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Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.

Parent's money doesn't play on the field. A parent can drop $10,000 a year and if their kid sucks they suck.

It's not about money. It's about TALENT. McLean has the best GIRLS talented players in the area. 2013 Green is just one example. Ranked top 10 in the nation for the last few years. There are other similar teams. Kids want to play on winning teams with other players are who talented and who WIN. That's why so many clubs hate McLean because they are a draw to any player who's actually good.

Now, the for the boys side it's a different story. But, for girl players McLean is the best spot.

The 2013 team is remnant of DB. He's gone and so is the talent after his departure. 2014 is not even in the same ballpark as 2013 and my sources say 2015 is even less so. It shows a trend that is not favorable and now moving to GA will not help bolster those teams it will only hurt.

Might be giving to much credit to DB, the 2013's are still ranked like top ten in country (on rankings app for whatever thats worth) and #1 in VA

Anonymous wrote:I think it is safe to say that FVU, who has now scrubbed McLean from their website and only list Vienna and BRYC will have Vienna and BRYC coaches. FVU already had WAY too many coaches, one team, three teams worth of coaches. Why would they show loyalty to the McLean coaches? The Vienna and BRYC coaches and admin will protect the Vienna and BRYC coaches. This without thought to the fact that the coaches on the girls side at FVU were mostly Vienna coaches, who supposedly picked the “best” kids from the three clubs and managed to produce teams with a worse record than the Union teams. Hard to do. Total debacle of politics, bad player evaluation, and bad coaching. How do you combine the supposed “best” of Brave and Union and get worse records? But I guarantee you, the coaches announced for the FVU girls will be heavy MV and LO and maybe
NM and ML if GFR joins the union. It will be interesting to see if GFR gets any voting rights in the new Union, doubtful, and if no, then expect less NM and ML. Enjoy some kickball and questionable starters. But none of this matters when the boys side also got worse and ECNL will likely revoke the charter in a year anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.

Parent's money doesn't play on the field. A parent can drop $10,000 a year and if their kid sucks they suck.

It's not about money. It's about TALENT. McLean has the best GIRLS talented players in the area. 2013 Green is just one example. Ranked top 10 in the nation for the last few years. There are other similar teams. Kids want to play on winning teams with other players are who talented and who WIN. That's why so many clubs hate McLean because they are a draw to any player who's actually good.

Now, the for the boys side it's a different story. But, for girl players McLean is the best spot.

The 2013 team is remnant of DB. He's gone and so is the talent after his departure. 2014 is not even in the same ballpark as 2013 and my sources say 2015 is even less so. It shows a trend that is not favorable and now moving to GA will not help bolster those teams it will only hurt.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.

Parent's money doesn't play on the field. A parent can drop $10,000 a year and if their kid sucks they suck.

It's not about money. It's about TALENT. McLean has the best GIRLS talented players in the area. 2013 Green is just one example. Ranked top 10 in the nation for the last few years. There are other similar teams. Kids want to play on winning teams with other players are who talented and who WIN. That's why so many clubs hate McLean because they are a draw to any player who's actually good.

Now, the for the boys side it's a different story. But, for girl players McLean is the best spot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.

Parent's money doesn't play on the field. A parent can drop $10,000 a year and if their kid sucks they suck.

It's not about money. It's about TALENT. McLean has the best GIRLS talented players in the area. 2013 Green is just one example. Ranked top 10 in the nation for the last few years. There are other similar teams. Kids want to play on winning teams with other players are who talented and who WIN. That's why so many clubs hate McLean because they are a draw to any player who's actually good.

Now, the for the boys side it's a different story. But, for girl players McLean is the best spot.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.

Parent's money doesn't play on the field. A parent can drop $10,000 a year and if their kid sucks they suck.

It's not about money. It's about TALENT. McLean has the best GIRLS talented players in the area. 2013 Green is just one example. Ranked top 10 in the nation for the last few years. There are other similar teams. Kids want to play on winning teams with other players are who talented and who WIN. That's why so many clubs hate McLean because they are a draw to any player who's actually good.

Now, the for the boys side it's a different story. But, for girl players McLean is the best spot.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:What does all of this mean for the other McLean Teams (white and gold?) Are they impacted in all these sweeping changes?

The current white (2nd teams) will presumably play Aspire and gold will stay where they are (NCSL?). I know the MYS email said that Green would be Aspire, but I can't imagine that the club is going to attract a whole new roster at every age group to play GA. I suspect most of the players on green/RL teams will end up on the GA team.

As a longtime MYS parent I spoke to directors and each age group will have a GA team and a GA aspire team. Like it was said earlier in the post the GA aspire section of the email is referring to the RL teams and players on those teams will also have the chance of trying out for the GA team. Also I grew up playing in the area including in college and with my kids playing at different clubs I’ve gotten to know a lot of coaches in the area. From what I gather MYS and NVA are going to GA…Bethesda will eventually be required to switch over to GA since GA is now partnered with MLS next and Arlington has put in a bid for MLS next but won’t find out if accepted until next winter which would switch them over to GA as well. I expected the change eventually just not this early due to problems at ECNL. It will be interesting to see since ECNL is changing age groupings and MLS next/GA is not. Overall these leagues and the changes are a mess and parents just have to do their best to navigate it as the landscape continues to change

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.

Parent's money doesn't play on the field. A parent can drop $10,000 a year and if their kid sucks they suck.

It's not about money. It's about TALENT. McLean has the best GIRLS talented players in the area. 2013 Green is just one example. Ranked top 10 in the nation for the last few years. There are other similar teams. Kids want to play on winning teams with other players are who talented and who WIN. That's why so many clubs hate McLean because they are a draw to any player who's actually good.

Now, the for the boys side it's a different story. But, for girl players McLean is the best spot.

Anonymous wrote:Questions on the McLeam Boys Side:

1. Has a formal announcement been made yet, like was done on the girls side?

2. I saw informally in an FAQs list that McLean Boys Team 1 will be MLS Next II and Team 2 will be NAL. But isn’t NAL operating MLS Next II? Will there still be a separate NAL league?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does all of this mean for the other McLean Teams (white and gold?) Are they impacted in all these sweeping changes?

The current white (2nd teams) will presumably play Aspire and gold will stay where they are (NCSL?). I know the MYS email said that Green would be Aspire, but I can't imagine that the club is going to attract a whole new roster at every age group to play GA. I suspect most of the players on green/RL teams will end up on the GA team.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.

Parent's money doesn't play on the field. A parent can drop $10,000 a year and if their kid sucks they suck.

It's not about money. It's about TALENT. McLean has the best GIRLS talented players in the area. 2013 Green is just one example. Ranked top 10 in the nation for the last few years. There are other similar teams. Kids want to play on winning teams with other players are who talented and who WIN. That's why so many clubs hate McLean because they are a draw to any player who's actually good.

Now, the for the boys side it's a different story. But, for girl players McLean is the best spot.

Anonymous wrote:Theres nothing special about McLean girls its what can a core group with mommy and daddy's money. Is there a former player or professional athlete offspring in the mix who understand daily training benefits for comfort on the ball. All you need is a lot of money and 2-3 families who actually know how to indentify an elite trainer/coach. Thats how you get the team that can compete nationally - 09 + 10 VDA, 11 Arlington for example. Those parents are wealthy and invested. McLean always has the chance for the recipe and it happend in 2013, lets see if that teams goes to GA or not.