2011 ECNL/GA Predictions

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Anonymous wrote:I’m one of the people who has talked about how good Arlington 2011s are on this thread, but I don’t have a kid at Arlington (they’re on other ECNL & NCSL teams).

That said, I know some of their players and have seen them play. It’s good for the area to have such a strong team. Arlington is by no means the strongest club in the area, so I don’t mind pulling for a single team at another club.

I also like that the team has been together for awhile.

It is nice that it’s about the only true singular ECNL club in the area. The rest are some sort of ‘alliance’. Unfortunate for their lower teams since they have so many but I guess that’s good in that their pool they pull from will be from inside and not outside typically.

It’s a true singular club that is the LARGEST youth soccer club in virginia. It is larger than all of these “alliances” combined.

Word. Imagine if there was one "club" for the entirety of Fairfax County to put together a team for ECNL.

You weren’t around for McLean and FC Virginia?

Clevern't. You know I'm talking about what if you combined all the talent at these rec programs that reside within Ffx County: SYC, SYA/Chantilly, VYS, BRYC, McLean, GFRC, FPYC, BAC, LMVSC for one ECNL slot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m one of the people who has talked about how good Arlington 2011s are on this thread, but I don’t have a kid at Arlington (they’re on other ECNL & NCSL teams).

That said, I know some of their players and have seen them play. It’s good for the area to have such a strong team. Arlington is by no means the strongest club in the area, so I don’t mind pulling for a single team at another club.

I also like that the team has been together for awhile.

It is nice that it’s about the only true singular ECNL club in the area. The rest are some sort of ‘alliance’. Unfortunate for their lower teams since they have so many but I guess that’s good in that their pool they pull from will be from inside and not outside typically.

It’s a true singular club that is the LARGEST youth soccer club in virginia. It is larger than all of these “alliances” combined.

Word. Imagine if there was one "club" for the entirety of Fairfax County to put together a team for ECNL.

You weren’t around for McLean and FC Virginia?

Clevern't. You know I'm talking about what if you combined all the talent at these rec programs that reside within Ffx County: SYC, SYA/Chantilly, VYS, BRYC, McLean, GFRC, FPYC, BAC, LMVSC for one ECNL slot.

That’s what McLean had before ecnl expanded and they still barely won anything.

[Anonymous]

Loudoun still has the largest overall soccer program in Virginia I believe if you just go off of the size of their rec program. Don't know the exact numbers but something like double that of Arlington in terms of overall number of rec players each year. So, they should theoretically have the biggest built-in pipeline into their travel program and ultimately ECNL teams. That's not even counting Great Falls-Reston and Virginia Valor (CYA and SYA rec programs) now that they are part of the Northern Virginia Alliance as it remains to be seen whether or not that is actually going to be a real pipeline of players for the Loudoun ECNL teams. I think Arlington might still have Loudoun slightly beat as far as the number of travel teams per age group at the youngest ages, though. But, more than three or four boys or girls travel teams per age group is probably overkill for just about any club regardless of their size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loudoun still has the largest overall soccer program in Virginia I believe if you just go off of the size of their rec program. Don't know the exact numbers but something like double that of Arlington in terms of overall number of rec players each year. So, they should theoretically have the biggest built-in pipeline into their travel program and ultimately ECNL teams. That's not even counting Great Falls-Reston and Virginia Valor (CYA and SYA rec programs) now that they are part of the Northern Virginia Alliance as it remains to be seen whether or not that is actually going to be a real pipeline of players for the Loudoun ECNL teams. I think Arlington might still have Loudoun slightly beat as far as the number of travel teams per age group at the youngest ages, though. But, more than three or four boys or girls travel teams per age group is probably overkill for just about any club regardless of their size.

It's probably pretty close between Arlington and Loudoun. There's no numbers for the rec teams but both clubs field large amount of 'travel' teams.

http://www.arlingtonsoccer.com/programs/travel/coaching-staff

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Loudoun still has the largest overall soccer program in Virginia I believe if you just go off of the size of their rec program. Don't know the exact numbers but something like double that of Arlington in terms of overall number of rec players each year. So, they should theoretically have the biggest built-in pipeline into their travel program and ultimately ECNL teams. That's not even counting Great Falls-Reston and Virginia Valor (CYA and SYA rec programs) now that they are part of the Northern Virginia Alliance as it remains to be seen whether or not that is actually going to be a real pipeline of players for the Loudoun ECNL teams. I think Arlington might still have Loudoun slightly beat as far as the number of travel teams per age group at the youngest ages, though. But, more than three or four boys or girls travel teams per age group is probably overkill for just about any club regardless of their size.

It's probably pretty close between Arlington and Loudoun. There's no numbers for the rec teams but both clubs field large amount of 'travel' teams.

http://www.arlingtonsoccer.com/programs/travel/coaching-staff

And are so far behind in college recruiting it isn’t even funny. All those players, resources, and money. Too busy lining their pockets…

[Anonymous]

2011 Union beat Bethesda today 2-0. Seem like Union might be stronger than previously think.

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Anonymous wrote:2011 Union beat Bethesda today 2-0. Seem like Union might be stronger than previously think.

Union parent off the top rope!

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If each of the clubs weren’t so territorial, DMV would be smart to create a super DMV ECNL club like Surf does in California - the very top girls from each Arlington, VA Union, Bethesda, Arlington team - then the DMV could compete at the top ECNL levels with the California and Texas ECNL teams. There’s so much talent across the top 2011 girls teams. And yes, VA Union beat Bethesda 2-0 today but we’ve got it wrong that these kids should be competing against each other. The real competition is in CA and TX.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If each of the clubs weren’t so territorial, DMV would be smart to create a super DMV ECNL club like Surf does in California - the very top girls from each Arlington, VA Union, Bethesda, Arlington team - then the DMV could compete at the top ECNL levels with the California and Texas ECNL teams. There’s so much talent across the top 2011 girls teams. And yes, VA Union beat Bethesda 2-0 today but we’ve got it wrong that these kids should be competing against each other. The real competition is in CA and TX.

You realize that's fan fiction we tell ourselves so we feel better when our east coast teams get destroyed going to nationals, right? There are 6 ECNL teams plus 2 GA teams in the Dallas metro area, an area of just bigger than the DC Metro area where we house 6 +1 (including Bethesda). San Diego is half the size of Dallas or DC metro, but has 3 ECNL teams and 3 GA teams.

Dallas
ECNL: FC Dallas, DKSC, Dallas Texans, Solar, Sting (2 teams)
GA: BVB NXT, Renegades

San Diego
ECNL: San Diego Surf, Del Mar Sharks, Rebels SC
GA: Albion SC, SDSC Surf, Carlsbad (plus Murrieta an hour away, let's not count that even though that's close to the distance from Loudoun to Bethesda home fields)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If each of the clubs weren’t so territorial, DMV would be smart to create a super DMV ECNL club like Surf does in California - the very top girls from each Arlington, VA Union, Bethesda, Arlington team - then the DMV could compete at the top ECNL levels with the California and Texas ECNL teams. There’s so much talent across the top 2011 girls teams. And yes, VA Union beat Bethesda 2-0 today but we’ve got it wrong that these kids should be competing against each other. The real competition is in CA and TX.

US Soccer development isn’t good. It isn’t good here, and it isn’t good in CA and TX. The last thing we need is a more “elite-er” team traveling around the country.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If each of the clubs weren’t so territorial, DMV would be smart to create a super DMV ECNL club like Surf does in California - the very top girls from each Arlington, VA Union, Bethesda, Arlington team - then the DMV could compete at the top ECNL levels with the California and Texas ECNL teams. There’s so much talent across the top 2011 girls teams. And yes, VA Union beat Bethesda 2-0 today but we’ve got it wrong that these kids should be competing against each other. The real competition is in CA and TX.

US Soccer development isn’t good. It isn’t good here, and it isn’t good in CA and TX. The last thing we need is a more “elite-er” team traveling around the country.

ECNL has nothing to do with US soccer development. ECNL rightly does what’s good for ECNL. Why would it be their concern what might be good for development of a single national team at the expense of their own mission?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If each of the clubs weren’t so territorial, DMV would be smart to create a super DMV ECNL club like Surf does in California - the very top girls from each Arlington, VA Union, Bethesda, Arlington team - then the DMV could compete at the top ECNL levels with the California and Texas ECNL teams. There’s so much talent across the top 2011 girls teams. And yes, VA Union beat Bethesda 2-0 today but we’ve got it wrong that these kids should be competing against each other. The real competition is in CA and TX.

US Soccer development isn’t good. It isn’t good here, and it isn’t good in CA and TX. The last thing we need is a more “elite-er” team traveling around the country.

ECNL has nothing to do with US soccer development. ECNL rightly does what’s good for ECNL. Why would it be their concern what might be good for development of a single national team at the expense of their own mission?

What is their mission?

[Anonymous]

ECNL is going to be in the news this year…and not for good reasons. Their is an investigation ongoing right now (which has nothing to do with kids or abuse). There will be a lot of unhappy parents if it becomes the evidence holds true and the information becomes public.
You might not like where your money is going…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:2011 Union beat Bethesda today 2-0. Seem like Union might be stronger than previously think.

Union parent off the top rope!

And them 2010s counter punch by smacking down both Union and VDA. If only we could get a hold of that 2010 FCV team again!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to be in the news this year…and not for good reasons. Their is an investigation ongoing right now (which has nothing to do with kids or abuse). There will be a lot of unhappy parents if it becomes the evidence holds true and the information becomes public.
You might not like where your money is going…

The whole ECNL, USCS, and C2SA relationship is odd. USCS sanctions ECNL and USCS pays C2SA something to the tune of $35+ million over the past 10 years as management fees. Average of like over 30 percent of their revenue towards marketing. Crazy. Pretty sure both CL and KP were also employed by C2SA at some point also.