New League: National Academy League

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was looking at the NAL MidAtlantic U-15 schedule. All Spring games. A mix of teams from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and 2 from Virginia. How can this be any advantage to a SYC or Alexandria player? Schedule conflicts with high school, tons of travel for second level teams. What am I missing?

My kid only had 4 regular season games last Fall with Alexandria and just a few in the spring. None of the MD teams would play us in the Fall. It was awful.

Was this girls or boys?

Boys.

[Anonymous]

As I have seen NAL (MLS Next 2) Ive went down to the IMG event and it was packed with talent and scouts, there are teams that have beaten or tied ECNL National teams, and the good thing about NAL is there are players where they are at the MLS Next level but are missing something in their game, their are other players that drop down so they are able to play high school. I beleive this will be a league where it climbs up the ranks and there are top teams in the league depending on different age groups for example Cinicnati Cup has U13 U14 MLS Next teams and U15 U16 U17 U18-19 where there top clubs are in NAL. Elite 64 is also is a falling league where a ton of teams dropped out to join the NAL like CUP Michigan Liverpool, Indiana Fire, and many more.


Boys Rankings
MLS NEXT
ECNL National
NAL (MLS NEXT 2)
Elite 64/ National League Pro
NPL
ECNL RL
EDP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I have seen NAL (MLS Next 2) Ive went down to the IMG event and it was packed with talent and scouts, there are teams that have beaten or tied ECNL National teams, and the good thing about NAL is there are players where they are at the MLS Next level but are missing something in their game, their are other players that drop down so they are able to play high school. I beleive this will be a league where it climbs up the ranks and there are top teams in the league depending on different age groups for example Cinicnati Cup has U13 U14 MLS Next teams and U15 U16 U17 U18-19 where there top clubs are in NAL. Elite 64 is also is a falling league where a ton of teams dropped out to join the NAL like CUP Michigan Liverpool, Indiana Fire, and many more.


Boys Rankings
MLS NEXT
ECNL National
NAL (MLS NEXT 2)
Elite 64/ National League Pro
NPL
ECNL RL
EDP

NAL will put a squeeze on ECNL National.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I have seen NAL (MLS Next 2) Ive went down to the IMG event and it was packed with talent and scouts, there are teams that have beaten or tied ECNL National teams, and the good thing about NAL is there are players where they are at the MLS Next level but are missing something in their game, their are other players that drop down so they are able to play high school. I beleive this will be a league where it climbs up the ranks and there are top teams in the league depending on different age groups for example Cinicnati Cup has U13 U14 MLS Next teams and U15 U16 U17 U18-19 where there top clubs are in NAL. Elite 64 is also is a falling league where a ton of teams dropped out to join the NAL like CUP Michigan Liverpool, Indiana Fire, and many more.


Boys Rankings
MLS NEXT
ECNL National
NAL (MLS NEXT 2)
Elite 64/ National League Pro
NPL
ECNL RL
EDP

Is using "MLS Next 2" even legal to describe NAL?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As I have seen NAL (MLS Next 2) Ive went down to the IMG event and it was packed with talent and scouts, there are teams that have beaten or tied ECNL National teams, and the good thing about NAL is there are players where they are at the MLS Next level but are missing something in their game, their are other players that drop down so they are able to play high school. I beleive this will be a league where it climbs up the ranks and there are top teams in the league depending on different age groups for example Cinicnati Cup has U13 U14 MLS Next teams and U15 U16 U17 U18-19 where there top clubs are in NAL. Elite 64 is also is a falling league where a ton of teams dropped out to join the NAL like CUP Michigan Liverpool, Indiana Fire, and many more.


Boys Rankings
MLS NEXT
ECNL National
NAL (MLS NEXT 2)
Elite 64/ National League Pro
NPL
ECNL RL
EDP

NAL will put a squeeze on ECNL National.

Same teams, same coaches, same players/levels, different letters.
sigh

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I have seen NAL (MLS Next 2) Ive went down to the IMG event and it was packed with talent and scouts, there are teams that have beaten or tied ECNL National teams, and the good thing about NAL is there are players where they are at the MLS Next level but are missing something in their game, their are other players that drop down so they are able to play high school. I beleive this will be a league where it climbs up the ranks and there are top teams in the league depending on different age groups for example Cinicnati Cup has U13 U14 MLS Next teams and U15 U16 U17 U18-19 where there top clubs are in NAL. Elite 64 is also is a falling league where a ton of teams dropped out to join the NAL like CUP Michigan Liverpool, Indiana Fire, and many more.


Boys Rankings
MLS Club Academies
MLS NEXT
ECNL National
NAL (MLS NEXT 2)
Elite 64/ National League Pro
NPL
ECNL RL
EDP

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the January update above from the IMG event. Any additional observations about this first year of NAL?

[Anonymous]

as for the U13 EDP starting at EDP-3, on the girls side (I am a recent transplant from NJ, so going by that), the EDP-1& EDP-2 play in the "national league". I guess they needed to separte things a little since EDP is such a wide range (so I had when they group EDP a 1 things). It would be nice to see the GD numbers if they broke EDP into 6 or 7 levels (combining them is like combining ECNL and ECRL). I would expect an EDP-3 team to beat an EDP-7 team by atleast 5 goals

[Anonymous]

So in terms of leagues and teams ECNL regional has comparable quality to NAL?
I am really tired of driving when there are so many great teams in the DMV area. I wish the clubs would stop playing this game, and just let the kids play soccer with comparable opponents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So in terms of leagues and teams ECNL regional has comparable quality to NAL?
I am really tired of driving when there are so many great teams in the DMV area. I wish the clubs would stop playing this game, and just let the kids play soccer with comparable opponents.

All about $$$$$$$$$$$$

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in terms of leagues and teams ECNL regional has comparable quality to NAL?
I am really tired of driving when there are so many great teams in the DMV area. I wish the clubs would stop playing this game, and just let the kids play soccer with comparable opponents.

All about $$$$$$$$$$$$

There’s always someone on every topic that brings up this incredible obvious fact.
We all know this. Move on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So in terms of leagues and teams ECNL regional has comparable quality to NAL?
I am really tired of driving when there are so many great teams in the DMV area. I wish the clubs would stop playing this game, and just let the kids play soccer with comparable opponents.

All about $$$$$$$$$$$$

There’s always someone on every topic that brings up this incredible obvious fact.
We all know this. Move on.

yeah, get outta here with your facts

[Anonymous]

Also, it seems like the person who has seen these teams would place NAL above ECNL-R in terms of the quality of play/players/coaches?

[Anonymous]

Oops sorry I see that someone has posited they are roughly equal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So in terms of leagues and teams ECNL regional has comparable quality to NAL?
I am really tired of driving when there are so many great teams in the DMV area. I wish the clubs would stop playing this game, and just let the kids play soccer with comparable opponents.

Below the couple top performing teams in the dmv, there are many teams at the same levels minus the fancy labels.
No team under U16 from the second tier down needs to drive more than an hour on weekends to find quality competition