Official GA Fall 2025 Thread

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Anonymous wrote:Middle of the road? That is generous.

Very generous. “Bottom of the heap” is more accurate.

Are you debating about how to characterize a pay to play youth soccer conference? What is the point y’all trying to make? Someday you will realize just how meaningless this stuff really is. Vibes of middle school.

I was characterizing where CISC stood in ECNL MA before moving to GA. But yes, this is a board that mostly discusses “pay to play” youth soccer.

If it weren’t “pay to play” then would you be comfortable discussing CISC GA success? Do you only talk MLS Academy soccer? Not MLSNext “pay to play” but MLS Academy.

No I still wouldn’t be discussing CISC GA success because it’s kids soccer. It’s weird to discuss kids sports as if they were professionals. Kids sports are an enrichment activity we pay to enroll our kids and keep them busy. Like piano lessons and SAT prep. Imagine if we talked about different SAT prep businesses like we do soccer clubs, which ones had the best college acceptances because they developed those kids, made a big deal when a kid switched from one SAT prep business to another, called another SAT prep business trash because they were only interested in profits. Sounds silly doesn’t it?

This forum exists to talk about youth soccer. You don’t have to be here. Did you type that or dictate it to the nanny?

There are still plenty of useful things that could and are discussed here. Age group changes, recommendations, tournament info. Genuine helpful stuff. I want more of that and less trash talk and silly stuff. It would make this place a lot better.

Discussing the discrepancy in levels of leagues is helpful. CISC was a bottom feeding ECNL club and are now the best club in their GA division.

This is helpful information for parents of young players.

Is it possible things could’ve also changed for the better at the club.

[Anonymous]

Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle of the road? That is generous.

Very generous. “Bottom of the heap” is more accurate.

Are you debating about how to characterize a pay to play youth soccer conference? What is the point y’all trying to make? Someday you will realize just how meaningless this stuff really is. Vibes of middle school.

I was characterizing where CISC stood in ECNL MA before moving to GA. But yes, this is a board that mostly discusses “pay to play” youth soccer.

If it weren’t “pay to play” then would you be comfortable discussing CISC GA success? Do you only talk MLS Academy soccer? Not MLSNext “pay to play” but MLS Academy.

No I still wouldn’t be discussing CISC GA success because it’s kids soccer. It’s weird to discuss kids sports as if they were professionals. Kids sports are an enrichment activity we pay to enroll our kids and keep them busy. Like piano lessons and SAT prep. Imagine if we talked about different SAT prep businesses like we do soccer clubs, which ones had the best college acceptances because they developed those kids, made a big deal when a kid switched from one SAT prep business to another, called another SAT prep business trash because they were only interested in profits. Sounds silly doesn’t it?

This forum exists to talk about youth soccer. You don’t have to be here. Did you type that or dictate it to the nanny?

There are still plenty of useful things that could and are discussed here. Age group changes, recommendations, tournament info. Genuine helpful stuff. I want more of that and less trash talk and silly stuff. It would make this place a lot better.

Discussing the discrepancy in levels of leagues is helpful. CISC was a bottom feeding ECNL club and are now the best club in their GA division.

This is helpful information for parents of young players.

If you are sitting in NOVA making decisions for your kid based on CISC, you might have a screw loose.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Middle of the road? That is generous.

Very generous. “Bottom of the heap” is more accurate.

Are you debating about how to characterize a pay to play youth soccer conference? What is the point y’all trying to make? Someday you will realize just how meaningless this stuff really is. Vibes of middle school.

I was characterizing where CISC stood in ECNL MA before moving to GA. But yes, this is a board that mostly discusses “pay to play” youth soccer.

If it weren’t “pay to play” then would you be comfortable discussing CISC GA success? Do you only talk MLS Academy soccer? Not MLSNext “pay to play” but MLS Academy.

No I still wouldn’t be discussing CISC GA success because it’s kids soccer. It’s weird to discuss kids sports as if they were professionals. Kids sports are an enrichment activity we pay to enroll our kids and keep them busy. Like piano lessons and SAT prep. Imagine if we talked about different SAT prep businesses like we do soccer clubs, which ones had the best college acceptances because they developed those kids, made a big deal when a kid switched from one SAT prep business to another, called another SAT prep business trash because they were only interested in profits. Sounds silly doesn’t it?

This forum exists to talk about youth soccer. You don’t have to be here. Did you type that or dictate it to the nanny?

There are still plenty of useful things that could and are discussed here. Age group changes, recommendations, tournament info. Genuine helpful stuff. I want more of that and less trash talk and silly stuff. It would make this place a lot better.

Discussing the discrepancy in levels of leagues is helpful. CISC was a bottom feeding ECNL club and are now the best club in their GA division.

This is helpful information for parents of young players.

If you are sitting in NOVA making decisions for your kid based on CISC, you might have a screw loose.

It's a data point and one of many. However, if you just bury your head in sand saying this doesn't show a huge gap between the leagues than I don't know what to tell you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

This is actually very wrong as well. College play is just as direct as the style you are ****ting on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

What you fail to understand, is GA is the best option for 2013 and below moving forward. GA is taking over.

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/42069/schedules?group=398528

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

First they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they fight you. <--- You are here
Then you win

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

You have no idea what you are talking about it if you are actually being serious and not just a "hat" troll using your daughter's spot on a team to make yourself feel better about something missing in your life.

If you think women's college soccer is largely a possession game you are very uneducated on it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

What you fail to understand, is GA is the best option for 2013 and below moving forward. GA is taking over.

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/42069/schedules?group=398528

LOL - you need to step outside of your bubble and look bigger. The teams you think are so great at WAGS is only because ECNL has their own events and you only have the strong GA teams there. Those same GA teams at the top regularly lose to similar ECNL teams in their region. Also, all those mid-Atlantic north GA teams lose their kids to ECNL every single year. Look at the U15 or U16 from some of those "top" teams.

[Anonymous]

Currently for '27s, I think there is only 5 D1 commits in the whole division. I am not going to include the CISC or NVA players because they had the advantage of playing in ECNL and were mostly committed before the GA season even started.

On a sidenote, 3 of the 5 players play at Skyline. As for the other two, one for VRSC and one for Wake. Both are GKs. Let that sink in.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

What you fail to understand, is GA is the best option for 2013 and below moving forward. GA is taking over.

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/42069/schedules?group=398528

LOL - you need to step outside of your bubble and look bigger. The teams you think are so great at WAGS is only because ECNL has their own events and you only have the strong GA teams there. Those same GA teams at the top regularly lose to similar ECNL teams in their region. Also, all those mid-Atlantic north GA teams lose their kids to ECNL every single year. Look at the U15 or U16 from some of those "top" teams.

starting at 2012/13s GA is becoming the better option. Sorry folks MLSNext killed ECNL. Local Top GA teams are beating the top local ECNL teams in DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

What you fail to understand, is GA is the best option for 2013 and below moving forward. GA is taking over.

https://system.gotsport.com/org_event/events/42069/schedules?group=398528

LOL - you need to step outside of your bubble and look bigger. The teams you think are so great at WAGS is only because ECNL has their own events and you only have the strong GA teams there. Those same GA teams at the top regularly lose to similar ECNL teams in their region. Also, all those mid-Atlantic north GA teams lose their kids to ECNL every single year. Look at the U15 or U16 from some of those "top" teams.

What part did the poster not state about the younger ages moving forward? No one is saying the GA is dominate U15 and above. Clearly every 2013 ECNL parent from Union and ARL feel they are top of the MA and have this super team, but looking at the local competition, those 2013 GA are levels above them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wake up parents! The GA in the Mid Atlantic is a sub par league. If your DD plays on a team here they are not a candidate for D1 college soccer. There are only about 10% of the clubs in this league (not in NOVA) that have good players who play like the college coaches want. Even if your team is winning a lot of league games, it doesn’t mean they are a good team. Most of the winning teams locally are winning because they play kick and run well. Teams that get recruits play a team game as that’s what is required at the college level. Selfish play is rewarded but actually is detrimental to your DD’s prospect.

I agree with you GA being a weaker league in NOVA. But I don’t think you have ever watched a college game or even an ECNL game. Unlike boys, Girls soccer is all kickball. It is a fact. But it is what it is. So play the game and don’t try to tell us your DD is in a team that actually plays soccer LOL. No one will believe you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Currently for '27s, I think there is only 5 D1 commits in the whole division. I am not going to include the CISC or NVA players because they had the advantage of playing in ECNL and were mostly committed before the GA season even started.

On a sidenote, 3 of the 5 players play at Skyline. As for the other two, one for VRSC and one for Wake. Both are GKs. Let that sink in.

Why are you so desperate to defend ECNL that you are scouring the interwebs to look for college commits across the Mid-Atlantic GA South? Is your DD committed to a D1 school? Why do you care about what is happening in a “lesser” league?

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Anonymous wrote:Currently for '27s, I think there is only 5 D1 commits in the whole division. I am not going to include the CISC or NVA players because they had the advantage of playing in ECNL and were mostly committed before the GA season even started.

On a sidenote, 3 of the 5 players play at Skyline. As for the other two, one for VRSC and one for Wake. Both are GKs. Let that sink in.

All of the talk about leagues or clubs misses the point. There are only so many D1 capable players in the DMV. That fact does not change based on league alignment or logo. In any given year there are probably 20-30 players that go D1. If anything that number is probably less now with 28 player roster limits and transfers. That number doesn't change because there are more or less ECNL/GA teams in the area. Either your kid is among the top 20-30 players at U16/17 in the DMV or they are not. If they are in that group then it doesn't matter much which league or club they play in.