Youth soccer club

[Soccer7583]

Tulsa Pride 72 was a great team. Lots of talent across the board. It still wasn't enough to take down Tulsa United 71 for the state championship back in 1989.

I’m pretty sure Pride 74 had a really nice squad also.

 

[TU_BLA]

That was some real stuff back then.

We had Real sweepers.

You could pass it back to the keepers and pick it up.

None of this flat back 4, false nine.

Keepers had to be able to throw and stuff. '

The world was better then. We weren't even compromised with Coors yellow bellies here.

Sweepers seemed to be all the rage back in the 90s. Now you really don't see them anymore. Mickey Eklund used on on his 06 Sheffield team. His formation was like a 1-3-4-2. Unfortunately, at U13/U14 the boys haven't quite picked up on it that with a sweeper sitting deep they can push the behind the line of defenders wide and you can put the other team in a whole lot of hurt if you're bold enough to play two behind them and keep them wide. I could hear my son's coach yelling for the 2 outside forwards to push high and beyond the 3 defenders and he would ask the 9 to drop and stay in front of the C of that line. The outside forwards feel uncomfortable pushing that high because they feel like they're offside because they can't really see the sweeper sitting deep...it just throws them off (especially at that age).