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Anonymous wrote:This is cute. Wait one year from now when Arlington announces they have left ECNL. I've posted here several times it's confirmed from within the club they are leaving ECNL. I know three folks there. Two are coaches. All three confirmed almost two months ago.

But, let this nice "memo" keep you warm at night. What is Arlington suppose to say? Yes, the rumors are true we're leaving ECNL? LOL. They are just weathering the storm so they don't get questions.

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

We live in Arlington and had to move our sons out long ago. Arlington strongly favored the girls. Boys ECNL is a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

We live in Arlington and had to move our sons out long ago. Arlington strongly favored the girls. Boys ECNL is a joke.

And the Girls program doesn't do anything either, so all around Arlington just doesn't get it done.

Club leadership should have not addressed this rumor. Now when they turn face next year and go to MLSN/GA they are going to look more untrustworthy to their membership. Probably going to come up with some excuse about diminishing competition in ECNL and the negative impact of longer commutes due to the lack of nearby competition in Mid Atlantic.

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

We live in Arlington and had to move our sons out long ago. Arlington strongly favored the girls. Boys ECNL is a joke.

And the Girls program doesn't do anything either, so all around Arlington just doesn't get it done.

Club leadership should have not addressed this rumor. Now when they turn face next year and go to MLSN/GA they are going to look more untrustworthy to their membership. Probably going to come up with some excuse about diminishing competition in ECNL and the negative impact of longer commutes due to the lack of nearby competition in Mid Atlantic.

Book mark this post-12 months from now we'll be calling him Futballdamous

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

We live in Arlington and had to move our sons out long ago. Arlington strongly favored the girls. Boys ECNL is a joke.

And the Girls program doesn't do anything either, so all around Arlington just doesn't get it done.

Club leadership should have not addressed this rumor. Now when they turn face next year and go to MLSN/GA they are going to look more untrustworthy to their membership. Probably going to come up with some excuse about diminishing competition in ECNL and the negative impact of longer commutes due to the lack of nearby competition in Mid Atlantic.

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

We live in Arlington and had to move our sons out long ago. Arlington strongly favored the girls. Boys ECNL is a joke.

And the Girls program doesn't do anything either, so all around Arlington just doesn't get it done.

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Anonymous wrote:From a parent and outsider’s perspective who has recently attended tryouts and several post tryouts ID sessions and practices across five different clubs, the Arlington experience was by far the best organized and felt the most polished in terms of club and coaching quality.

Most clubs in the region are dysfunctional in some regard. While DD hasn’t played a season for Arlington the social media confirmation of who they are and what they want to be is a huge plus point in my book simply because so many other clubs can’t seem to string together enough seasons without trying to rebrand themselves as something new or better. I give Arlington kudos for communicating a clear and frankly taking a double down approach through a consistent message on who they continue to be. How anybody can argue that reinforcing who and what you are is a bad thing should experience the other side of the coin with clubs that seemingly ebb and flow season to season through the league affiliation and club partnerships game.

Thankfully my daughter is in an older age group for girls and can see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding her playing career pre college. I won’t miss the dysfunction of Mid Atlantic soccer.

Guess what, I know it’s hard to hear with your ECNL hat on….if she was going to college in ECNL, she was going to college in GA.

This is some of the biggest tryhard BS! Stats don’t lie, and for better or worse ECNL does a better job of giving college coaches the players they want to recruit.

I get it, your club is prioritizing boys and forcing your girls team to play GA and you have to pretend that it’s all a good thing. But face facts - the GA switches are happening because a few clubs in the area think boys are simply more important (and a better source of revenue) than girls.

If your daughter is worth less than your son, I guess this all makes sense to you. But be honest with yourself, that’s the decision Loudoun has made.

We live in Arlington and had to move our sons out long ago. Arlington strongly favored the girls. Boys ECNL is a joke.

Anonymous wrote:Arlington boys parents saddened by the post. They were all hoping for an MLSN move in the future but the club siding with the girls program.

Anonymous wrote:Arlington boys parents saddened by the post. They were all hoping for an MLSN move in the future but the club siding with the girls program.