DA vs ECNL vs everything else

[Anonymous]

I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

^^ This, and my kid is in DA. I think a healthy ECNL makes a great second option. I obviously think DA will end up the top of the pyramid but frankly there are lots of really good kids that are not quite top of the pyramid but are terrific players who need a competitive environment that meets their needs. The organization and structure of ECNL will provide these kids great advantages over being thrown back into CCL, NCSL, EDP or NPL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

^^ This, and my kid is in DA. I think a healthy ECNL makes a great second option. I obviously think DA will end up the top of the pyramid but frankly there are lots of really good kids that are not quite top of the pyramid but are terrific players who need a competitive environment that meets their needs. The organization and structure of ECNL will provide these kids great advantages over being thrown back into CCL, NCSL, EDP or NPL.

Give me a break. Many of the best girl players will not move to DA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

^^ This, and my kid is in DA. I think a healthy ECNL makes a great second option. I obviously think DA will end up the top of the pyramid but frankly there are lots of really good kids that are not quite top of the pyramid but are terrific players who need a competitive environment that meets their needs. The organization and structure of ECNL will provide these kids great advantages over being thrown back into CCL, NCSL, EDP or NPL.

Give me a break. Many of the best girl players will not move to DA.

If they continue to copy the boys, the best will go to Europe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

^^ This, and my kid is in DA. I think a healthy ECNL makes a great second option. I obviously think DA will end up the top of the pyramid but frankly there are lots of really good kids that are not quite top of the pyramid but are terrific players who need a competitive environment that meets their needs. The organization and structure of ECNL will provide these kids great advantages over being thrown back into CCL, NCSL, EDP or NPL.

Give me a break. Many of the best girl players will not move to DA.

Loudoun, VDA, McLean, BRYC, Bethesda and MR United.

"Elite" doesn't come with a team for every zip code.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone think changing the name of things really makes a difference when the player pool stays virtually the same?

The old “CCL” parents now want to walk around saying “DA”. But, it’s the same US turd, different packaging. They now will look down their beaks at anything not DA in the same way they used to about CCL.

What this entire discussion is missing is how their individual player is developing. Instead, the focus is still on leagues and bragging rights while grown men fight for turf space. It’s never been about player development. It’s always and continues to be about Club/coach egos.

[Anonymous]

MD United*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

^^ This, and my kid is in DA. I think a healthy ECNL makes a great second option. I obviously think DA will end up the top of the pyramid but frankly there are lots of really good kids that are not quite top of the pyramid but are terrific players who need a competitive environment that meets their needs. The organization and structure of ECNL will provide these kids great advantages over being thrown back into CCL, NCSL, EDP or NPL.

Give me a break. Many of the best girl players will not move to DA.

So you think that the kids that left Loudoun Red for a DA will be coming back to Loudoun because Loudoun now has ECNL?

The only kids who might go back to their original club might be Arlington due to convenience.

[Anonymous]

ECNL = Elite Clubs National League.

That's what it used to be 2 years ago.

The league is so screwed up with so many clubs - SIX! - I would almost be embarrassed acting like that patch meant something. Take the sticker off your bumper now, please.

ECNL = Elite Clubs No Longer. That's the new name and running joke here.

And no we aren't involved in this DA! We are involved on a standard, boring travel team seeing the ECNL parents freak because they are all upset today because someone new is in town and they don't like it. Blah, blah, blah. The defensiveness!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

^^ This, and my kid is in DA. I think a healthy ECNL makes a great second option. I obviously think DA will end up the top of the pyramid but frankly there are lots of really good kids that are not quite top of the pyramid but are terrific players who need a competitive environment that meets their needs. The organization and structure of ECNL will provide these kids great advantages over being thrown back into CCL, NCSL, EDP or NPL.

Give me a break. Many of the best girl players will not move to DA.

So you think that the kids that left Loudoun Red for a DA will be coming back to Loudoun because Loudoun now has ECNL?

The only kids who might go back to their original club might be Arlington due to convenience


Not quite the top of the pyramid? Do you guys even hear yourselves?? The DA posters on this board are pretty obnoxious. I wouldn’t want to be on the sidelines with you! You seem to think if you say something enough, it will be true. I think my DD is going to stick with her local club, but I know many very elite players who do not want DA and what it has to offer so stop assuming all the elite players will flock to your clubs. Focus on your own kid actually developing and achieving their goals.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I personally like the ECNL option for players who don’t want 4 practices a week and want to play in high school but also want top level competition and want to play in college. To each their own, but this is a great fit for my daughter! No need for DA and ECNL to destroy each other - both will provide different elite options depending on what is most important to your kid.

^^ This, and my kid is in DA. I think a healthy ECNL makes a great second option. I obviously think DA will end up the top of the pyramid but frankly there are lots of really good kids that are not quite top of the pyramid but are terrific players who need a competitive environment that meets their needs. The organization and structure of ECNL will provide these kids great advantages over being thrown back into CCL, NCSL, EDP or NPL.

Give me a break. Many of the best girl players will not move to DA.

So you think that the kids that left Loudoun Red for a DA will be coming back to Loudoun because Loudoun now has ECNL?

The only kids who might go back to their original club might be Arlington due to convenience


Not quite the top of the pyramid? Do you guys even hear yourselves?? The DA posters on this board are pretty obnoxious. I wouldn’t want to be on the sidelines with you! You seem to think if you say something enough, it will be true. I think my DD is going to stick with her local club, but I know many very elite players who do not want DA and what it has to offer so stop assuming all the elite players will flock to your clubs. Focus on your own kid actually developing and achieving their goals.

Not in DA and gotta say you ECNL folks have always been snobs. Same with the coaches. Sorry that you are no longer at the top, please get over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most girls want to play HS soccer still. ENCL has the advantage there. DA won’t allow it.

You really are clueless how DA is shaping out.This is a national level change. The tide has changed.
Girls give up high school soccer now because they want DA. I'm not sure why the hostility their is a DA near most girls now in noVA.

https://www.forsythnews.com/sports/other-sports-news/soccer-girls-da-reshapes-forsyth-countys-high-school-soccer-landscape/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most girls want to play HS soccer still. ENCL has the advantage there. DA won’t allow it.

You really are clueless how DA is shaping out.This is a national level change. The tide has changed.
Girls give up high school soccer now because they want DA. I'm not sure why the hostility their is a DA near most girls now in noVA.

https://www.forsythnews.com/sports/other-sports-news/soccer-girls-da-reshapes-forsyth-countys-high-school-soccer-landscape/

Again, it didn’t help the men qualify for the World Cup. It has not improved US men’s soccer.

So good luck with this model, Ladies.

Frankly, you were doing fine on your own.

[Anonymous]

Burn out and injury. That’s what pre-DA is great for.

[Anonymous]

"But it wasn’t enough to get them to pass on the DA and play their senior seasons.

“Nothing against high school; I loved the experience I had,” O’Malley said. “But when the opportunity (to play DA) came, (high school) was never really an option for me.”"