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ECNL moving to school year not calendar
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Anonymous
I'm very much with you for that - we did our first and hopefully only move to get on a Pre-ECNL team at U12 from a local club. My daughter is a 2013 Q4 so I've been following closely as well. |
Anonymous
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Have any coaches who have already done tryouts commented on how they handled Q3/4 kids?
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Anonymous
We are looking at 4 clubs right now. All with different platforms. 3 with GA and 1 with ECNL. We are no in the DC area- in the midwest. 2 of the clubs are being aggressive about it and having us guest play with the (will be U12- 2014) team for tournaments when they play up. 2 of the clubs have said- we will talk about it next year |
Anonymous
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Thank you.
Im not club shopping this year unless the team my son is on goes up in smoke. I figure going into next season is the time. |
Anonymous
The ECNL tryout finished last week in Southern California. In our club, the coach is not looking at Q3/Q4. The ECNL team gets several new players, and none of them are from Q3/Q4. |
Anonymous
Sorry -- announcement of what? |
Anonymous
| The official last season of Q1-2 dominance of kids a grade below….. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
Wow I would say that is pretty big news. |
Anonymous
I'm dumb, please explain. |
Anonymous
MLSN just lost two academy teams to ECNL. |
Anonymous
I'm actually not sure about the Rapids academy but this definitely makes the age change more convoluted. |
Anonymous
GA is supposed to address the age change for the league this month. |
Anonymous
This is the way 2012 Q3 daughter recruited by rival ecnl club for fall 25(yes they have a better record, not that it matters) but that team is full of q1/q2. |
Anonymous
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Can I ask a dumb question. My kid is a June 2019, so, middle of the road age-wise for birth year based rec soccer, which is what he plays now. Our town's rec program is switching over to school year calendar for Fall 2026.
For Fall 2025 (next fall), as the last year of birth year groupings, he will still be playing 5v5 with the tiny fields/ tiny goals and no goalie. Which is obviously age appropriate. The older first graders (2018 birth year) will be doing their first year of the bigger fields with goalies. Usually tryouts for the local travel teams start the spring after the kids do one season of the larger fields with goalies. But, with the switching to school year, it sounds like the clubs are going to still do tryouts that same spring, but half of the kids now are going to never even have had the opportunity to play soccer on a larger field with a larger net and a goalie. How can clubs expect to find players for their teams when half of the kids have only ever played the mini/footies type game with no goalie??? My son is a good little soccer player and has been excited to try out for the same club that my 2 older boys play on, but I think it's ridiculous to have him try out for club soccer at that age/ experience level. Theyre clearly just going to take the kids from Sept-Dec birthdays who actually have played real soccer before. And if he doesn't try out the first year, the teams get sort of set, and it's hard to break through the following year. Why does it have to be so complicated? |