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    #16
    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    My money is on thorns dropping the sinking GDA and moving to ECNL.

    All the best programs are leaving the GDA.
    This move would sink one of the existing ECNL clubs in Oregon.

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      #17
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      You obviously haven't read much about her. She's already starred on 00 academy teams from So Cal that would wipe the floor with the Thorns 00/01 team. She can more than hold her own on the oldest Thorns team.
      I believe she is on the 02/03 team at Beach FC.

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        #18
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        You obviously haven't read much about her. She's already starred on 00 academy teams from So Cal that would wipe the floor with the Thorns 00/01 team. She can more than hold her own on the oldest Thorns team.
        Aside from that, the 00/01 Thorns just played two SoCal academy teams beat Real SoCal. Lost to SoCal Blues.

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          #19
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          True, the goal differential is pretty bad but are we missing the big picture? Isn't it about development? If you are developing kids that by definition means you are making them better. So it doesn't matter how good they are as long as they are getting better.

          Worrying about being in last place is misguided.
          Good perspective.

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            #20
            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            You obviously haven't read much about her. She's already starred on 00 academy teams from So Cal that would wipe the floor with the Thorns 00/01 team. She can more than hold her own on the oldest Thorns team.
            Why come to bottom of the barrel Portland academy teams and leaves the world’s hottest hotbed of girls soccer - Southern California?! Smoke and mirrors show.

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              #21
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Why come to bottom of the barrel Portland academy teams and leaves the world’s hottest hotbed of girls soccer - Southern California?! Smoke and mirrors show.
              Publicity stunt.

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                #22
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                Publicity stunt.
                Explain just how is this a publicity stunt?

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Explain just how is this a publicity stunt?
                  Coming from the best youth soccer market to one of the worst? You don’t smell something funny?

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                    #24
                    She’s not coming to Portland.

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                      #25
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Eastside has been doing pretty good and has great new facilities. 4H also does very well considering their small size and low cost. The other Thorns teams are in last place but the 00/01 team is close to mid pack and might make the playoffs this year. If that pro girl that’s moving here plays for any of them, they’ll instantly go to first in the nation. We’re so lucky to have her. She’s so much better than any Oregon girls.
                      Did Eastside become the thorns?

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                        #26
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        She’s not coming to Portland.
                        Honestly she probably is coming, but who really cares? The young lady is 13; this doesn’t really matter and is a non issue. Check back in 5 years and if she is still elite then maybe it’s worth discussing.

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                          #27
                          A great player yes. A unicorn no. At least 6 other girls on her 03/02 team (8 04s on her team) that are as good without near the hours of training and a crazy rich and just plain crazy father. Her Beach 03/02 team is in 9th place. The 05 is good but doesn’t dominate. Also doesn’t start or look impressive on her young ynt and doesn’t have the soccer iq of some others her age. There is an 04 (same grade as this 05?) on the #2 00/01 team that is far superior and has done better in every regard. Not saying the 05 isn’t very great, just not a GOAT. The move to a vastly weaker Portland Thorns academy team is a media stunt to get her far away from all those other great and better young girls. She plans on using weak Thorns academy players and the weak northwest division to make her look like a superstud in comparison. Her dad will do anything to get her fame. They have enough money that she doesn’t need college or a job. If the girl really wants to be the best soccer player she can be, she’d never leave calsouth for one of the worst girls academy programs in the nation. Her rich dad calculates & manipulates everything. Now Nike is inadvertently in on the gid because her over the top dad wrote her a storied unique soccer life that fits their new dream ad campaign to a t. It’s everything that’s wrong with American soccer and a dream no one but an ultra wealthy girl with Todd Marinovich like parents can hope to follow. Nike isn’t to blame. The parents are. And US Soccer will be if they promote her further simply because of the media which we all know they will. Really feel sorry for this young kid. She is a nice kid that trains so many hours on her private pitch and now her dad is giving up on her soccer for a shot at media fame.

                          Love Nike but Nike, how about finding a poor inner city girl that has managed to get good at soccer despite not homeschooling or private schooling, despite not having a private trainer and her very own turf field, despite not traveling to Europe to train and have have no responsibilities but training. Now that would be a crazy dreamer. This OM has certainly put in some hours training but her entire “dream” is actually a bought and paid for reality that basically not one other girl could hope to follow. Quit proving them right that US Soccer is just for rich white girls.

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                            #28
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Did Eastside become the thorns?
                            Westside is where the thorns academy is now. Eastside is also the thorns. Probably all alliance clubs will be thorns now. Nike kits aren’t as nice as adidas imo.

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                              #29
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              A great player yes. A unicorn no. At least 6 other girls on her 03/02 team (8 04s on her team) that are as good without near the hours of training and a crazy rich and just plain crazy father. Her Beach 03/02 team is in 9th place. The 05 is good but doesn’t dominate. Also doesn’t start or look impressive on her young ynt and doesn’t have the soccer iq of some others her age. There is an 04 (same grade as this 05?) on the #2 00/01 team that is far superior and has done better in every regard. Not saying the 05 isn’t very great, just not a GOAT. The move to a vastly weaker Portland Thorns academy team is a media stunt to get her far away from all those other great and better young girls. She plans on using weak Thorns academy players and the weak northwest division to make her look like a superstud in comparison. Her dad will do anything to get her fame. They have enough money that she doesn’t need college or a job. If the girl really wants to be the best soccer player she can be, she’d never leave calsouth for one of the worst girls academy programs in the nation. Her rich dad calculates & manipulates everything. Now Nike is inadvertently in on the gid because her over the top dad wrote her a storied unique soccer life that fits their new dream ad campaign to a t. It’s everything that’s wrong with American soccer and a dream no one but an ultra wealthy girl with Todd Marinovich like parents can hope to follow. Nike isn’t to blame. The parents are. And US Soccer will be if they promote her further simply because of the media which we all know they will. Really feel sorry for this young kid. She is a nice kid that trains so many hours on her private pitch and now her dad is giving up on her soccer for a shot at media fame.

                              Love Nike but Nike, how about finding a poor inner city girl that has managed to get good at soccer despite not homeschooling or private schooling, despite not having a private trainer and her very own turf field, despite not traveling to Europe to train and have have no responsibilities but training. Now that would be a crazy dreamer. This OM has certainly put in some hours training but her entire “dream” is actually a bought and paid for reality that basically not one other girl could hope to follow. Quit proving them right that US Soccer is just for rich white girls.
                              A little jealous or angry because the story did not fit the narrative that you wanted?

                              If it was a poor inner city girl, would you not rather have her commit to a top school and have a more lucrative career than one in women's soccer?

                              I agree with many of your points though.

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                                #30
                                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                                Westside is where the thorns academy is now. Eastside is also the thorns. Probably all alliance clubs will be thorns now. Nike kits aren’t as nice as adidas imo.
                                Are all the Timbers Alliance clubs like Medford, Eugene, Bend and Salem all starting Thorns Academies? They will probably be better at the younger ages than the existing Thorns Academy.

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