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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they’re not really fans of ECNL or the direction the league is headed. I think their decision to move on is pretty bold, but they might end up looking like geniuses soon!

Loudoun will always be a step behind because they don’t take the time to develop their teams. You see it from the u littles - all they care about is winning that’s why these teams struggle when they get older. They moved on from ECNL because they can’t stand being the small fish in a big pond.

You are clueless, Loudoun has some of the most competitive younger age teams in dmv.

Very true, solely from a HUGE pool of young local players. It's slipped in qualify recently with the influx of other clubs. They don't develop their players they just grab the meanest and fastest kids and run them into the ground by u14 when you have to understand how to move the ball not just blast and chase it

Tell me which ECNL does develop their players. They all recruit and import players. VDA is exhibit A. Sure, clubs will have some players who have been with them since U9 but that’s not development that’s just luck that a talented player happened to live nearby. There is not a single top player at these clubs who wouldn’t have been just as good had they been born 20 miles away and joined a different club at U9

If your kid is not willing to take risk and learn to play better they won't development.
I don't think it's all on the club's fault for developing players. The player has to be willing to take risks and change the way the play. If a coach tells a player to work on their left foot at u13, if they keep working on it, maybe the next year they will be good with their left foot. But if the player doesn't take those risks or doesn't feel like they can take those risks because they (or someone else) wants to win, then they will never develop their left foot.

Messi has no right foot. What’s your point? Lmao

Anonymous wrote:There is a trend around here to virtual school so the kids can train more. That's a no for us but to each his own.

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Anonymous wrote:Your passion is seeping through the screen...do you train alongside them?

Maybe you should...IDK

Not alongside them, I train them. You can’t understand because you’re okay being mediocre. Like trying to explain colors to a born blind person

Anonymous wrote:There is a trend around here to virtual school so the kids can train more. That's a no for us but to each his own.

Anonymous wrote:Why is the GFR logo on the player pathway? Under the news on the main page. Has that always been there? Shows GFR, LS, and Valor logos.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they’re not really fans of ECNL or the direction the league is headed. I think their decision to move on is pretty bold, but they might end up looking like geniuses soon!

Loudoun will always be a step behind because they don’t take the time to develop their teams. You see it from the u littles - all they care about is winning that’s why these teams struggle when they get older. They moved on from ECNL because they can’t stand being the small fish in a big pond.

You are clueless, Loudoun has some of the most competitive younger age teams in dmv.

Very true, solely from a HUGE pool of young local players. It's slipped in qualify recently with the influx of other clubs. They don't develop their players they just grab the meanest and fastest kids and run them into the ground by u14 when you have to understand how to move the ball not just blast and chase it

Tell me which ECNL does develop their players. They all recruit and import players. VDA is exhibit A. Sure, clubs will have some players who have been with them since U9 but that’s not development that’s just luck that a talented player happened to live nearby. There is not a single top player at these clubs who wouldn’t have been just as good had they been born 20 miles away and joined a different club at U9

I don't think it's all on the club's fault for developing players. The player has to be willing to take risks and change the way the play. If a coach tells a player to work on their left foot at u13, if they keep working on it, maybe the next year they will be good with their left foot. But if the player doesn't take those risks or doesn't feel like they can take those risks because they (or someone else) wants to win, then they will never develop their left foot.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they’re not really fans of ECNL or the direction the league is headed. I think their decision to move on is pretty bold, but they might end up looking like geniuses soon!

Loudoun will always be a step behind because they don’t take the time to develop their teams. You see it from the u littles - all they care about is winning that’s why these teams struggle when they get older. They moved on from ECNL because they can’t stand being the small fish in a big pond.

You are clueless, Loudoun has some of the most competitive younger age teams in dmv.

Very true, solely from a HUGE pool of young local players. It's slipped in qualify recently with the influx of other clubs. They don't develop their players they just grab the meanest and fastest kids and run them into the ground by u14 when you have to understand how to move the ball not just blast and chase it

Tell me which ECNL does develop their players. They all recruit and import players. VDA is exhibit A. Sure, clubs will have some players who have been with them since U9 but that’s not development that’s just luck that a talented player happened to live nearby. There is not a single top player at these clubs who wouldn’t have been just as good had they been born 20 miles away and joined a different club at U9

Anonymous wrote:Your passion is seeping through the screen...do you train alongside them?

Maybe you should...IDK

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they’re not really fans of ECNL or the direction the league is headed. I think their decision to move on is pretty bold, but they might end up looking like geniuses soon!

Loudoun will always be a step behind because they don’t take the time to develop their teams. You see it from the u littles - all they care about is winning that’s why these teams struggle when they get older. They moved on from ECNL because they can’t stand being the small fish in a big pond.

You are clueless, Loudoun has some of the most competitive younger age teams in dmv.

Very true, solely from a HUGE pool of young local players. It's slipped in qualify recently with the influx of other clubs. They don't develop their players they just grab the meanest and fastest kids and run them into the ground by u14 when you have to understand how to move the ball not just blast and chase it

Tell me which ECNL does develop their players. They all recruit and import players. VDA is exhibit A. Sure, clubs will have some players who have been with them since U9 but that’s not development that’s just luck that a talented player happened to live nearby. There is not a single top player at these clubs who wouldn’t have been just as good had they been born 20 miles away and joined a different club at U9

So what’s your point? Not challenging you but dont follow your point? Also, if every club on this thread doesn’t develop kids, how do kids transfer from other clubs? I hear this argument about the big clubs, they dont develop kids. But as a parent who does not have a kid on these big clubs, is that really the case? From outside looking in, it seems like they practice just like everyone else. While yes, some new kids come in, is it really fair that these clubs do no development? Honest question.

I've yet to come across any good player that was "developed" by their club. Due to the prices we pay most of these parents expect that rather than being realistic about it. Then they're the same parents crying about other players getting better and getting more opportunities, not taking into consideration the amount of supplemental training the realistic parents provided.

So their skill comes from…? A weekly personal trainer once a week yields the same return as 3-4 times a week of practices and the parent? Camps in the summer? I have heard this argument about clubs not developing players but it doesn’t hit with me. The development has to come from somewhere, no?

It does come from somewhere. Both my kids are MLSN and they train 1.5 to 3 hours a day at home (with varied intensity). They do virtual school, so they have extra time. This has been the case for years...grinding. They do some private sessions, futsal, pickup, indoor, everything they can do. My kids said, "we need to play as much as possible". It is soccer every day/night of the week. And guess what? They still aren't the best on their teams...yet.

Sounds healthy, good luck brotha!

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they’re not really fans of ECNL or the direction the league is headed. I think their decision to move on is pretty bold, but they might end up looking like geniuses soon!

Loudoun will always be a step behind because they don’t take the time to develop their teams. You see it from the u littles - all they care about is winning that’s why these teams struggle when they get older. They moved on from ECNL because they can’t stand being the small fish in a big pond.

You are clueless, Loudoun has some of the most competitive younger age teams in dmv.

Very true, solely from a HUGE pool of young local players. It's slipped in qualify recently with the influx of other clubs. They don't develop their players they just grab the meanest and fastest kids and run them into the ground by u14 when you have to understand how to move the ball not just blast and chase it

Tell me which ECNL does develop their players. They all recruit and import players. VDA is exhibit A. Sure, clubs will have some players who have been with them since U9 but that’s not development that’s just luck that a talented player happened to live nearby. There is not a single top player at these clubs who wouldn’t have been just as good had they been born 20 miles away and joined a different club at U9

So what’s your point? Not challenging you but dont follow your point? Also, if every club on this thread doesn’t develop kids, how do kids transfer from other clubs? I hear this argument about the big clubs, they dont develop kids. But as a parent who does not have a kid on these big clubs, is that really the case? From outside looking in, it seems like they practice just like everyone else. While yes, some new kids come in, is it really fair that these clubs do no development? Honest question.

I've yet to come across any good player that was "developed" by their club. Due to the prices we pay most of these parents expect that rather than being realistic about it. Then they're the same parents crying about other players getting better and getting more opportunities, not taking into consideration the amount of supplemental training the realistic parents provided.

So their skill comes from…? A weekly personal trainer once a week yields the same return as 3-4 times a week of practices and the parent? Camps in the summer? I have heard this argument about clubs not developing players but it doesn’t hit with me. The development has to come from somewhere, no?

It does come from somewhere. Both my kids are MLSN and they train 1.5 to 3 hours a day at home (with varied intensity). They do virtual school, so they have extra time. This has been the case for years...grinding. They do some private sessions, futsal, pickup, indoor, everything they can do. My kids said, "we need to play as much as possible". It is soccer every day/night of the week. And guess what? They still aren't the best on their teams...yet.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they’re not really fans of ECNL or the direction the league is headed. I think their decision to move on is pretty bold, but they might end up looking like geniuses soon!

Loudoun will always be a step behind because they don’t take the time to develop their teams. You see it from the u littles - all they care about is winning that’s why these teams struggle when they get older. They moved on from ECNL because they can’t stand being the small fish in a big pond.

You are clueless, Loudoun has some of the most competitive younger age teams in dmv.

Very true, solely from a HUGE pool of young local players. It's slipped in qualify recently with the influx of other clubs. They don't develop their players they just grab the meanest and fastest kids and run them into the ground by u14 when you have to understand how to move the ball not just blast and chase it

Tell me which ECNL does develop their players. They all recruit and import players. VDA is exhibit A. Sure, clubs will have some players who have been with them since U9 but that’s not development that’s just luck that a talented player happened to live nearby. There is not a single top player at these clubs who wouldn’t have been just as good had they been born 20 miles away and joined a different club at U9

So what’s your point? Not challenging you but dont follow your point? Also, if every club on this thread doesn’t develop kids, how do kids transfer from other clubs? I hear this argument about the big clubs, they dont develop kids. But as a parent who does not have a kid on these big clubs, is that really the case? From outside looking in, it seems like they practice just like everyone else. While yes, some new kids come in, is it really fair that these clubs do no development? Honest question.

I've yet to come across any good player that was "developed" by their club. Due to the prices we pay most of these parents expect that rather than being realistic about it. Then they're the same parents crying about other players getting better and getting more opportunities, not taking into consideration the amount of supplemental training the realistic parents provided.

So their skill comes from…? A weekly personal trainer once a week yields the same return as 3-4 times a week of practices and the parent? Camps in the summer? I have heard this argument about clubs not developing players but it doesn’t hit with me. The development has to come from somewhere, no?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like they’re not really fans of ECNL or the direction the league is headed. I think their decision to move on is pretty bold, but they might end up looking like geniuses soon!

Loudoun will always be a step behind because they don’t take the time to develop their teams. You see it from the u littles - all they care about is winning that’s why these teams struggle when they get older. They moved on from ECNL because they can’t stand being the small fish in a big pond.

You are clueless, Loudoun has some of the most competitive younger age teams in dmv.

Very true, solely from a HUGE pool of young local players. It's slipped in qualify recently with the influx of other clubs. They don't develop their players they just grab the meanest and fastest kids and run them into the ground by u14 when you have to understand how to move the ball not just blast and chase it

Tell me which ECNL does develop their players. They all recruit and import players. VDA is exhibit A. Sure, clubs will have some players who have been with them since U9 but that’s not development that’s just luck that a talented player happened to live nearby. There is not a single top player at these clubs who wouldn’t have been just as good had they been born 20 miles away and joined a different club at U9

So what’s your point? Not challenging you but dont follow your point? Also, if every club on this thread doesn’t develop kids, how do kids transfer from other clubs? I hear this argument about the big clubs, they dont develop kids. But as a parent who does not have a kid on these big clubs, is that really the case? From outside looking in, it seems like they practice just like everyone else. While yes, some new kids come in, is it really fair that these clubs do no development? Honest question.

I've yet to come across any good player that was "developed" by their club. Due to the prices we pay most of these parents expect that rather than being realistic about it. Then they're the same parents crying about other players getting better and getting more opportunities, not taking into consideration the amount of supplemental training the realistic parents provided.

So their skill comes from…? A weekly personal trainer once a week yields the same return as 3-4 times a week of practices and the parent? Camps in the summer? I have heard this argument about clubs not developing players but it doesn’t hit with me. The development has to come from somewhere, no?