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Can't wait to see how these games are going to go. I think NEFC will be looking for redemption after losing on pks in last years final.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Ha! They can't even rank first on Got Soccer. #goalsOriginally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Case in point (from CT board). I think FSA did almost as poorly as well. Getting one weak game is probable, but to get an easy walk to the top is unlikely at the national level. Congrats to them.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
"CFC finished 1-8, with 16s 0-3 scoring 1 goal and giving up 11. How can a player be a standout with a team record like that, and a club losing 8 of 9 games. Great development program !!!! "Comment
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https://andagain.websitetoolbox.com/post/ecnl-4145045
Feast on this little gem from back in 2009. How the times have changed.
"The ECNL is one of the most overrated things to happen to premier youth soccer in this country. There is no developmental purpose to joining the league, it is strictly competitive, and strictly a way of a few premier clubs trying to set artificial boundaries between themselves and their local competition.We have a completely anonymous soccer forum in Mass. which the following was posted, so I have no background info on the poster. Someone from Conn. posted it in their forum and it took off into a lively discussion which I seem to let myself become a major contributor to, so I'm posting it here to see what you gents (and ladies if there are any more than myself) think.
The ECNL is a response to the USSF Academy on the Boys side. The idea that the girls should have an Academy is probably not a bad one. The execution however is completely different from what the boys side is. The boys side is all about professional development, it's about getting our countries boys into an environment closer to what the world's competition is doing. The girls don't have the world competition, so the USSF is in no hurry to push what is still in experimental stages on the girls side just yet.
So these clubs decided they would start something themselves, but without a governing body like the USSF setting the standards, all the ECNL is is a label on top of what clubs were already doing. They were already participating in these tournaments, what the ECNL has done is allowed clubs to get their problem child teams into higher level divisions of tournaments than they normally would.
This has not gone unnoticed by college recruiters. Colleges know that there are no standards to the ECNL, and that it is a politically charged movement versus the developmentally charged movement of the DAP. They know who the good clubs are, they are going to watch the good teams play. Many times it will be clubs like Stars and PDA. Many other times it will be Scorpions, clubs like Montclair, NJ, or the countless other very good clubs in this country, who at any given time will have better teams than ECNL, and in some cases many teams better.
I don't believe parents are really falling for it yet. Certainly the parents at Stars will tout their participation in the league. Some parents just need to justify what they have done. But the Stars is receiving no greater influx of talent based on the decision to join the league. They have not made significant improvements to their club since joining. Nobody is going to the Stars because they are part of that league.
Right now, however, it is a serious waste of resources to discuss the ECNL as being worth being involved in. The only clubs it's actually worth being involved with are the clubs that don't have teams across the board that are strong enough to get into the showcases."Comment
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