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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP who is a grown adult, and I care about youth soccer because I spend a significant amount of my free time and a not negligible amount of cash on my kids' youth soccer events. I also love the game and wish the system in the US was better at producing top players and significantly cheaper.

Back to the topic, I see no need for CCL or NPL in our area, and eventually no need for ECNL either.  I think we need NCSL as the base/local travel league that covers the larger DC metro area. It would stay pro-rel at the ages above U10/U11, and be open to more clubs than it currently is. Kids on non-DA teams can move to EDP for region 1 and there would be a national league structured like the current one for the non DA teams who are at the top of each region. There could continue to be hyper local leagues like OBSL or ODSL for younger ages. It would also be ideal if more of this area had access to a strong, affordable rec system like MSI.

A lot of people claimed a lot of different things about CCL when it came to NoVa (and some well-intentioned people clearly believed the "superior development" claims, but its  primarily purpose in this area has always been to allow clubs that didn't have boys' DA status to claim that they were offering an elite product for top kids in the hopes that unwary consumers would find that appealing.  Having kids who played in the top divisions of NCSL before CCL came here and in CCL, I can tell you that NCSL (or another pro-rel league) is vastly more enjoyable and better for development than being stuck in CCL playing the same clubs and mismatched teams all the time.[/quote]

Another NP who cares for the same reasons. CCL was mostly intended to fill the ‘elite’ gap between NCSL and DA. I actually think that some kind of seeding and pro/rel should start at a slightly earlier age, because the frustration of 18-1 blowouts for small-sided games at U10 seemed to drive a lot of parents crazy and into the arms of club directors touting the advantages of the club-centric, elite, CCL model.  The Virginia coaching cabal that runs ODP and also runs CCL may be breaking up with Loudoun and Arlington moving A teams and star players to other venues, so perhaps the coaches will also reassess and realize that playing in NCSL is really best for the game locally. However, one caveat is that coaches really do need to coach more than one team to make a decent living coaching in this area, and the club scheduling model that CCL uses makes it easier for coaches to avoid game day scheduling conflicts. If NCSL were able to get a little more club-centric in its scheduling, then that problem might solve itself.  Too late for my kids, but perhaps others will reap the benefits! [/quote]

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