Yes, without talking about who's who and who picked up NTPs, lot's of top players on the move. I won;t share because it's none of my business. ECNL is now looking for next years 2020-2021 teams. U17 is the place to be. My dd is super grateful to have at least one year of club soccer ((I'm staying positive folks, got's too)). For the 04' U17 age group, Blues is now my new #1. They have a VERY VERY good team. LAFC #2 with their new additions and Slammers is now #3 with their new additions. MLVA is #4. The rest, I have no idea. However, if the top player(s) from Real SoCal play U17, that will be one hell of a team too. Plus Heat. My God, this is going to be very difficult but fun. Under dogs have a say in all this too. I forgot about all the top teams in Texas. Who truly is #1 in Texas? Plus CO has a stud team at Real CO. Oh, and all the AZ teams too.........Party time!!!
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If that rumor mill is true and I dont doubt you one bit Shales, then I will move MLVA back to #1. I need proof first. SW ECNL U17 2020-2021!!!!
I'm hearing there has been no movement with MLVA players. MVLA I hear is very loyal to there players and displacing current players would probably disrupt that 04 team. I actually disagree with my friends opinion on this one. If you have solid players wanting to come over its only going to make your club and teams better.
After all my years in club and this next season being our last one, if a team has been loyal all these years and their already a great team, I would maybe take the best one or two from EQ and that's it. You should be cutting 20% every year some say anyway and if you can pick EQs top players that is a win for everyone. The old ECNL SW league is no more and new has come. Every club has and will improve in the SW League and competition will be fierce. Also, teams that have now have a new all star roster doesnt always equal wins. Chemistry plays a slight roll in championships. Good luck to all the teams and may the best team win it all.
youthsportsugh
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MVLA has added a player here and there over the years and if a couple of top notch former quakes become available I am sure they wouldn't turn them down. That Quakes team could lead to a lot of dominoes falling at different clubs.
Yes, I know about Legend NTP, also NTP from WestCoast, and LA Galaxy.
The 04 Quake team was almost completely made up of NTP, very hard to beat.
I think if a player had Interest to join MVLA, it would be a no brainier for the coach to displace a current player.
Lionel Hutz
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Before the GDA was created, the 04 Quakes teams was the DeAnza Force 04 team. Both rosters have remained mostly the same from then until now, with very few changes. Back when they played each other, the MVLA team beat that team repeatedly and consistently. I just took a look at the current MVLA roster, and 16 of the girls remain from years ago when they never lost an important competition to the players on the current Quakes team. Having NTP on a resume looks great, but that isn't going to automatically get you a spot and knock of a player who's consistently outperformed you on an even playing field.
A little bit of both and sprinkled with YNT players from other clubs I wont name. This will be the #1 team in the country hands down at the U17.
Yes, your partially correct.
Being a NTP looks good on paper, I would think that player would shine during tryout. Then again it all depends on what the coach is looking for.
Soccerfan2
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1/3 of the players at the March U15 YNT camp were not from DA.
There’s no question ECNL was being discriminated. 1 YNT event had 6 Earthquakes girls and 0 MVLA girls.
Now with a level playing field, the call-ups will have much more validity. And, not doubting that most of those girls deserved it and will be called back.
There were ECNL players in England in Feb.
There were 4 ECNL players and 16 DA players in England. That seems to prove @Anon9's point. The year before, the NT for that age group had 1 ECNL player and the rest were DA.
Doubting whether Quakes girls deserved it is exactly what you are doing. In one sentence, you’re claiming it was “discriminatory” that Quakes had 6 and MVLA none, and the next you’re claiming that you’re not doubting they deserved it.
youthsportsugh
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There were, but 16 of the 20 were from the DA (I think). It had definitely skewed toward DA clubs in the last couple of years. Out of the 60 girls at the January U14, 50 of them were DA. You also saw a lot of the same clubs over and over.
youthsportsugh
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You can do both by using arguably the top 2 teams in their respective leagues. To have 6 girls from the top DA team and 0 from the top ECNL team (which before the DA split hadn't really lost to that DA team) would show some discrimination. Then you can follow that up with the I am sure those 6 girls are excellent and will probably be called back. Not sure if that is what was meant, but the 2 are not mutually exclusive.
I think it is also important to look back to the 2018 CONCACAF tournament roster and see how many were returning by league. By my rudimentary count:
ECNL
1 returning
3 new
DA (important to note that many of the girls played for Clubs that at the time had DA and ECNL, these players went DA)
10 returning
6 new
Definitely not even numbers but a lot to take into consideration when you are looking at positional needs, etc. when selecting teams. I don’t have a count on how many ECNL girls were called into the Florida camp in January, but I don’t think it deviates from the numbers above by much of anything.