Fairfax Union Girls ECNL

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Anonymous wrote:How long do the Vienna girls coaches get to coach Union teams? What a joke yesterday was.

If former Union coaches weren't coaching 3 of the 4 teams yesterday, this comment would make more sense.

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You lost

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ML or MV cage match

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Anonymous wrote:Excuses galore new Union same results. VDA is the cream right now. Arlington 11s, nva 09s, SYC 12s excluded. Everyone else is just along for leftovers

Yes. It just goes to show why clubs do what they do. VDA has emerged as a leader by recruiting top players from other clubs. That’s not a knock. It’s how every top club operates not just here but all over the country. Recruiting is everything. Players have the choice where they go.

Virginia Recruiting Academy

Na, but nice try. Woman now starting for Florida State was only VDA player rising up through VSA. If I were a parent watching my team get smashed annually, I'd go look too. Every 2006 girl is heading to a D1, mostly ACC.

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Anonymous wrote:Excuses galore new Union same results. VDA is the cream right now. Arlington 11s, nva 09s, SYC 12s excluded. Everyone else is just along for leftovers

Yes. It just goes to show why clubs do what they do. VDA has emerged as a leader by recruiting top players from other clubs. That’s not a knock. It’s how every top club operates not just here but all over the country. Recruiting is everything. Players have the choice where they go.

Virginia Recruiting Academy

Na, but nice try. Woman now starting for Florida State was only VDA player rising up through VSA. If I were a parent watching my team get smashed annually, I'd go look too. Every 2006 girl is heading to a D1, mostly ACC.

The two scorers in 2010 are homegrown PWSI. VDA is mostly VSA/PWSI but is definitely attracting the top talent from other clubs. McLean needing Vienna and their recreational coaches doesn’t make sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Excuses galore new Union same results. VDA is the cream right now. Arlington 11s, nva 09s, SYC 12s excluded. Everyone else is just along for leftovers

Yes. It just goes to show why clubs do what they do. VDA has emerged as a leader by recruiting top players from other clubs. That’s not a knock. It’s how every top club operates not just here but all over the country. Recruiting is everything. Players have the choice where they go.

Virginia Recruiting Academy

Na, but nice try. Woman now starting for Florida State was only VDA player rising up through VSA. If I were a parent watching my team get smashed annually, I'd go look too. Every 2006 girl is heading to a D1, mostly ACC.

The two scorers in 2010 are homegrown PWSI. VDA is mostly VSA/PWSI but is definitely attracting the top talent from other clubs. McLean needing Vienna and their recreational coaches doesn’t make sense.

VDA has talent come from other clubs, but obviously if the coaching wasn't there, plus already solid teams, parents wouldn't be driving 2-5x further for practices and games. FCV ran from VDA for years, then folded. Every other DC metro team now copying (correctly) the VDA model of two+ teams combining to pool players. Could be enough, but VDA just on the path right now with teams, USYNT, and college recruitment.

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Anonymous wrote:U15 VDA 2 - 0 Fairfax
U16 VDA 4 - 2 Fairfax
U17 VDA 6 - 1 Fairfax
U18 VDA 5 - 1 Fairfax

Nice try. There were no local ECL games on the schedule.

League Cup games. But the u15 one was cancelled due to weather. To be rescheduled.

It was 2-0 VDA before the lightning canceled the game.

Does the score stand?

The game was postponed, not cancelled. It will resume at a future date (TBD) with 9 mins left in the first half and the score will be VDA:2 and FVU: 0

The game has to be restarted. You can’t start in the middle of a half.

I am not sure why you couldn’t re-start at the point it got postponed. Just drop the ball to the team that had possession and start the clock at 9 minutes. Seems to be fair.

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Still an L for now. 0-2 against real teams so far shaky start…

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This is ridiculous lol but entertaining. The short of it is there is a long season ahead of both teams. However as of now VDA had the better weekend. But saying the scores in the 2010s game came from PWSI players is pointless as it took a team to build the plays out from the back and for FVU parents to say the reason for the weekend losses is due to the merger or missing players is horrible as well. This was cup games and the teams will meet again in league play.

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Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous lol but entertaining. The short of it is there is a long season ahead of both teams. However as of now VDA had the better weekend. But saying the scores in the 2010s game came from PWSI players is pointless as it took a team to build the plays out from the back and for FVU parents to say the reason for the weekend losses is due to the merger or missing players is horrible as well. This was cup games and the teams will meet again in league play.

Based on scores, FVU coaches were probably testing new tactics and experimenting with lineups. VDA chest thumping is not new.

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Understood. So FVU were not trying to win their cup games and opted to use them as scrimmages?

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Can someone explain what a cup game is vs regular season?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what a cup game is vs regular season?

Because of team mergers in the Mid Atlantic the cup games will give the winner an automatic spot to the playoffs. There will be 4 groups. BEACH, VDA, and FVU are in one group. NVA, Richmond, and Arlington are in another group. Then the NC teams will follow the same format. Brackets aren't out but I imagine the winner of VA will play the winner of NC for that automatic bid.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what a cup game is vs regular season?

Because of team mergers in the Mid Atlantic the cup games will give the winner an automatic spot to the playoffs. There will be 4 groups. BEACH, VDA, and FVU are in one group. NVA, Richmond, and Arlington are in another group. Then the NC teams will follow the same format. Brackets aren't out but I imagine the winner of VA will play the winner of NC for that automatic bid.

Thanks for useful non snarky information on this forum! Is this only for high school/recruiting years?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what a cup game is vs regular season?

Because of team mergers in the Mid Atlantic the cup games will give the winner an automatic spot to the playoffs. There will be 4 groups. BEACH, VDA, and FVU are in one group. NVA, Richmond, and Arlington are in another group. Then the NC teams will follow the same format. Brackets aren't out but I imagine the winner of VA will play the winner of NC for that automatic bid.

Correct. FVU coaches wisely using these games to work on tactics and prepare for upcoming games.