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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least Arlington has one or two standout ECNL teams on the girls side. [/quote]

True test will come during the playoffs.[/quote]

The true test is college commits.  Every girl on the oldest Arlington Team is committed.  That is what ECNL is about.  Not playoffs.[/quote]

Mediocre Arlington at it again, but this mom is right it’s about playing mediocre soccer at the ncaa level. Congrats ECNL![/quote]

All joking aside -- what if it is?  What if that is what it all is about?  Playing soccer -- helping get into a better school than you otherwise would have, maybe for money in D1, and go to college and live your life.  What is that was the end game and no one cared if others though mediocre.  Yale plays mediocre football at best.  Most of that team end up as doctors, lawyers, bankers, and executives later in life.  Do you think they cared that someone else thought they played mediocre football?  Not for one second.[/quote]
If that is the attitude about futbol, then just go to bleeping college - in this area most people paying and playing club have the money for college - and leave futbol to the futbolistas! Our game is not some vehicle for upper middle class white kids to bridge into the 1%…[/quote]

I didn’t realize the Lord of Football was on this board! “Our game”?? Who made you the arbiter of approved motivation? You think girls should only play college soccer if they need the money? Young women who choose to give up thousands of little moments throughout middle school and high school just for the chance of playing a sport in college? To learn early what it takes to push through disappointment, to embrace success? To have what amounts to a corporate job interview while still a sophomore or junior in HS? I’m pretty confident that the kids you are excluding from being “futbolistas” both know the game better than you, and have sacrificed far more than you have to be able to make those decisions.[/quote]

Lol - you are offended, I guess because your kid doesn’t really care about the sport but is being forced to “sacrifice” for some hope of a college bump? Anybody who really cares, or knows their kid really cares,  wouldn’t be offended in the least by what was said. [/quote]

Ah, this helps clarify - I understand ow hard it is for you as someone who wasn’t able to make the team in college. I am sure you would have made it if it weren’t for that pesky injury. Enjoy your life on the sidelines![/quote]

Lol - don’t shoot the messenger because your kid doesn’t really give a s- about the sport you are apparently forcing them to play.[/quote]

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