NSL has officially folded and JB has already jumped ship. Word is clubs are going to be welcomed into NEP no more partnerships needed . .......
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Wow nail cleared their web site pretty quick. Looks like their teams can go to ccl which doesn’t look great.
If it’s true NEP does take the clubs in without having to join a club in NEP good for them to hang on. Now they get to keep their club and also play in the same league as all the other clubs that had to sell out to join.
Only thing now is NEP is now officially the new MAPLE. So basically the parents/players are right back where we were a few years ago. New parents welcome to the world of soccer/business.
Where’s JB taking his club? Let’s see if he has the stones to go to ccl or will he just jump right into NEP. -
JB listed as Director if Operations for CCL New England branch.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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NEP was always the new MAPLE. It basically grew from MAPLE clubs moving over there. Having NSL continue to linger on, was a detriment to young soccer players. Perhaps now, there will be a level playing field and pyramid structure, that gives anyone an opportunity to rise through their own merit.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Seems like more of a collaboration than a fold. "Beginning in the Spring of 2020, the Northeast Soccer League (NSL) will welcome CCL New England, a conference of the Club Champions League."
https://clubchampionsleague.com/2019...l-new-england/Comment
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More accurate post would have been "NSL rebranded."Comment
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Except now the big club cartel is in charge (not a separate league).Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
For any migrating little clubs, with apologies to Winston Churchill, "each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last."
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NSL was the old MAPLE, not NEP. NEP was part of the first real national club platform with NPL. The rest of MAPLE, which wanted to stay local/regional, became NSL. There was no “detriment” to young players with that model, especially below U-13. The problem is that Youth Soccer, to which these NSL clubs belong, wants to create a national platform to rival NPL and ECNL to stay relevant and make $. This CCL/CCLNE is one of the first steps to a Eastern region championship.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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NEP is made up of mostly old MAPLE clubs. Most of those clubs merged or aligned with big box clubs in the NEP. There was never anything wrong with the model of Maple, but 2 major leagues for youth club soccer in Massachusetts was not sustainable. NEP became more dominant in its number of players, and the NSL was a shell of its former self. This left the remaining teams in NSL with less options of teams to match and competed with. It’s okay. Leagues are folding, merging and rebranding all the time. It’s in the nature of US soccer.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Well, nothing’s really changing. NSL rebrands and probably still ends up with the same number of clubs. NEP still is run by the big box clubs and they don’t want to add a bunch of new member clubs.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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An NSL rebrand is not going to save NSL. The remaining clubs in NSL will continue to align with big box clubs in NEP, in order to play where the majority is. NEP/NPL is mainstream club soccer for the youth masses.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Socking that another alphabet league is folding. Not. There's only so many players and clubs to go around....it's just a card deck reshuffle, nothing substantive.Comment
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