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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Let me illiterate. My DD will soon be 10. She’s being approached to go to to ECNL CLUBS, what I guess is pre-ECNL. I feel it’s important to work hard and follow any dream. Dreams change and that’s ok. Best thing is to give them the tools and let them grow.

I do think it’s important not to be a “club hopper” and make bonds with teammates and coaches. I personally played a D1 sport, but never had to deal with ECNL, GA and so on. Times have changed.

Found out tonight the coach was an ECNL coach, and is well licensed.(not that makes a difference) He has relationships with college coaches. One parent has said he is a great coach and has done a lot for his older DD.

Is this doable. Can 1 coach start a team, make it his super team in hopes to start a non bias soccer club that focuses on player’s growth and ambitions? Has anyone experience or seen it happen?[/quote]

She’s so young that what’s really important is that she’s in an environment that is challenging, fun, and rewarding.  Maybe he can provide that, but words are just words.  If you just listen to proposals and don’t actually get to let her experience what this next step might actually feel like to her, you could end up putting her into a position that will make her no longer enjoy what she’s doing.

See if this coach will let her come and train with one of his current teams if he’s currently coaching players her age or near her age.  That way she can feel the environment out and how he runs his sessions.  You can then also talk to parents on his team and their experiences.
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He currently has no team. He’s working on getting a team built and registering the team in tournaments.  The team will primarily do only tournaments. [/quote]

He’s an ECNL coach but has no team?  That just means he’s not an ECNL coach.  Furthermore, ECNL has no requirements to coach a team other than the sham safe sport background check.  So that doesn’t really mean anything.  I would approach with caution.[/quote]

He was an ECNL coach. My understanding is he left the stress of corporate ECNL. Right now his goal is to start a “super” team that can play up an age group at tournaments.  More focus on ranking.  1 tournament a month, scrimmaging on other weekends.  Incorporating a more European approach.

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An item to consider on scrimmaging is that while this would be a 1 off team, the teams you're looking to scrimmage aren't and they're already playing in leagues and tournaments, so the availability is not likely to match up.  [b]That's before you consider existing clubs having most of the fields already permitted with the county [/b]and that refs are hard to come by these days.  Logistically much of what you're being told is fairly difficult.  Soccer coaches aren't known for their planning and administrative skills, so while much of what you're hearing sounds great, it would take a pretty special person to pull off all the coaching, planning, logistics, and recruiting side of this equation.  The Eddie Johnson model someone mentioned on here works because it's in addition to their regular team at home.  Those kids are already registered and carded with a team, they're paying for individual training and traveling to the facility on a semi-regular basis, and then the best of those kids whose parents are willing to travel with them take on established teams in big tournaments - all of which removes the logistics of field space, team scrimmages, league registration.  It's a great model and the kids he trains are very talented, but it's a fairly different model than what it sounds like your kid is being recruited to join.[/quote]

That's where the grand plan falls apart. Every decent field in any of the inner counties is already spoken for. This team will struggle to find anywhere to either practice or play [/quote]

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