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    Another club leaving the DA for ECNL

    Concorde Fire is ‘All-In’ for the 2018-19 Season

    RICHMOND, VA (May 18, 2018) – The Girls Elite Clubs National League is excited to announce that Concorde Fire will join more than 80 other “All-In” clubs for the 2018-19 season. These clubs place the ECNL as the aspirational training and development environment for all female players within the club, and at the top of their competitive pyramid.

    Concorde Fire is a founding member of the Girls ECNL, based out of Atlanta, Georgia, and has finished as a top 20 club in the Overall Club Rankings of the ECNL every year for the past five seasons. Since the 2015-16 season, Concorde Fire has won 1 Southeast Conference championship, and finished in the top 3 of the conference 7 times (from U14 – U18). In 2017, the Concorde Fire U17s advanced to the ECNL Final Four. In the past 2 years, Concorde has had 4 players drafted into the NWSL, including women’s national team goalkeeper Jane Campbell. Women’s national team star and World Cup winner Kelley O’Hara is also a Concorde alum.

    The Girls ECNL is the nation’s top development and competition platform for female soccer players, with conference competition in six age groups (U13, U14, U15, U16, U17, and U18/19) and unmatched collegiate exposure through the ECNL National Events, the largest collegiate showcases in the country. In addition to the competition platform, the Girls ECNL offers player identification and development opportunities for top players in every conference, unique coaching education and club development programs, and player health and education resources.

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    BOTN says LISC is out

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      #3
      Hahahaha. They’re out because they can’t compete with TopHat. This is about as newsworthy as FSA leaving the ECNL because they couldn’t hang with CFC. Wait, what?

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        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Hahahaha. They’re out because they can’t compete with TopHat. This is about as newsworthy as FSA leaving the ECNL because they couldn’t hang with CFC. Wait, what?
        This is just stupid re Concorde. Concorde is one of the top girl's clubs in America. Your club would be lucky to have their level of success with YNT, D1 top-shelf players, and pro players they have produced. Tophat is top shelf compared to essentially everyone. Those two clubs are very close to each other and Concorde holds their own. Pretty impressive actually. Concorde are leaving so they don't have to put up with USDA stupid rules, don't have to listen to that frankly stupid Hickey person bloviate in an essentially incomprehensible manner, don't have to listen to the stupid things AH says and follow her stupid policies, and don't have to waste their time waste travelling to play the terrible teams in Florida that US Soccer put in the GDA. Tophat will be gone from GDA next year. Then we will see how much longer this US Soccer "power play" (tongue firmly planted in cheek) lasts.

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          #5
          Crossfire will be next

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            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            This is just stupid re Concorde. Concorde is one of the top girl's clubs in America. Your club would be lucky to have their level of success with YNT, D1 top-shelf players, and pro players they have produced. Tophat is top shelf compared to essentially everyone. Those two clubs are very close to each other and Concorde holds their own. Pretty impressive actually. Concorde are leaving so they don't have to put up with USDA stupid rules, don't have to listen to that frankly stupid Hickey person bloviate in an essentially incomprehensible manner, don't have to listen to the stupid things AH says and follow her stupid policies, and don't have to waste their time waste travelling to play the terrible teams in Florida that US Soccer put in the GDA. Tophat will be gone from GDA next year. Then we will see how much longer this US Soccer "power play" (tongue firmly planted in cheek) lasts.
            OW in panic mode, trying to downplay club departures while ignoring the fact that most of the departures have been top clubs. Yes LISC should go and probably will on their own volition. But they also never should have been in GDA to begin with. Picks like that spelled trouble, but I don't think many predicted so many top clubs leaving so quickly.

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              #7
              Slammers will be next. I think Crossfire stays doing both. But just wait until these clubs see the poor standard next year. More will leave.

              How could LISC and Empire stay in GDAP ?

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Slammers will be next. I think Crossfire stays doing both. But just wait until these clubs see the poor standard next year. More will leave.

                How could LISC and Empire stay in GDAP ?
                NY board said LISC is staying in for U14 and U15. But it's TS so loads of rumors going around too

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Slammers will be next. I think Crossfire stays doing both. But just wait until these clubs see the poor standard next year. More will leave.

                  How could LISC and Empire stay in GDAP ?
                  Poor standard of what? you have no idea. the only measure of GDA training will be the quality of players that emerge. You folks who keep basing it on the one sided games continue to miss the point. Do you think the ECNL games are going to be any different for the dominant teams?

                  GDA will be considered a success if the top 150 players are better players becasue of the additional time spent training .

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    Poor standard of what? you have no idea. the only measure of GDA training will be the quality of players that emerge. You folks who keep basing it on the one sided games continue to miss the point. Do you think the ECNL games are going to be any different for the dominant teams?

                    GDA will be considered a success if the top 150 players are better players becasue of the additional time spent training .
                    You’re actually correct.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Poor standard of what? you have no idea. the only measure of GDA training will be the quality of players that emerge. You folks who keep basing it on the one sided games continue to miss the point. Do you think the ECNL games are going to be any different for the dominant teams?

                      GDA will be considered a success if the top 150 players are better players becasue of the additional time spent training .
                      The difference between additional time spent training is not 100% for GDA vs anything else. While I would whole-heartedly agree that club training is mostly better than high school training, all the kids foregoing Glastonbury players (and other players at school with decent HS teams) are not missing much (except their high school years, state championships, playing in front of their school/town, all-state awards .....). After the two-month fall season (which has high schools going 5-6 days per week with training and games vs 3-4 days for training and games in GDA), they fall back to a nominal amount of training during our very long winter (less than other clubs), and then 3x per week in the Spring which is the same as every other club. if one of those 150 national top players is from Oakwood, great, not sure why the other 200 kids have to miss out on so much. Missing fall doesn't seem to affect the Prep school kids and US Soccer knows this (so why can't you see it?).

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        GDA will be considered a success if the top 150 players are better players becasue of the additional time spent training .
                        In the eyes of USSF yes, because that's all they care about. Problem is they need thousands more players to make the league work. Those other thousands of players don't care about the top 150 unless it's their BFFs. They care about what works for THEM. For a decent number GDA isn't working for them or they had already decided last year GDA wasn't for them.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          In the eyes of USSF yes, because that's all they care about. Problem is they need thousands more players to make the league work. Those other thousands of players don't care about the top 150 unless it's their BFFs. They care about what works for THEM. For a decent number GDA isn't working for them or they had already decided last year GDA wasn't for them.
                          I heard lots of 2003's at OW going to HS next year are choosing HS and NPL team over there.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            I heard lots of 2003's at OW going to HS next year are choosing HS and NPL team over there.
                            Don't blame them. As rising sophomores they are in good shape to do well on varsity squads. You're only a kid once.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              The difference between additional time spent training is not 100% for GDA vs anything else. While I would whole-heartedly agree that club training is mostly better than high school training, all the kids foregoing Glastonbury players (and other players at school with decent HS teams) are not missing much (except their high school years, state championships, playing in front of their school/town, all-state awards .....). After the two-month fall season (which has high schools going 5-6 days per week with training and games vs 3-4 days for training and games in GDA), they fall back to a nominal amount of training during our very long winter (less than other clubs), and then 3x per week in the Spring which is the same as every other club. if one of those 150 national top players is from Oakwood, great, not sure why the other 200 kids have to miss out on so much. Missing fall doesn't seem to affect the Prep school kids and US Soccer knows this (so why can't you see it?).
                              If you're not getting good training 4 days vs 3 then there is no difference. OW doesn't even train 4 days/week anyway

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