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Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Then whats Elite?

There is no better competition than what's in ECNL.

LOL

What’s the alternative for girls? GA? That’s a hard pass

In all the youth leagues there are bottom feeders and there are top teams. No league is completely filled with elite teams top to bottom, ECNL/GA included.

any valor/gfr parents on here? you cool with a culture that refers to your children as "feeder" kids?

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Anonymous wrote:They didn’t add clubs, they partnered with them. And at least one is dealing with internal pressure to pull out.

Would that be Valor or Great Falls? From what I understand, both clubs were excited to be a part of that "partnership" (although one wonders how the two smaller clubs benefit from that agreement).

very few Valor or GFR players made it to the NVa ECNL rosters
practices are farther away for these players
very few of these ECNL players are going on to significant post high school playing (this is the primary selling point for the ECNL clubs, that your kid needs to be on a ECNL or MLS Next club to get 'there')
some of the NVA teams just are not significantly better despite more training

Well thats because most valor and GFR kids were not significantly better than current rosters. This is more a long term strategy to get kids in earlier to develop. They simply would not going to cut loudoun players make room with players who were about the same. That being said they are on par with all the Virginia ECNL teams. ECNL has now become diluted talent wise as clubs chased the ECNL status.

No that’s because the Loudoun coaches still control and were not going to cut ‘their’ kids.

The NVA ecnl teams have lost to their ‘feeder teams’ in head to head so fool yourself if you feel better but the score don’t lie.

this is false. The feeder teams didn’t show up well in id sessions and were just plain outworked and targeted by the existing rosters. The dual roster who crossed the pckt line cant hang in practice w the current rosters as there is a talent gap. The hold outs who did get offers i guess feel its better to wait teams out for the inevitable implosions or maybe they will in fact try to go it alone?

Next year will be very telling

What exactly are you trying to say? Targeted? Go it alone? You talking about coaches or players?

If someone can decipher that post, they should receive an award.

The boys on the LC rosters went hard against the feeder kids.. and since it was mainly LC kids, they honestly had no shot

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Then whats Elite?

There is no better competition than what's in ECNL.

LOL

What’s the alternative for girls? GA? That’s a hard pass

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Then whats Elite?

There is no better competition than what's in ECNL.

It is like the premier league just less interest and fanfare

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Then whats Elite?

There is no better competition than what's in ECNL.

LOL

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Then whats Elite?

For the boys side? Closest to elite would be MLS Academy programs tied to MLS Pro teams. As far as everything else, particularly programs where you have to buy into?

Nothing is. But nobody realizes this. The system is flawed and fractured. It works here and there but by design this isn't a system that is there to develop players. That is primarily due to an individual players own desires and work ethic typically with a little help sometimes from their club that they're associated with.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Then whats Elite?

There is no better competition than what's in ECNL.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Then whats Elite?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

Fire them all! Except the director. He's got an A!

Anonymous wrote:What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Nothing.

ECNL does not impose coaching standards/minimum requirements for clubs and neither does NCSL aside from SafeSport certifications.

What qualifications separate ECNL coaches from NCSL coaches?
since the E stands for something.

Sounds like poster is saying anybody from the feeder clubs who showed up to ID after the NVA announcement wasn't worth a roster spot.

Then added that one player that they noticed that took a dual roster option of their feeder club and NVA rather than hold out, cannot hang with the current roster.

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Anonymous wrote:They didn’t add clubs, they partnered with them. And at least one is dealing with internal pressure to pull out.

Would that be Valor or Great Falls? From what I understand, both clubs were excited to be a part of that "partnership" (although one wonders how the two smaller clubs benefit from that agreement).

very few Valor or GFR players made it to the NVa ECNL rosters
practices are farther away for these players
very few of these ECNL players are going on to significant post high school playing (this is the primary selling point for the ECNL clubs, that your kid needs to be on a ECNL or MLS Next club to get 'there')
some of the NVA teams just are not significantly better despite more training

Well thats because most valor and GFR kids were not significantly better than current rosters. This is more a long term strategy to get kids in earlier to develop. They simply would not going to cut loudoun players make room with players who were about the same. That being said they are on par with all the Virginia ECNL teams. ECNL has now become diluted talent wise as clubs chased the ECNL status.

No that’s because the Loudoun coaches still control and were not going to cut ‘their’ kids.

The NVA ecnl teams have lost to their ‘feeder teams’ in head to head so fool yourself if you feel better but the score don’t lie.

this is false. The feeder teams didn’t show up well in id sessions and were just plain outworked and targeted by the existing rosters. The dual roster who crossed the pckt line cant hang in practice w the current rosters as there is a talent gap. The hold outs who did get offers i guess feel its better to wait teams out for the inevitable implosions or maybe they will in fact try to go it alone?

Next year will be very telling

What exactly are you trying to say? Targeted? Go it alone? You talking about coaches or players?

If someone can decipher that post, they should receive an award.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn’t add clubs, they partnered with them. And at least one is dealing with internal pressure to pull out.

Would that be Valor or Great Falls? From what I understand, both clubs were excited to be a part of that "partnership" (although one wonders how the two smaller clubs benefit from that agreement).

very few Valor or GFR players made it to the NVa ECNL rosters
practices are farther away for these players
very few of these ECNL players are going on to significant post high school playing (this is the primary selling point for the ECNL clubs, that your kid needs to be on a ECNL or MLS Next club to get 'there')
some of the NVA teams just are not significantly better despite more training

Well thats because most valor and GFR kids were not significantly better than current rosters. This is more a long term strategy to get kids in earlier to develop. They simply would not going to cut loudoun players make room with players who were about the same. That being said they are on par with all the Virginia ECNL teams. ECNL has now become diluted talent wise as clubs chased the ECNL status.

No that’s because the Loudoun coaches still control and were not going to cut ‘their’ kids.

The NVA ecnl teams have lost to their ‘feeder teams’ in head to head so fool yourself if you feel better but the score don’t lie.

this is false. The feeder teams didn’t show up well in id sessions and were just plain outworked and targeted by the existing rosters. The dual roster who crossed the pckt line cant hang in practice w the current rosters as there is a talent gap. The hold outs who did get offers i guess feel its better to wait teams out for the inevitable implosions or maybe they will in fact try to go it alone?

Next year will be very telling

What exactly are you trying to say? Targeted? Go it alone? You talking about coaches or players?