DA soccer terminating boys and girls? “Rumors”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If MLS funds teams for top female youth..fantastic. If it is pay to play for the girls, then it is just the same old same old

LOL MLS will not touch the girls programs with a ten foot pole. Rumors are one of the reason US soccer killed DA was they need money to settle the WNT lawsuit. MLS is not going to spend money to develop the women’s games. It’s just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Do not look for the women’s pro clubs to pick up anything for free. Those clubs will have major problems in terms of payroll if US Soccer stops paying a stipend to the WNT players. I can not see any settlement that will not change that part of the system. US soccer will treat the women and men the same. This means you only get paid if you are on the game day roster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you paying attention to the economic carnage currently in progress? There will be customers for an expensive league but a lot less of them.

You don't have a player in either DA or ECNL, do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bet ECNL folds and we go all the way back to the days were Rec leagues were where it was at and High school soccer becomes the place where colleges recruit. A big reset.

The good old days! Those were fun! Winning HS State Championship and arriving back on bus late night to a crowded school parking lot cheering us on was much more fun than all of the regular State Cup, Regional and National wins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree. There is a silver lining in the shake out if it returns soccer to more talent playing with and against each other instead of it all spread out and sliced and diced by income.

+1

I am really excited by all of this. I hate how the sport has evolved since I was a youth player. Keep the local leagues strong. We have more than enough talent in the DMV to play very competitive teams w/in a 30 mile radius...and many of these talented teams are not just the big name ones. Limit travel for just a few select tournaments per year.

I also hope it just blows the cover on all of the *ss-kissing and favoritism and since returning players will be at such different levels---they start looking at the actual kid and not just give 'seniority' and 'civil servant protection' to kids on existing teams.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you paying attention to the economic carnage currently in progress? There will be customers for an expensive league but a lot less of them.

You don't have a player in either DA or ECNL, do you.

Some will be able to continue and some families will have to shed the expense. Is what it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you paying attention to the economic carnage currently in progress? There will be customers for an expensive league but a lot less of them.

You don't have a player in either DA or ECNL, do you.

Some will be able to continue and some families will have to shed the expense. Is what it is.

Pay to play will be even more glaring. Hopefully, it ends up making the cost and travel more reasonable so kids that were shut out before get a chance to play.

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Anonymous wrote:Ecnl teams are making calls- recruiting.

what a joke. just like you!

Matt Danaher
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@ussoccer_da
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You shouldn’t be messaging kids to go find new clubs. Clubs will find new leagues. No need to deliberately panic kids with Twitter DMs
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College Soccer Truth ™
@ImCollegeSoccer
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Unfortunately ecnl clubs have made calls already. Apparently your news is old because DM’s from DA parents today have told us they were getting calls from ECNL clubs already to jump shift. You got to remember $ talks.
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Only one "source" Glenn's.

Nothing on Danaher's twitter., the others reference Glenn. Or don't you check your BS before you open your pie hole?

Danaher had it up but pulled it down because ..



Matt Danaher
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I’ve taken the tweet down because some creeps thought they could take that info and then send Twitter DMs to kids to jump ship. I’m looking at you
@ImCollegeSoccer
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Isn’t Danaher ECNL too? That’s what it says on his Twitter page. So two ECNL guys tweeting the competition is finished is credible news?

I heard it from a few different places but it’s a rumor. We will find out tomorrow. If it is true I guess the “super team” model will come back. Three team for the dMV area. A lot less chairs when the music stops for players. Many good players will not have options but hey this is what everyone was yelling for...

3?

Agree MANY more than 3 if DA folds unless massive consolidation.

Boys
“Da” : DCU
ECNL: BRYC MCLEAN LOUDOUN VDA BETHESDA MARYLAND UNITED RICHMOND BALTIMORE ARMOUR ARLINGTON


Girls
ECNL: BRYC MCLEAN LOUDOUN VDA BETHESDA MARYLAND UNITED RICHMOND BALTIMORE ARMOUR ARLINGTON STJFCV - don’t think Metro survives.

Wouldn’t pipeline take over Baltimore Amour kids. (Not a pipeline booster just thinking through Maryland dynamics).

DA would get rolled in and then everyone gets what they want. Coming out of a pandemic facing a economic recession to depression it would be wise for ECNL to fold in DA’s and reduce travel.

A VA division of ECNL could look like:
Loudoun
VDA
McLean
BRYC
FCV
Arlington
Metro
Richmond

The bottom two teams would be promotion relegation from ECNL Regional.

I assume you would have a different list for boys, for many reasons. This would not cut it and there are many better boys clubs in the area not on this list. Wouldn’t be bad simply to have separate leagues and memberships depending on relative strengths of boys and girls teams.

Don’t have boys so why would I speculate on something I know nothing about? And how does the provided list prevent a boys parent in the know make up their own list?

You are not qualifying what you say, which can be helpful if you are trying to communicate clearly.

I don’t need to qualify my statements and frankly I don’t care. The list was obviously not boys. Feel free to make your own list.

The part about not caring - bingo - loud and clear. Bravo to you.

I don’t have boys so I don’t care. I’m not invested and since I don’t have boys I have no insight into the boys side of the sport and it’s landscape. I don’t know how much more clear I can be than that. Why would I make a list for the boys side.

You might want to start caring. There is a ‘rumor’ on another board - from a knowledgeable poster - that MLS teams will have teams u16 and up for BOTH boys and girls. And that will be the top of the pyramid.

No f%ck way. This will not happen. If MLS may be able to sell a great developmental player to maybe a Premier league club(European union will still have work restrictions for non residents) for good money. That’s if the UK changes the work rules for foreigners. There is no market for a women player domestically or overseas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. There is a silver lining in the shake out if it returns soccer to more talent playing with and against each other instead of it all spread out and sliced and diced by income.

+1

I am really excited by all of this. I hate how the sport has evolved since I was a youth player. Keep the local leagues strong. We have more than enough talent in the DMV to play very competitive teams w/in a 30 mile radius...and many of these talented teams are not just the big name ones. Limit travel for just a few select tournaments per year.

I also hope it just blows the cover on all of the *ss-kissing and favoritism and since returning players will be at such different levels---they start looking at the actual kid and not just give 'seniority' and 'civil servant protection' to kids on existing teams.

omg. yes. some of the kids that had their stardom in the little kid years keep getting automatic spots each year even when there is so much better talent arriving. would love to see a major shake out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I bet ECNL folds and we go all the way back to the days were Rec leagues were where it was at and High school soccer becomes the place where colleges recruit. A big reset.

The good old days! Those were fun! Winning HS State Championship and arriving back on bus late night to a crowded school parking lot cheering us on was much more fun than all of the regular State Cup, Regional and National wins.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. There is a silver lining in the shake out if it returns soccer to more talent playing with and against each other instead of it all spread out and sliced and diced by income.

+1

I am really excited by all of this. I hate how the sport has evolved since I was a youth player. Keep the local leagues strong. We have more than enough talent in the DMV to play very competitive teams w/in a 30 mile radius...and many of these talented teams are not just the big name ones. Limit travel for just a few select tournaments per year.

I also hope it just blows the cover on all of the *ss-kissing and favoritism and since returning players will be at such different levels---they start looking at the actual kid and not just give 'seniority' and 'civil servant protection' to kids on existing teams.

It won’t reset THAT far, where HS games are more important than National League games 😂

[Anonymous]

Why would ECNL welcome FCV and Arlington

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. There is a silver lining in the shake out if it returns soccer to more talent playing with and against each other instead of it all spread out and sliced and diced by income.

+1

I am really excited by all of this. I hate how the sport has evolved since I was a youth player. Keep the local leagues strong. We have more than enough talent in the DMV to play very competitive teams w/in a 30 mile radius...and many of these talented teams are not just the big name ones. Limit travel for just a few select tournaments per year.

I also hope it just blows the cover on all of the *ss-kissing and favoritism and since returning players will be at such different levels---they start looking at the actual kid and not just give 'seniority' and 'civil servant protection' to kids on existing teams.

Why would that part change? Hell I bet a club would give a family who has 3 kids who play travel preference over a family with one kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would ECNL welcome FCV and Arlington

I heard FCV applies but got denied. Arlington won’t get excepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would ECNL welcome FCV and Arlington

Arlington boys are far superior to the boys ECNL teams in Northern Virginia. It’s not close really. For their boys, they are probably better off w/ EDP than ECNL, so not sure they would go running to ECNL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would ECNL welcome FCV and Arlington

Would ECNL want two teams in basically a five-mile radius? Mclean-Arlington and Loudoun-FCV? How would that work? My guess is that if Arlington and FCV would enter ECNL that Arlington and Loudoun would end up at the bottom of the league. The best players in those areas would gravitate toward McLean and FCV, respectively. It could happen as early as next season.