Originally posted by Unregistered
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Here is an example for you. The WPSL is the Women’s Premier Soccer League. It is a second tier level of women’s soccer in the US and well below the NWSL which the Thorns pro team plays in. For instance, The Westside Timbers, Eugene Timbers, Spokane Shadow and Vancouver Island FC have teams which play in this league.
Let’s assume for this example that the NWSL folded, do you think that the best players on the Thorns pro team are going to stick around for that level of competition? Think about Tobin Heath, Lindsay Horan and Becky Sauerbrunn spending their summers playing against some mid level college players with the Eugene Timbers or Spokane Shadow.
Of course this wouldn’t happen. They would leave to find better competition. The same thing is going to happen to the Thorns and Reign. Without top levels competition you can’t sell players and parents on being “elite”. All of the top girls clubs in the NW are now in ECNL. Every other league is second or third tier.
Never said it was fair, but this is the reality we now find ourselves in.
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