ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership

[Anonymous]

Just announced

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Fairfax Virginia soccer clubs unite to advance youth development and competition.

Braddock Road Youth Club (BRYC), McLean Youth Soccer Club (MYSC), and Vienna Youth Soccer (VYS) are the founding clubs in launching a new club, Fairfax Virginia Union. The new club will be equally governed by the founding clubs.

Fairfax Virginia Union’s inaugural ECNL National League season will kick off this fall for the 2024-2025 seasonal year for both boys' and girls' teams from U13 to U19. Fairfax BRAVE and Virginia Union will finish their spring seasons, including Nationals for the teams that qualify.

Each club, BRYC, MYS, and VYS all have a role to play in both the player and coach pathway. Each will continue to independently operate all of their current programs, including recreational, travel (ECNL Regional League and NCSL), and adult. The continued success of each club will ensure a strong and growing pipeline of talented players in the years to come.

It is important to recognize that Northern Virginia has a rich history of success at all levels across many clubs. This union is just the beginning of further collaboration led by Fairfax Virginia Union to continue this history.In the coming days, we will launch our website, coaching slate, registration for ID Sessions, and FAQs.

Three Clubs
ONE UNION

[Anonymous]

Just got email from VA Union as well

[Anonymous]

Apologies to the OP

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Announcement is out !!



Fairfax Virginia soccer clubs unite to advance youth development and competition.

Braddock Road Youth Club (BRYC), McLean Youth Soccer Club (MYSC), and Vienna Youth Soccer (VYS) are the founding clubs in launching a new club, Fairfax Virginia Union. The new club will be equally governed by the founding clubs.

Fairfax Virginia Union’s inaugural ECNL National League season will kick off this fall for the 2024-2025 seasonal year for both boys' and girls' teams from U13 to U19. Fairfax BRAVE and Virginia Union will finish their spring seasons, including Nationals for the teams that qualify.

Each club, BRYC, MYS, and VYS all have a role to play in both the player and coach pathway. Each will continue to independently operate all of their current programs, including recreational, travel (ECNL Regional League and NCSL), and adult. The continued success of each club will ensure a strong and growing pipeline of talented players in the years to come.

It is important to recognize that Northern Virginia has a rich history of success at all levels across many clubs. This union is just the beginning of further collaboration led by Fairfax Virginia Union to continue this history.In the coming days, we will launch our website, coaching slate, registration for ID Sessions, and FAQs.

Three Clubs
ONE UNION

[Anonymous]

Apologies to the OP. Imagine doing this in the middle of a uniform cycle though. Smh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WOW! Just got the email from Steve Lehany at VYS. Its official! Fairfax VA Union

Sounds like a labor union name. Why they feel the need to incorporate everyone's names into a brand is beyond me. Why not just keep VA union. Hopefully they get rid of that ugly orange and green.

[Anonymous]

Mea culpa from this address as well. Suprised that ECNL would just eliminate a team, but this does make sense to consolidate some of the talent in the area. There were just too many ECNL clubs in a small geographic area.

[Anonymous]

For once, an OP was not lying. Just got the email, as well.

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That's a win for SYC and GA unless any of those players can withstand a commute to Loudoun if they're looking for a national program.

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Tough break for those older BRAVE and UNION kids who are losing their ECNL platform going into their recruiting years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough break for those older BRAVE and UNION kids who are losing their ECNL platform going into their recruiting years.

Specially the 2007/2006

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Anonymous wrote:Tough break for those older BRAVE and UNION kids who are losing their ECNL platform going into their recruiting years.

Fairfax Virginia Union’s inaugural ECNL National League season will kick off this fall for the 2024-2025 seasonal year for both boys' and girls' teams from U13 to U19.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem is player placement, it is all politics at Mclean and will hurt badly Brave players who are coming from a healthy environment.

Let's hope the selection process is merit based and not deep pockets getting their kids buried in the team since the coaches are in their pockets. If I were Brave, I will demand an independent coach to come assess the players at the tryouts and make the selection so its fair. The teams can make their Veo games available as part of the evaluation of each player. Unfortunately, this would not happen and there will still be weak links on the consolidated team (undersize, not fast and physical, technical skills lacking and always getting pushed off the ball).

The stronger players always have do more to compensate for this when they are in the game, like they are playing one or two players down. This creates a situation where the these stronger players are risking getting injured -- ACL, MCL tears. These coaches really need to clean this up.

Under Coach Kevin (Bethesda), this will never happen. The weak ones rarely plays and eventually are replaced.

In a new equal partnership and the new ECNL club it won’t be up to just McLean-Union.

hahaha, I would love to see you tell Nadir or Clyde you want an independent assessment. It's never been fair in these circumstances and it never will be whether you're talking about McLean or anywhere else. The incumbents on the Union teams have the upper hand until it is clear that an outside player is head and shoulders better. That's what sucks about this merger... if you're a mid-pack or lower BRAVE ECNL player, you're in a tough spot. As a parent, it's your job to know how this works and have a plan B at least. Demanding justice will get you nowhere.

Similarly, if you’re a mid-pack or lower Union player, you’re in a tough spot.
Union does not have the upper hand in the equal partnership and of course there will always be players that will be better.

If Union doesn’t have the upper hand, the people pushing this are complete morons. BRYC shouldn’t even be in the merger at this point. They ran their original ECNL program into the ground and didn’t even field boys ECNL-RL teams in the fall. All their girls RL teams had losing records with 2 winless teams. They should just get told to get lost. Vienna has only been at this for 2 years and BRAVE pretty much hollowed out their RL teams - their 6 boys RL teams combined for 4 wins. Vienna is in over their heads and giving BRAVE any control or coaching slots will just be club suicide.

Brave primarily is impacting the youngest groups, since prior to the formation, talent would leave the club for ECNL clubs (and form a domino effect). Much of that talent had already left for the oldest girls.

For the 2 age groups that have fed into Brave so far (2010 & 2011), Vienna’s ECRL girls are 11-3-2. They’re doing that while also feeding the vast majority of the Brave rosters (and the 10’ and 11’ Brave girls’ teams are strong).

Meanwhile, MYS has zero ECRL teams with winning records this year. Not a one, boys or girls. And SYC was making up the majority of the Union players for the same young ages where Vienna was doing it for Brave.

Why would McLean have leverage here and Vienna is in over their heads?

You had me until you said the Brave Girls 10s, in 6th place (6-6-2, GD 0) and 11s in 8th place (5-6-3, GD -10) are strong. That is not strong, nice try Vienna Dad!

The 10s are better than their record this year. Last year, they scored over 70 goals, gave up about 25, beat both Union and Charlotte SA, and went to San Diego. They beat VDA 4-0 a few weeks ago, and should hopefully finish with a stronger record.

We’ll have to see how the 11s do in the spring, but they have already played Charlotte SA twice.

VDA 10's going to be displaced by a lot of FCV players.

Facts!

[Anonymous]

Just the beginning of further collaboration? Please, no more collabs. Having these competing clubs collab hasn't made things better.