ECRL

Do you think the delay in announcing the Girls version of the ECRL/ERL is due to the fact that Christian Lavers is busy securing the role of Director of Sport and Chief Soccer Officer for the Kansas City Women's Pro Soccer team? Asking for the loads of parents n players waiting to confirm that the girls ECRL/ERL is going live this upcoming season...

BTW: Lavers will continue to wear his ECNL hat too

I saw the new gig. Thanks for shining light on his other gig. Looks like he is making a killing on youth soccer and I am not talking like DOC low 6 figure salaries. Is he really making 7 figures?
Hmm

I have to wonder when conflict of interest comes in to play here.
Just saying.

I don't see how this isn't a conflict of interest and obvious unethical behavior at the expense of the kids

Maybe this is legit, but I have very hard time decoding this as not a conflict of interest. Maybe i'm 100% wrong. Wish someone would do a deep dive into this, because something sounds fishy. Maybe he's not getting a dime of the 4 million that codes to the other company he's the executive VP of. Maybe the tweet was wrong, i didn't dig up the 4 million from the tax return myself. But this all just irks me.

Exactly! Total conflict to let a program in and then be their director. Not that they might not have deserved that but just seems wrong to me.

Agree it is not about the money per se but if he is making money on multiple fronts due to contracts that loop back into his position of authority and decision making then that is not ethical.

Firmly want to say that I don't KNOW that any of that is happening but something fishy could be going on and after the GPS mess I think things like this need to be carefully looked in to make sure all is above board

Thanks! can you share the link to the website?

Crazy -- what is crazy is a top team at Ambush lets say who is in the SCCL, now will be playing concordes 5th team in the age group....

www.ecnlgirls.com/2021/04/07/ecnl-girls-regional-league-expands-to-create-new-ecnl-regional-league-south-atlantic/

AFU, 2 Concorde teams, UFA, GSA and BUSA (or Alabama FC, I can never figure out their club name).

It will always be BUSA for me.......

Well I have been saying this would happen on the girls side for a year, but I am disappointed in ECNL and the local clubs that Roswell Santos was not on this list. If I was Santos (and Ambush) I would be totally livid. They come into SCCL to compete against the big clubs again and then they get shafted with this move. Santos deserves higher level play on the girls side (I think boys probably do too but I have not paid that much attention). Ambush has lost any edge they had at retaining players by joining SCCL.

The other ridiculous thing is that Concorde gets two teams and UFA did not. This really hurts UFA Norcross. Concorde's 4th team (now that SSA split has happened) is not going to be better than UFA Norcross in general. Well...maybe they will be now because Norcross will continue to lose players after academy age.

Overall I am glad that ECRL has come to Atlanta but disappointed that Roswell Santos and UFA Norcross are out in the cold.

I thought that surf had announced that it was joining as well. Where do they fit in?

At least on the girls side - there’s no way Concorde can go 5 deep and be competitive. It wasn’t even able to field a competitive top team in many age groups last year, let alone second team. Only club that has been able to do that before last year’s craziness is Tophat. Even then I’d say after the third sometimes fourth team the talent started to be spread thin.

I don’t know enough about Red Star... but I think it’s going to be tough. Top 3 teams will be fine but after that, hard to say!

Well Sergio taking both the U19 and U16 teams hurt a lot and that was just this year. But still Concorde's true current 4th team was playing SCCL-P 2 in most cases because team 1 ECNL team 2 SCCL-C team 3 SCCL-P 1 and team 4 SCCL-P 2. The second ECNL team was SSA in most age groups. Adding Red Star will help if they plan to give them a team in ECRL but I just think this is a build it and they will come scenario. If CF has 2 ECNL and 2 ECRL they will draw more players away from other places and UFA Norcross would have been able to draw players instead and not lose them to AFU, GSA and CF. Now starting U13 they will lose them because no ECRL and the surrounding clubs have it. UFA Norcross was playing against CF 2nd teams in SCCL-C.

If you went back one year to look at standings you would have seen a better showing from Norcross. Sergio really hurt that branch taking their two strongest teams (at the time). There was additional fall out at other ages from his defection from what I was told by a UFA Norcross person in the know.

Oh I don't disagree with you re: Concorde and attracting more talent.  I think that's how this will work out for them - being able to offer up "ECRL" to kids who would have never sniffed ECNL will be a big draw for some.

As I said, a few years ago it was a very different outlook at Norcross.  One former coach ran off a bunch of 07s and 08s, then Sergio did he what did this past year.  Very frustrating.