You are right VDA coach. But it is against ECNL rules for coaches to contact parents or players during the year to persuade them to come to their club. |
Look at U9-U12. Not outdated—hyper emphasis on where to move off the ball to maintain 2-3 passing options for teammates. That will never be outdated. |
Thank coach! |
Youre either a mad BRYC’er and a mad Mckean’er. If you want to open the bag, first open the FCV bag |
| If BRYC was doing everything right and creating the best training environment for success then players wouldn’t want to leave in the first place. |
You can say that about any club. And you could also say this about parents have any club two, and that is some parents honestly only care about winning, and they cannot understand what development looks like. They confuse winning with development. |
| Most parents don’t care about winning at U12. If however a team loses every game at U16 that is not evidence of any development happening. A team that is developing wins some and loses some but not in a disproportionate fashion year after year. |
What about winning at U13 in ECNL? Because BRYC's U13 ECNL girls team lost 5-0 to Loudoun Red 09G team, and then followed that up by losing 1-0 to Loudoun 2010G Pre-ECNL team. Looks like another long season for Girls ECNL. |
ECNL does not count u13 results towards overall club standings. Also does not matter |
FCV is not ECNL, but thank you for opening the bag. VDAs TD calling players parents telling them not to bother having their DD come to try outs because there will be no room with the new talent. |
But some do care about it at U12 and younger, and those probably are the ones who leave. |
The only rule in place is tryout after May 1st, every ecnl club in the country recruits, we have 5+ kids join our McLean team every year |
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So McLeans breaks the rules?
Of course McLean does this. This is the only way their older girls teams ever get competitive: they feast off players that BRYC and other clubs develop who teach them how to play off the ball so that McLean doesn’t have to. It’s been going on for 25-30 years. |
Only breaking the rules if players tryout before May 1st ECNL has pretty relaxed rules when it comes to recruiting, they want the best teams possible. |
Parents will go where they feel is best for their kid, Soccer is expensive and if I am paying 5-6k I want the best training possible. If that’s with FCV/Mclean/VDA/Arlington you make it work. You sign a 1 year agreement with a club every year. |