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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your player is a superstar, any club will do.I

f they are a sub-par player then every club seems like it's bad at recruiting.[/quote]

Actually, I don’t think that’s true.  My DD is getting appropriate interest from the right colleges (she’s U17) but especially this year and maybe next, the relationship and reputation that the club has with the colleges has seriously mattered. Depending on what kind of college your child wants to go to (MOre academic than soccer? More soccer than academic? DIII? DI top 100 soccer?), there are better and worse clubs.  But if your child wants D1 top 100 soccer, you really do need to be at ECNL/GA clubs for girls and I’m assuming MLS/ECNL clubs for boys.  And even there there’s tiering  — on the girls’ side, FCV, Mclean, Bethesda seem to have more success across the talent levels at their clubs, where other ECNL/GA clubs seem to place maybe 1/3 to half their players at decent schools (or a few stars at great schools, whether you define that by academics or by soccer). VDA and Arlington seem to be on upward trajectories, but they’re not there yet.

Now is a good time to look at the size and composition of the recruiting classes at each club to see what the trajectory is, with all the NLI signings for 2021s being announced, on twitter or on the club’s website. If SYC doesn’t make a fuss about that, it means not much is happening there.  [/quote]

This is a good post. Scouts will go to the most likely sources for success when recruiting. This means they start looking at successful ECNL/GA clubs first because most of the recruiting there has already been done for them. It's as simple as that. Even at these kinds of clubs, the vast majority of communication/promotion is being done by the players themselves, and only a small amount by the coaches. The association with a successful program is what gets you in the door, and then of course, your play has to back that up.[/quote]

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