Eastside now the Thorns?

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Boys da is a joke.

Playing the same teams with the same coaches and the same players.

You boys DA people are dumb

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Boys da is a joke.

Playing the same teams with the same coaches and the same players.

You boys DA people are dumb

Nah, we know that outside the Timbers Academy, the local DA programs are just the old first teams with a different name. And gatorade and cameras at games.

For some parents, DA seems to have some cachet, but for this parent it's not really that big of a deal.

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So much red herring on the DA - 8 clubs have been offered DA in this area at different times and levels - the only reason GDA is even a part of this discussion is that
(i) purported "future" direction of US soccer gets Timbers' apologists eyes swimming, it seems to justify everything Timbers do in their eyes, and
(ii) while Timbers are free to do what they need to do for their programs, they shouldn't be using OYSA for those ends. Pimping GDA in ODP email groups is poor form (and frankly if the program is so badass, unnecessary).On the contract not sure "what is done is done" but if they can get Mike/Erik out of running OYSA programs (or out of conflicting roles), solves lots of the issues here.

Only 1 Club, FC P in 2007 was accepted as a ‘big’ DA club, they were so bad, they got kicked out real quickly, never to return; since then no Oregon club has been accepted or offered.

Please don’t fall for the branding label of a local kiddo league as proof.

The Oregon and SW Wa. Little DA platform for younger boys is simply local clubs playing weekend friendlies, with the neighborhood kids and coaches.

much the same at CU & FC P girls paying to play in a US Club travel league and then calling it
A ‘Nation’.

Get over yourself, your Club is not a big DA, nor will it ever be.

As such, Pro clubs like Thorns/Timbers will continue to snag your best players, why they use local tools like MS/EL to send out emails is just funny, actually.
The best of the best youth in our area will still go to the Only Big DA Offered, even if you report the announcements it as spam and block em.

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So much red herring on the DA - 8 clubs have been offered DA in this area at different times and levels - the only reason GDA is even a part of this discussion is that
(i) purported "future" direction of US soccer gets Timbers' apologists eyes swimming, it seems to justify everything Timbers do in their eyes, and
(ii) while Timbers are free to do what they need to do for their programs, they shouldn't be using OYSA for those ends. Pimping GDA in ODP email groups is poor form (and frankly if the program is so badass, unnecessary).

On the contract not sure "what is done is done" but if they can get Mike/Erik out of running OYSA programs (or out of conflicting roles), solves lots of the issues here.

The girls DA is a really unattractive product imo. Not impressed with the people running it. Ban on high school is terrible and sad. Skyrocketing cost - close to $4,000.00 per year!

And now the dumped the program on Westside or Eastside whichever.

Wish them well but not looking promising.

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The girls DA is a really unattractive product imo. Not impressed with the people running it. Ban on high school is terrible and sad. Skyrocketing cost - close to $4,000.00 per year!

And now the dumped the program on Westside or Eastside whichever.

Wish them well but not looking promising.

Top clubs in the country are distancing themselves and abandoning GDA. Slammers won GDA championship and then promoted themselves to ECNL.

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Top clubs in the country are distancing themselves and abandoning GDA. Slammers won GDA championship and then promoted themselves to ECNL.

Gotta make $$$$$

Cal south can do whatever they want too much talent

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The girls DA is a really unattractive product imo. Not impressed with the people running it. Ban on high school is terrible and sad. Skyrocketing cost - close to $4,000.00 per year!

And now the dumped the program on Westside or Eastside whichever.

Wish them well but not looking promising.

CalSouth must go to where the top competition is.

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CalSouth must go to where the top competition is.

Jus an FYI its in cal south...thats why us soccer da is the top tier in so cal.

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CalSouth must go to where the top competition is.

That's why the SoCal team that won the GDA league immediately left for the ECNL for better competition?

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That's why the SoCal team that won the GDA league immediately left for the ECNL for better competition?

Slammers got nothing out of GDA financially, SD Surf is making out like bandits.

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That's why the SoCal team that won the GDA league immediately left for the ECNL for better competition?

It’s a very interesting soccer world for girls right now, ECNL and GDA both fighting for the girls both claiming to be something...the path to college or the path to national team (geeesh let it rest)!
The reality is yes that LAFC left GDA but to seek better competition is a stretch and could be easily argued. Many factors came into play and different clubs have reasons for their decisions. ECNL has complicating the issue and is playing hard ball and making some clubs choose ECNL or GDA (due to the harsh reality that ECNL had a severe dilution of talent because of GDA).
Example of hard ball, ECNL just kicked San Diego Surf out (who have numerous national championships and produce many national team players) Surf is DA only club. So great clubs in both GDA and ECNL. Interesting move ECNL.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.sandi...story,amp.html

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The surf situation was surprising - did not think ecnl had the cajones.

What a diluted ****ing mess is top flight girls soccer in this country.

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That's why the SoCal team that won the GDA league immediately left for the ECNL for better competition?

Their Oldest team that aged out won the GDA, they went for the best competition got it and let the struggling younger teams go to the watered down US Club league.

All the other top So. Cal clubs stayed put in DA.

Always best to know the motives.

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That's why the SoCal team that won the GDA league immediately left for the ECNL for better competition?

Parents and kids are demanding high school soccer so GDA gets left out in the cold.

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I love to watch the whackos go nuts over the competition.
They are so worried about which league their child is in. Let me help you out. The league doesn’t matter. What matters is the four days a week that your daughter is training. (If your daughter trains less than four days a week then don’t even comment on what “top” league your daughter plays in)