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    Northeast Soccer League Returns to US Youth Soccer

    https://nslsoccer.org/nsl-news/nsl-r...-youth-soccer/

    #2
    Will NSL even be around for the Fall season? The following NSL clubs are rumored to be leaving and headed to EDP:

    FC Blazers (MA)
    International SC (NH)
    Juventus Academy Boston (MA)
    New England Navigators (MA)
    Nordic SC (VT)
    Nova Premier SC (MA)

    Add the 6 clubs from RI that are rumored to leave, you are left with 68 clubs in NSL. I am sure more clubs will leave or merge at the end of the season, how will NSL survive?

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      Will NSL even be around for the Fall season? The following NSL clubs are rumored to be leaving and headed to EDP:

      FC Blazers (MA)
      International SC (NH)
      Juventus Academy Boston (MA)
      New England Navigators (MA)
      Nordic SC (VT)
      Nova Premier SC (MA)

      Add the 6 clubs from RI that are rumored to leave, you are left with 68 clubs in NSL. I am sure more clubs will leave or merge at the end of the season, how will NSL survive?
      Easy question to answer. More and more town travel teams, particularly the those with ambitious former soccer playing parents, are beginning to form their own small clubs, starting with the top players from their travel league. It's kind of like summer District Select, but for the fall and spring seasons. Kids who want a little more than a volunteer parent coach and a once a week practice jump onto these teams to play at a little higher level and usually a few tournaments, as well, which aren't included in many town travel programs. These clubs are popping up all the time and NSL is the perfect league for them to join, having most teams that developed out of the same process. Some of these clubs end up taking off and attracting better coaches, increasing the quality of the players. They get swallowed up by the big clubs so they can join NEP, leaving a spot for a new parent run pop-up club. NSL will not fold in this sort of a climate, as there will always be parents who want their kids to have something better than town travel, but aren't willing to pay big club fees.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        Easy question to answer. More and more town travel teams, particularly the those with ambitious former soccer playing parents, are beginning to form their own small clubs, starting with the top players from their travel league. It's kind of like summer District Select, but for the fall and spring seasons. Kids who want a little more than a volunteer parent coach and a once a week practice jump onto these teams to play at a little higher level and usually a few tournaments, as well, which aren't included in many town travel programs. These clubs are popping up all the time and NSL is the perfect league for them to join, having most teams that developed out of the same process. Some of these clubs end up taking off and attracting better coaches, increasing the quality of the players. They get swallowed up by the big clubs so they can join NEP, leaving a spot for a new parent run pop-up club. NSL will not fold in this sort of a climate, as there will always be parents who want their kids to have something better than town travel, but aren't willing to pay big club fees.
        Yes, this is a market for this. Just like former MASC and Maple.

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          #5
          Why wouldn't the new clubs join EDP?

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            #6
            There are too many leagues, and because of that ,NSL teams are too spread out. At the younger ages, when kids should be developing and playing, they are traveling far distances to
            play other teams in the league. There used to be more teams, so travel for the young ones was kept as regional as possible. Now they are traveling too far. It’s a waste of time at their age.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Why wouldn't the new clubs join EDP?
              Doubt parents coming from town travel will want to drive to CT or NY for games if their age group doesn't have enough local teams to make a bracket.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                There are too many leagues, and because of that ,NSL teams are too spread out. At the younger ages, when kids should be developing and playing, they are traveling far distances to
                play other teams in the league. There used to be more teams, so travel for the young ones was kept as regional as possible. Now they are traveling too far. It’s a waste of time at their age.
                Long travel a waste of time up until u16

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Long travel a waste of time up until u16
                  u17


                  no wait, u15


                  I think u14





                  I think it should be college

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                    Why wouldn't the new clubs join EDP?
                    Why would you join EDP?

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Why wouldn't the new clubs join EDP?
                      Let's see, the OP mentioned 5 clubs in EDP with acceptable travel times for this level of play (VT seems far to me), and there are 68 teams in NSL. In which league do you think a brand new club will find a bracket to consistently and appropriately challenge them? With only 6 clubs in a league, you could have 2 low level teams, 2 mid level and two high level in a bracket, meaning any one team would get one or two games at the appropriate level of challenge each season of play. If I were a new club, NSL would be the obvious league choice.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        Let's see, the OP mentioned 5 clubs in EDP with acceptable travel times for this level of play (VT seems far to me), and there are 68 teams in NSL. In which league do you think a brand new club will find a bracket to consistently and appropriately challenge them? With only 6 clubs in a league, you could have 2 low level teams, 2 mid level and two high level in a bracket, meaning any one team would get one or two games at the appropriate level of challenge each season of play. If I were a new club, NSL would be the obvious league choice.
                        Bracket placement in NSL, like most youth leagues, is an honor system where the clubs pick which bracket their teams play in based on their assessment of skills. It’s not a promotion & relegation system. So this idea of low, middle, high level means little and competition is all over the place. If you think about a typical 9-10 week season, rotating through 6 teams should be enough play. There could be 100 teams in a league, but it’s unlikely you would face more than 6-7 in any season with any league, and that includes NEP.

                        As for travel, I agree with other posters that I really don’t make sense at young ages. There are town travel teams at U-8 & U-9, which I think is pointless. Why even travel to a couple towns over for a 4v4 or 7v7 game when the kids are still learning the basics of the game? To me, it only makes sense once they are at least playing 9v9.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Easy question to answer. More and more town travel teams, particularly the those with ambitious former soccer playing parents, are beginning to form their own small clubs, starting with the top players from their travel league. It's kind of like summer District Select, but for the fall and spring seasons. Kids who want a little more than a volunteer parent coach and a once a week practice jump onto these teams to play at a little higher level and usually a few tournaments, as well, which aren't included in many town travel programs. These clubs are popping up all the time and NSL is the perfect league for them to join, having most teams that developed out of the same process. Some of these clubs end up taking off and attracting better coaches, increasing the quality of the players. They get swallowed up by the big clubs so they can join NEP, leaving a spot for a new parent run pop-up club. NSL will not fold in this sort of a climate, as there will always be parents who want their kids to have something better than town travel, but aren't willing to pay big club fees.
                          "Kids who want a little more than..." That's funny.

                          The obvious question, since this obviously doesn't really solve anything more than it perpetuates most of the existing flaws in pay-to-play, is why doesn't that "ambitious former soccer playing parent" just volunteer and develop better soccer players? The notion that "play at a little higher level and usually a few tournaments" are actual difference makers here is laughable.

                          "Something better than town travel" is compelling to the uninformed and uninitiated.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            "Kids who want a little more than..." That's funny.

                            The obvious question, since this obviously doesn't really solve anything more than it perpetuates most of the existing flaws in pay-to-play, is why doesn't that "ambitious former soccer playing parent" just volunteer and develop better soccer players? The notion that "play at a little higher level and usually a few tournaments" are actual difference makers here is laughable.

                            "Something better than town travel" is compelling to the uninformed and uninitiated.
                            ^^^Totally agree. This is the parents fulfilling their fantasies rather than providing a fun format for kids to get outside, play, and learn a new game. The kids have no idea what “wanting a little more” means until the parent signs them up and brings them along.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Will NSL even be around for the Fall season? The following NSL clubs are rumored to be leaving and headed to EDP:

                              FC Blazers (MA)
                              International SC (NH)
                              Juventus Academy Boston (MA)
                              New England Navigators (MA)
                              Nordic SC (VT)
                              Nova Premier SC (MA)

                              Add the 6 clubs from RI that are rumored to leave, you are left with 68 clubs in NSL. I am sure more clubs will leave or merge at the end of the season, how will NSL survive?
                              These clubs are not moving wholesale to EDP, simply entering some teams.

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