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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My teenager's ECNL team has had 22 on the roster this year, and it's worked out fine - actually, surprisingly well for all players. In the past I've criticized the club for having deep rosters, so I was skeptical at the beginning of the season. I credit the coach's management of the roster. [/quote]

Do the same group of kids not play in league matches (actually not dress, thanks to substitution rules, most wont play in a given match)? Do the kids who don't dress for games think it is working out fine? [/quote][/quote]

All 22 dress, only 18 are actually rostered. If not rostered, they still show up, participate in warm-ups and watch the game; and there's always the possibility of game day substitution (i.e., a rostered player wakes up sick on game day). Of course players are disappointed when they aren't rostered.  But they're free to discuss the reason with the coach, and the coach provides meaningful feedback. Again, it works because of the team chemistry (players evenly matched, for the most part) and the thought the coach puts into selecting game day rosters.  [/quote]

So huge rosters, uncertainty of who the team is per game, disappointed players,  and reduced playing time per player?! And McLean players and families have been ok with this? [/quote]

I don't consider 22 players a "huge" roster for high school players, especially given the potential for injury. Competition is part of life, as are uncertainty and disappointment. There's more to participating in youth soccer, even at the ECNL level, than the number a minutes a  player gets to play per game. [/quote]

Except (1) the rosters are bigger than 22, (2) most other ECNL clubs nationally cap their rosters at 18-20 to ensure development individually and as a team, (3) it’s not college where you expect you might sit. You pay to be developed and to play. You can’t develop through practice alone. [/quote]

Ensure development individually and “as a team”. Excuse me while I pick myself up from the floor. I’m laughing too hard. There is no effort - and as far as I can tell not even a thought - given toward developing a “team” in ECNL girls soccer. The system is set up so these girls are playing for themselves and no one else. You want a team? Where the players are friends and on-field chemistry matters even a little bit? Go someplace else. Most players and parents are marketing themselves to other clubs year-round. By the oldest age groups some of these girls have played for 4 or 5 clubs. Team development is for losers; high school players. This is a dog eat dog world, and it doesn’t matter if the other dog is wearing the same uniform. It is the cesspool of all youth sports. [/quote]

What a miserable way to exist. So sorry  this is your experience.  
It really isn’t this way on BRAVE. [/quote]

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