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[quote=Anonymous]NP. Women’s college soccer in the US is simply the last step of ECNL, because ECNL has a chokehold on elite women’s soccer in the US. Unfortunately, ECNL is a toxic organization that does not prioritize development and training. As far as I can tell, it exists to make its administrators rich, to provide marketing material to larger clubs so they can squeeze out smaller clubs and recruit the lower teams that fund the ECNL teams, and to funnel profits to the entities that manage the training facilities where they hold their endless and useless “college showcases.”

I have a son, not a daughter, who is now playing college. He spent one year in ECNL, easily the year where he had possibly the worst training of his youth career, at a supposedly good club. My son said that the US women would be lucky to make it out of the group stage, after seeing ECNL up close. He played in a Sunday league team for fun and got better coaching there.

The problem isn’t college. It’s ECNL. Colleges can only work with what ECNL produces. And so long as ECNL has the chokehold on women’s soccer development in the US that it does, the women will not do well internationally. ECNL structurally cannot produce athletes at the level of the European clubs. [/quote]

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