Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:40
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Could you cite article, or provide a link. The mystery of some article helps no one and makes your post only one tier better than trolling.
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:36
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.
Thank you for the correction. Interesting, look who the ECNL teams currently are versus the old DA list. Spirit MD excluded, its Arlington, VDA, Spriit VA (Lououn/NVA) and then FCV which is now TSJ. this is kind of telling everyone. TSJ rumors of coming to ECNL are heating up now that NVA is bailing to GA, they may be the potential partner with GFR to take FVU's ecnl badge. VDA and Arlington are already ECNL for now. Could those be the three again like in the DA days VDA, Arlington and TBD Loudoun based club probably TSJ and GFR together. DA did not work for US soccer to run, which is why it failied, but it did not fail in attracting the very best girls in the country to play there, could this be happening but inversely with ECNL being the lite DA type league for just 60 girls, and GA is for everyone else. Plenty of D1 roster spots for two leagues but P4 is ECNL only. Thots?
You may have forgotten the part where MLS basically is US Soccer right?
And MLS runs MLSN.
And MLSN is partnered with GA.
See this a lot on the board. So what? MLSN has a loose low commitment agreement with GA. It is at best an agreement to spend some limited time together to see if we should do anything else in the future. There is nothing else to it. The agreement you would want to see would be with NWSL not MLSN or MLS. MSL is not going to step in front of NWSL on this issue even if NWSL does nothing. NWSL has limited interest because they have limited money but if they had interest they are more likely to partner with ECNL not GA.
I would advise you to go read an article about MLS starting their own Girls Professional league after the Fifa World Cup. And in that article you will see that NWSL would pretty much be forced to merge with this new pro league, because some not all MLS club’s owners are also heavily invested in NSWL.
The more you know
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:36
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t it McLean that saved BRYC and allowed them to partner and join ECNL with them? Why would ECNL allow BRYC to stay in the ECNL after one year and McLean leaving?
FALSE, McLEAN/VA UNION was going to lose their ECNL Charter and had to find a new partner.
BRAVE was doing worse than McLean so I think they were both in jeopardy.
That is incorrect; Brave had better teams on the girl's side and on the boy's side.
What are you smoking??? BRAVE's girls teams were awful.
Stop. Brave's girls teams were a little below average for ECNL teams (overall 9th of 13 MA teams; 2 of 6 in Champions league). And with no competing ECNL club in Fairfax, FVU will get a lot better environment to compete in than what Brave had.
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:35
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Less travel is preferred but unless you are in SoCal does less travel actually mean you are playing "elite" soccer. Probably not. By u15 everyone knows who the D1 players are, now its two years for P4 players to seperate from the pack and thats why unfortunately you need to travel to demonstrate that you are one of those P4 players. If you are not aiming for P4 why you fighting about ECNL? Sure your kid might not make it to p4 but if you aint aiming that hight then you are in the wrong league and then yes the travel is unnecessary. The travel argument will not move ECNL parents, trust!
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:33
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.
Thank you for the correction. Interesting, look who the ECNL teams currently are versus the old DA list. Spirit MD excluded, its Arlington, VDA, Spriit VA (Lououn/NVA) and then FCV which is now TSJ. this is kind of telling everyone. TSJ rumors of coming to ECNL are heating up now that NVA is bailing to GA, they may be the potential partner with GFR to take FVU's ecnl badge. VDA and Arlington are already ECNL for now. Could those be the three again like in the DA days VDA, Arlington and TBD Loudoun based club probably TSJ and GFR together. DA did not work for US soccer to run, which is why it failied, but it did not fail in attracting the very best girls in the country to play there, could this be happening but inversely with ECNL being the lite DA type league for just 60 girls, and GA is for everyone else. Plenty of D1 roster spots for two leagues but P4 is ECNL only. Thots?
You may have forgotten the part where MLS basically is US Soccer right?
And MLS runs MLSN.
And MLSN is partnered with GA.
Is this the case? MLS is really doing all this? Where are the girls academies then?
Honestly, I wouldn’t consider the girls academies as the pro academy….yet.
They don’t attract great talent just yet. Players are not being told to join them yet. And they aren’t free yet.
I would imagine in a few years, they will shift.
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:33
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.
Thank you for the correction. Interesting, look who the ECNL teams currently are versus the old DA list. Spirit MD excluded, its Arlington, VDA, Spriit VA (Lououn/NVA) and then FCV which is now TSJ. this is kind of telling everyone. TSJ rumors of coming to ECNL are heating up now that NVA is bailing to GA, they may be the potential partner with GFR to take FVU's ecnl badge. VDA and Arlington are already ECNL for now. Could those be the three again like in the DA days VDA, Arlington and TBD Loudoun based club probably TSJ and GFR together. DA did not work for US soccer to run, which is why it failied, but it did not fail in attracting the very best girls in the country to play there, could this be happening but inversely with ECNL being the lite DA type league for just 60 girls, and GA is for everyone else. Plenty of D1 roster spots for two leagues but P4 is ECNL only. Thots?
Just FYI, but Spirit VA was never Loudoun/NVA. It was Metro (Alexandria).
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:32
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.
Thank you for the correction. Interesting, look who the ECNL teams currently are versus the old DA list. Spirit MD excluded, its Arlington, VDA, Spriit VA (Lououn/NVA) and then FCV which is now TSJ. this is kind of telling everyone. TSJ rumors of coming to ECNL are heating up now that NVA is bailing to GA, they may be the potential partner with GFR to take FVU's ecnl badge. VDA and Arlington are already ECNL for now. Could those be the three again like in the DA days VDA, Arlington and TBD Loudoun based club probably TSJ and GFR together. DA did not work for US soccer to run, which is why it failied, but it did not fail in attracting the very best girls in the country to play there, could this be happening but inversely with ECNL being the lite DA type league for just 60 girls, and GA is for everyone else. Plenty of D1 roster spots for two leagues but P4 is ECNL only. Thots?
You may have forgotten the part where MLS basically is US Soccer right?
And MLS runs MLSN.
And MLSN is partnered with GA.
See this a lot on the board. So what? MLSN has a loose low commitment agreement with GA. It is at best an agreement to spend some limited time together to see if we should do anything else in the future. There is nothing else to it. The agreement you would want to see would be with NWSL not MLSN or MLS. MSL is not going to step in front of NWSL on this issue even if NWSL does nothing. NWSL has limited interest because they have limited money but if they had interest they are more likely to partner with ECNL not GA.
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:31
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
Or the opposite? ECNL irrelevant and GA stronger with less travel.
You both could be right....all depends on your kid's age. Short-term, ECNL is stronger, hands down. So for 2010s and older, ECNL path is probably stronger. 2011s and younger the math could change.
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:29
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wasn’t it McLean that saved BRYC and allowed them to partner and join ECNL with them? Why would ECNL allow BRYC to stay in the ECNL after one year and McLean leaving?
FALSE, McLEAN/VA UNION was going to lose their ECNL Charter and had to find a new partner.
BRAVE was doing worse than McLean so I think they were both in jeopardy.
That is incorrect; Brave had better teams on the girl's side and on the boy's side.
What are you smoking??? BRAVE's girls teams were awful.
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:27
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.
Thank you for the correction. Interesting, look who the ECNL teams currently are versus the old DA list. Spirit MD excluded, its Arlington, VDA, Spriit VA (Lououn/NVA) and then FCV which is now TSJ. this is kind of telling everyone. TSJ rumors of coming to ECNL are heating up now that NVA is bailing to GA, they may be the potential partner with GFR to take FVU's ecnl badge. VDA and Arlington are already ECNL for now. Could those be the three again like in the DA days VDA, Arlington and TBD Loudoun based club probably TSJ and GFR together. DA did not work for US soccer to run, which is why it failied, but it did not fail in attracting the very best girls in the country to play there, could this be happening but inversely with ECNL being the lite DA type league for just 60 girls, and GA is for everyone else. Plenty of D1 roster spots for two leagues but P4 is ECNL only. Thots?
You may have forgotten the part where MLS basically is US Soccer right?
And MLS runs MLSN.
And MLSN is partnered with GA.
Is this the case? MLS is really doing all this? Where are the girls academies then?
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:27
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
I clearly don't that is why I'm using this parent chat board to learn
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:25
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.
Thank you for the correction. Interesting, look who the ECNL teams currently are versus the old DA list. Spirit MD excluded, its Arlington, VDA, Spriit VA (Lououn/NVA) and then FCV which is now TSJ. this is kind of telling everyone. TSJ rumors of coming to ECNL are heating up now that NVA is bailing to GA, they may be the potential partner with GFR to take FVU's ecnl badge. VDA and Arlington are already ECNL for now. Could those be the three again like in the DA days VDA, Arlington and TBD Loudoun based club probably TSJ and GFR together. DA did not work for US soccer to run, which is why it failied, but it did not fail in attracting the very best girls in the country to play there, could this be happening but inversely with ECNL being the lite DA type league for just 60 girls, and GA is for everyone else. Plenty of D1 roster spots for two leagues but P4 is ECNL only. Thots?
You may have forgotten the part where MLS basically is US Soccer right?
And MLS runs MLSN.
And MLSN is partnered with GA.
Anonymous
02/20/2025 11:19
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.
Thank you for the correction. Interesting, look who the ECNL teams currently are versus the old DA list. Spirit MD excluded, its Arlington, VDA, Spriit VA (Lououn/NVA) and then FCV which is now TSJ. this is kind of telling everyone. TSJ rumors of coming to ECNL are heating up now that NVA is bailing to GA, they may be the potential partner with GFR to take FVU's ecnl badge. VDA and Arlington are already ECNL for now. Could those be the three again like in the DA days VDA, Arlington and TBD Loudoun based club probably TSJ and GFR together. DA did not work for US soccer to run, which is why it failied, but it did not fail in attracting the very best girls in the country to play there, could this be happening but inversely with ECNL being the lite DA type league for just 60 girls, and GA is for everyone else. Plenty of D1 roster spots for two leagues but P4 is ECNL only. Thots?
Anonymous
02/20/2025 10:47
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
So who’s signed up for mclean GA tryout!
Anonymous
02/20/2025 09:39
Subject: McLean leaving FVU
Anonymous wrote:Looking at the old DA model, was it not only like 3 clubs around here that had it - FCV, BSC and McLean? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
My point is less=elite so wouldn't more GA clubs make the few remaining ECNL clubs the elite ones? Just throwing this out there as a thought excercise. GA will take over and likely win the money game here, but in the short ECNL is still ECNL and wouldn;t that make the few remaining clubs the ones to be at now? I don't care about 2-3 years down the road.
McLean and Bethesda were never in girls DA. FCV, Arlington, VDA, Washington Spirit Va, and Washington Spirit MD were the DMV clubs.