Anonymous
02/29/2024 13:27
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Mike Cullina runs US Club soccer who also runs ECNL. Mike Cullina is the founder of VDA. If you look at their slate on the girls side, they always get coaches who will bring teams (MW and now BP) since they dont know how to develop players.
Look at the UNION Boys scores vs VDA, UNION boys are stronger then VDA.
The merger decision was made by Mike Cullina at US CLub Soccer. He wanted to make VDA stronger with more kids available for them.
Yet VDA rosters are loaded with PWSI/VDA players…
Anonymous
02/29/2024 12:16
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Mike Cullina runs US Club soccer who also runs ECNL. Mike Cullina is the founder of VDA. If you look at their slate on the girls side, they always get coaches who will bring teams (MW and now BP) since they dont know how to develop players.
Look at the UNION Boys scores vs VDA, UNION boys are stronger then VDA.
The merger decision was made by Mike Cullina at US CLub Soccer. He wanted to make VDA stronger with more kids available for them.
When you change jobs do you concern yourself with making the place you left and longer work at better?
I seriously doubt Mike Cullina worries about how VDA is doing and how he can help them out.
Just like Cindy Cone had no idea the DA was going to be dissolved but was named to US Soccer President in March of 2020 but somehow NCFC where she also worked was able to get ahead of it and go back to ECNL before the DA was dissolved in March also.
Okay.
You talk to friends certainly, and giving a "heads up" is one thing, but to go as far as to shut a ECNL club down in the hopes that it benefits VDA is a bit much. There is no guarantee the move would benefit VDA at all. Players are not pieces on a map that leagues and clubs actually control.
It is like that when marketing gets to a point that people believe more in a patch than anything else. Around here it's gotten to a point that parents will put kids into ECNL simply because they hear it's the best and it could be the most toxic environment in the world.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 12:14
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
This thread is going to be gone, good nuggets of info though.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 12:06
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Mike Cullina runs US Club soccer who also runs ECNL. Mike Cullina is the founder of VDA. If you look at their slate on the girls side, they always get coaches who will bring teams (MW and now BP) since they dont know how to develop players.
Look at the UNION Boys scores vs VDA, UNION boys are stronger then VDA.
The merger decision was made by Mike Cullina at US CLub Soccer. He wanted to make VDA stronger with more kids available for them.
When you change jobs do you concern yourself with making the place you left and longer work at better?
I seriously doubt Mike Cullina worries about how VDA is doing and how he can help them out.
Just like Cindy Cone had no idea the DA was going to be dissolved but was named to US Soccer President in March of 2020 but somehow NCFC where she also worked was able to get ahead of it and go back to ECNL before the DA was dissolved in March also.
Okay.
You talk to friends certainly, and giving a "heads up" is one thing, but to go as far as to shut a ECNL club down in the hopes that it benefits VDA is a bit much. There is no guarantee the move would benefit VDA at all. Players are not pieces on a map that leagues and clubs actually control.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 12:02
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Wait until people start looking at USCS 990.
Who owns C2S? ECNL Leadership.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/571128981
Who owns C2S? ECNL Leadership.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/571128981
Anonymous
02/29/2024 11:54
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Mike Cullina runs US Club soccer who also runs ECNL. Mike Cullina is the founder of VDA. If you look at their slate on the girls side, they always get coaches who will bring teams (MW and now BP) since they dont know how to develop players.
Look at the UNION Boys scores vs VDA, UNION boys are stronger then VDA.
The merger decision was made by Mike Cullina at US CLub Soccer. He wanted to make VDA stronger with more kids available for them.
When you change jobs do you concern yourself with making the place you left and longer work at better?
I seriously doubt Mike Cullina worries about how VDA is doing and how he can help them out.
Just like Cindy Cone had no idea the DA was going to be dissolved but was named to US Soccer President in March of 2020 but somehow NCFC where she also worked was able to get ahead of it and go back to ECNL before the DA was dissolved in March also.
Okay.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 11:52
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Mike Cullina runs US Club soccer who also runs ECNL. Mike Cullina is the founder of VDA. If you look at their slate on the girls side, they always get coaches who will bring teams (MW and now BP) since they dont know how to develop players.
Look at the UNION Boys scores vs VDA, UNION boys are stronger then VDA.
The merger decision was made by Mike Cullina at US CLub Soccer. He wanted to make VDA stronger with more kids available for them.
Include Richmond United. ECNL-RU-USCS-VDA all in one. USCS got a big deal an d opportunity when appointed to investigate all those club players SH complains we learned about.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 11:47
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Mike Cullina runs US Club soccer who also runs ECNL. Mike Cullina is the founder of VDA. If you look at their slate on the girls side, they always get coaches who will bring teams (MW and now BP) since they dont know how to develop players.
Look at the UNION Boys scores vs VDA, UNION boys are stronger then VDA.
The merger decision was made by Mike Cullina at US CLub Soccer. He wanted to make VDA stronger with more kids available for them.
When you change jobs do you concern yourself with making the place you left and longer work at better?
I seriously doubt Mike Cullina worries about how VDA is doing and how he can help them out.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 11:44
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Mike Cullina runs US Club soccer who also runs ECNL. Mike Cullina is the founder of VDA. If you look at their slate on the girls side, they always get coaches who will bring teams (MW and now BP) since they dont know how to develop players.
Look at the UNION Boys scores vs VDA, UNION boys are stronger then VDA.
The merger decision was made by Mike Cullina at US CLub Soccer. He wanted to make VDA stronger with more kids available for them.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 11:42
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
No, but the connection to ECNL and USCS leadership is strong at PWSI/VDA. Their word holds a lot of weight due to that relationship.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 11:39
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
You think vda forced Union and brave merge?
Anonymous
02/29/2024 10:45
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
This is very true! These two clubs make the decisions for ECNL in this area.
Anonymous
02/29/2024 10:43
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
+1
Anonymous
02/29/2024 10:39
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:No idea. VDA and Richmond going to run ECNL into the ground.
What?
Clearly you have no idea the people that run ECNL
Anonymous
02/28/2024 08:51
Subject: ECNL (in Richmond) Squeezing out Northern Virginia Clubs
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:ECNL is hurting the DEVELOPMENT of kids in NOVA. Less clubs doesn't equal more wins or development of players. It does equal focusing on a few standout selfish players who are all about advancing themselves. Look at the USWNT, they can't win even against average opponents It's a bunch of players aching to claim, I got mine.
ECNL wasn't built to showcase players that can play the international game. It was designed to showcase players for colleges. NCAA soccer is not reflective of the FIFA game/global game.
Maybe when NCAA dissolves or aligns itself with the global game is when things improve.
Why would the NCAA dissolve D1, especially D1 mens may disappear, but DIII sports help attract tuition paying students.
The transfer portal, and subsequent anti trust lawsuits will change the NCAA one way or another.