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The Elite Clubs National League was founded in 2009 and continues to lead by daring to do things differently, embedded with grit, collaboration and tenacity – all things learned from the beautiful game. The ECNL protects and propels the integrity of the game and everyone it impacts by facilitating the perfect symmetry of excellence and humility, exclusivity and accessibility, freedom and community. We believe that challenging everyone to rise to their best creates game-changers that live well, long after cleats are unlaced. Born out of the belief in a better way. Continued in the ever-evolving pursuit of excellence.
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Let us know the topics of interest to you! Breaking the Line is back with ECNL President Christian Lavers and ECNL Vice President Doug Bracken, and the pair welcomes a special guest to the podcast this week: Ross Paule, US Club Soccer's Senior Director of Player Development and Talent ID. In Episode 149, Lavers, Bracken and Paule want to tackle the question of is education and development programs for coaching and talent identification becoming too administrative, bureaucratic, and co...
Let us know the topics of interest to you! Breaking the Line returns with ECNL President Christian Lavers and ECNL Vice President Doug Bracken to discuss a topic that has been on the minds of ECNL leadership lately: player restrictions, rules and regulations. For Episode 148, Lavers and Bracken share a candid conversation about what are the ECNL's current player rules, the intentions of creating those rules, and the competition platform those rules were designed to create. And as the ...
Let us know the topics of interest to you! Welcome to a special edition of Breaking The Line - The ECNL Podcast. For this week’s episode, the Breaking the Line team takes a look back at episodes through the years and pulls some of their favorite clips. These clips share a similar theme, and for this week, it’s all about coaching. ECNL President Christian Lavers and ECNL Vice President Doug Bracken have spent numerous episodes speaking about coaching, and this collection of clip...
Let us know the topics of interest to you! In Episode 146, Breaking the Line - The ECNL Podcast tackles a question raised before, that has been answered many different ways: Does International Competition Matter when it comes to youth development? ECNL President Christian Lavers and ECNL Vice President Doug Bracken emphatically answer: yes. In this week's episode, the pair dive into this question and give their opinions why international competition is important to a young playe...
Let us know the topics of interest to you! Breaking the Line returns to your airwaves and ECNL President Christian Lavers and ECNL Vice President Doug Bracken asks a question that is fundamental to understanding the youth soccer landscape while also examining what is important to players, coaches, clubs and parents when evaluating talent and development: Does The Transfer Portal Begin at 10 Years Old? In this hour-long episode, Lavers and Bracken examine how do clubs prioritize develo...
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