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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In terms of "feeders", Fairfax Virginia Union (FVU) seems to have every club in fairfax as a "feeder": Vienna, BRYC, Herndon, Villareal, Valor, and Lee Mount Vernon.  You can take a look at these clubs Pre-ENCL teams to see how "strong" the feeders are.  Bottom line - they are not strong clubs.  However, as PP noted, you don't have to be affiliated with a feeder club to try out for the ECNL team and earn a spot.

VDA is the other ENCL team (besides Arl, which you already noted and is straightforward).  VDA is an alliance between VSA and PWSI.  Again, you can just try out for VDA without being in an alliance.

The GA teams are not alliances: Springfield (SYC), McLean (which used to be part of Union/FVU but left), Loudoun, NVA (formerly an alliance with Loudoun and Valor, but they appear to have split up), Alexandria, Virginia Revolution, and The St. James.  [/quote]
NVA was initially an alliance of Loudoun, Great Falls Reston, and Valor. After a year GFR left the alliance (GFR Leadership reasons), and then when NVA made the switch to GA, Valor decided to stay ECNL-RL as a feeder for Fairfax Union. in ECNL NVA was the top team for Loudoun, and the Loudoun 2nd team played in ECNL-RL. Since moving to GA the high schooled age girls left NVA for for ECNL, and the younger ones stayed. Older aged NVA teams backfilled with players from outside the club, a lot of the high schooled aged girls from the Loudoun RL teams stayed together since they are now GA and did not need to move to NVA. So yes NVA's name doesn't really match right now since they are not technically in an alliance with anyone, but maybe they will grab someone in the future.... On the Boys side it's a little different though. There is still no alliance for NVA, but NVA plays MLSNext tier 1 and Loudoun plays MLSNext tier 2. So the structure there is more similar to how it was in ECNL. NVA is the top team, and Loudoun is the second team. Pretty straightforward.[/quote]

incorrect.  NVA which is Loudoun decided to keep all their players first before taking other players from partnership.  so GFR left first and then Valor did the same later.  there was no partnership but marketing and selfishness.  Look at how they are failing to retain talent and not able to keep up with bringing up their own talent within Loudoun.  [b]U13 and under are a mess.[/b][/quote]

How so? Honest question.[/quote]

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