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After this year ECNL teams will no longer play in State Cups either.



This will be real interesting. When these ECNL teams quit playing for state titles they will lose there chance to play for a real national championship. A lot of clubs are using ECNL, as it probably should be used, to put there top teams in Region III and there challege teams in ECNL to get them into better tournaments where they would not qualify otherwise. SC Soccer knows it can not compete in region III on a consistent basis, so some of these coaches may think they compete better in ECNL. Well that has not happened either. Next year all of the CESA ECNL teams will be playing in the 2nd division and will, from day one, have no chance for a ECNL championship. And those girls will not have a state championship anymore either in club. And I guess they will not be playing HS so a lot of those girls will not even get a chance for a High School State title. So I guess it is bye bye to any type of title for the CESA girls. Lets see how many years this last. Oh and the CESA coahces do not want them playing any ODP either. So the ECNL teams will be playing other club's Challege level teams. Bottom line 99% of the girls in SC Club soccer stay with in a three state area to play college soccer. If they even decide to continue in college. None of them will make a living playing Soccer. Maybe coaching but not playing. they will go on to be teachers, mothers, doctors, lawyers, and other professional careers. So maybe staying here in SC for the Viking cup and not going to TX to play in an 2nd division level ECNL event is not such a big deal. The top players in the state are already well known by college coaches with or without ECNL.

Running with the big dogs