GA / ECNL will we have a season

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Anonymous wrote:Fair enough. Whatever floats your boat. I just dont find "national"championships of pay- to -play youth sports that interesting.

My DC plays for a club that can compete for titles in a few age groups but it is just not that meaningful when you see who really can pay to access these teams. Feels like affluent kids playing at faux pro.

Nice to win a title or come close for the kids but why take the time to research such a thing about children a thousand miles away. Life is too short.

You must live 1,000 miles from this area if your DD plays for a club competing for national titles.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like many of the ECNL/GA clubs in NC & SC have been training multiple days per week since the beginning of June and without following State guidelines for Phase II.

However, NCFC/NC Courage decided they wanted to "set the standard" and follow the rules. They held a few "social distance" trainings in June before shutting it back down. They will start social distance training again this week and continue until the Governor announces Phase III for NC. I think NC is one of the few mid-atlantic/southeast states that is still in Phase II or at least not allowing contact training to resume in youth sports. But it doesn't seem right that clubs who have been following guidelines and have done next to nothing since March will soon be playing games against other clubs who have been training 3 days/wk for the past couple months.

If transmission rates are low and and it is deemed safe to play, play. If they are not low and play is not recommended, DO NOT play. as for who wins and loses youth soccer games at this point? not that meaningful. It never really was and not even less so.

I agree, but go check out some of the social media accounts for clubs like Solar and their respective teams and tell me wins don't matter. Texas is a COVID-19 hotbed, yet these top clubs are all-in even during a pandemic.

and? who looks at club social media other then parent or kids with the club? please dont tell me you look at social media accounts of any youth sports club other then that of your own child.

I guess a parent whose child plays on a top ECNL team would, should they have a vested interest in what's going on with their child's competition and peers.

They need to find a better use for their time. Who were the top teams last year and the year before? See...no one remembers or cares because it is all pay to play youth soccer and who wins or loses these matches is of very short and limited interest or value.

Some team some where will do great this year and then another one the following year and so on and do forth. Just focus on the task at hand each day and then move on.

Solar consistently wins national titles in multiple age groups, so it is interesting to see what that club is doing differently. The answer is they never stop.

Player pool size?

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Anonymous wrote:Fair enough. Whatever floats your boat. I just dont find "national"championships of pay- to -play youth sports that interesting.

My DC plays for a club that can compete for titles in a few age groups but it is just not that meaningful when you see who really can pay to access these teams. Feels like affluent kids playing at faux pro.

Nice to win a title or come close for the kids but why take the time to research such a thing about children a thousand miles away. Life is too short.

You must live 1,000 miles from this area if your DD plays for a club competing for national titles.

PDA is only about 200 miles from DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Fair enough. Whatever floats your boat. I just dont find "national"championships of pay- to -play youth sports that interesting.

My DC plays for a club that can compete for titles in a few age groups but it is just not that meaningful when you see who really can pay to access these teams. Feels like affluent kids playing at faux pro.

Nice to win a title or come close for the kids but why take the time to research such a thing about children a thousand miles away. Life is too short.

You must live 1,000 miles from this area if your DD plays for a club competing for national titles.

McLean has won a title recently. VDA lost in a national final.

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yeah, there are plenty of teams around here that have been in the hunt for titles.

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Anyone have ECNL or GAL schedules yet? I hear ECNL may not start until October now.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have ECNL or GAL schedules yet? I hear ECNL may not start until October now.

Look at other threads (and news outlets for that matter). There is no sports (pro/college/youth) taking place.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have ECNL or GAL schedules yet? I hear ECNL may not start until October now.

Look at other threads (and news outlets for that matter). There is no sports (pro/college/youth) taking place.

You are either a troll or a parent without kids in sports or both. Go back to the comments section of the WaPo/NYT. There are youth sports taking place, including soccer, including soccer in this area Tentative start date for EDP is Sept 26; they have circulated proposed divisions by age groups to clubs.

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ECNL parent from NC here. Schedule was provided by club and does not include any VA teams.....only NC and SC teams.

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL parent from NC here. Schedule was provided by club and does not include any VA teams.....only NC and SC teams.

That makes sense although I wonder if they split NC so that the Raleigh teams play the VA teams and the rest of the state plays SC teams.

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL parent from NC here. Schedule was provided by club and does not include any VA teams.....only NC and SC teams.

That makes sense although I wonder if they split NC so that the Raleigh teams play the VA teams and the rest of the state plays SC teams.

No, the original plan was to have a north and south division with Raleigh in the north division. Play division opponents home and away and play opposite division once. Now VA won't play the NC and SC teams until 2021 if at all.

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Boys ECNL has a schedule, playing all the VA teams twice.

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL parent from NC here. Schedule was provided by club and does not include any VA teams.....only NC and SC teams.

That makes sense although I wonder if they split NC so that the Raleigh teams play the VA teams and the rest of the state plays SC teams.

No, the original plan was to have a north and south division with Raleigh in the north division. Play division opponents home and away and play opposite division once. Now VA won't play the NC and SC teams until 2021 if at all.

Then shut it down now. If SC/NC and VA will not play each other then they want play teams from states across the country, which means the showcases are a non-starter.


Let's desolve the league and just play local teams.

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL parent from NC here. Schedule was provided by club and does not include any VA teams.....only NC and SC teams.

That makes sense although I wonder if they split NC so that the Raleigh teams play the VA teams and the rest of the state plays SC teams.

No, the original plan was to have a north and south division with Raleigh in the north division. Play division opponents home and away and play opposite division once. Now VA won't play the NC and SC teams until 2021 if at all.

Then shut it down now. If SC/NC and VA will not play each other then they want play teams from states across the country, which means the showcases are a non-starter.


Let's desolve the league and just play local teams.

I think this has more to do with VA clubs refusing to play NC right now since NC has stricter COVID guidelines at the moment. Although didn't I hear that Fairfax County is not allowing out of town teams to come play games there right now?

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have ECNL or GAL schedules yet? I hear ECNL may not start until October now.

I heard mid-September