Fall '16 OPL

Who's playing 04 OPL gold, Silver and OCL in the fall?

Blitz will have an OPL gold and OPL silver team this fall.

Does your daughter play for blitz and if so which team

Yes, Moritz

No confirmation but I suspect 04 Gold will be as follows:

1. Cosmos
2. OFC
3. TSC 1
4. Blitz
5. TSC - 2?
6. Norman?
7. NEOFC?

TSC 1 is better than last season so I don't see Cosmos or OFC finishing ahead of them. TSC 2 probably won't start at the top but could work into the top 4 by season end. I also think OFC will finish in front of Cosmos.

918. I wasn't ranking just listing teams who will play in gold. I have no clue how teams will look

More food for thought - just read a release from US Soccer that OFC joined the new Texas Champions League along with the TSCH ECNL teams. Really excited to see how this league unfolds!

CHARLESTON, S.C. (June 28, 2016) - The United Soccer Clubs and Lake Highlands Girls Classic League have partnered to create the Texas Champions League, a top regional girls league that will join the NPL for the 2016-17 season. The Texas Champions League includes U-14 through U-18 clubs from south Texas, north Texas and Oklahoma.

Since its inception in fall 2015, the United Soccer Clubs has already doubled in size, hosted the first-ever LaLiga Formation Methodology course and sent players to id² Training Camps. The Texas Champions League represents a continued evolution of local to regional to national competition.

The Lake Highlands Girls Classic League is a coveted league in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and has traditionally been considered among the top girls leagues in the country, producing numerous collegiate and U.S. National Team players over the years.

The Texas Champions League is comprised of:

Eight teams from Lake Highlands, five teams from ECNL clubs and three additional Lake Highlands qualifiers based on last year’s results
Six teams from United Soccer Clubs, four teams from ECNL clubs and two additional United Soccer Clubs qualifiers based on last year’s results, plus Oklahoma FC and Tulsa SC

918soccer wrote:TSC 1 is better than last season so I don't see Cosmos or OFC finishing ahead of them. TSC 2 probably won't start at the top but could work into the top 4 by season end. I also think OFC will finish in front of Cosmos.

What team did the core group of girls on TSC 1 play on last year?

The core group came from Griffin and they picked up strong players from Parker and Carreno.

918soccer wrote:More food for thought - just read a release from US Soccer that OFC joined the new Texas Champions League along with the TSCH ECNL teams. Really excited to see how this league unfolds!

The way I understand it these will be composite teams made up of 02/03 and 00/01 and 98/99. I don't know that it applies for 04s... Should be a good league though!

918soccer wrote:CHARLESTON, S.C. (June 28, 2016) -  The United Soccer Clubs and Lake Highlands Girls Classic League have partnered to create the Texas Champions League, a top regional girls league that will join the NPL for the 2016-17 season. The Texas Champions League includes U-14 through U-18 clubs from south Texas, north Texas and Oklahoma.

Since its inception in fall 2015, the United Soccer Clubs has already doubled in size, hosted the first-ever LaLiga Formation Methodology course and sent players to id² Training Camps. The Texas Champions League represents a continued evolution of local to regional to national competition.

The Lake Highlands Girls Classic League is a coveted league in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and has traditionally been considered among the top girls leagues in the country, producing numerous collegiate and U.S. National Team players over the years.

The Texas Champions League is comprised of:

Eight teams from Lake Highlands, five teams from ECNL clubs and three additional Lake Highlands qualifiers based on last year’s results
Six teams from United Soccer Clubs, four teams from ECNL clubs and two additional United Soccer Clubs qualifiers based on last year’s results, plus Oklahoma FC and Tulsa SC

This is kind of confusing.....So essentially this is a new NPL league?   No ECNL teams will be playing I assume, just teams from ECNL club.  So will TSC's SRPL teams play SRPL and NPL?

Yellow card could be right, could be our composite ECNL teams.

It's definitely the Composite teams... SRPL will play SRPL still.

918soccer wrote:TSC 1 is better than last season so I don't see Cosmos or OFC finishing ahead of them. TSC 2 probably won't start at the top but could work into the top 4 by season end. I also think OFC will finish in front of Cosmos.

Time will tell....But it'll be hard to duplicate last years "04" Kitterman/Griffin record of the last 3 years...2 State Cup wins and only one episode of being beaten by another 04 team (Blitz 04 during a spring West Side tourney), a quarter final and semi-final Premier Super Copa finish in consecutive years, and a Lexus cup win playing up and a finals playing up consecutive years, with only one "03" team beating them (SRPL winners NYSA, if I recall correctly, in said Lexus Cup) without their own loss to 'em....If they can pull that type of record off, then I'll agree (and don't get me wrong, the potential is there!)...I actually think Blitz 04 is gonna be the dark horse in the 04 age group this year...again, all rank speculation...

Good luck to all! It will be interesting to watch from the outside (maybe I'll be a little more objective!)

NYSA won state cup... They were 9th in SRPL. Still a solid team nonetheless!

Oops! Maybe I mean Southlakes 03...Like I said, wasn't sure on my memory on that one....Still not!

How do you think last years 04 Griffin team would do against this coming years ECNL 03 team? Im interested to see how good that team is...

Just throwing something out there
Tsc 1
Slsc
Blitz
Ofc 1
Tsc-2
Ofc-2
NYSA

cosmos04 wrote:Just throwing something out there
Tsc 1
Slsc
Blitz
Ofc 1
Tsc-2
Ofc-2
NYSA

Is this your honest ranking?

Yes but I could see slsc and blitz flip flopping and Nysa and ofc-2 possibly flip flopping

Why is everyone anticipating a bit of down trendl for TSC-Parker?

cosmos04 wrote:Yes but I could see slsc and blitz flip flopping and Nysa and ofc-2 possibly flip flopping

Time will tell.

Rico S wrote:Why is everyone anticipating a bit of down trendl for TSC-Parker?

Great question. I too am curious? i have heard rumors but curious if there is some objective analysis.

As to rankings, I personally have no opinion.

ENERGYFC04 wrote:

Rico S wrote:Why is everyone anticipating a bit of down trendl for TSC-Parker?

Great question.   I too am curious?  i have heard rumors but curious if there is some objective analysis.

As to rankings, I personally have no opinion.  

I would say it has to do with losing two very valuable players and not replacing them...