Final seeding for Futures SuperFinals will be determined this weekend in SoCal. Several top teams took some uncharacteristic losses in league play due to significant players missing for a variety of reasons (illness, injury, ODP/Academy obligations), so the tournament this summer could have some high level teams seeded rather low. It will be interesting to see how it sorts itself out.
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The two semi games will be a rematch of the County Cup championship game (La Jolla United and LA Premier) and the other semi is Dons (5th at County Cup) versus Patriot (underperformed at County Cup).
5th-8th place will feature Newport, Mission, Vanguard, and Palos Verdes. Would not want to run into any of these teams early at SuperFinals yet someone inevitably will.
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With wins over SD Dons and La Jolla today, Patriot will be the #1 seed out of socal at SuperFinals for 14u.
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Congratulations to Coach Miles. He’s done a fantastic job over the course of the season at Patriot.
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This age group continues to reshuffle every weekend and dozens of one-goal games have been the deciders for the past month or so. Patriot with two one-goal wins this weekend rises to the top. Mission over Newport in a one-goal win yesterday (Mission and Newport each missing a key starter due to injury). LA Premier has had some big wins recently and appears to be on the rise.
Easy to name 6-7 teams who could make a deep run at the big tournaments this summer… La Jolla, Patriot, Mission, Newport, LA Premier, Dons, Norcal… Everyone seems to want a clear favorite to emerge, but I think it’s going to remain too close to call until it all plays out and then various factors will come into play (seeding/pathway, health/injury, coaching, officiating, and good ol’ fashion luck) to determine the champs at SuperFinals and JO’s. This is the most parity we’ve seen in this age group in a long time.
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If Quals finish as the games did today, the way-too-early projections would give Patriot the easiest path.
Using the following bracket:
We’d get Day #2 Round Robin groups of:
pt_M
A - LA Premier
H - Norcal
I - Newport
pt_N
B - Greenwich
G - SD Dons
J - Pegasus
pt_O
C - Patriot
F - CST2/SPA4
K - 3rd PAC
pt_P
D - La Jolla United
E - Mission
L - CST3/PAC4
That first place SPA slot, which maps to the pt_O group, looks like a huge prize this year.
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