 ⬇️ https://t.co/BarrDnaX0r pic.twitter.com/ePAMBLTGal

— Lethal Enforcer Texas HS Soccer (@LethalSoccer) March 1, 2024

This is district 5 next year.

5 of the top 11 will be in District 5.

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Just played a tournament in College Station this past weekend. Not a ball person in sight! And took them a few games to realize, "Maybe we should put a couple balls behind the goal at the beginning of each half." Eventually little brothers made their way down to the track and were shagging balls.

As for the cold, one of my Christmas gifts was a heated vest. Used it for the first time this weekend!

Ref wise we had one guy that called a lot but was also very nice. In the first half the other team complained on an obstruction call, then he yelled "I'll explain at halftime" and sure enough came over and explained the rule and why he called it. It was also nice to have a ref that would admit he could make mistakes. In explaining obstruction he said "a lot of time you all have a better angle than me, so maybe I'm wrong, but all I have to go on is my angle". There was also a weird sequence where we scored, he blew it off because there was confusion on indirect vs direct, our captain complained, got a yellow card and goal kick awarded. He stopped the clock and talked to other ref and then announced "My mistake. My fault. No card, Goal awarded."

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I am always baffled that a sport where there are literally 10-12 balls in a bag but a ball kicked into the hinterlands behind the goals requires a 5 minute Tolkien like journey when they could just keep a couple of the 48 balls they have on the bench behind each goal.

Imagine having only one football or baseball for a game.

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Yea, it's all dictated by the rules. Says home team provided 3 game balls. Period. no caveats or exceptions.

Rules also say home team is supposed to provide ball chasers.

Someone earlier mentioned about matching uniforms and the rules dictate that too. it even dictates undergarments. It's pretty hardcore if the rules are enforced literally. Most refs don't though. The game needs balls, so the balls are inspected and 3 are chosen. But the game doesn't need ball chasers, so if they aren't supplied, it tends to be ignored and the game waits for the frozen GK to chase the ball.

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The rules test last season was 25 questions of 50 on a multiple choice test they give you beforehand. Half the questions are stupid crap like uniforms, socks, numbers and even what color the pads on a goal can be. But absolutely zero training required.

Every country, league, etc in the entire world plays FIFA laws with modifications (like field size, number of players for small sided games, number of substitutions, etc.). But HS has their own rule book and they are very anal about uniforms.

And HS refs can be some of the most sensitive people in the world. I've seen a HS player get a second yellow for picking up a ball for a free kick and spin it backwards to set it up on the grass. This was after a stoppage for a yellow going to a player on the other team so not like he was "delaying the restart".

Well, I didn't say that the rules aren't stupid. I was just saying the rules tell everyone why you can't have 12 balls all over the field. HS rules allow for 3 balls and ball chasers. That's it.

Stay tuned.