Among ECNL youth soccer players, 25% reach Division I, 20% Division II, and 20% Division III, while 35% never play college soccer. Most miss out because of poor highlight videos, weak recruiting emails, targeting wrong schools, or only applying to top programs.
What are the chances of you playing Division I soccer if you're playing ECNL? Let's look at a pie chart and see the statistics. So this is if you are playing ECNL. 35% will not play college soccer. 25% might play Division I, 20% Division II, and 20% Division III. Just to give you a quick analysis, that's ECNL. Here's how that compares to MLS NEXT, which is 30%, so a little bit more, and then there's a little bit more split here. Not quite as many go, and then even more kids do not play college soccer. Part of this is some MLS Next kids do go pro. The other thing of this is the kids who play MLS Next might have an attitude where they're like, if it's not Division I, I quit. ECNL kids, you know, typically you guys want to play college soccer. So your goal is, hey, I want to play college soccer and I'm open-minded. Hence why there might be more opportunity. But what you need to know about the statistics is 35% of you will not even get to play college soccer. And the reason that's so sad is because many of you are the level, But either your video's not good, your emails aren't good, you're not leveraging correctly, you're not picking the right schools to email, or you're being too picky and you're only wanting to go to the top 5 schools and not open to others. And that may mean you don't get to play soccer, and that's okay. I actually don't want you to sacrifice ever your dream school. But if you're gonna go for your dream school and you don't have good video and you don't go to the right camps, then 10 years from now you might regret not doing everything you could to play college soccer, and that's what we don't want. So if you want more help, give me a call, links in the bio. Talk to you soon, goodbye.
