UCL and the Future of EDP
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Anonymous
Not an Arlington Dad. Big clubs were mentioned. Arlington is typically missing from the equation. Alexandria, SYC and Loudoun/NVA all play with MD clubs. Arlington and the VDA subsidiaries are the only big club outliers still trying to find competition in NCSL and VA Premier League by playing up (which hurts development by not staying small-sided). There is plenty of talent locally so that none of the top teams in DC, MD or VA based around DC have to travel to PA, NC or southern VA to get quality competition. |
Anonymous
| Oh cool just what everyone needed… another league 🫠 |
Anonymous
| Money grab by the state association |
Anonymous
| DS is u19 and I can’t even tell you how many leagues we’ve seen. Every few years there’s some new hot league. His first two years CCL was where the A teams played. Then everyone moved to EDP. Then the A teams at big non-MLS clubs moved to ECNL. He played for a club that wasn’t ECNL or MLS Next in EDP1 where they still saw some good competition but this past year his team and many others in the division moved to MSLN2 (I know there’s now a new name). Just give it time and this new league will be replaced like all those before it. |
Anonymous
Maybe, but they're pitching it as cheaper than existing leagues and with less travel. |
Anonymous
| I highly doubt that "all of the big clubs are signed up." It's probably more like a club asked MSYSA about the league so MSYSA put their logo on the site and declared they "desire to participate in the inaugural season of the UCL!", probably to the annoyance of some clubs and EDP. |
Anonymous
| Has anyone actually heard from their team/club that they will play in this league? We’ve been in EDP for years… |