ECNL and GA club changes - official announcements

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The fact that ECNL added proven quality clubs such as Select, and NES and GA added weak C level clubs RI Surf and Bayside shows you the direction and priorities of those two leagues.

Advice to parents if your kid is good enough to make an ECRL team there’s many to choose from Scorpions (2) Stars (3) Select (1) NES (1) tryout for one of those. Your kid may get pulled up to a national team or at the least attend regional showcases. Do not head towards weak GA clubs as they are going to be the Walmart League . A league for everyone but no quality. ECNL will be more quality. College coaches will likely fill there teams with ECNL and probably ECRL players as those ECRL teams coming up will have more and more talent.

Advice to parents? lol you insecure small man. If you were doing such a great job you would not have to be on here trying. To convince people.

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Advice to parents? lol you insecure small man. If you were doing such a great job you would not have to be on here trying. To convince people.

This is not a comment out of insecurity more like cut through the last few days of garbage posts. I know that we have some new GA fan boys in the house the same ones who were saying DPL was as good as ECNL. But your excitement to be included in a national
pathway even though it’s crumbling has clouded your objectivity and your advice here to parents is poor saying GA is going to be great RA Ra. It’s not. Be honest.

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So not one ECNL team left to join GA and 5 GA teams left GA to join ECNL. I’d say that makes the score 5-0 since you seem to be keeping score

ECNL was always the better league nationally, adding top clubs from GA makes it even stronger. Historically the difference locally was nil, that should change now that top Champions league clubs have left and showcase events will be less attended. Next move for GA will be to find dates that don’t overlap with ECNL showcases. It’s obvious where coaches are going to shop if there are competing dates and locations. In the end…wait 3 years and it will change again. Academies, US soccer involvement, club politics, etc.. the one constant has been change.

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Found this note interesting though not surprising: "[SoccerWire Editor’s Note: Through our other reporting, we are aware of several other top clubs in the GA that have applied to move to the ECNL but been denied – for now – due to the ECNL’s geographical saturation within certain metropolitan areas.]"

So how do you get rid of the saturation without getting rid of teams like PDA White and PDA Shore?

[Guest]

The fact that ECNL added proven quality clubs such as Select, and NES and GA added weak C level clubs RI Surf and Bayside shows you the direction and priorities of those two leagues.

Advice to parents if your kid is good enough to make an ECRL team there’s many to choose from Scorpions (2) Stars (3) Select (1) NES (1) tryout for one of those. Your kid may get pulled up to a national team or at the least attend regional showcases. Do not head towards weak GA clubs as they are going to be the Walmart League . A league for everyone but no quality. ECNL will be more quality. College coaches will likely fill there teams with ECNL and probably ECRL players as those ECRL teams coming up will have more and more talent.

New Academy Dad is now Scorpions ECRL Dad! No one would lead with the Scorpions as a Regional option.

What I don’t understand - if ECNL is the strongest league, top to bottom and everyone knows it, why do DOC’s, coaches and parents constantly flood this board to talk about how it’s definitely the best!!

It almost seems like a brainwashed cult where a lot of them want out, but can’t justify leaving. Probably because they’ve made such a big deal of their kid being on an ECNL team, even though it’s not the right fit for their kid and probably really hampering them mentally and physically. But you get to league drop acronyms in conversations….and they all do.

I understand why the ECRL parents are on here trying to sell us on that league all the time. We all get that. You’re all stuck. Not good enough for the national team, but the club keeps dangling it out there for your daughter…so close…maybe next year.

And now we have to deal with the ECRL Lite parents who have convinced themselves, thanks to their DOC and coaches, that the National League is just one good season away. It is!! Definitely!

Congratulations to all of you with daughters on National teams who get plenty of minutes, but I know you want read this. You are not here wasting your time. You are not worried about this. This board is flooded with the parents whose darling rides the bench on the national team and teeter on the ECRL bubble. Some day, you’ll look back and laugh at it all. Some day….not today. Today you will get pissed and call me a name and insult my daughter’s league. Amen brother. Amen!!

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I think we will hear less from ECNL parents about the league being better because now it is so obvious. Before you had SSS and NEFc parents still thinking GA was the same. There is one clear top league for the best players. There is still always a need for other leagues because not everyone needs or wants to play ECNL.

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So how do you get rid of the saturation without getting rid of teams like PDA White and PDA Shore?

ECNL/ECRL seems to have changed strategy, and they are trying to saturate to weaken the competition. For example the addition of the third tier ECRL2 league

But they will manage the event process and tournament logistics to make the events more restrictive, both by who is invited and field locations. There will continue to be events held for the real ECNL and real ECRL teams, and college coaches will focus on those. The other teams will be on fields half an hour away, playing each other in front of the third and fourth tier coaches.

[Guest]

I think we will hear less from ECNL parents about the league being better because now it is so obvious. Before you had SSS and NEFc parents still thinking GA was the same. There is one clear top league for the best players. There is still always a need for other leagues because not everyone needs or wants to play ECNL.

This!! An actual, intelligent and articulate post on TS! It’s ok to be #2. It’s also ok to be a really good soccer player but not want to play ECNL.

A lot of these players at top clubs don’t want girls coming to practices to take their spots. They are not very welcoming, and can be downright mean sometimes. Some girls just don’t want to deal with that crap , believe it or not.

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This!! An actual, intelligent and articulate post on TS! It’s ok to be #2. It’s also ok to be a really good soccer player but not want to play ECNL.

A lot of these players at top clubs don’t want girls coming to practices to take their spots. They are not very welcoming, and can be downright mean sometimes. Some girls just don’t want to deal with that crap , believe it or not.

The only players that are mean are the bench warmers. If your d is good, please come and try out. There are more nice girls than you think.

[Guest]

This!! An actual, intelligent and articulate post on TS! It’s ok to be #2. It’s also ok to be a really good soccer player but not want to play ECNL.

A lot of these players at top clubs don’t want girls coming to practices to take their spots. They are not very welcoming, and can be downright mean sometimes. Some girls just don’t want to deal with that crap , believe it or not.

The players who are at the top welcome all newcomers. They want to practice with and against the best possible teammates. Anyone who feels otherwise is just a hanger-on.

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The only players that are mean are the bench warmers. If your d is good, please come and try out. There are more nice girls than you think.

Mean girls on ECRL teams. Starter clicks and the bench.

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The only players that are mean are the bench warmers. If your d is good, please come and try out. There are more nice girls than you think.

Agree. Find the best kid on the team. She won't be threatened and is probably the most welcoming of newcomers.

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Mean girls on ECRL teams. Starter clicks and the bench.

Their insecure parents are raising insecure kids

[Guest]

ECNL/ECRL seems to have changed strategy, and they are trying to saturate to weaken the competition. For example the addition of the third tier ECRL2 league

But they will manage the event process and tournament logistics to make the events more restrictive, both by who is invited and field locations. There will continue to be events held for the real ECNL and real ECRL teams, and college coaches will focus on those. The other teams will be on fields half an hour away, playing each other in front of the third and fourth tier coaches.

All the leagues are about market share. It's a business, a big lucrative business for club owners.

[Guest]

The fact that ECNL added proven quality clubs such as Select, and NES and GA added weak C level clubs RI Surf and Bayside shows you the direction and priorities of those two leagues.

Advice to parents if your kid is good enough to make an ECRL team there’s many to choose from Scorpions (2) Stars (3) Select (1) NES (1) tryout for one of those. Your kid may get pulled up to a national team or at the least attend regional showcases. Do not head towards weak GA clubs as they are going to be the Walmart League . A league for everyone but no quality. ECNL will be more quality. College coaches will likely fill there teams with ECNL and probably ECRL players as those ECRL teams coming up will have more and more talent.

That is a fact in your mind. What is a fact is that ECNL have further diminished and diluted the league by admitting clubs they have previously rejected over and over. What made ECNL all of a sudden bring them in? This parent now thinks there kid is better because there club has been admitted. You remind me of all those parents whose daughter was one of the top players on their GA teams and then move to a top rated ECNL team. It took awhile for most of these GA players to get adjusted to the speed of play. Some did okay and some never played at the higher level. They went from scoring 1-2 goals a match to going weeks without scoring a single goal. Some adjusted and some just quit playing soccer. These GA players realized they just weren’t as good as they or their parents thought. Anyone who thinks college coaches do not know the difference between the top tier ECNL teams and then the rest are in denial.