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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How far away do you actually travel for soccer in this area? [/quote]

1 - 1.5 hours with traffic on average. Loudoun and Baltimore area teams are the outliers for major clubs. Sometimes keystone in PA. Now many dmv clubs 2nd teams are in NAL (league) with clubs such as pa classics, pda or fc delco so they have to travel to PA or NJ for an away game.

According to rankings, this area has the most dense population of nationally ranked teams with great competition. I would say more than 90 minutes isn't necessary unless you are mls next/ecnl level.

(This is for boys, I know ecnl girls travel to NC, etc but I'm not familiar.)[/quote]

I should have clarified that 20-30 minutes was average.  1.5 hours was the maximum. [/quote]

Lol. That’s cute that you all call that “travel”.  We’re in Colorado. For non-ECNL/RL games we sometimes have to go from the front range to Grand Junction, Vail, Steamboat Springs or Laramie WY (I guess Wyoming isn’t big enough so they compete with Colorado). For RL, our region includes Utah and that’s a 9 hour drive in good weather but our games there are scheduled for January so we’re flying to avoid driving though winter storms. Our region for ECNL includes Texas and Oklahoma—up to 15 hours to drive but everyone usually flies.  [/quote]

Congrats on having to spend more time and money to travel greater distances because of a lack of local talent? 🤷‍♀️ [/quote]

Not a big difference between them and kids  traveling to DE, NY, PA, NJ etc to play ECNL and NAL
Its unnecessary expenses and time and effort to travel to play competition that can easily be found in the DMV.[/quote]

Np. You must not know the area well.

Fc delco PA 2h20m
Pa classics 2h
Sporting in DE 1h45m
Keystone in PA 1h20m

Not a big difference?[/quote]

Pp again FWIW NAL is new for second teams in this area and I do agree that it is too much travel for that level considering they could have stayed in edp for mostly the same teams and the same level. But my child doesn't play in NAL so to each their own. What can you do? I'm sure it was a business decision for clubs more than families.[/quote]

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