Anonymous wrote:Go frolic losers or should I say bruh https://socalsoccer.com/

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Anonymous wrote:anybody in Georgia know if AFC Lightning in the Southeast conference is staying in GA or got removed? I understand they have been on probation

Well that came out of no where for a DMV thread

This thread has gone national

which is good in my opinion. I have enjoyed people who know other areas of the country commenting about ECNL, RL and GA.

Understanding why other locations are able to win is the first step in winning yourself.

My feedback (Socal) is that there seems to be a lot of euro grifters in DMV riding on their accents. Not that someone with an accent can't be a good coach. But an accent by itself doesn't make a coach good. Also a suspect that there isn't a big soccer culture. Here's an example. In Socal either LA or SD there's parks you can go to on weekends where parents hang out and grill + kids just play soccer with their friends all day long. These players may or may not ever get involved with teams playing in national leagues. They might just play in "mexican/latino leagues" and be done with it. Reguarding club culture it seems like DMV clubs are all against each other which makes sense but we're starting to see superclubs have 4 maybe 5 feeder clubs for talent that all work together to field the top team. This is different than recruiting from other clubs which also occurs. If all clubs are run correctly coaching and expectations should be the same for all clubs working together as a group which basically enables a large high level player pool that can be tapped into when creating a top team. (Slammers and Legends do this) One last thing that needs to change is the DMV league snob attitude by patents. Who you beat locally doesn't matter if neither of your teams can compete nationally. If you want to play at the highest levels you should only consider the highest level competition as something to discuss, work to, or get excited about. Nothing else matters.

Funny enough, I have connections at both Slammers and Legends. What age is your kid?

Let's find out what a worldie your kid is and why you go somewhere else to doo doo talk. Not taken seriously enough at home?

You have no clue. There's 4-5 Slammers and Legends clubs/teams either directly or indirectly affiliated behind each top team you see playing in ECNL. The movement to the top team starts filtering up at a young age. This is what I'm talking about. When you play the Legends team in Riverside that practices at Silveakes your not playing against players from that area only. You're playing super teams made up of players from all over LA and SD.

Anonymous wrote:Go frolic losers or should I say bruh https://socalsoccer.com/

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Anonymous wrote:anybody in Georgia know if AFC Lightning in the Southeast conference is staying in GA or got removed? I understand they have been on probation

Well that came out of no where for a DMV thread

This thread has gone national

which is good in my opinion. I have enjoyed people who know other areas of the country commenting about ECNL, RL and GA.

Understanding why other locations are able to win is the first step in winning yourself.

My feedback (Socal) is that there seems to be a lot of euro grifters in DMV riding on their accents. Not that someone with an accent can't be a good coach. But an accent by itself doesn't make a coach good. Also a suspect that there isn't a big soccer culture. Here's an example. In Socal either LA or SD there's parks you can go to on weekends where parents hang out and grill + kids just play soccer with their friends all day long. These players may or may not ever get involved with teams playing in national leagues. They might just play in "mexican/latino leagues" and be done with it. Reguarding club culture it seems like DMV clubs are all against each other which makes sense but we're starting to see superclubs have 4 maybe 5 feeder clubs for talent that all work together to field the top team. This is different than recruiting from other clubs which also occurs. If all clubs are run correctly coaching and expectations should be the same for all clubs working together as a group which basically enables a large high level player pool that can be tapped into when creating a top team. (Slammers and Legends do this) One last thing that needs to change is the DMV league snob attitude by patents. Who you beat locally doesn't matter if neither of your teams can compete nationally. If you want to play at the highest levels you should only consider the highest level competition as something to discuss, work to, or get excited about. Nothing else matters.

Funny enough, I have connections at both Slammers and Legends. What age is your kid?

Let's find out what a worldie your kid is and why you go somewhere else to doo doo talk. Not taken seriously enough at home?

You have no clue. There's 4-5 Slammers and Legends clubs/teams either directly or indirectly affiliated behind each top team you see playing in ECNL. The movement to the top team starts filtering up at a young age. This is what I'm talking about. When you play the Legends team in Riverside that practices at Silveakes your not playing against players from that area only. You're playing super teams made up of players from all over LA and SD.

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Anonymous wrote:anybody in Georgia know if AFC Lightning in the Southeast conference is staying in GA or got removed? I understand they have been on probation

Well that came out of no where for a DMV thread

This thread has gone national

which is good in my opinion. I have enjoyed people who know other areas of the country commenting about ECNL, RL and GA.

Understanding why other locations are able to win is the first step in winning yourself.

My feedback (Socal) is that there seems to be a lot of euro grifters in DMV riding on their accents. Not that someone with an accent can't be a good coach. But an accent by itself doesn't make a coach good. Also a suspect that there isn't a big soccer culture. Here's an example. In Socal either LA or SD there's parks you can go to on weekends where parents hang out and grill + kids just play soccer with their friends all day long. These players may or may not ever get involved with teams playing in national leagues. They might just play in "mexican/latino leagues" and be done with it. Reguarding club culture it seems like DMV clubs are all against each other which makes sense but we're starting to see superclubs have 4 maybe 5 feeder clubs for talent that all work together to field the top team. This is different than recruiting from other clubs which also occurs. If all clubs are run correctly coaching and expectations should be the same for all clubs working together as a group which basically enables a large high level player pool that can be tapped into when creating a top team. (Slammers and Legends do this) One last thing that needs to change is the DMV league snob attitude by patents. Who you beat locally doesn't matter if neither of your teams can compete nationally. If you want to play at the highest levels you should only consider the highest level competition as something to discuss, work to, or get excited about. Nothing else matters.

Funny enough, I have connections at both Slammers and Legends. What age is your kid?

Let's find out what a worldie your kid is and why you go somewhere else to doo doo talk. Not taken seriously enough at home?

Anonymous wrote:Yeah and if you’re DC was a real player you wouldn’t be on another regions spouting nonsense. You have a superior premier league product why gloat over in the championship. Weak sauce

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Anonymous wrote:anybody in Georgia know if AFC Lightning in the Southeast conference is staying in GA or got removed? I understand they have been on probation

Well that came out of no where for a DMV thread

This thread has gone national

which is good in my opinion. I have enjoyed people who know other areas of the country commenting about ECNL, RL and GA.

Understanding why other locations are able to win is the first step in winning yourself.

My feedback (Socal) is that there seems to be a lot of euro grifters in DMV riding on their accents. Not that someone with an accent can't be a good coach. But an accent by itself doesn't make a coach good. Also a suspect that there isn't a big soccer culture. Here's an example. In Socal either LA or SD there's parks you can go to on weekends where parents hang out and grill + kids just play soccer with their friends all day long. These players may or may not ever get involved with teams playing in national leagues. They might just play in "mexican/latino leagues" and be done with it. Reguarding club culture it seems like DMV clubs are all against each other which makes sense but we're starting to see superclubs have 4 maybe 5 feeder clubs for talent that all work together to field the top team. This is different than recruiting from other clubs which also occurs. If all clubs are run correctly coaching and expectations should be the same for all clubs working together as a group which basically enables a large high level player pool that can be tapped into when creating a top team. (Slammers and Legends do this) One last thing that needs to change is the DMV league snob attitude by patents. Who you beat locally doesn't matter if neither of your teams can compete nationally. If you want to play at the highest levels you should only consider the highest level competition as something to discuss, work to, or get excited about. Nothing else matters.

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Anonymous wrote:anybody in Georgia know if AFC Lightning in the Southeast conference is staying in GA or got removed? I understand they have been on probation

Well that came out of no where for a DMV thread

This thread has gone national

which is good in my opinion. I have enjoyed people who know other areas of the country commenting about ECNL, RL and GA.

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Anonymous wrote:Having had kids go through the recruiting process, my experience with getting recruited is force ranked as follows

A) Individual child proactive reach out to schools they are interested in
B) Club advocating for kids to colleges of choice
C) Talent ID events (Hawks, individual schools ECNL/GA id’s)
D) Showcases/playoffs (more to see kids from the categories above, VERY rarely do coaches wander past a game and say I want to have that kid I have no file on)
E) Any recruiting service. My experience is these are a waste of time.

Just my experience YMMV

Additionally, the number of D1 recruits at either GA or ECNL is vastly skewed to the 80/20 rule. Top clubs in either platform will put disproportionate amount of kids in programs while bottom half teams get few looks. hawks will get 10+ and FC Wisconsin will get 1 or 2 if any at all. So parents who brag about being on either platform that are not one of the top ~50 clubs are just coat tail riding……..

The Hawks have an excellent track record, no doubt, but I wonder if they might just be entering the toughest climate to succeed. The Wolves (MLSN) -- who they share facilities with -- is starting a girls program. With more GA clubs in MI, they may lose some of clubs that normally feed them top talent. The Nationals -- now in ECNL and in the same market -- are off to a more than solid start and may currently have a better reputation in terms of organization and coaching, which for the Hawks recently has been a bit of a carousel.

Nationals may have had the most rapid ascension as a program in the last five years. Not sure the reason but I remember Nationals teams being good, but they are excellent now.

Hawks are also excellent, something in the water in Detroit.

No clue if Nationals will overtake Hawks, but two clubs of that level within 30 mins of each other is something I wish DC had.

For a long time, the Hawks didn't have any ECNL competition in metro Detroit and could easily form super teams and offer 2 teams at the ECNL level (which provided another way to horde talent). They continue to use that reputation to attract top level players and have excellent teams, but the changes in youth soccer and competition by the Nationals, among others, is putting pressure on whether they can keep their second team, which often struggles. And some say the coaching there has become a complete dumpster fire and they only continue win despite it -- thanks to the talent -- and as a result skating now on really thin ice.

Looking at their website it seems all the ECNL teams are coached by Doug L and Michelle K, who seem to have been there a long time. Have Nationals had new coaches? It wouldn't be the ECNL access only as that is new and they were amazing in the GA.. like I said in my last post they might be the biggest "glow up" (as my daughter used to say) I have seen in a long time. New director? coaches? All I know is their u19 team kicked our ass this year.

2 people for all age groups for one of the nations top clubs? All I'll say that's not how the season started.

Do tell

All I'll I say is people love this club and others not so much and that's not surprising given their success (which continues). It's also a bit of a unicorn as a nonprofit and girls-only, so in some ways you want to root for them, even when they are so dominate. What's clear though is they had coaching issues this year and in previous years, giving rivals an opening.