Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 15:40     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
It’s hard to imagine that KJ is on the US Club Board and has this forced on him. He was the driving force behind BRAVE from the Vienna side. Is this just a ploy to separate from the BRYC leadership and partner with McLean?
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 15:40     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
this is clearly all false. this makes no sense.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 15:37     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:Not sure why Brave girls wouldn’t want to go to Union (if Brave is no longer a choice). Practice fields are all close by. Union has an amazing college placement track record. Lots of the Vienna and McLean kids play other sports together and know each other. And the Union 2008s, 09s, and 11s could use some strengthening on the girls side. The biggest issue is the 2010s — Union is very strong there and Brave has a solid 2010s team. That’ll be a tough combination.


They may actually need Brave's 2010s as many of the current Union players could be considering a return to the Springfield area. Just saying...
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 14:58     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:BRAVE should have partnered with FCV long time ago.


This would have made zero sense a long time ago. It makes lots of sense now though. Brave has fields and coaches and kids that need a team to play on. FCV needs all those things. Proximity would have been an issue before, but Brave home base is close enough to TSJ at least.

Who picks up the phone first and who says no?
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 14:52     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Not sure why Brave girls wouldn’t want to go to Union (if Brave is no longer a choice). Practice fields are all close by. Union has an amazing college placement track record. Lots of the Vienna and McLean kids play other sports together and know each other. And the Union 2008s, 09s, and 11s could use some strengthening on the girls side. The biggest issue is the 2010s — Union is very strong there and Brave has a solid 2010s team. That’ll be a tough combination.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 14:31     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
BRAVE should have partnered with FCV long time ago.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 14:24     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Prediction on Coaching staff:

0 Brave HC (maybe a few as assistant coaches)

6 McLean HC


Why would Brave families blindly go to this new organization without any familiar coaches being there? Because ECNL told them to?


Sorry to break the hard truth to you, they are saying not enough NoVa, Brave sit down you are now Union, next
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 14:22     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:
Following youth soccer for many years, I told myself a few years ago that the only stable, healthy youth soccer organization in NOVA is Arlington.

We shall see if the stable, healthy soccer organization would help Arlington to emerge from the shadow of McLean, recover from the DA collapse, and excel at ECNL.


If that's the case, why not include Loudoun? Both are similar. They both are huge, selling 4-5 travel teams per age group all the way to U19 nearly.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 14:06     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
If this is somehow true BRAVE should partner with TSJ on GA and flip the bird to ECNL. ECNL Boys is a league with no future. BRAVE girls are going to scatter to TSJ, SYC, Arl, so might as well be in the fold instead of just watching your players leave and Union keeping their rosters pretty much as is.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 14:01     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:Prediction on Coaching staff:

0 Brave HC (maybe a few as assistant coaches)

6 McLean HC


Why would Brave families blindly go to this new organization without any familiar coaches being there? Because ECNL told them to?
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 13:58     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Said earlier this week best bet is Arlington or SYC most consistent brands left after this mess. Avoid this shit show go play GA get developed, worry about the best team when they come looking for you
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 13:58     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:
Following youth soccer for many years, I told myself a few years ago that the only stable, healthy youth soccer organization in NOVA is Arlington.

We shall see if the stable, healthy soccer organization would help Arlington to emerge from the shadow of McLean, recover from the DA collapse, and excel at ECNL.


Even if Arlington was the only healthy, stable club (and this is a stretch), the individual families are not immune from external environmental changes.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 13:51     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:
Following youth soccer for many years, I told myself a few years ago that the only stable, healthy youth soccer organization in NOVA is Arlington.

We shall see if the stable, healthy soccer organization would help Arlington to emerge from the shadow of McLean, recover from the DA collapse, and excel at ECNL.


This is a funny take.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 13:50     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership
Anonymous wrote:Prediction on Coaching staff:

0 Brave HC (maybe a few as assistant coaches)

6 McLean HC


MV using his favorite players as leverage for a coaching position.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2024 13:40     Subject: ECNL forcing Brave & Union Partnership

Following youth soccer for many years, I told myself a few years ago that the only stable, healthy youth soccer organization in NOVA is Arlington.

We shall see if the stable, healthy soccer organization would help Arlington to emerge from the shadow of McLean, recover from the DA collapse, and excel at ECNL.