Oldleadfoot

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You better get out more! Soccer is a contact sport. What you saw in only one game was American soccer. As a player of the game for more years than you are old. This is the game that players within the boundaries of the US play during pickup games. Those young ladies have picked up the game pretty quick. Their athletic ability outshined all who played them this season. As far as elbows go you must have blinked when FRA produce some of their own contact. I know that CDHS is new to this level in the state and must earn the respect of the officials. The officials was showing their respect to FRA, because minutes into the game I could see that they (the officials ) were making sure that FRA was going to move on in the tournament. So rather than getting down on the girls with athletic ability and don’t have time for traveling teams and clubs, maybe you need to get out more often and see the world of American soccer. Maybe then you’ll appreciate the talent that is out there. I congratulate FRA on their championship.

I hear a lot of sour grapes in here. After many years of play and coaching of this sport, I think some whiners might need some cheese. A/ AA in upper east TN is above and beyond their effort to schedule “the better competition “. Just maybe “the better competition “doesn’t what to play the unranked? Being at the A/AA tourney, I saw some equal but different teams. FRA had a highly skilled team of Club and travel team players, while CD has players who will in a week or so move on to another skilled sport. As far as the type of play displayed by CD, it is called American Soccer, a little more aggressive and physical than the European style. When I played in the early days of soccer in the USA High School days, what I witnessed was mild and will be come the norm for the sport. Give CD credit and don’t assume they didn’t schedule better competition, but rather that the better competition declined to accepted. Go CD and other public school. The ladies palyed a great season!