Hello all! I am in no way, shape or fashion related to either team that played at Arlington Indoor but wanted to enlighten all on several things. The DT team is playing up 2 age groups and although they are a tough team, in my opinion, having them play in a D1- U12 age bracket places all of them in a situation where they can/will get hurt. There is a HUGE difference between 9, 10 and 12.

If they can hang with the U12's, great! I enjoy watching younger players with the talent and skill to play with the older players, but by the North Texas Soccer Age group chart, the U12 age group runs from Aug 99 to July 00. So a 99 that falls in this window can, is, and should be allowed to have played in that game.

Regardless of the outcome of this and other games played at Arlington Indoor, the owner has many improvements he needs to make in order to make his establishment reputable with more positives and less negatives.

Playagirl23 wrote:Hello all! I am in no way, shape or fashion related to either team that played at Arlington Indoor but wanted to enlighten all on several things. The DT team is playing up 2 age groups and although they are a tough team, in my opinion, having them play in a D1- U12 age bracket places all of them in a situation where they can/will get hurt. There is a HUGE difference between 9, 10 and 12.

If they can hang with the U12's, great! I enjoy watching younger players with the talent and skill to play with the older players, but by the North Texas Soccer Age group chart, the U12 age group runs from Aug 99 to July 00. So a 99 that falls in this window can, is, and should be allowed to have played in that game.

Regardless of the outcome of this and other games played at Arlington Indoor, the owner has many improvements he needs to make in order to make his establishment reputable with more positives and less negatives.

Someone please clarify... is this the U11 Chivas USA team? Wouldn't that be a 01 team?

Arlington indoor center has the schedules online, and it says U12, then just Chivas USA. Could be a U11 or U12 team. But the boy that got on the field for about 3 minutes and again for a bit at the end (came on when the match remained tied for a while, scored a quick goal then was pulled off until the last few min) was without a doubt much older than anyone on either team. He had thick, hairy, tree tunk legs whereas all the other boys have muscular legs, but still skinny, little kid legs. Not to mention he was taller, thicker, faster, and was pretty much "playing" with the kids. He was more coordinated and mature. It resembled an adult coach playing with his team at a practice. I was actully surprised to hear that he was just 13