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Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

and VRSC.
http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/teams/113390582/102591237-113390678/TEAM.html

Not possible to do both.

Likely the NCSL website just needs to be updated. The Club Admins/ registrars usually just register every team with what ever information they have from last season to save time. Team managers usually go in and clean up the mistakes.

except he didn’t work for VRSC last year…he was FCV.

Good point, looks like he is signed up to coach at both organizations. Thought it was a typo. Hmmm.

Breaking contract clauses - youth clubs put those clauses but it seems VAR will do anything. Like buying entry to a league despite having no quality as a club or talent developed

Anonymous wrote:We joined a club this season that takes our drive from 5mins to 45mins to get to practice. Why? Well it was time for our kid to try out for ECNL and GA national teams. The teams nearby at our age level had established goal keepers and we didn’t really feel we were getting a fair shake at demonstrating our skills during tryouts. Keepers are a coaches comfort position. If they have one they like they aren’t looking that hard at tryouts to find another. To move ourselves to a level where we could at least compete at the ECNL and GA national level we were willing to drive. One thing we have found is that as a keeper we have improved the most when our teams are the worst. We want to play against the best, not with the best. While we didn’t have many offers to play at national level clubs across NOVA, we did get an offer. Coaching wasn’t our primary decision point. We wanted to get invited to dance first. The level of competition was what led us to drive 80 extra mins per day. We can pay for better private coaching, what we need is to play against better competition.

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Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

and VRSC.
http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/teams/113390582/102591237-113390678/TEAM.html

Not possible to do both.

Likely the NCSL website just needs to be updated. The Club Admins/ registrars usually just register every team with what ever information they have from last season to save time. Team managers usually go in and clean up the mistakes.

except he didn’t work for VRSC last year…he was FCV.

Good point, looks like he is signed up to coach at both organizations. Thought it was a typo. Hmmm.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

and VRSC.
http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/teams/113390582/102591237-113390678/TEAM.html

Not possible to do both.

Likely the NCSL website just needs to be updated. The Club Admins/ registrars usually just register every team with what ever information they have from last season to save time. Team managers usually go in and clean up the mistakes.

except he didn’t work for VRSC last year…he was FCV.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

and VRSC.
http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/teams/113390582/102591237-113390678/TEAM.html

Not possible to do both.

Likely the NCSL website just needs to be updated. The Club Admins/ registrars usually just register every team with what ever information they have from last season to save time. Team managers usually go in and clean up the mistakes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

and VRSC.
http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/teams/113390582/102591237-113390678/TEAM.html

Not possible to do both.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

and VRSC.
http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/teams/113390582/102591237-113390678/TEAM.html

Not possible to do both.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

and VRSC.
http://elements.demosphere.com/80738/teams/113390582/102591237-113390678/TEAM.html

Anonymous wrote:Mystery revealed. MD went to MD.
Mount St. Mary’s. He didn’t leave the country but I’m never faulting someone that leaves for a college spot and especially D1.

https://mountathletics.com/news/2024/8/7/mens-soccer-marcos-garcia-and-matio-dimov-join-soccer-coaching-staffs.aspx

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Anonymous wrote:The coaches are fine. Coaching is not the problem. The problem is getting a large enough player pool to have competitive teams especially on the girls side. There are too many clubs and teams concentrated in a small area. The only way to grow your pool is to get good players to leave another club which is a tough sell. It’s supply and demand.

That would make sense if the club didn’t have 2 teams per age group in years past. Now, it’s at 1/2 per age group. Can’t grow your pool, when everyone has jumped ship.
No, it’s not the coaches- they’re all new. It’s the leadership.

Leadership inspires coaches, coaches inspire players. A break in that chain and people bail. But any basic business growth strategy includes protecting or retaining the base. Even fast food places have loyalty programs. They failed to do that...clearly.

Dude you are way over thinking this. Who is choosing a club for their kid because they are inspired by the leadership or coaches? Most just choose the one that is closest to where they live and where most of their friends play. When they get older, some might need to switch clubs in search of more playing time. Stop making this so complicated.

For Rec Soccer sure. Not for serious kids with college aspirations.

No, even for the serious kids. On any ECNL team, the large majority of players are from nearby. Most of NVA's players live in Loudoun or western fairfax. Most of Arlington's team lives closeby, and so on. Yes there are exceptions where a player will travel far when there are closer options but those are usually because they weren't getting enough playing time. It's really the exception to play for a ECNL team that is significantly further away when there are other ECNL teams close by.

Good players will travel beyond their "local" ECNL club for better coaches/teams.

Some will but it’s very much the exception. Majority of the team will be locals.

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Anonymous wrote:The coaches are fine. Coaching is not the problem. The problem is getting a large enough player pool to have competitive teams especially on the girls side. There are too many clubs and teams concentrated in a small area. The only way to grow your pool is to get good players to leave another club which is a tough sell. It’s supply and demand.

That would make sense if the club didn’t have 2 teams per age group in years past. Now, it’s at 1/2 per age group. Can’t grow your pool, when everyone has jumped ship.
No, it’s not the coaches- they’re all new. It’s the leadership.

Leadership inspires coaches, coaches inspire players. A break in that chain and people bail. But any basic business growth strategy includes protecting or retaining the base. Even fast food places have loyalty programs. They failed to do that...clearly.

Dude you are way over thinking this. Who is choosing a club for their kid because they are inspired by the leadership or coaches? Most just choose the one that is closest to where they live and where most of their friends play. When they get older, some might need to switch clubs in search of more playing time. Stop making this so complicated.

I think OP used the wrong word "inspire" I don't think they were using it in the traditional inspirational sense. Leadership impacts coaches, coaches impact players. If leadership is broken, coaches leave and then players will leave. it has a domino/cascading affect.

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Anonymous wrote:The coaches are fine. Coaching is not the problem. The problem is getting a large enough player pool to have competitive teams especially on the girls side. There are too many clubs and teams concentrated in a small area. The only way to grow your pool is to get good players to leave another club which is a tough sell. It’s supply and demand.

That would make sense if the club didn’t have 2 teams per age group in years past. Now, it’s at 1/2 per age group. Can’t grow your pool, when everyone has jumped ship.
No, it’s not the coaches- they’re all new. It’s the leadership.

Leadership inspires coaches, coaches inspire players. A break in that chain and people bail. But any basic business growth strategy includes protecting or retaining the base. Even fast food places have loyalty programs. They failed to do that...clearly.

Dude you are way over thinking this. Who is choosing a club for their kid because they are inspired by the leadership or coaches? Most just choose the one that is closest to where they live and where most of their friends play. When they get older, some might need to switch clubs in search of more playing time. Stop making this so complicated.

For Rec Soccer sure. Not for serious kids with college aspirations.

No, even for the serious kids. On any ECNL team, the large majority of players are from nearby. Most of NVA's players live in Loudoun or western fairfax. Most of Arlington's team lives closeby, and so on. Yes there are exceptions where a player will travel far when there are closer options but those are usually because they weren't getting enough playing time. It's really the exception to play for a ECNL team that is significantly further away when there are other ECNL teams close by.

Good players will travel beyond their "local" ECNL club for better coaches/teams.

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Anonymous wrote:The coaches are fine. Coaching is not the problem. The problem is getting a large enough player pool to have competitive teams especially on the girls side. There are too many clubs and teams concentrated in a small area. The only way to grow your pool is to get good players to leave another club which is a tough sell. It’s supply and demand.

That would make sense if the club didn’t have 2 teams per age group in years past. Now, it’s at 1/2 per age group. Can’t grow your pool, when everyone has jumped ship.
No, it’s not the coaches- they’re all new. It’s the leadership.

Leadership inspires coaches, coaches inspire players. A break in that chain and people bail. But any basic business growth strategy includes protecting or retaining the base. Even fast food places have loyalty programs. They failed to do that...clearly.

Dude you are way over thinking this. Who is choosing a club for their kid because they are inspired by the leadership or coaches? Most just choose the one that is closest to where they live and where most of their friends play. When they get older, some might need to switch clubs in search of more playing time. Stop making this so complicated.

For Rec Soccer sure. Not for serious kids with college aspirations.

No, even for the serious kids. On any ECNL team, the large majority of players are from nearby. Most of NVA's players live in Loudoun or western fairfax. Most of Arlington's team lives closeby, and so on. Yes there are exceptions where a player will travel far when there are closer options but those are usually because they weren't getting enough playing time. It's really the exception to play for a ECNL team that is significantly further away when there are other ECNL teams close by.