GA is the new CCL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone is beginning to get it. ECNL was already consumer recognized better product and with less teams now in NOVA- you are lying to yourself if its not your child's goal to make one of those three teams. This doesn;t mean you are not good if you don't. GA is a wonderful platform for the 4th best goalie who wants to play and not split halves. GA is ideal for undersized technical players to get mins. GA could be better for the 5th best striker in NOVA to ensure you are featured and scoring goals. Find your fit, but please end the argument that ECNL is dying because of GA's growth this spring. They are closer to the new CCL with no threat of taking customers from those 3 ECNL teams, trust.

Keep adding clubs in NOVA GA you are just making the 3 ECNL clubs more exclusive and thus more attractive for competitve players to play together for the chance to not get spanked out west each June.

Odds are this guy owns an ECNL hoodie and hat.

And the matching ECNL underwear.

Yup. Does not make him wrong though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to fall apart in this area soon. FVU ain't keeping the badge much longer with how boys side is performing. Arlington boys just lost several elite kids to MLSN. At some
point they will switch. No one believes the commitment email they sent out. VDA is only question mark.

No one cares about the boys side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone is beginning to get it. ECNL was already consumer recognized better product and with less teams now in NOVA- you are lying to yourself if its not your child's goal to make one of those three teams. This doesn;t mean you are not good if you don't. GA is a wonderful platform for the 4th best goalie who wants to play and not split halves. GA is ideal for undersized technical players to get mins. GA could be better for the 5th best striker in NOVA to ensure you are featured and scoring goals. Find your fit, but please end the argument that ECNL is dying because of GA's growth this spring. They are closer to the new CCL with no threat of taking customers from those 3 ECNL teams, trust.

Keep adding clubs in NOVA GA you are just making the 3 ECNL clubs more exclusive and thus more attractive for competitve players to play together for the chance to not get spanked out west each June.

Except that only 1 of these 3 ECNL teams are playoff material

Undersized? Have you seen Pedri or Gavi play? Supersized idea is only in the US (by the way Pulisic is the best in US). The day the system figures out the undersized technical players, they will win the World Cup. Same applies to women’s soccer

What are you on about? The USWNT has a good mix of bigger, more powerful women and smaller women. I think the women's game at the highest level here does it correctly. Unfortunately, this doesn't fit your narrative of only teams with small players is the best way forward. I'm sorry your child is genetically challenged.

LOL you must have missed how USWNT actually sucks now that the rest of the world actually decided to create real female footballers

Sucks? What are you talking about? At worst they are top 3 in the world. Most likely they are 1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to fall apart in this area soon. FVU ain't keeping the badge much longer with how boys side is performing. Arlington boys just lost several elite kids to MLSN. At some
point they will switch. No one believes the commitment email they sent out. VDA is only question mark.

FVU ain’t keeping the badge? Arlington is out because they lost players? VDA is now a question mark?

None of this is true.

ok.. just wait and see.. go look at FVU boys side for past 2 seasons. ECNL is not going to keep patience. Arlington did absolutely show interest in MLSN even if they didn't apply. If boys keep losing talent. You bet they will jump. VDA is best situated.

Not you again. Arlington will not move because of the girls side. GA is not an alternative. If the boys side became lower than CCL they would not leave ECNL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to fall apart in this area soon. FVU ain't keeping the badge much longer with how boys side is performing. Arlington boys just lost several elite kids to MLSN. At some
point they will switch. No one believes the commitment email they sent out. VDA is only question mark.

FVU ain’t keeping the badge? Arlington is out because they lost players? VDA is now a question mark?

None of this is true.

ok.. just wait and see.. go look at FVU boys side for past 2 seasons. ECNL is not going to keep patience. Arlington did absolutely show interest in MLSN even if they didn't apply. If boys keep losing talent. You bet they will jump. VDA is best situated.

Not you again. Arlington will not move because of the girls side. GA is not an alternative. If the boys side became lower than CCL they would not leave ECNL.

you cant by ECNL rules. ECNL does not allow only girls. You are a sucka if you believe they care about girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to fall apart in this area soon. FVU ain't keeping the badge much longer with how boys side is performing. Arlington boys just lost several elite kids to MLSN. At some
point they will switch. No one believes the commitment email they sent out. VDA is only question mark.

No one cares about the boys side.

they only care about it. More money comes from it. More interest comes from it.

[Anonymous]

You are wrong my boi.

[Anonymous]

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I think everyone here is on board that HS age stay with ECNL, but for 2012 and younger GA is going to be the stronger platform. 2012 NVA is a good example of this, their team stayed together.

Will be interesting to see what happens to this team over the next 2 years. Will they stay together or will girls move to an available ECNL team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to fall apart in this area soon. FVU ain't keeping the badge much longer with how boys side is performing. Arlington boys just lost several elite kids to MLSN. At some
point they will switch. No one believes the commitment email they sent out. VDA is only question mark.

No one cares about the boys side.

they only care about it. More money comes from it. More interest comes from it.

Money is on girls side. Not full pay on boys side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone is beginning to get it. ECNL was already consumer recognized better product and with less teams now in NOVA- you are lying to yourself if its not your child's goal to make one of those three teams. This doesn;t mean you are not good if you don't. GA is a wonderful platform for the 4th best goalie who wants to play and not split halves. GA is ideal for undersized technical players to get mins. GA could be better for the 5th best striker in NOVA to ensure you are featured and scoring goals. Find your fit, but please end the argument that ECNL is dying because of GA's growth this spring. They are closer to the new CCL with no threat of taking customers from those 3 ECNL teams, trust.

Keep adding clubs in NOVA GA you are just making the 3 ECNL clubs more exclusive and thus more attractive for competitve players to play together for the chance to not get spanked out west each June.

Except that only 1 of these 3 ECNL teams are playoff material

Undersized? Have you seen Pedri or Gavi play? Supersized idea is only in the US (by the way Pulisic is the best in US). The day the system figures out the undersized technical players, they will win the World Cup. Same applies to women’s soccer

What are you on about? The USWNT has a good mix of bigger, more powerful women and smaller women. I think the women's game at the highest level here does it correctly. Unfortunately, this doesn't fit your narrative of only teams with small players is the best way forward. I'm sorry your child is genetically challenged.

LOL you must have missed how USWNT actually sucks now that the rest of the world actually decided to create real female footballers

The defending Olympic champions suck?

1) Olympic soccer isn’t serious and there’s a cap for players (3 max) above 23 years old

2) yes, actually. They struggled dearly and lucked out in the grand scheme of the functionality and quality of team In this sport

3) thanks for proving why yanks are clueless with a ball on their feet

I thought you were leaving, Cyril.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to fall apart in this area soon. FVU ain't keeping the badge much longer with how boys side is performing. Arlington boys just lost several elite kids to MLSN. At some
point they will switch. No one believes the commitment email they sent out. VDA is only question mark.

No one cares about the boys side.

they only care about it. More money comes from it. More interest comes from it.

Money is on girls side. Not full pay on boys side.

ECNL has about 20% more boys than girls clubs so more money on boys side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is going to fall apart in this area soon. FVU ain't keeping the badge much longer with how boys side is performing. Arlington boys just lost several elite kids to MLSN. At some
point they will switch. No one believes the commitment email they sent out. VDA is only question mark.

No one cares about the boys side.

they only care about it. More money comes from it. More interest comes from it.

Money is on girls side. Not full pay on boys side.

ECNL has about 20% more boys than girls clubs so more money on boys side.

I think the point they were making is most players on girls teams pay full price. Many/most on boys are "on scholarships." The numbers are the issue. The girls are paying for many of the boys.

[Anonymous]

For sure. But ECNL daddy’s won’t get that. Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USWNT had its win streak ended by Japan. Japan is one of the smallest teams who are always competitive. It’s not about size, it’s about Chemistry and Teamwork on this level.

There you go. Unfortunately a lot of clueless parents and coaches in this youth system confuse football/soccer with the other football.

Big=slow and higher center of gravity which does not work in soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USWNT had its win streak ended by Japan. Japan is one of the smallest teams who are always competitive. It’s not about size, it’s about Chemistry and Teamwork on this level.

There you go. Unfortunately a lot of clueless parents and coaches in this youth system confuse football/soccer with the other football.

Big=slow and higher center of gravity which does not work in soccer.

I posted that.

Funny thread though. This argument has been going for years about ECNL vs GA. I’ve been around long enough to laugh at it now because it doesn’t matter. If your kid is driven to succeed for the right reasons, badge doesn’t matter. Now if you want to talk about the level of competition, ECNL is better hands down. GA did have better additions this year and is starting to gain steam with the new partnership but it will still take a few years to level the competitive playing field.

Don’t get me wrong, I think top GA teams don’t get enough credit but we haven’t had top GA team since FCV 06s, 07s and 08s. You could probably throw Armour 10s in the conversation but they haven’t been consistent.

Tough to say where talent lands moving forward or if one of the clubs can weed through all of the diluted playing pool to get that top team.