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[Anonymous]

Man Untd and Man City to simply Manchester.

[Anonymous]

RantingSoccerDad wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCV - BRYC
Arlington - Alexandria
VDA - Virginia Valor
Loudoun - Virginia Revolution

Make soccer less diluted in the DMV

Arlington already seems too big. I could see Alexandria absorbing a nearby club.

I could see a case for Vienna expanding a bit, maybe with an FPYC merger, but it somehow seems weird to me.

But what’s the problem we’re solving here?

Alexandria/LMVSC.

Vienna/Great Falls/BRYC

Solving a competition deficit for some of these teams. But that is a good question to set the table.

[Anonymous]

VAR, ODFC, FCV, Loudoun. Not a merger. A simple set of acquisitions by Loudoun. 🤫

[Anonymous]

I think PAC is fine without a merger and just assume the role of Bocca Juniors . Develop players and sell them off to bigger merger clubs. If transfer fees were a thing at this level who would be the big buyers ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VAR, ODFC, FCV, Loudoun. Not a merger. A simple set of acquisitions by Loudoun. 🤫

Loudoun has deep pockets, do those clubs want to work with loudoun

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VAR, ODFC, FCV, Loudoun. Not a merger. A simple set of acquisitions by Loudoun. 🤫

Loudoun has deep pockets, do those clubs want to work with loudoun

I’m pretty sure Loudoun fears their neighbors’ existence. Otherwise how do you explain their behavior against these places trying to shut them down at every possible turn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Herndon needs to join great falls/reston

New name will be Herndon falls reston elite

HFR Elite, pronounced heifer elite for short.

[Anonymous]

RantingSoccerDad wrote:Merge MLS Next with the ECNL.

Merge the ECNL and GA.

Kick out any club that charges fees for its top teams at U-15 and above.

All clubs in this top-tier league must offer boys and girls program. Doing so in conjunction with another club is fine (say, a D.C. United-Spirit partnership).

Those clubs' "B" teams and any other club teams may join one national "elite" pyramid with assigned tiers in which travel is minimized.

Voila. No more diluted talent.

Let's take 2004 girls as an example. The top tier of the elite pyramid, based on YouthSoccerRankings, would be:

32. FCV
59. McLean
73. Loudoun
86. VDA
87. Pipeline (which could opt for a Baltimore/PA league along with Armour, Celtic, etc.)
89. Arlington
96. Maryland United
107. Bethesda
271. GFR
283. VSA
289. Vienna
328. DMV FC

The next tier would be even more local. The NoVa league would have BRYC, Alexandria, ViVa, SYC, Arlington Red, PWSI, Metro United, Barca, LMVSC, Burke, NVSC and Loudoun Red.

This. Merging leagues is what we need, not so much merging clubs.

[Anonymous]

While a fun thought exercise, clubs want more leagues. Everybody needs a league to call elite or national so they can make empty promises on future placements. This is central to club marketing and growing the user base (and the fees). Unfortunately, most people don’t see through the BS or truly understand the player landscape until their kids are on the verge of graduating from HS.

[Anonymous]

RantingSoccerDad wrote:Merge MLS Next with the ECNL.

Merge the ECNL and GA.

Kick out any club that charges fees for its top teams at U-15 and above.

All clubs in this top-tier league must offer boys and girls program. Doing so in conjunction with another club is fine (say, a D.C. United-Spirit partnership).

Those clubs' "B" teams and any other club teams may join one national "elite" pyramid with assigned tiers in which travel is minimized.

Voila. No more diluted talent.

Let's take 2004 girls as an example. The top tier of the elite pyramid, based on YouthSoccerRankings, would be:

32. FCV
59. McLean
73. Loudoun
86. VDA
87. Pipeline (which could opt for a Baltimore/PA league along with Armour, Celtic, etc.)
89. Arlington
96. Maryland United
107. Bethesda
271. GFR
283. VSA
289. Vienna
328. DMV FC

The next tier would be even more local. The NoVa league would have BRYC, Alexandria, ViVa, SYC, Arlington Red, PWSI, Metro United, Barca, LMVSC, Burke, NVSC and Loudoun Red.

That’s pretty silly given the absence of local MLS Next teams in the elite pyramid. You need different leagues for girls and boys and we oughta do this based on teams with promo and relegation. Oh wait. That’s what we had with edp.

[Anonymous]

RantingSoccerDad wrote:Merge MLS Next with the ECNL.

Merge the ECNL and GA.

Kick out any club that charges fees for its top teams at U-15 and above.

All clubs in this top-tier league must offer boys and girls program. Doing so in conjunction with another club is fine (say, a D.C. United-Spirit partnership).

Those clubs' "B" teams and any other club teams may join one national "elite" pyramid with assigned tiers in which travel is minimized.

Voila. No more diluted talent.

Let's take 2004 girls as an example. The top tier of the elite pyramid, based on YouthSoccerRankings, would be:

32. FCV
59. McLean
73. Loudoun
86. VDA
87. Pipeline (which could opt for a Baltimore/PA league along with Armour, Celtic, etc.)
89. Arlington
96. Maryland United
107. Bethesda
271. GFR
283. VSA
289. Vienna
328. DMV FC

The next tier would be even more local. The NoVa league would have BRYC, Alexandria, ViVa, SYC, Arlington Red, PWSI, Metro United, Barca, LMVSC, Burke, NVSC and Loudoun Red.

One platform would be amazing, some good ideas proposed here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

RantingSoccerDad wrote:Merge MLS Next with the ECNL.

Merge the ECNL and GA.

Kick out any club that charges fees for its top teams at U-15 and above.

All clubs in this top-tier league must offer boys and girls program. Doing so in conjunction with another club is fine (say, a D.C. United-Spirit partnership).

Those clubs' "B" teams and any other club teams may join one national "elite" pyramid with assigned tiers in which travel is minimized.

Voila. No more diluted talent.

Let's take 2004 girls as an example. The top tier of the elite pyramid, based on YouthSoccerRankings, would be:

32. FCV
59. McLean
73. Loudoun
86. VDA
87. Pipeline (which could opt for a Baltimore/PA league along with Armour, Celtic, etc.)
89. Arlington
96. Maryland United
107. Bethesda
271. GFR
283. VSA
289. Vienna
328. DMV FC

The next tier would be even more local. The NoVa league would have BRYC, Alexandria, ViVa, SYC, Arlington Red, PWSI, Metro United, Barca, LMVSC, Burke, NVSC and Loudoun Red.

One platform would be amazing, some good ideas proposed here

This post just proves that Youtj soccer rankings is a joke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

RantingSoccerDad wrote:Merge MLS Next with the ECNL.

Merge the ECNL and GA.

Kick out any club that charges fees for its top teams at U-15 and above.

All clubs in this top-tier league must offer boys and girls program. Doing so in conjunction with another club is fine (say, a D.C. United-Spirit partnership).

Those clubs' "B" teams and any other club teams may join one national "elite" pyramid with assigned tiers in which travel is minimized.

Voila. No more diluted talent.

Let's take 2004 girls as an example. The top tier of the elite pyramid, based on YouthSoccerRankings, would be:

32. FCV
59. McLean
73. Loudoun
86. VDA
87. Pipeline (which could opt for a Baltimore/PA league along with Armour, Celtic, etc.)
89. Arlington
96. Maryland United
107. Bethesda
271. GFR
283. VSA
289. Vienna
328. DMV FC

The next tier would be even more local. The NoVa league would have BRYC, Alexandria, ViVa, SYC, Arlington Red, PWSI, Metro United, Barca, LMVSC, Burke, NVSC and Loudoun Red.

One platform would be amazing, some good ideas proposed here

This post just proves that Youtj soccer rankings is a joke

How so?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCV - BRYC
Arlington - Alexandria
VDA - Virginia Valor
Loudoun - Virginia Revolution

Make soccer less diluted in the DMV

I thikg maybe Virginia revolution and fcv and maybe

vda fully with vsa and pwsi

manassas united and manassas soccer club

lmvsc and gunston

I also like the sound of elite talent academy, doradus, and team America bata and Spartans since team America is more of a sign your own team up

CYA (Virginia Valor) was already merged with VDA before, but left for some strange reason. I think how VDA currently has it set up is ideal. At U-littles, minimize travel to practices and then when they are older, then they can travel farther for combined practices.

I'm not sure there needs to be a lot of mergers, but there are too many elite clubs in NOVA. Look at Richmond United. They have a monopoly on top talent in the Richmond, suburbs, and exurbs. There should be only one or two elite clubs in NOVA that travel to the northeast or carolinas to play, but instead look how many there are between MLSNext, ECNL, and GA. It would be great if except for those 2 clubs for the truly exceptional, the rest just play other NOVA clubs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCV - BRYC
Arlington - Alexandria
VDA - Virginia Valor
Loudoun - Virginia Revolution

Make soccer less diluted in the DMV

I thikg maybe Virginia revolution and fcv and maybe

vda fully with vsa and pwsi

manassas united and manassas soccer club

lmvsc and gunston

I also like the sound of elite talent academy, doradus, and team America bata and Spartans since team America is more of a sign your own team up

CYA (Virginia Valor) was already merged with VDA before, but left for some strange reason. I think how VDA currently has it set up is ideal. At U-littles, minimize travel to practices and then when they are older, then they can travel farther for combined practices.

I'm not sure there needs to be a lot of mergers, but there are too many elite clubs in NOVA. Look at Richmond United. They have a monopoly on top talent in the Richmond, suburbs, and exurbs. There should be only one or two elite clubs in NOVA that travel to the northeast or carolinas to play, but instead look how many there are between MLSNext, ECNL, and GA. It would be great if except for those 2 clubs for the truly exceptional, the rest just play other NOVA clubs.

clubs sell themselves based on their elite status. The odds that a ULittle showing up for U9 spring tryouts for Arlington will ever make their ECNL roster are remote, but their parents still think they play for the elite club