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KidGretzky25
SILVER
Is that a misprint? Beach 7-0 Over SWAP?
It has to be wrong. The last time those two teams played they tied and swap should have won.
It's correct.. Big win for Beach Academy
soccerobserver
GOLD
LB, This is funny but I like the spirit and he made things entertaining... hopefully there will be a recap...and they did have a fantastic season and advanced to Round 2 before the reality of Beach set in...no Made-for-Disney movie at this time...
not a misprint
if I had to describe this game I couldn't lol Hats off to beach but in our defense we had no defense lol honestly i don't know WTF happened and after goal 2 its sad to say be i think they just gave up which is not like this team. back to the drawing board!!!!I don't fully agree rdzl. The score was 0-0 with just a few minutes left in the first half. The first half was a well played and SWAP was defending well and Beach had to work hard to penetrate the defense. Good luck to your team and keep working at it. Hopefully the team is able to move up to Champions next season.not a misprint
17SquirrelsDad
BRONZE
Season is over - and once again ECNL dominates!!!! Sorry state for club soccer, but the fortune tellers took the 'unknowing' and lead them deeper into the upper levels of girls soccer. Too bad for the state of club, but that's where the money lead folks - to chase the dreams. Those wishing to play in lower level D1 (I'm not saying it's a bad thing - just lots less scholarship $$$) will undoubtedly settle for D2 or NAIA or just go for the degree school. But the dreams ended when ECNL struck their flag in the ground. Except for those 'few' that make it beyond ECNL.
MakeAPlay
DA
I don't quite understand this post. I get that it is a rant but not sure what the target of the rant is. ECNL has worked out great for PLENTY of players so not sure about the "few" comment means. ECNL even worked out for the discovery players that have popped up repeatedly from non-ECNL clubs. Even those clubs that feel like they are golden because of the DA "holy grail" had players that benefited from the ECNL exposure.
17SquirrelsDad
BRONZE
"ECNL has worked out great for PLENTY of (correction: ECNL team) players". The rant is - the rest of the girls have and will continue to fall through the cracks of the money hounding clubs out there that have made $$$ their key interest. Like when they say "Development" - I say BS!
MakeAPlay
DA
I'm sorry if things haven't worked out the way that you would have liked. I share your pain. However, having had a player that went from U14-U18 in the ECNL and having only played for ECNL clubs in her career I will say that they did a good job of developing her. Some did more than others and at the end of the day it was a combination of her fantastic coaches, her not so fantastic coaches, her private trainers, her teammates, the competition that she played against and most of all her talent and desire to improve everyday that did the developing. To expect it to just be the ECNL is to do the typical American thing and point a finger at someone else instead of pointing the finger at yourself for expecting somebody else to do a job that you should have been doing all along. Do you farm out your daughter's academic education or do you follow it closely steering it in the direction that your family thinks that it should go? I'm sorry but just like anything else in life the more you put into it the more you get out of it and I am not just talking about writing a check and hoping that fixes it. Take responsibility for your part in the outcome whether it is what you wanted to happen or whether the results weren't what you desired. Hindsight is 20/20 and most prophets are denigrated all the way up to the point where everyone realizes that they were right. Of course by then it is usually too late. Let this be a lesson for the future.
17SquirrelsDad
BRONZE
We did follow through. We did "take responsibility". We took her to different teams through her soccer years, after looking over the coaches at those teams, and watching those teams play. And we continued her on with her private coach who she had a ~U10/U11. He was the best she had overall. Problem is - they try to sell you onto the team, and when they hook ya, sometimes it works, often times not - as you know. To equate it to education - that's apples and oranges. We bought in the neighborhood we did because of the school system, and never was really concerned with her education. She has had good teachers, great teachers, and 1-2 poor teachers. And we didn't shell out $2500-$3000 per year for it. Soccer is a business transaction - they promise; you pay. And as I've mentioned before, ECNL is lightyears ahead of typical club soccer now.
outside!
DA
Play in both. They are both showcases, and playing in both will give your players more chances to be seen by coaches.
soccerobserver
GOLD
Nomads is more of a regular tournament format with up to 6 games when you add in quarterfinal, semi final and the championship games...NN is 1 game per day with no semis quarters etc...playing both seems like a real challenge...
Rdzl, your team is playing great and I am guessing would have 6 games in Nmds...that plus 3 or 4 games in NN could be 10 games over 3 days???
outside!
DA
There will be very few coaches around on Sunday at Nomads. There will be a lot of coaches at NN on Friday and Saturday (probably more than Nomads). If you are concerned about too many games at Nomads, manage the games on Saturday so that you don't advance. If your players want to play in college, exposure matters more than winning at Nomads. These players have sacrificed a lot over the years in a system that makes them play too many games and treats them like cogs. Do what is best for the players.
thats kind of a lot of games and honestly this late in the game i don't think they would change schedules to accommodate us. I guess we'll see what coach decides. We would actually be taking Crescenta Valleys spot in the U19 division if we take it.