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Anonymous wrote:Choosing GA over ECNL. Good way to lose the best players.

Can they do both? Have two teams, one in GA and one in ECNL? Learning.

There's no club that fields GA and ECNL Girls National together. There are a few that offer GA and ECNL Boys but ECNL has been taking those clubs and offering them full ECNL Girls positions lately to try to boost their league. No club that has GA and MLS Next has moved to ECNL as far as I know.

Anonymous wrote:Choosing GA over ECNL. Good way to lose the best players.

Can they do both? Have two teams, one in GA and one in ECNL? Learning.

Anonymous wrote:It's going to be a death knell to Alexandria girls... unfortunately. There were a couple ID sessions tonight for their top teams and only 5-6 new girls showed up for my daughter's team, Maybe a couple more from other ASA lower teams

ASA makes enough money that they'll be fine for the foreseeable future.

Anonymous wrote:SYC is perhaps the only high-end authentic football program in the DMV. They are very strong in the U9-12 years, but they lose their best talent along the way to the big clubs. Union was supposed to give the girls an in-house path, but can you imagine a less authentic football town than McLean? In 3 years, SYC will be the best girls program in Virginia.

SYC is perhaps the only high-end authentic football program in the DMV. They are very strong in the U9-12 years, but they lose their best talent along the way to the big clubs. Union was supposed to give the girls an in-house path, but can you imagine a less authentic football town than McLean? In 3 years, SYC will be the best girls program in Virginia.

Anonymous wrote:It's going to be a death knell to Alexandria girls... unfortunately. There were a couple ID sessions tonight for their top teams and only 5-6 new girls showed up for my daughter's team, Maybe a couple more from other ASA lower teams

ASA also had ID sessions tonight?

It's going to be a death knell to Alexandria girls... unfortunately. There were a couple ID sessions tonight for their top teams and only 5-6 new girls showed up for my daughter's team, Maybe a couple more from other ASA lower teams

Anonymous wrote:It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.

You got to start somewhere and they went from no national league platform to maybe having to carry the water for VA in GA, literally overnight. Give them time, in the 2009-2012 age groups, their is unmistakebale talent, who are Springfield girls mainly, along with the top players who don't make it at a ECNL clubs for whatever reason and there are many reasons why ECNL level girls will pass on the McBrave mess, will pas on the NVA medocrity, or pass on the FCV shakeup which seems persistent; or to avoiding poor coaches, toxic parents, mean girl teammates, privilged teammates who don't put the work in unless their personal trainer says jump, higher! Its all there, so VA its going to be a wild spring, buckle up

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.

And it seems like SYC has done a good job of trying to retain that group vs lose them to ECNL clubs.

Nothing matters until U16-U17. Kids will move when recruiting matters.

Agree. But a few years can change the landscape as well, buying into these national programs with lots of travel and stress can be bad for players. If you're looking for a platform to be showcased it's not necessary until HS age.

What are you even talking about? The title of this thread is "SYC to GA".

You are already in a national program. The difference is, you'll drive to PA and NJ to play what amounts to be EDP level teams. But, I have seen several posts regarding people looking to go to SYC because it will be closer for practice. If a 15-20 more minutes of drive time is a breaking point then you're going to love away games.

GA isn't structured like ECNL, especially at the younger ages.

ECNL for U13/14 they play the entire conference twice during league, away and home so the league year consists of 20+ games, usually 22-24 and driving to NC probably around 3 times for an entire weekend. Once U15 comes that number drops in half to accommodate for HS.

GA MA conference is divided into north and south. All the age groups have the same format. Play everybody in your division twice which the furthest north would be Keystone this season for the south division. North opponents are only played once and the hosting team switches each year so teams only have to slot out one entire weekend to travel for league play vs North opponents and vice versa. Generally 16-18 games during the season.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.

And it seems like SYC has done a good job of trying to retain that group vs lose them to ECNL clubs.

Nothing matters until U16-U17. Kids will move when recruiting matters.

Agree. But a few years can change the landscape as well, buying into these national programs with lots of travel and stress can be bad for players. If you're looking for a platform to be showcased it's not necessary until HS age.

What are you even talking about? The title of this thread is "SYC to GA".

You are already in a national program. The difference is, you'll drive to PA and NJ to play what amounts to be EDP level teams. But, I have seen several posts regarding people looking to go to SYC because it will be closer for practice. If a 15-20 more minutes of drive time is a breaking point then you're going to love away games.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.

Good group for sure but don’t see them projecting to be overly athletic in the future.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.

And it seems like SYC has done a good job of trying to retain that group vs lose them to ECNL clubs.

Nothing matters until U16-U17. Kids will move when recruiting matters.

Agree. But a few years can change the landscape as well, buying into these national programs with lots of travel and stress can be bad for players. If you're looking for a platform to be showcased it's not necessary until HS age.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.

And it seems like SYC has done a good job of trying to retain that group vs lose them to ECNL clubs.

Nothing matters until U16-U17. Kids will move when recruiting matters.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.

And it seems like SYC has done a good job of trying to retain that group vs lose them to ECNL clubs.

It seems like SYC just remembered they had an older girls program, it was dead until GA fell out of the sky. That said, if they bring in talent, and develop like they have on the boys side, the scouts and the pathway will develop. Or the best kids just transfer later to ECNL if it doesn’t. Not sure about the older groups but several of the top players in the area are on the 2012 SYC team. Good start.