ECNL is for suckers

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL or MLSN, doesn't really matter. Even D2 college rosters are getting filled with 24 year old German sophomores.

Can you blame the coaches? DO I get a 20 year old German kid who has played football for years at a high level vs. getting a kid who may or may not like to play the game but the parents are obsessed with the patches and tournaments their kid played in.

A couple on our teams oldest son plays D1 on a big college team. Both parents have stated that the foreign players aren't very good. They're just usually older. The son played MLSN both club and Academy and practiced with a pro MLS team.

Sometimes the former European academy players don't look very good playing college soccer because they have to adapt to run & gun, over physical, boot-ball versus the quality high IQ technical game they're used to

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL or MLSN, doesn't really matter. Even D2 college rosters are getting filled with 24 year old German sophomores.

Can you blame the coaches? DO I get a 20 year old German kid who has played football for years at a high level vs. getting a kid who may or may not like to play the game but the parents are obsessed with the patches and tournaments their kid played in.

A couple on our teams oldest son plays D1 on a big college team. Both parents have stated that the foreign players aren't very good. They're just usually older. The son played MLSN both club and Academy and practiced with a pro MLS team.

Sometimes the former European academy players don't look very good playing college soccer because they have to adapt to run & gun, over physical, boot-ball versus the quality high IQ technical game they're used to

That's not what they said and boys/men's D1 isn't just boot ball. They specifically called out that the euro wash outs weren't better they where just older than US players coming out of hs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the mid Atlantic division defined for the fall? Who replaced NVA?

HFC in Asheville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL or MLSN, doesn't really matter. Even D2 college rosters are getting filled with 24 year old German sophomores.

Can you blame the coaches? DO I get a 20 year old German kid who has played football for years at a high level vs. getting a kid who may or may not like to play the game but the parents are obsessed with the patches and tournaments their kid played in.

A couple on our teams oldest son plays D1 on a big college team. Both parents have stated that the foreign players aren't very good. They're just usually older. The son played MLSN both club and Academy and practiced with a pro MLS team.

Sometimes the former European academy players don't look very good playing college soccer because they have to adapt to run & gun, over physical, boot-ball versus the quality high IQ technical game they're used to

That's not what they said and boys/men's D1 isn't just boot ball. They specifically called out that the euro wash outs weren't better they where just older than US players coming out of hs.

What's a wash out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL or MLSN, doesn't really matter. Even D2 college rosters are getting filled with 24 year old German sophomores.

Can you blame the coaches? DO I get a 20 year old German kid who has played football for years at a high level vs. getting a kid who may or may not like to play the game but the parents are obsessed with the patches and tournaments their kid played in.

A couple on our teams oldest son plays D1 on a big college team. Both parents have stated that the foreign players aren't very good. They're just usually older. The son played MLSN both club and Academy and practiced with a pro MLS team.

Sometimes the former European academy players don't look very good playing college soccer because they have to adapt to run & gun, over physical, boot-ball versus the quality high IQ technical game they're used to

That's not what they said and boys/men's D1 isn't just boot ball. They specifically called out that the euro wash outs weren't better they where just older than US players coming out of hs.

D1 colleges are taking players based on age but not based on the ability to help them win?
Sounds farfetched

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys do know that MLSN pays trolls to bash ECNL, right? It may even be effective if parents start to believe the trolls. Kudos to MLSN for the guerilla marketing.

It’s MLSNext.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You guys do know that MLSN pays trolls to bash ECNL, right? It may even be effective if parents start to believe the trolls. Kudos to MLSN for the guerilla marketing.

No one needs to be paid to bash ECNL, they're a sinking ship and everyone can see that.

+100

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is the mid Atlantic division defined for the fall? Who replaced NVA?

HFC in Asheville

Hence why mid-atlantic ECNL is definitely for suckers

[Anonymous]

where are the teams in the mid atlantic division for 2025-26 poster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL or MLSN, doesn't really matter. Even D2 college rosters are getting filled with 24 year old German sophomores.

Can you blame the coaches? DO I get a 20 year old German kid who has played football for years at a high level vs. getting a kid who may or may not like to play the game but the parents are obsessed with the patches and tournaments their kid played in.

A couple on our teams oldest son plays D1 on a big college team. Both parents have stated that the foreign players aren't very good. They're just usually older. The son played MLSN both club and Academy and practiced with a pro MLS team.

Sometimes the former European academy players don't look very good playing college soccer because they have to adapt to run & gun, over physical, boot-ball versus the quality high IQ technical game they're used to

That's not what they said and boys/men's D1 isn't just boot ball. They specifically called out that the euro wash outs weren't better they where just older than US players coming out of hs.

DP sure. Yet they are starting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the mid Atlantic division defined for the fall? Who replaced NVA?

HFC in Asheville

Hence why mid-atlantic ECNL is definitely for suckers

The Asheville team is actually "replacing" the two CISC teams that are leaving for MLSN. There is no team in DMV "replacing" NVA at least nothing that has been announced. Unless there are other changes that haven't yet been posted, MA conference is going from 15 teams to 13.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You guys do know that MLSN pays trolls to bash ECNL, right? It may even be effective if parents start to believe the trolls. Kudos to MLSN for the guerilla marketing.

It’s MLSNext.

MLSN is Major League Soccer Next.