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[quote=Anonymous][quote=FPYCparent]RE: VA vs. MD …

Anyone else think that the leagues that these clubs choose to play in matter?

I'm seeing nearly 60 2008/U12 girls teams playing EDP, and all but four of them (3 VA, 1, WV) hail from Maryland.  I think there are less than ten or so MD-based teams in this age group that play in a league other than EDP.  (Why even bother with any other league?  Yes, I'm looking at you, MSI.)

There is a similar number of total teams in northern Virginia, but we're all split by ECNL RL (VPL), CCL, NCSL, ODSL.  If the Virginia clubs could come together under a similar model (or simply join EDP), perhaps the overall competitiveness of the VA teams would rise as there would be more matches among equally-capable teams.

Admittedly, I haven't looked at other age groups … and I understand that there are more boys' teams from VA in EDP, but the contrast here is almost damning.  Aside from DA and ECNL at U13 and older, there seems to be no logical reason to be so splintered.[/quote]

This is what we used to have in the good old (but still relatively recent) days.  My now freshman in college played in NCSL, as did the majority of clubs in the metro area.  Every serious team was absolutely driven to try to get to the top division (there were usually 10 or so divisions) and avoid relegation to D2.  Over the 4 years he played in NCSL, there were about 12 teams (more than half from NoVa) battling to win or stay in the top division, and the rivalries were incredible.  A handful of kids from almost all of those top teams ended up playing DA and are playing in college now.  WAGS was similar for girls.  You have to travel so much farther to find anything close that level of competition now. [/quote]

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