US's dominance in women's soccer is slipping

[Guest]

Great read! The US's dominance in women's soccer is slipping as their
athleticism is no longer the game changer it once was and other
countries have invested more in their programs and raised their
standards. I don't think the current U.S. system will be able to
maintain its edge. We're already seeing signs of this shift happening as
the USWNT lacks the necessary skill and game intelligence because many
of our players were brought up in an anti-developmental system.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/us-...h-development-
ecnl-000044659.html

With no structure from US Soccer, there are all these competing entities with weird economics which causes the competing leagues to drives prices higher and become cost prohibitive. Teams drive or fly past teams that could give them an equal match because their league schedules them to travel farther for what may or may not be a good game.

[Guest]

Anyone else find it odd that GA and ECNL are not publically battling it out like the GDA and ECNL used to do years ago?

They need to merge at some point. Just need one top league

[Guest]

By 2030 the NWSL will have its own national academy league similar to mls next. Probably sooner. It will be funded through NWSL sponsors.

GA will fall apart.

it will be ECNL for girls wanting to go to college, and NWSL for girls wanting to go the professional path. The mininum salary for an NWSL player was just negotiated to $82,500 for 2030.

[Guest]

Anyone else find it odd that GA and ECNL are not publically battling it out like the GDA and ECNL used to do years ago?

NWSL academy teams are what fuels GA. They arent investing in GA because they plan to establish there own league.

[Guest]

NWSL academy teams are what fuels GA. They arent investing in GA because they plan to establish there own league.

Say what? There are 14 NWSL teams. 5 of which currently have some sort of youth club affiliated (Reign, Thorns, NC Courage, Racing Louisville, and Houston Dash). 3 play in ECNL and 2 in GA. There are about 100 GA teams. 2% of the GA teams are NWSL academies.

ECNL and GA are both fueled by FOMO.

[Guest]

With no structure from US Soccer, there are all these competing entities with weird economics which causes the competing leagues to drives prices higher and become cost prohibitive. Teams drive or fly past teams that could give them an equal match because their league schedules them to travel farther for what may or may not be a good game.

The lawsuits are what is gobbling up the money!

[Guest]

Say what? There are 14 NWSL teams. 5 of which currently have some sort of youth club affiliated (Reign, Thorns, NC Courage, Racing Louisville, and Houston Dash). 3 play in ECNL and 2 in GA. There are about 100 GA teams. 2% of the GA teams are NWSL academies.

ECNL and GA are both fueled by FOMO.

GA was designed to pick up where GDA left off.

GDA was designed to emulate Boys DA. GA was hoping they would be the MLS Academy version on the girls side. But it never really happened, and it never will.

NWSL will form its own league and that will be the nail in the GA coffin.

[Guest]

GA was designed to pick up where GDA left off.

GDA was designed to emulate Boys DA. GA was hoping they would be the MLS Academy version on the girls side. But it never really happened, and it never will.

NWSL will form its own league and that will be the nail in the GA coffin.

GA never intended to be what DA was. It was created because a number of top DA teams were blocked from entry into ECNL due to politics and pettiness. If ECNL had let every DA team in, there would be no GA. In the meantime, GA is chugging along despite having no clear differentiating quality. Eventually it may die if scouts just completely abandon it and clubs and parents realize it's not worth traveling multiple times per year for nothing, but that's a big if considering leagues like DPL and EA are popping up.