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Anonymous

08/23/2021 16:03 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

Getting this back to topic ...

Can anyone at Villarreal or FCV offer insight in how this merger is going this fall? Does Villarreal plan to roster or guest play up to five girls per week? Are FCV providing players for Villarreal to field teams in ECNL-r at some levels? Or is the impact of the merger minimal.

First games this weekend.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 15:59 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

You want an opinion simply based on a score? Have you watched soccer a long time? 3-0 games can be the equivalent of a 7-0 or a game where sides are even or the losing side was better.

Was it 3-0 in the first half and MD United backed off? Did MD United dominate the ball all game and not do enough with their chances? Or were the chances the same and only a couple late goals when losing team pushed forward flatter the score? I've seen teams win and lose 3-0 in games then were the worst team or dominated.

But as a general rule, I'd say that if you could sub your worst 3-4 players with 3-4 players that are your best players then you'd have a pretty good chances of winning a game or being competitive in games you competitive in and lost.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 15:23 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

After a 0-3 loss to MD United ECNL you still think the difference between the two teams is 3-4 players?

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:56 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

Yeah, in this area, the difference is 4-5 players. You’ll see when 4-5 players go to play at good college programs and the other 15 are looking at the Randolph Macons and other D-III schools, same as the non-ECNL players.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:56 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

What they are saying is perhaps the top 4-5 players could be swapped with the bottom 4-5 players at ECNL without noticing but you could not take 14-15 ECNL-R players, meaning starters plus 3-4 subs, and swap them with ECNL players without noticing.

The difference between a ECNL roster is greater than just the top 3-4 top ECNL players. The difference is 14 ECNL players are all better than the top ECNL-R players. Players 15-18 are absolutely debatable.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:51 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

No idea what you are asking.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:47 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

The highest ranked ECNL-R 07 team in VA is Beach FC.

This was their results from last falls WAGS
11 Oct 20 MARYLAND UNITED FC ECNL 0 - 3 33.71
10 Oct 20 BALTIMORE ARMOUR ACADEMY GA 1 - 2 33.73
10 Oct 20 BALTIMORE CELTIC SC GA 0 - 1 33.61

They scored one goal against a GA team and lost to two GA and one ECNL teams.

They were close to GA but a 3 goal differential against their lone ECNL opponent doe not lead one to believe that the difference is just 3-4 players. And as a top ECNL-R team, while competitive they still lost to mid table GA teams.

You don't know what you don't know.

And Beach FC is significant because they do not have the player pool dilution and are pretty far away to lose their best players to Richmond ECNL. Beach has a pretty large and isolated player pool, unlike NOVA.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:37 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

Are you saying that above (bolded) within the RL team, or from the RL team to an ECNL team? The former I can believe, but the latter is laughable.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:30 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

Not Villarreal. You could swap the top 4-5 RL for any in the bottom 15-16 (of 20) and there is no difference. Also, reverse it and put one of the bottom 15-16 in an RL game and they wouldn’t change the game and probably wouldn’t even stand out. You don’t know what you don’t know.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:18 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

That's the worst thing - when you hook up with someone and then discover that their bit has gotten stale.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 14:09 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

Ok, so you are a Villarreal parent who's kid didn't make a ECNL squad, presumably because you didn't grovel.

If FCV takes over do you honestly believe that improves your kids chances?

And as far as ECNL-R players being the same as ECNL I guess you don't know what you don't know. The top 3-4 ECNL-R players could be swapped for the bottom 3-4 players on a ECNL or GA roster. There may be a few kids who are very talented that had no interest in leaving their team to play on a ECNL team but by U15 frankly the talent has been picked clean and that is accounting for a very diluted "Elite" soccer landscape in NOVA.

7 "Elite" teams offering 140 spots per age group already. The talent drop off is significant after ECNL and GA in our area. ECNL-R will not be any proving ground or pathway into ECNL in our region.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 12:15 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

Remember when DC United had open tryouts? You'd go onto their web site and sign up DS and pay $25. At the end of the online checkout there was a solicitation for you to make a donation to their scholarship fund. I never did the donation, but it occurred to me, what if your DS was good but not amazing. You signed him up and donated a hefty sum. Would that help his chances? I'm not talking rec league kid making DC United, but I am talking about a "squad player." Just wondering.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 12:05 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

Outside of a few players on each ECNL team, the talent in ECNL-RL is the same. 80% of the kids in ECNL are there because their parents grovel.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 11:30 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

As long as you understand that nobody is jealous of ECNL-R. You can beat your chest all you want but coming in here and trying to convince people that ECNL-R is the same as ECNL and somehow superior to other leagues is being ignorant.

It is ECNL’s B team league. That is just fact, it isn’t an insult it is just what ECNL intends it to be. So, it is a mix of ECNL B teams and non-ECNL club A teams.

Anonymous

08/23/2021 11:19 Subject: FCV finds its way into ECNL. Loudoun’s days coming to an end

It’s delicious to troll Soccer Mom A who thinks Dear Child is untouchable and that any league other than the one Dear Child plays is total garbage. You are insignificant. I think we’re done here.

BUH-bye!