NM and DMV FC to GFR?

[Anonymous]

If Arlington doesn't need an ECNL partner, neither should Loudon. Both clubs are the Death Stars of youth soccer to begin with in the area.

[Anonymous]

Some of these alliances are just about ECNL making sure MLSNext doesn’t get clubs under their umbrella.
Of course everyone always has a choice at U13, but I think a lot of parents will stick with the pipeline they know best at least the first year. Most parents and even most parents of really good players aren’t on this board and they are juggling multiple things. It isn’t until it’s really obvious their kid is in the wrong situation that they start looking around. On the off chance a Union or NVA gets a good kid from their ‘Alliance’ it seems worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe the success of the alliance will be judged in future years. Kids from GFR or Valor who wanted ECNL national league would have already left to find it- at Loudoun or anywhere else. This year’s U11 and U12 players moving into the NVA squads will be more telling.

I didn’t think NVA started until U13? I think kids stay with their respective feeder clubs at U11 and U12 with the top teams being called pre-ECNL. Unless that’s changing for next year?

[Anonymous]

^ you are correct. I was saying that when they are old enough to try out for NVA the question of how the alliance works will be more fairly judged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ you are correct. I was saying that when they are old enough to try out for NVA the question of how the alliance works will be more fairly judged.

Alliance favors Loudoun Soccer and nobody else. Valor and GFR don't benefit as they lose their players to this alliance. Its a marketing tactic to get kids to come to the smaller clubs dangling "ECNL" in front of them to lure them in. NVA is a joke and already looks like GFR is breaking off from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ you are correct. I was saying that when they are old enough to try out for NVA the question of how the alliance works will be more fairly judged.

Alliance favors Loudoun Soccer and nobody else. Valor and GFR don't benefit as they lose their players to this alliance. Its a marketing tactic to get kids to come to the smaller clubs dangling "ECNL" in front of them to lure them in. NVA is a joke and already looks like GFR is breaking off from them.

I think at most if might convince a kid to stick with the alliance instead of jumping at U11 or U10 to a bigger club

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interested to see where RP and KB land. Any rumors?

Updates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any one have feed back as how Matt Lee as a coach? Yeller? Possession style or direct ball type of coach? Etc

He’s adorable. I want one!

Personal opinion Matt is GREAT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interested to see where RP and KB land. Any rumors?

Updates?

Unsure about KB but I would bet on RP landing at Virginia Revolution because 1) they can afford to hire him and 2) compared to their current "coaches", he'd be like Sir Alex Ferguson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interested to see where RP and KB land. Any rumors?

Updates?

Unsure about KB but I would bet on RP landing at Virginia Revolution because 1) they can afford to hire him and 2) compared to their current "coaches", he'd be like Sir Alex Ferguson.

I can see that happening. They also have a large amount of European coaches at VR. He would be among friends. No idea about where KB would go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Saying Makenna Morris left Bethesda for McLean for NM is a wild take. More likely that she wanted to play ECNL in the Fall before starting at Clemson in the Spring. Instead of Maryland structure where you play high school in the Fall.


First, I try to leave the names of players out of the discussion. The reality is that said player played HS in the Fall and joined Mclean after the season and played until Covid. Sat next to parents at a game and also knew the coach she left at previous club. She left previous club for better training environment.

I had DDs who played for NM and I think he is an outstanding trainer. That said, the BSC player came because they liked NM and thought McLean offered the best training environment FOR THAT YEAR. The player had “played up” for years on a strong BSC team that included her sister - when that team graduated a year before her, the switch made sense because the BSC team in player’s birth year was not strong.

Strong team is an understatement. Aren't there five players from that team either currently in the NWSL or recently drafted, including the older sister?

[best2020]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great falls new sucker club

Unfortunately as parents we have zero input into these decisions...

And what happens now to GFR players who had the realistic chance to try out at the alliance club NVA? Grooming was well underway. GFR still yet to announce any split from NVA although everyone on this board knows it. Are we just going to be told nothing and left to this internet board for the info? NVA’s ID sessions start soon and “invitation only” so who/how getting the invites now? What a bummer to be kept in the dark on this.

[best2020]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great falls new sucker club

Unfortunately as parents we have zero input into these decisions...

It feels like clubs forming "partnerships" and "alliances" is very in vogue lately but it's sometimes hard to understand the incentive or benefit for each of the clubs involved in such an agreement. I never understood what GFR hoped to get out of NVA, for example. I can see a benefit for NVA since it expands access to players primarily at Valor and GFR because those coaches would (theoretically) "guide" their better players to NVA. And sure enough, both clubs lost some of their best players to NVA which only made the Valor and GFR teams weaker. But it's not like you could only get to NVA by being on a team at Loudoun, Valor or GFR. So what benefit do Valor and GFR get out of that arrangement? I heard all the talking points about a "common training regimens", coach training, etc. but that's all it amounted to - just talking points.

And now I hear rumors that GFR is going to leave NVA after this season and form some kind of "partnership" with McLean in the wake of SYC leaving VA Union. And that would seem to make sense as Nadir Moumem was hired as the new GFR TD. But again, what benefit would GFR get from that?

A better partnership than the one with NVA maybe, a relationship between the clubs that works both ways?

Okay, so now the question is when?! When is all this goodness happening. Tick tock, the clock is ticking. ID sessions for clubs are in a few weeks and we have no vision into why stay at GFR, if there is no line of sight to ecnl or even who the coaches will be next season. There are some crazy talented age groups currently being told nothing about the future. Sigh.

[Anonymous]

GFR is not sending players to NVA for looks anymore. That should about sum it up for you.

[Anonymous]

best2020 wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great falls new sucker club

Unfortunately as parents we have zero input into these decisions...

And what happens now to GFR players who had the realistic chance to try out at the alliance club NVA? Grooming was well underway. GFR still yet to announce any split from NVA although everyone on this board knows it. Are we just going to be told nothing and left to this internet board for the info? NVA’s ID sessions start soon and “invitation only” so who/how getting the invites now? What a bummer to be kept in the dark on this.

Are people really this dumb?

If you want to try out at NVA you are free to do so. These alliances mean nothing regarding where you choose to tryout.