Any new ECNL teams?

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Boca RL showed pretty well at Jefferson Cup youngers

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Anonymous wrote:Va velocity joined mls next2

RU about to lose a ton of boys to Velocity

Yeah. I agree there. RU now isn't the only game in town on the boys side with Velocity joining MLS Next Home Grown. I would imagine they will work hard to build the program and gain MLS Next Academy Division status as quickly as possible. It was interesting when Velocity was formed by former RU folks and what impact it would have in the area. That is now coming to light.

Girls though, still RU and they draw from a pretty wide area.

At the younger ages, I think they are already pressing RU hard. One age group won a higher bracket at Jeff Cup this weekend.

velocity has good coaching and is a decent club for boys, kudos. Richmond area girls have really no option but to stay with their current club but when FC Richmond gets promoted to top GA then girls will leave in droves. no pathway to the top team, the side deals with some nl parents keeping mid-low players on those teams (standings show just 3 teams in the top 3), recruiting from other teams instead of their own rl players, no transparancy, no discussion of your player's pathway with leadership.we stay silent due to the threat of having our players black listed within the club.

blue teams were made to have better competition in RL which did not happen, most dominated their league, the orange/red teams did get better competition being in the RL. Blue teams were told that RU would apply for them to become NL, that did not happen, no transparancy, no discussion about it this year.

“Standings show just 3 teams in the top 3.”

This is very good. That’s 3 champions league qualifiers.

The concern is that if the RL teams don't have adequate competion and the players aren't "good enough" to make the ECNL team, the ECNL teams should be in the top 3 for all age groups.

If RU ever decides to put their best players on their NL teams like other clubs do, they would perform significantly better in the MA than they currently do. The MA is just bad enough to give RU the false impression that their rosters are ok. But go out of the region and the teams get squashed in the first round.

In the older age groups they've not made any meaningful changes to their NL teams, just BY shifts of worn out players from one team to another. Their more athletic blue teams are ripe for the pickings.

Multi-sports (better?) athletes play RL or MLS AD because those levels leave room for other sports or high school soccer. The challenge is that those kids fall behind technically and by the time they get to 10th or 11th grade, it is harder to adapt to the top levels.

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Ecnl nl team had a a few players playing travel basketball way too serious and got cut for next year.

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As kids enter high school it gets really hard to play 2 sports at a high level. Just too much overlap in seasons

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Anonymous wrote:Ecnl nl team had a a few players playing travel basketball way too serious and got cut for next year.

Basketball should be a sport that can be played along with club soccer. There are so few winter outdoor practices.

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Anonymous wrote:Va velocity joined mls next2

RU about to lose a ton of boys to Velocity

Yeah. I agree there. RU now isn't the only game in town on the boys side with Velocity joining MLS Next Home Grown. I would imagine they will work hard to build the program and gain MLS Next Academy Division status as quickly as possible. It was interesting when Velocity was formed by former RU folks and what impact it would have in the area. That is now coming to light.

Girls though, still RU and they draw from a pretty wide area.

At the younger ages, I think they are already pressing RU hard. One age group won a higher bracket at Jeff Cup this weekend.

It will be interesting to see how this moves forward, and agree that younger ages they have gained traction. They are also building their own training complex and field too.

How many clubs in the area have their own facilities? RU, NCFC, Charlotte, NVA?