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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You gotta love the armchair experts claiming to know what is best for ECNL. My guess is Lavers knows quite a bit about what is best for ECNL, having managed it since it's inception and not only surviving, but prospering.

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I don’t care what is best for ECNL. I care what is best for American soccer. One league to rule them all that allows for quality competition that also keeps travel to a minimum.

ECNL could have made a nearly all VA division lowering the cost of admission for players, which could be more inclusive of talented and economically challenged players.

ECNL instead chose to cater to a wealthy clientele who can now claim their privilege makes them elite.

Now, everyone gets to drive up and down 95. [/quote]

Meh. The country is too big to have one massive league that allows everyone in like that just so you can travel less. There is a point at which the logistics of showcases cannot reasonably be managed. You think your wishes are noble and built around what is best for the country, but they are actually self serving. You want to play "elite" soccer but you don't want to travel for it. There is no truly "elite" anything without travel, the definition of it presumes that these players are few and far between. The ECNL was not that before DA broke down, and it isn't that now either. But it's as close as we're going to get right now.  There are definitely warts so you can bash it all you want, but right now "it" is the best choice for elite girls soccer at least.  [/quote]

Pay-to-play Extreme Edition is alive and well.  This is why it's hard to find under-privileged or disadvantaged youth on these teams.  [/quote]

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