How’s the 2024-2025 season going?

SuperSoccerStar said:
So what's the word on RL playoffs this weekend? All the local clubs bring the max NL players to "help"?
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I’d imagine teams who have NL teams that didn’t make playoffs will likely bring NL players to help.

California Odyssey got offered the NL spot for expansion so their RL team is essentially the ECNL team (a few of those players are DPs with Bay Area Surf).
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Favorite for the Bracket B final are Beach and California Odyssey. The dark horses are Legends RL and Legends RL S Cal

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In Bracket A the favorite is Slammers and Stanislus with the dark horse being LAFC and Blues.

Slammers FC is favored to take it in Virginia
 
smom said:
Is an NL player able to play playoffs with the both the RL and NL teams?
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So, if their NL and their team is not in playoffs, then they can go to regional and Virginia. If they’re in playoffs, then for regional yes (Norco and San Diego), but in Virginia, no (unless they decided to not play for their NL team).
 
Socccerdadof3 said:
View attachment 28413Welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West !!!
So what teams do you NOT want in your group ? lol
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Thinking that MVLA is pleased to not face SD Surf in group as they did in 2024. Definitely made for "the long way round".....

Otherwise, tears for PDA Blue, FC Prime, Minn Thunder, LA Breakers, SUSA, P. Thorns, SLSG Green, Scorpions, Charlotte, Sting, Eclipse.
 
Socccerdadof3 said:
View attachment 28413Welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West !!!
So what teams do you NOT want in your group ? lol
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Have you guys seen the draw?
Objective said:
Thinking that MVLA is pleased to not face SD Surf in group as they did in 2024. Definitely made for "the long way round".....

Otherwise, tears for PDA Blue, FC Prime, Minn Thunder, LA Breakers, SUSA, P. Thorns, SLSG Green, Scorpions, Charlotte, Sting, Eclipse.
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It is probably for the best for both MVLA and SD Surf, giants should duke it out at knockout rounds. For our SW teams, I think LA Breakers and Blues have it the toughest.
 
Zeke said:
Any word on how they did against Netherlands? I know the 2009s tied, but haven’t seen anything about the 10s.
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The U16s tied all the 3 games. I talked a buddy from Spain that watched the games. Sounds like the U16s have some work to do. He said the games were publicly recorded.

I asked about the 15s but haven't seen a response.

the US hasn't posted anything at all so that might be an indiction right there of how things are going. They usually get the 4-0 scores up pretty quick.
 
Orangeteam said:
The U16s tied all the 3 games. I talked a buddy from Spain that watched the games. Sounds like the U16s have some work to do. He said the games were publicly recorded.

I asked about the 15s but haven't seen a response.

the US hasn't posted anything at all so that might be an indiction right there of how things are going. They usually get the 4-0 scores up pretty quick.
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I believe the U15s tied both games as well. The Germany game was aired on YouTube live by the channel @DFB-Verband.
 
SuperSoccerStar said:
any comments on the RL playoffs? Any surprises? Were most teams using NL players?
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Seemed pretty straight forward on the RL side for the 10s. Slammers faces Stanislaus in Bracket A and in Bracket B we have Legends So Cal will play Ca Odyssey. Most teams used NL players (some were 2011s who couldn’t match up to the 10s). I don’t think any of them really affected the outcomes in the end.
 
TeamDadJokes said:
Seemed pretty straight forward on the RL side for the 10s. Slammers faces Stanislaus in Bracket A and in Bracket B we have Legends So Cal will play Ca Odyssey. Most teams used NL players (some were 2011s who couldn’t match up to the 10s). I don’t think any of them really affected the outcomes in the end.
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yeah I think its just accepted now as NL players are going to be used so you either adapt and do it or you don't. Much different than when the 10's started in playoffs though 2 years ago and lots of people were on here freaking out about seeing NL players!! Sucks we can only get 2 teams out of the southwest to Virginia. Wonder if they will change the RL playoffs structure again anytime soon.
 
SuperSoccerStar said:
yeah I think its just accepted now as NL players are going to be used so you either adapt and do it or you don't. Much different than when the 10's started in playoffs though 2 years ago and lots of people were on here freaking out about seeing NL players!! Sucks we can only get 2 teams out of the southwest to Virginia. Wonder if they will change the RL playoffs structure again anytime soon.
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Looks pretty evenly matched for the finals.

Slammers won in PKs over Stanislaus 4-1 after the game ended 0-0. Slammers keeper and former Slammers NL keeper x 2 years who decided to moved down to RL staying firm on not splitting time blocked 3 shots to punch their ticket to Virginia.

Legends RL S Cal took Odyssey to PKs but ultimate came up short 3-4.

It could have almost been a Legends final in bracket B. Ref wasn’t in position to make a call on a no goal posted on social media which would have changed the outcome of the weekend for them. Score for that game would have ended 2-2 but instead score was 1-2 when legends goalie went high to support when odyssey recovered and launched a kick from midfield on an empty net to end the game 3-1 in the final minute,

Same with Blues, they almost got slammers in their game. Blues went up 2-1 but slammers battled back to win it 3-2 securing their Tuesday match.
 
TeamDadJokes said:
Looks pretty evenly matched for the finals.

Slammers won in PKs over Stanislaus 4-1 after the game ended 0-0. Slammers keeper and former Slammers NL keeper x 2 years who decided to moved down to RL staying firm on not splitting time blocked 3 shots to punch their ticket to Virginia.

Legends RL S Cal took Odyssey to PKs but ultimate came up short 3-4.

It could have almost been a Legends final in bracket B. Ref wasn’t in position to make a call on a no goal posted on social media which would have changed the outcome of the weekend for them. Score for that game would have ended 2-2 but instead score was 1-2 when legends goalie went high to support when odyssey recovered and launched a kick from midfield on an empty net to end the game 3-1 in the final minute,

Same with Blues, they almost got slammers in their game. Blues went up 2-1 but slammers battled back to win it 3-2 securing their Tuesday match.
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Slammers RL should win it all. They were the strongest team during the season and deservedly so (similar to Beach RL last year).
 
TeamDadJokes said:
Slammers won in PKs over Stanislaus 4-1 after the game ended 0-0. Slammers keeper and former Slammers NL keeper x 2 years who decided to moved down to RL staying firm on not splitting time blocked 3 shots to punch their ticket to Virginia.
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The 4-1 PKs score is shown on the ECNL Regional League playoff site. I can only fashion one scenario in which the score ends 4-1 but that only allows a maximum of two saves by the winning keeper. Did the referee crew make a mistake in the fourth round of kicks by having the losing team take a meaningless kick?
 
twoclubpapa said:
The 4-1 PKs score is shown on the ECNL Regional League playoff site. I can only fashion one scenario in which the score ends 4-1 but that only allows a maximum of two saves by the winning keeper. Did the referee crew make a mistake in the fourth round of kicks by having the losing team take a meaningless kick?
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No clue
 
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