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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe people I know who have daughters that play on ECNL teams are wealthy and want the bragging rights. Their daughters are mostly above average players, but not the best players.
Kind of like putting a water feature at the entrance to your 1/4 mile driveway. You want people to know that you make serious money and are elite status. You earned the right. You deserve this. You belong to the top tier country club and wouldn't be caught dead teeing off at a public course.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostDon’t forget gymnastics, swimming, skiing, travel baseball and softball, volleyball, and nearly all non-ghetto sports. They all travel and cost a lot of money. In fact, many of those sports cost as much and MORE than playing in the ECNL. This is American youth sports and is not just a soccer problem.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe people I know who have daughters that play on ECNL teams are wealthy and want the bragging rights. Their daughters are mostly above average players, but not the best players.
Kind of like putting a water feature at the entrance to your 1/4 mile driveway. You want people to know that you make serious money and are elite status. You earned the right. You deserve this. You belong to the top tier country club and wouldn't be caught dead teeing off at a public course.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostGDA was always a joke. GDA move away from ECNL was a money grab and our youth national team system is a cycle of friends helping friends.
Be honest with this... Our youth soccer system is a trilogy of not very talented people running a program for entitled kids who's parents fund the madness..... Their are no winners..
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostTrue statement right here. Just look at all the Seattle Reign Academy national team call ups from losing teams. No secret who their ex director is. Friends helping friends. Sad.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSo true. Reign U17s have at least 5 players who have received more than 1 call up including a GK and two defenders. They recently lost to Beach 1-6. They lost to San Jose 0-5 as well -- In that game, San Jose played up most of their 04 team. They have given up about 2 goals per game with 3 so-called national team defenders. Everyone knows it's a joke and just about Tracey Kevins doing favors for the Reign since she used to work there and they desperately need help and that's exactly the problem with US Soccer. Reign teams have never competed at a high level nationally yet they get a bunch of very suspect call ups.
Tells me all I need to know about the integrity of the national team selection process in the GDA era.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMeanwhile, Katie Duong goes from regular national team callups (before GDA started up) to no national team callups (when she chose ECNL over GDA) to starting on the U19 national team (once she went to college).
Tells me all I need to know about the integrity of the national team selection process in the GDA era.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostMeanwhile, Katie Duong goes from regular national team callups (before GDA started up) to no national team callups (when she chose ECNL over GDA) to starting on the U19 national team (once she went to college).
Tells me all I need to know about the integrity of the national team selection process in the GDA era.
Yes the best play DA.
This one left Oregon crap club and hs dumpster fire level to play DA in Wa.
Paid off for her d1 school an uswnt
Rare for Oregon talent..well done DA.
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Soccer Wire reporting DA is announcing their folding as early as tomorrow. By all means keep defending as the Titanic sinks.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostSoccer Wire reporting DA is announcing their folding as early as tomorrow. By all means keep defending as the Titanic sinks.
https://www.soccerwire.com/resources...pment-academy/
DA is getting around to--no surprise--cancelling the rest of the 2019-20 season (like everything else in soccer, they've been shut down for a while). But the rumor that DA was shutting down for good was floated yesterday; today is tomorrow and no such announcement has been made.
Could it happen? We've gone from Sunil Gulati (who was a big DA proponent) to Carlos Cordiero (who didn't give a sh!t about anything, honestly, and basically wasted two years in charge), to Cindy Parlow Cone, who is new on the job and hasn't tipped her hand what she thinks.
It could happen--MLS seems to be wanting to cut loose from the boys DA, and for GDA to make sense it needs to be fully subsidized. If it's just as expensive as ECNL, then it doesn't solve the main problem with ECNL (many girls can't afford it) and introduces others. But the original rumor of an imminent shutdown now seems to be dialed back.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUh, Soccer Wire is reporting no such thing. The story you are referring to is here:
https://www.soccerwire.com/resources...pment-academy/
DA is getting around to--no surprise--cancelling the rest of the 2019-20 season (like everything else in soccer, they've been shut down for a while). But the rumor that DA was shutting down for good was floated yesterday; today is tomorrow and no such announcement has been made.
Could it happen? We've gone from Sunil Gulati (who was a big DA proponent) to Carlos Cordiero (who didn't give a sh!t about anything, honestly, and basically wasted two years in charge), to Cindy Parlow Cone, who is new on the job and hasn't tipped her hand what she thinks.
It could happen--MLS seems to be wanting to cut loose from the boys DA, and for GDA to make sense it needs to be fully subsidized. If it's just as expensive as ECNL, then it doesn't solve the main problem with ECNL (many girls can't afford it) and introduces others. But the original rumor of an imminent shutdown now seems to be dialed back.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUh, Soccer Wire is reporting no such thing. The story you are referring to is here:
https://www.soccerwire.com/resources...pment-academy/
DA is getting around to--no surprise--cancelling the rest of the 2019-20 season (like everything else in soccer, they've been shut down for a while). But the rumor that DA was shutting down for good was floated yesterday; today is tomorrow and no such announcement has been made.
Could it happen? We've gone from Sunil Gulati (who was a big DA proponent) to Carlos Cordiero (who didn't give a sh!t about anything, honestly, and basically wasted two years in charge), to Cindy Parlow Cone, who is new on the job and hasn't tipped her hand what she thinks.
It could happen--MLS seems to be wanting to cut loose from the boys DA, and for GDA to make sense it needs to be fully subsidized. If it's just as expensive as ECNL, then it doesn't solve the main problem with ECNL (many girls can't afford it) and introduces others. But the original rumor of an imminent shutdown now seems to be dialed back.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostKeep up the good work. Those deck chairs on the Titanic won’t rearrange themselves.
On the boys' side, I think the DA has largely been successful--but now, it's time for MLS to take over. In most countries, the domestic pro league(s) are what run the top academies, not the national federation. MLS (much of it anyway) has moved from the North American sports model (where pro teams have little to do with youth sports) to the worldwide soccer model. In such an environment, the DA isn't anywhere near as relevant.
The main problem with this is that many markets don't have a MLS or USL team nearby (or have one that has a lousy academy--like here). A more limited DA program focusing on such places would be useful.
The girls side is different--girls/women's soccer remains a "non-revenue sport", where there is no lucrative and well-funded professional entity funding development. Title IX is the exception, and thus ECNL has been geared towards college recruitment rather than international soccer. That said--colleges (more so on the boys side, but also on the girls side) have been recruiting more and more abroad; if the NCAA ups the quality of its game this would be beneficial. The other big concern with ECNL is its attempt to dominate the college recruiting pipeline, which is part and parcel of the longstanding US Club/USYS war. Neither side there is entirely clean.
The interesting question, remains--what will the new leadership of US Soccer do? Carlos Cordiero is gone, as is Jay Berhalter, and good riddance to both of them. Cone has inherited a mess.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostNot part of DA, sorry.
On the boys' side, I think the DA has largely been successful--but now, it's time for MLS to take over. In most countries, the domestic pro league(s) are what run the top academies, not the national federation. MLS (much of it anyway) has moved from the North American sports model (where pro teams have little to do with youth sports) to the worldwide soccer model. In such an environment, the DA isn't anywhere near as relevant.
The main problem with this is that many markets don't have a MLS or USL team nearby (or have one that has a lousy academy--like here). A more limited DA program focusing on such places would be useful.
The girls side is different--girls/women's soccer remains a "non-revenue sport", where there is no lucrative and well-funded professional entity funding development. Title IX is the exception, and thus ECNL has been geared towards college recruitment rather than international soccer. That said--colleges (more so on the boys side, but also on the girls side) have been recruiting more and more abroad; if the NCAA ups the quality of its game this would be beneficial. The other big concern with ECNL is its attempt to dominate the college recruiting pipeline, which is part and parcel of the longstanding US Club/USYS war. Neither side there is entirely clean.
The interesting question, remains--what will the new leadership of US Soccer do? Carlos Cordiero is gone, as is Jay Berhalter, and good riddance to both of them. Cone has inherited a mess.
I think this will be officially announced in the next few weeks. Thorns obviously already knew and their attempt to do “pre academy” teams is either a need for money or an attempt to qualify for ecnl or both.
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