Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 12:26     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
IMG has always provided a good home for those players not good enough to excel locally.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 12:26     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
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Anonymous wrote:Yup! VRSC is going to collaborate with IMG. These kids are going to love the dormitories that they're building on campus. VRSC is the place to be!


I can see the vision, and thus the interest from DCU. It's all conceptual at this stage, but I get it. Proof will be in the pudding. And VRSC may be the place to be today, but it won't be the place to be for the kids already there tomorrow. U8 Academy age, yes, but anything above...not so much. The true Academies are rich with talent - turnkey/plug-and-play players and players with massive upside. Very little (to no) room to spend time and resources developing kids playing NCSL division 3, 4, and 5 or CCL. So, foresee a lot of kids and parents being on the outside looking in, supporting a vision that has nothing to do with them. Could be that nothing actually changes with VRSC, with the exception of an Academy made-up with a bunch of kids that aren't coming from VRSC.


This can all be true, and VRSC being the future home of elite soccer. Not saying I agree or it like it just saying that this is likely to happen
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 12:24     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Money is a hell of a drug.


Yup! I guess the "if you build it they will come" approach works. Congrats to VRSC for getting the MLS NEXT patch, but unless they can snag the best kids from other clubs to actually compete, it's just a management accomplishment. We know they can't develop kids from within. And if they did, they're likely no longer with the club.


IMG Mid-atlantic is coming to VRSC, so yes they may struggle initially in MLSN and GA, but they are literally building the "infrastructure" for any baller not wiling to go to FL or CA to be part a residential training and school environment. So they are building it and the top players from Northeast and mid-atlantic will come.


LOL!!!!

Yeah, because those with 75k to spend are always the best.



In girls soccer that is empirically very sad but all truth
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 12:08     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:

IMG Mid-atlantic is coming to VRSC, so yes they may struggle initially in MLSN and GA, but they are literally building the "infrastructure" for any baller not wiling to go to FL or CA to be part a residential training and school environment. So they are building it and the top players from Northeast and mid-atlantic will come.

This is the best thing I've read on these boards. Made me spit out my coffee.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 11:51     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:Yup! VRSC is going to collaborate with IMG. These kids are going to love the dormitories that they're building on campus. VRSC is the place to be!


I can see the vision, and thus the interest from DCU. It's all conceptual at this stage, but I get it. Proof will be in the pudding. And VRSC may be the place to be today, but it won't be the place to be for the kids already there tomorrow. U8 Academy age, yes, but anything above...not so much. The true Academies are rich with talent - turnkey/plug-and-play players and players with massive upside. Very little (to no) room to spend time and resources developing kids playing NCSL division 3, 4, and 5 or CCL. So, foresee a lot of kids and parents being on the outside looking in, supporting a vision that has nothing to do with them. Could be that nothing actually changes with VRSC, with the exception of an Academy made-up with a bunch of kids that aren't coming from VRSC.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 11:32     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Money is a hell of a drug.


Yup! I guess the "if you build it they will come" approach works. Congrats to VRSC for getting the MLS NEXT patch, but unless they can snag the best kids from other clubs to actually compete, it's just a management accomplishment. We know they can't develop kids from within. And if they did, they're likely no longer with the club.


IMG Mid-atlantic is coming to VRSC, so yes they may struggle initially in MLSN and GA, but they are literally building the "infrastructure" for any baller not wiling to go to FL or CA to be part a residential training and school environment. So they are building it and the top players from Northeast and mid-atlantic will come.


LOL!!!!

Yeah, because those with 75k to spend are always the best.

Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 11:22     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Yup! VRSC is going to collaborate with IMG. These kids are going to love the dormitories that they're building on campus. VRSC is the place to be!
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 11:19     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Money is a hell of a drug.


Yup! I guess the "if you build it they will come" approach works. Congrats to VRSC for getting the MLS NEXT patch, but unless they can snag the best kids from other clubs to actually compete, it's just a management accomplishment. We know they can't develop kids from within. And if they did, they're likely no longer with the club.


IMG Mid-atlantic is coming to VRSC, so yes they may struggle initially in MLSN and GA, but they are literally building the "infrastructure" for any baller not wiling to go to FL or CA to be part a residential training and school environment. So they are building it and the top players from Northeast and mid-atlantic will come.
Anonymous
Post 03/13/2024 11:08     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:Money is a hell of a drug.


Yup! I guess the "if you build it they will come" approach works. Congrats to VRSC for getting the MLS NEXT patch, but unless they can snag the best kids from other clubs to actually compete, it's just a management accomplishment. We know they can't develop kids from within. And if they did, they're likely no longer with the club.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2024 17:53     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Money is a hell of a drug.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2024 17:44     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:How can Revolution get MLS Next? Don't you need some sort of track record? I can kind of see the FCV staff persuading GA that they can bring a bunch of players but I fail to follow the boys and MLS Next.


Well, for the GA, no, you don't need a history of anything. Just having things like "vision" and "infrastructure" are good enough. I expect a lot of other EDP and NCSL clubs were delighted to learn that and look forward to being accepted into the GA next year.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2024 17:34     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
How can Revolution get MLS Next? Don't you need some sort of track record? I can kind of see the FCV staff persuading GA that they can bring a bunch of players but I fail to follow the boys and MLS Next.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2024 14:20     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
Anonymous wrote:VRSC has it, so of course they can. There's no questions about it. Hit up Niko, he'll tell you all about it.


Then I guess it must be true! I look forward to watching some friendlies between NVA, other local ECNL clubs, and/or other local MLS NEXT clubs in the near future. Not sure where VRSC is going to pull talent from, though. Loudoun RL or lower? GFR, maybe?
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2024 14:00     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
VRSC has it, so of course they can. There's no questions about it. Hit up Niko, he'll tell you all about it.
Anonymous
Post 03/11/2024 13:00     Subject: Loudoun/NVA going MLS Next
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Anonymous wrote:Why would they decline mls next if they applied? Doesn’t make sense


Because they would lose Ecnl for the girls side.
give it s few years or less and they may change tones. Once the winning (coach r.a) products are gone….

I hope they let loudoun go mls nxt vs nva and pull a Bethesda


I think there is a creative way to do this that Ecnl can live with. But it will take a lot and not sure club management is up to the task.


Nothing wrong with boys ECNL. The NVA teams tend to have part time DCU players or players that don't get much playing time. They aren't going MLS next.


They also aren't going to get MLSN because their next door neighbor VRSC is getting it.



If West Virginia Soccer got MLS NEXT, surely VRSC can. Anything's possible. Don't get it, but possible.