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Arlington has a built in ECNL team and a system that will place your daughter on the Arlington ECNL team if she is good enough.



I can tell you 100% this is wrong. If your end goal is playing ECNL for Arlington you have a much better chance making it from another team. They are not looking to promote kids from RL when they can bring a similar skilled player from outside. They already got the RL kids money. I would like to know if any of the ecnl clubs in the area do favor the kid on the second team over a new kid if all things are equal. I doubt any of them do.

My kid is on an Arlington White team, and has been passed over for Red by outside the club players that are not better than my kid. We are landlocked to Arlington since it is just too tough to get to McLean or Alexandria for practices. But we like the other players and familes (White team parents are very normal - not crazy Red or Academy parents), and we have no expectation that our kid will continue playing in college. We just like the team experience for our kid, the time management with homework and other activities, and having another adult critique their behaviour.

"landlocked to Arlington" WTF!?

Yes, believe it not most parents don't have time to drive their kids 30-45 minutes one way to practice three times a week. Shocker for you.

oooh struck a nerve. You clearly don't believe in your DCs soccer potential

Ha. What a loser.

You should volunteer to coach

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Arlington has a built in ECNL team and a system that will place your daughter on the Arlington ECNL team if she is good enough.



I can tell you 100% this is wrong. If your end goal is playing ECNL for Arlington you have a much better chance making it from another team. They are not looking to promote kids from RL when they can bring a similar skilled player from outside. They already got the RL kids money. I would like to know if any of the ecnl clubs in the area do favor the kid on the second team over a new kid if all things are equal. I doubt any of them do.

My kid is on an Arlington White team, and has been passed over for Red by outside the club players that are not better than my kid. We are landlocked to Arlington since it is just too tough to get to McLean or Alexandria for practices. But we like the other players and familes (White team parents are very normal - not crazy Red or Academy parents), and we have no expectation that our kid will continue playing in college. We just like the team experience for our kid, the time management with homework and other activities, and having another adult critique their behaviour.

"landlocked to Arlington" WTF!?

Yes, believe it not most parents don't have time to drive their kids 30-45 minutes one way to practice three times a week. Shocker for you.

oooh struck a nerve. You clearly don't believe in your DCs soccer potential

Ha. What a loser.

Anonymous wrote:As a parent on a a mid/upper higher age girls Arl team, they definitely promote from within. Our team has had multiple players move every single year from U10 upward. Not all have stayed together and they def use merit to promote. We have friends also on top teams and say same. Both upward and downward. Arl has tons of talent in specific age groups for girls.

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Anonymous wrote:DD's friends on red are stronger players than on green so I agree with PP. It's not that hard to make green - kid that made it on green didn't made red.

I second this. Even Arlington's 2011 girls third team (white?) is an extremely tough team.

There are some Arlington teams playing up a year in NCSL and doing OK in one of the top 2 divisions.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, right now in the MORNING, when you are doing a regular commute with everyone else trying to get into DC. No club practices until this EVENING.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, right now in the MORNING, when you are doing a regular commute with everyone else trying to get into DC. No club practices until this EVENING.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve been on the white team at MYS for years. Very little development but it’s the devil we know. Our DD has had many friends on Arlington black/blue and they seem to move up more frequently which seems like development.

Have you considered moving to Arlington? We have but the commute to Long Park field in the late afternoon is not possible for us. If Arlington trained closed to North Arlington we would seriously consider it.

From North Arlington to Long Bridge Park is max 15-20 minutes in evening rush hour with a reverse commute down GW Parkway and beside the Pentagon.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve been on the white team at MYS for years. Very little development but it’s the devil we know. Our DD has had many friends on Arlington black/blue and they seem to move up more frequently which seems like development.

Have you considered moving to Arlington? We have but the commute to Long Park field in the late afternoon is not possible for us. If Arlington trained closed to North Arlington we would seriously consider it.

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Arlington has a built in ECNL team and a system that will place your daughter on the Arlington ECNL team if she is good enough.



I can tell you 100% this is wrong. If your end goal is playing ECNL for Arlington you have a much better chance making it from another team. They are not looking to promote kids from RL when they can bring a similar skilled player from outside. They already got the RL kids money. I would like to know if any of the ecnl clubs in the area do favor the kid on the second team over a new kid if all things are equal. I doubt any of them do.

My kid is on an Arlington White team, and has been passed over for Red by outside the club players that are not better than my kid. We are landlocked to Arlington since it is just too tough to get to McLean or Alexandria for practices. But we like the other players and familes (White team parents are very normal - not crazy Red or Academy parents), and we have no expectation that our kid will continue playing in college. We just like the team experience for our kid, the time management with homework and other activities, and having another adult critique their behaviour.

"landlocked to Arlington" WTF!?

Yes, believe it not most parents don't have time to drive their kids 30-45 minutes one way to practice three times a week. Shocker for you.

oooh struck a nerve. You clearly don't believe in your DCs soccer potential

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Anonymous wrote:The other thing to consider is whether you want to do ECNL. McLean no longer has ECNL teams, while Arlington has ECNL teams.

ECNL forced McLean to stop offering its own ECNL teams and to instead create a combined team with Brave (Fairfax Virginia Union) because the McLean ECNL teams were consistently poor performers. Arlington's ECNL teams, by contrast, have performed well.

This only really matters for ECNL, but its something to consider if you are interested in ECNL or think your DC will be good enough for ECNL down the road.

As others have posted this is not good advise. Arlington is not looking to promote from within to ECNL they are looking for external players. If your goal is ECNL for Arlington play at another club and when you feel your child is ready try out at Arlington. All other things being equal an outside player is always going to get the ECNL spot over someone already at Arlington.

This has not been our experience with an existing DC who came up through Arlington and currently plays ECNL with other members of our former Arlington teams. Different years may be different, but our kids stayed together.