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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] It’s important to get into a club with an ECNL team at a young age. My DC’s ECNL team has at least half of the team made up of the same kids from their u10 team, which was the top team at the time. They just moved up together as a block.

I have heard this is the same at most clubs these days, with only a few additions/replacements each year.[/quote]

Think about that in a region this big...it's civil service protection which is crazy once they get past age 14.

So basically from ages 8-9 you have the same kids being passed forward even though we know development is not linear.  It is all over the map.  Some kids are stars at 8 and suck at 15.  Some are big at 10 and tiny at 15.  There are lots of ups and downs and backward movements.

I like the way our team developed (a few ended up on the national team)--there was the A team and the B team and it really was in and out, in and out over time.  You weren't exiled never to be bumped up and your place was never guaranteed on the top team.  You were always fighting for that spot and it was understood in the younger years--sometimes you needed to be down to develop if you were growing later, etc.--but it wasn't a closed door.

Not every club is so static.  Some actually are upset because it's the opposite--clean slate every year with no opportunity to build.  But when they have had U8, U9, U10, U11, U12, U13---you have already had 5 full years with the same kids--once you get into the U14+--it needs to be the best player and not about seniority or 'time in service' or who you know.[/quote]
What the hell unicorn fantasy club is this and how do I get my kids in it?[/quote]

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