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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LMAO FVU what a mess, MYS brand is gonna die overnight. Good luck after 2007 moves on, it could start looking alot like Arlington real soon. Academic schools only, no scholarships, no P4s, or true prospects just 4 year college players at best (most will quit/transfer then quit) and a career outside of soccer. None of that is bad necessarily, and what I know 90% of you sheep prefer but its not elite. ECNL should replace E with a C- College-bound Clubs National League

Good luck to FVU in the CCNL![/quote]

I don’t know what bitter parent (or former VDA coach?) wrote this, but for all the other actual parents out there, the idea that the club will look “alot [sic] like Arlington” is what we should want. This mythical “Elite” pathway he is talking about doesn’t (yet) exist, and even if your child is “elite”, getting a degree from an “academic” school is exactly what you should be aiming for. Why? Because the pay is terrible for women right now, and the USMNT has a track record of no turnover. Think of it, if you were a wingback or a forward, national team spots were held by the same player for nearly TWO DECADES. Megan Rapinoe got her youth call up in 2002, and her senior call up in 2006. So for nearly 18 years, there was no opening. Alex Morgan? Same kind of timeframe.

Right now in the DC area, you can get one on one training with multiple former US and Canadian women’s national team members. That’s right, these ultimate elite players still have to find jobs after anchoring their countries in Olympics and world cups.

So as an FVU parent, I would LOVE to see it all go the way of Arlington if that means playing a sport they love at their highest possible level, and then when it’s over they have a great degree to begin the next phase of their lives?? I can think of nothing more elite than that.[/quote]

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