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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be some bashing of CCL on these pages (not warranted imo) but what does it say to the state and level of VPL as another club leaves for CCL?  Last year it was NVSC and now VA Rush.  They seem to be growing their membership while VPL loses a solid club.  In looking through their standings they appear to rank in 5/6th overall.

Again I understand that CCL is inferior to DA/ECNL but it's still a great next level of competition.  Will VPL eventually fold?  Maybe some of the Richmond teams in VPL should join CCL in order to create a North/South Division to limit the travel during the regular season that so many complain about and then have sort of tournament to determine champions etc.[/quote]

Irony alert.  CCL was originally founded—in its VIRGINIA CCL days—by the Virginia Beach and RIchmond based clubs to bring NOVA teams to them for some more appropriate levels of competition.  I don’t know what happened exactly, maybe the expansion of US CLub Soccer via VPL offering better terms to clubs, but I know that both VA Beach and RIchmond teams have departed CCL leaving the situation much as it was over a decade ago, but with even more atomization of leagues.

As for the person who wanted there to be one US Youth Soccer sanctioned league with promotion/relegation across the region, that’s what we had 15 to 20 years ago, when NCSL division 1 was THE place to be for boys’ teams and WAGS DIvision 1 was the same for girls. Something about that stopped working—I think first the boys DA and then the rise of US Club Soccer (ECNL for girls, VPL, EDP) and the southern teams wanting an in on the beltway-area competition resulting in CCL and the latest entry of Girls DA.

having had children play in EDP — it’s not a real league in my opinion.  It’s a series of two or three tournament-style weekends in the spring separated by several weeks of no games. Not the kind of experience that most kids are signing up for when the think they’re going to play soccer.

I don’t envy the parents of younger players. This is all deeply confusing now.  [/quote]

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