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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hold on.. I can think of at least 8 DC clubs.  There's obviously demand for this many clubs.  Tell me why these clubs are traveling 1 hour away to play a game in MD eastern shore or WV or Lorton...

with so many teams in DC, why isn't there a DC league?  Ok for the the top level teams (ECNL or whatever) maybe those can travel for better comp. but the A/B/C teams traveling an hour to play a game is crazy.

why isn't there a DC league?[/quote]

Because each club wants a "pathway" to sell and the league directors need to feel their kids too. On the girls side in the DMV we have teams in ECNL, ECNL-RL, GA, GA Aspire, NL, EDP, and NCSL (and probably others). Ideally you would want one truly elite league (ECNL/GA) where teams travel to play the best competition and then put all of the other teams in the same pool with promotion/relegation, but this would require combining 5 leagues into 1.[/quote]

There isn’t enough talent in DC to have a DC league. That’s pretty clear.[/quote]

That's false.  We have more than enough talent pre-U14.  After then, allow them to travel after the separations occur.[/quote]

+1   The DC talent is just fragmented. If you combined all the DC clubs into 2 and just kept players in the district they'd be competitive with any of the burbs clubs.  It's the same old issue. Field space and traffic patterns.  [/quote]

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