FIXED lmao where are they going to go?! SYC? ALexandria? Its going to be an even larger GA pool and smaller ecnl pool next year. They will have options but it wont be ecnl |
Just guessing if you were part of 2011 NVA ECNL and are now part of 2011 NVA GA, who is mid table and the only team that lost to Loudoun, you probably want to move to a higher caliber team. Guessing they won’t go to FVU since if they wanted to stay with DB they would have went this year. VRSC will pitch having other former ECNL girls but VDA seems the most likely given how many former NVA ECNL girls went there. |
maybe maybe not. If a certain club goes GA you can bank on a full wash at VDA and/or FVU. My $$ is on Arl girls heading to VDA for the exposure and placement alone as FVU hasn’t really done anything for that age group thus far. All to say dont expect preexisting relationships to get you over to that team. There are different power brokers and dynamics there currently and those can shift the second any of the clubs make an announcement. Imo if you wanted to play ecnl… should have tried out last season. Keep an ear to the floor. Change is coming |
Can you tell us more about the “power brokers”? |
Oh and its not looking good this season. Go check that other thread out. VDA will find out who they are this weekend. Honestly NVA should have concentrated on keeping that team together by any means. Life happens however and no one is complaining about the moves. |
you seem really interested in that club lol. Go check that other thread. Ask your confidants or ping BP directly for practice sessions towards the end of the season. Its worked out for others. With that said its 3.5 cliques over there. One has the ear, one has the eyes and ears and one has the back. The .5 count only when bought down and they have all of the head/juice. Two groups have thrown their weight around successfully heading in and out of tryouts and the third group is barely hanging on. Not sure who u know over there but depending on how it goes this year that all may change. Especially if Arl folds and/or BP moves away from appeasement and chooses winning. Be careful if your confidant is a parent who’s kid is not getting play time. Some of those parents deep inside know why. Anyways they will get the attention l they seek this weekend from Arl. Figure out where your DD may fit in and plan accordingly to take that spot…. Unless Arl goes GA. Those girls will probably be looking to do a team takeover. |
NVA did everything they could to keep all teams the same. It worked for the 2013 and 2013 but not for the 2011 and 2010. |
| *2013 and 2012 |
both will get tested this weekend. |
NVA to Union is a step down, not up, from prior performance. |
Union 2011s are really weak. Always have been, despite DB’s power rankings. |
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VDA and FVU will not have enough roster spots if Arlington goes GA. There are also rumors of Bethesda being moved to GA next season.
End result will be Arlington dominating GA South with leftovers who can’t get roster spots at VDA/FVU. Same for Bethesda dominating North pending which ever other Clubs make the move (PDA and FC Delco). Most MLS Next and GA Girls Clubs are already aligned. PDA, Bethesda and FC Dallas are probably the three most important clubs left to make the move. Arlington and FC Delco do not hold as much weight. It looks like there are around a dozen or so clubs total with Boys MLS NeXT and Girls ECNL nationwide. I actually thought it was a lot more until I researched. Regardless, it will just level the playing field a little more but ECNL will keep the advantage by a decent margin. What really needs to be watched is Boys MLS Next vs. ECNL. Seems these two are much closer together than the girls. If Boys ECNL can rip away some MLS NeXT teams, than ECNL Girls could hold on to the large margin of Quality players it has had since GDA. Time will tell. I honestly think the teams mentioned above will make the move but I also think you see other MLS NeXT Clubs make the move to ECNL/ECNL. Future forecast is GA grows a little stronger and maybe gets the college split to 60/30/10 vs. the current 70/20/10 but that will take at least 2 more years. Both ECNL and GA aren’t going anywhere, anytime in the foreseeable future. |
| Should also say I think TSJ will likely be moved to Aspire with Arlington taking its place. Mid Atlantic South is pretty full at this point. |
MLS Next and ECNL.....huge difference...you should look up the stats for the D1 accepts ...ECNL boys struggling big time. |
Arlington is not moving to GA next year. Leadership has stated it several times. The shift to SY will be chaos enough. Now will they go in 2 years remains to be seen. |