Whats the best girls 08 ECNL team in GA

In general for most age groups assume this order:
Concorde Fire Platinum
UFA
Concorde Fire Premier
GSA/Atlanta Fire

A lot of changes with these 08 rosters since last season. No way to accurately assess until they play. CF & GSA likely at the top for ecnl

I’m not sure about player movement this year, but based on last year here is strength of teams:
1. Cf premier (assuming that will be SSA team)
2. Cf platinum (Very close to Ssa)
3. Gsa (not far behind cf platinum)
4. Ufa
5. Afu (unless they made added some players will likely struggle in ecnl)
Edit: this is for 08 girls of course

They were only talking about the 08 team so how are the rankings for the older teams even relevant? After all the roster changes are significant at this age group as they went from 9v9 to 11v11. Plus coaching changes. Plus the influx to clubs from outside the clubs (even from smaller club players looking for ECNL). Add in any NTH players that moved. The ranking of last year's results of older teams is no longer relevant especially given demise of DA, shifts at NTH and going from small sided to full field.

Would love to see them all have friendlies with the 08 TH team.
They sure are grateful that ECNL didn’t grant TH ECNL this year for this age group...😏

My money is on CF platinum. Garvin Quamina picked up that team after doing wonders w/ the 02s (who graduated) and the 04s. He's a great coach/trainer and his teams play beautiful soccer while having great success. Both 02s and 04s goal differentials were off the charts. He's also the guy who trained AC of ATL U daily as a child and even while at ATL U.

I appreciate you are relying merely on what you heard.  Based on observation and facts, however, he is top shelf.  His 02s have not added a significant kid since u14  (and lost a couple to TH DA at u16) and have rolled every year.  If I recall, in 3 of the last 4 years they have been eliminated at nationals by the team that ultimately won nationals including a final 4 appearance.   I think if you ask any of those 02s, including the Stanford, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, etc. kids, they would say he's the best coach they've ever had.  As for the 04s they've rolled too.  It would be interesting to see how they do the next couple of years in nationals.  Recruiting wise, they are doing great.  He's extraordinary at all levels.  You did hear right, hell of a trainer as well.  The 08s pulled off a coup that they got him.

Concorde
GSA
UFA
Concorde Prem
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AFU

While where they came from is a legit question I have started to feel like some people (not necessarily you) are very hyper focused on this issue of kids coming from the club and staying there the whole time. I understand this issue of wanting development in the club and kids staying at a club the whole time there are many reasons why an older team might have kids from other clubs come in. Some of these are because we want to keep the little ones generally close to home for their academy ages and will weigh location more heavily. Some of it may be coach driven. You can love your club's development of your kid for a long time and then choose to leave for another club because you just got assigned a coach you don't like. Again this is a bigger issue for the older kids.

I agree.  My thoughts are at younger ages stay with a club that is close to home assuming you have good options and they are focused on individual skil development.  As they get older that same club may not be the right fit depending on the players goals.  For the vast majority of players I don't think club movement is a necessity but for a relatively small percentage club movement is probably needed.  I would be very surprised if any very successful club teams (success for this post = high D1 college signings, YNT invites, high level league) are made up of players who matriculated through their ranks from the beginning of their playing days.  I attribute that to there being a large pool of players all funneling down to a few teams.  The probability is just not in the favor of the majority coming from the origin club or even from the same club.  I don't think that takes away from the club's focus or ability to develop players or shows that they are more interested in looking outside for the next shinny thing it is just numbers and the competitive nature of it all. 

I will say that I do think some clubs do a much better job than others at young ages focusing on  technical, individual skill training so soime of these teams might not be as diverse with multiple  clubs as others but even with those clubs I think finding the majority originating from there would be an anomaly

1. CF PL
2. GSA
3. CF PR
4. UFA
5. AFU

He is one of the best there is. He teaches technical aspects and develops his players very well and breaks the game down in away girls can understand whether they are U9 or U19. He motivates- but is tough and has very high expectations. The girls live playing for him- that being said I think most of the posters predictions are correct and it’ll be GSA/Concorde fighting for the top spot in the 08s.

I hope UFA wins big this season!

Cant agree more with this post. I have said before here on the forum that IMO he is the best youth coach in Atlanta. The thing that makes him so good is he has seen it all playing himself at every level all the way up to MLS and the mens national team and has away for imparting this experience to the girls is a structured manner holding them accountable but having fun at the same time. I know our daughter wouldnt have gotten to the levels she has without him. That being said it will take him the first part of the season to get the girls to understand his system, but by the second half my guess is they will be giving all the ECNL teams a run for their money.