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[quote=soccer197][quote=soccerNOVA][quote=Pepe]Beyond necessary. DMV area was so concentrated with clubs. Clubs from Dallas, LA, and NY to name a few have fewer clubs that our area did. Working well for VDA, others followed. Clubs get more players, higher quality, better training in long run. There is no con to any of this for the players and clubs.[/quote]

We’re still in a soccer hotbed. Just a couple of teams would make NOVA teams great, but travel to practice would be a nightmare for some families. I like the consolidation, but it’s not necessary to go that far. Consider that on the girls side all 5 NOVA teams are in the top 6 teams in ECNL at the U13 age group. That’s the first year things have been settled with the semi-recent promotion of Loudoun to ECNL, and the more recent consolidations leading to Union and Brave.

Things are more uneven in the boys side, but that’s because MLS Next has two teams that attract players in addition to the 5 ECNL clubs - and Alexandria and Springfield happen to be right next to each other.

If NOVA youth soccer was starting from scratch and I could align teams however I wanted, I’d make 4 top league county teams for both boys and girls. Those would go in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William. And they would all start at U13 and not be affiliated with youth programs whose missions should be different. [/quote]

A hotbed? Really? What makes you determine that? California and Texas are soccer hotbeds. NOVA, like every other densely populated area with lots of affluence, produces plenty of players. Philly, Boston, Charlotte, NY/NJ, Atlanta, South Florida are also “hotbeds”[/quote]

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