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A college soccer coach says ECNL isn't required for recruitment. Colleges scout across multiple leagues. What matters: play at your region's best level, send four to five emails with video to coaches, attend ID camps, and follow up.
A college soccer coach says ECNL isn't required for recruitment. Colleges scout across multiple leagues. What matters: play at your region's best level, send four to five emails with video to coaches, attend ID camps, and follow up.
Should you be playing MLS NEXT or ECNL? Let's hear directly from a college coach and see what she has to say.
All the time, do we have to play in ECNL in order to get, you know, recruited by colleges? And the answer is no, because it goes back to these players doing their diligence of emailing, right? If you're interested in our school and you've emailed, you know, numerous amounts of times, I'm going to do my best.
Do you hear how she said numerous? Okay, not one time or not two times. Numerous. That means 4 to 5 times.
To go out and watch you regardless if you're ECNL, DPL, GA, NPL. Top 20 schools in the country more often than not are looking at ECNL players, right?
Club level only matters in regards to showcases and your coach and are you playing minutes and are you happy. Every year you're going to ask me or your family or your coach, should we switch, should we switch, should we switch? And every year they're going to give you a new answer. There's GA Aspire, there's ECNL, there's NPL, there's DPL. It never changes. It's going to be the same over and over. You have to do what's in your control. Let me tell you what's in your control. Play on the highest level club team you can within your region. Send emails, emails, emails with video, video, video. Go to ID camps. You must go to ID camps and then follow up.
