What age groups are you referring to? I know of 3 age groups that are not only retaining their players, including their top talent, but adding some. Looks like an abundance of talent is both staying and coming to Beach, rather than leaving.
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What age groups are you referring to? I know of 3 age groups that are not only retaining their players, including their top talent, but adding some. Looks like an abundance of talent is both staying and coming to Beach, rather than leaving.
Surf Zombie
GOLD
My daughter's ECNL club did early offers to some of the existing players this week. Tryouts would normally be around early May. Deposit went down from $600 last year to $250 this year. On her particular team only 12 being brought back for sure with the bottom five competing against the displaced DA players. Can't do tryouts so trying to land the top "know commodities" from the former DA clubs and asking for game film from everyone else.
SoccerGuru
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Sounds like the writing is on the wall at Beach and Legends if this is true. However, I am hearing some teams are staying together but I do know certain OC ecnl clubs have been getting a ton of calls from both of those clubs so while some are saying they are there to stay. That might change once they are offered a spot. Every parent will look out for their DD best interest as they should.
Will they be injecting house held cleaners as directed from the executive office?
foreveryoung
SILVER ELITE
What age group is this? Is the skill gap that big between the "top 12" and "bottom 5" that it's worth it to split up a team this way? Or are they being total douches to young girls.
This is an internet forum to discuss issues, gossip and rumors. Why personally attack someone for expressing themselves in a way the forum intended.? I think it is interesting how many people add nothing but just attack people personally.
foreveryoung
SILVER ELITE
Watching upper middle class parents grasping at "success" and scrambling not to be left behind.
If you think certain clubs with high level players weren't intentionally left of ECNL's recent expansion in order to satisfy a number of existing ECNL clubs who have specific designs on picking up new high level players from stranded ex-DA clubs (and thus necessitating the demotion of several current players), then you simply haven't been paying attention.
Multiple spots have been offered already and, after thanking the coaches, the player stays put. After many great years of soccer (Surf Cup, CRL, Regional Championships, YNT calls, tremendous DA matches ...), beating every team of relevance in SoCal, and also losing a few matches to those great teams, before and during DA, there is no need at this point to stop trusting and quit your coaches and teammates . If down the road the choice turns out to hurt your daughter, one can always reevaluate.
foreveryoung
SILVER ELITE
Yah, I'm sure it was strategic, but seeing how it actually trickles down to adolescents girls in real life is just that much more grotesque. Here's the thing, it's also an issue of supply and demand. The whole youth soccer nightmare wasn't created out of thin air. It started with demand and is sustained with demand. Perhaps the next generation of parents, with their idealistic values and preference for "experiences" over "success" will have the ultimate affect on the environment.
That sounds horrible. That's equivalent to an adult losing their job because their manager thought someone else's resume looked better. Sad for those bottom 5 who have to "compete" against another player's game film and reputation.
Surf Zombie
GOLD
2007, so first year of ECNL. I think you'll always see some turn over at this age. That's said, the DA situation is certainly providing a lot more competition for those those roster spots. I think the question is are the DA players they will attract better than those back 5 kids? Knowing some of the DA kids in the mix its a definite yes. Plus there are a couple of kids from the other local ECNL clubs who may be looking for a change of scenery, so it makes for some fierce competition.
Thank you pokergod. I do not post what I know on here often because it seems that many on this blog really enjoy attacking and bullying women of color. Very telling and quite disturbing.
foreveryoung
SILVER ELITE
And you feel okay about how your club/coach is handling the team formation?
Surf Zombie
GOLD
Where did i say that?
MSK357
GOLD
WTF?! lol how do we know what color you are? ridiculous. ignore the bully comments, we just want to know which beach teams you are talking about. Because so far there are some teams confirmed to stay together.
No offense, but you say people attack you because you are a woman of color, but how would any of us know that?
Just seems like a lot of what you “hear” has been way off base from a mass exodus of Beach Coaches to Baker coming to Coach in Long Beach, to the mass exodus of Beach top players. I hope you don’t take me questioning your information as a personal attack.
It would make some sense that there is disruption amongst the ‘03’s as an overall age group bc of the shear # of ‘03’s in the DA program already. Hell, 90% of the 01/02 DA roster are ‘03’s.
gotothebushes
GOLD
Yeah I agree this is interesting. I don't see players going back on the field in June. Pretty sure these coaches want to be on the filed come June given their new contracts starts June 1.
gotothebushes
GOLD
I'v also heard no Beach 05 players are moving!
Coivd19 changed much of what was planned for May and June. Many families and coaches are not truthful about long term plans (Newsflash for those that do not know this already). Slammers will be the winner in all of this and is the place to be long term. Get in while you can.