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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like alot of people think the talent level in ECNL, at least in the DMV, will diminish over the coming years because the best talent will go to DA. While I think this is generally true, the GDA age groupings (U14, U15, U16/17, U18/19) do force the bottom half of the DA rosters in the U16 and up to look elsewhere, and my guess is many of these girls will look to ECNL starting next year. This would have happened this past year, but instead of going to ECNL, these displaced girls just went down the road to fill the Spirit rosters.  I don't think the extra commute to Mclean or BRYC from, Loudoun (FCV), or for Spirit VA girls is so far that they will stay with NPL or CCL.  Some of these girls would rather quit soccer than be seen on an NPL roster after having played DA or ECNL for a time.  So its quite possible the talent level in ECNL from U16 and up will be somewhat better than at U13-U15. Think about it... if there are 80 girls playing U15 DA this year, roughly half of those girls (40) will be finding new teams next year, enough to fill both ECNL team rosters from scratch.

If US soccer really wanted to put the screws to ECNL, they would separate out these age groupings. This may be a local thing though, since the DMV area is somewhat unique in that it has now quite alot of "elite" teams (4x GDA, 2x ECNL). This issue may not exist in may cities.[/quote]

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