How much is BRYC ECNL cost? It would be awesome if someone could break it down by club fees vs. travel costs if any. TIA

Here are the updated points for Virginia ECNL clubs. There is a new points leader. McLean edged VDA for the third. No change at the bottom.

Richmond United - 105 points
BRYC - 102 points
McLean - 92 points
VDA - 89 points
Loudoun 44 points

IMO, what would be best for soccer would be to have some regions where gda becomes dominant ans others where ECNL becomes dominant. That will force regionalization of youth soccer which would be much better for the players. Dont care which one wins or loses in my region, I just it to be one or the other and fast

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not unfair. It’s relative to what we are watching locally.

Some teams do well because they play well as a team and are marginally better across the average player on the pitch. It’s uninspired creatively.

No, the point is there are ever only about 50 girls Nationwide at any given age group who when they play will make you say wow. If you expect that every DA/ECNL team should have at least one of those players or even multiple then you are delusional.

Agree with this completely

So, we can all agree that the talent level on local DA and ECNL teams is not amazing. There's lot's of solid utility players, but there's a dearth of special players. It is not a knock on the kids, which work hard to get better, but it is just what our coaches/clubs/system develop.

I think this is pretty spot on but for ALL areas excluding Southern California, nit just Northern VA

I don't agree that Southern CA teams have superstars and we have none out here if that is what you are saying. Based on the games I've seen, what differentiates the best teams from the weaker DA teams is the average skill level and the team depth. Average skill level is probably better in CA, due to the longer season, and probably concentration of talent to some extent. Team depth is a player concentration thing. Despite the concentration of teams there, the back half of the rosters are better there than on local teams, and that could be extended to much of the mid-atlantic region. Our local region is fairly diluted... if we collapsed all our DMV DA teams to one, they would be competitive nationally. Same for ECNL. We do have NT caliber players locally, and McLean has a U18/19 national championship team.

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Anonymous wrote:Drink it up. You don't have a kid in DA then. HALF of these players work hard, but would never have made ecnl a few year ago. But keep drinking and thinking your kid is elite and hanging with an elite crew.

(I wish the club had $$ to go to some neighborhoods and recruit talent but they don't. Get rid of the bottom half of these teams....

LMAO please do it and report back. There’s no untapped wealth of elite girls players in those neighborhoods. You’re thinking of the boys side, nice try but no dice.

You clearly have no understanding of the cultural forces at play. Here’s a hint: the same culture that promotes those boys to play soccer encourages girls to leave sports to the boys.

BS. If they ran a fully funded GDA for girls, I guarantee that many of the a decent percentage of the current players would be displaced.

Another opinion that will get you your choice of S, M, or L coffee at McDonalds with a buck and change. And still no understanding of the cultural differences.

Please explain the "cultural differences" that inform your stereotype? You really are deluded at best.

Since I can't reasonably go watch a u14-15 DA game in Southern Cal, can you link a video that shows the level of play in a match? does anyone have access to something like that?

I've watched some available last year, and not sure I was wow'd by what I saw.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not unfair. It’s relative to what we are watching locally.

Some teams do well because they play well as a team and are marginally better across the average player on the pitch. It’s uninspired creatively.

No, the point is there are ever only about 50 girls Nationwide at any given age group who when they play will make you say wow. If you expect that every DA/ECNL team should have at least one of those players or even multiple then you are delusional.

Agree with this completely

So, we can all agree that the talent level on local DA and ECNL teams is not amazing. There's lot's of solid utility players, but there's a dearth of special players. It is not a knock on the kids, which work hard to get better, but it is just what our coaches/clubs/system develop.

Agree in the sense that the players are much better than in the standard leagues on average but are not superstars that have “wow” level skills. But that’s not on coaching/clubs/systems. That kind of talent comes from genetics and personal drive to be the best.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not unfair. It’s relative to what we are watching locally.

Some teams do well because they play well as a team and are marginally better across the average player on the pitch. It’s uninspired creatively.

No, the point is there are ever only about 50 girls Nationwide at any given age group who when they play will make you say wow. If you expect that every DA/ECNL team should have at least one of those players or even multiple then you are delusional.

Agree with this completely

So, we can all agree that the talent level on local DA and ECNL teams is not amazing. There's lot's of solid utility players, but there's a dearth of special players. It is not a knock on the kids, which work hard to get better, but it is just what our coaches/clubs/system develop.

I think this is pretty spot on but for ALL areas excluding Southern California, nit just Northern VA

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not unfair. It’s relative to what we are watching locally.

Some teams do well because they play well as a team and are marginally better across the average player on the pitch. It’s uninspired creatively.

No, the point is there are ever only about 50 girls Nationwide at any given age group who when they play will make you say wow. If you expect that every DA/ECNL team should have at least one of those players or even multiple then you are delusional.

Agree with this completely

So, we can all agree that the talent level on local DA and ECNL teams is not amazing. There's lot's of solid utility players, but there's a dearth of special players. It is not a knock on the kids, which work hard to get better, but it is just what our coaches/clubs/system develop.

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Anonymous wrote:What cultural differences. The shut out white girls will be taking spots before we even have to get ethnic on you.

Shut out white girls. Give me a break. Can’t wait for you to start your Shut Out Elite travel team that’s a DA/ECNL world beater

You make your living from this nonsense or they have you right where they want you. Just enjoy your kid playing soccer. Honestly, the truth of the quality of these teams and leagues is what it is regardless of what you or I yammer on about. Good or bad they go out and play so carry on.

LOL good times in this thread. Another good show for getting out the popcorn. Looks like our sock puppet friend on this board who hates DA and loves “making people cry” (LOL!!) in his posts is back again making personal attacks against people he doesn’t even know when he’s having trouble making his case.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not unfair. It’s relative to what we are watching locally.

Some teams do well because they play well as a team and are marginally better across the average player on the pitch. It’s uninspired creatively.

No, the point is there are ever only about 50 girls Nationwide at any given age group who when they play will make you say wow. If you expect that every DA/ECNL team should have at least one of those players or even multiple then you are delusional.

Agree with this completely

Anonymous wrote:What cultural differences. The shut out white girls will be taking spots before we even have to get ethnic on you.

Shut out white girls. Give me a break. Can’t wait for you to start your Shut Out Elite travel team that’s a DA/ECNL world beater

Anonymous wrote:It’s not unfair. It’s relative to what we are watching locally.

Some teams do well because they play well as a team and are marginally better across the average player on the pitch. It’s uninspired creatively.

No, the point is there are ever only about 50 girls Nationwide at any given age group who when they play will make you say wow. If you expect that every DA/ECNL team should have at least one of those players or even multiple then you are delusional.

What cultural differences. The shut out white girls will be taking spots before we even have to get ethnic on you.