Lightning Red
GOLD
Surf 0, LAGSD 0
Heck of a game. Both sides had their opportunities. It was a battle to the end.
Preseason DA Rankings 04
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Heck of a game. Both sides had their opportunities. It was a battle to the end.
RiverArsenal
BRONZE
Any updates on the table?
Hired Gun
SILVER ELITE
1. Legends
2. 4-5 teams
3. 4-5 teams
4. 3 or so teams
Pretty much sums it up right now. With the 03s losing players to injury and also playing up- some 04s seeing more playing time at the 03 level, which changes the the 04 landscape. Any surprises so far?
You forgot LAG at 2-3-1 with 7 points or 1.16 pts/gm.
Three waves as predicted. We aren’t in even the second half of the season. We shall see what next year brings already shaking up to be yet again a year of changes.
Ack! I sure did. My apologies.
Hired Gun
SILVER ELITE
Just a tbought - accurate? The first place club on your charts has NO other Academy club in their county and acually took many of their competings clubs players. If this was the same case in San Diego County (3 DA clubs) LA County (3-4 DA Clubs) same for Orange County - with just one Academy Club in their selected counties wouldn't these clubs be just as good or better than the top team listed? Just a thought. These other counties have to split the best players to make their rosters diluting the talent pool. This is not a rip towards the top team but a reaction to the DA selection process. Should be fair across the board with all large soccer areas. Most everyone was suprised that another strong program in the IE did not get DA. In Maps defense lesser teams but equal amount in each geographic area if you want to go that direction.
I don’t think this was for me and my opinion is simply just an opinion but:
1. No one cared when for nine years all the talent had to drive one hour to an ENCL CLUB
No one questioned the “top clubs” and if you dare stated that their “stars” were either form out of state or out of geography people got miffed. They were the best recruited teams- not necessarily the best coached. Again nothing wrong with it but call a spade a spade
2. ECNL long ignored LA. I would venture to guess based on population density that there should be at or above the same talent of Legends in the LA area
3. The DA club disturbution is above my pay grade. I would say with competition comes better results and frankly having another club in SD or OC was needed to shake up the monopoly. I don’t see anything wrong with it frankly. That gets me to a whole other discussion about relegation but that won’t happen. True the clubs “share the talent” but if you want to really drill down like what @MakeAPlay says essentially any top team has 1-3 impact players. The rest are pretty similar.
4. There are still many many players who travel from the Legends area to OC and SD. Based off the success of the Legends this year I wonder how many will “go back home”. Parents like wins. Some parents are coach driven only
Next and most importantly I think the long term success of previous clubs was a hybrid of recruitment, coaching. Now that players seem to be more inclined to stay closer to home let’s see who two years from now develops, and maintains a consistent style of play. I do not know the answer to that question. The relative success of a program is two years away in my humble opinion.
Finally, each program varies differently. Vastly. I see few similarities between them. I would hope parents would do due diligence.
1. No one cared when for nine years all the talent had to drive one hour to an ENCL CLUB
No one questioned the “top clubs” and if you dare stated that their “stars” were either form out of state or out of geography people got miffed. They were the best recruited teams- not necessarily the best coached. Again nothing wrong with it but call a spade a spade
2. ECNL long ignored LA. I would venture to guess based on population density that there should be at or above the same talent of Legends in the LA area
3. The DA club disturbution is above my pay grade. I would say with competition comes better results and frankly having another club in SD or OC was needed to shake up the monopoly. I don’t see anything wrong with it frankly. That gets me to a whole other discussion about relegation but that won’t happen. True the clubs “share the talent” but if you want to really drill down like what @MakeAPlay says essentially any top team has 1-3 impact players. The rest are pretty similar.
4. There are still many many players who travel from the Legends area to OC and SD. Based off the success of the Legends this year I wonder how many will “go back home”. Parents like wins. Some parents are coach driven only
Next and most importantly I think the long term success of previous clubs was a hybrid of recruitment, coaching. Now that players seem to be more inclined to stay closer to home let’s see who two years from now develops, and maintains a consistent style of play. I do not know the answer to that question. The relative success of a program is two years away in my humble opinion.
Finally, each program varies differently. Vastly. I see few similarities between them. I would hope parents would do due diligence.
MakeAPlay
DA
I'm okay with 1 per county. The OC, LA and San Diego county teams have been raiding the various parts of the 909 and 951 area codes for years Recently Legends has been raiding the eastern parts of the 714, 323 and 626 area codes for players clearly loving that they have flipped the script on Arsenal. At this point I don't really care. US Soccer has revealed their intentions once again and will continue to do damage to the women's side of the game.
Find a great coach on a team with other great players that play in the showcases to be seen by the right colleges and most importantly PLAY GREAT SOCCER. Good luck to you and your player.
MakeAPlay
DA
I just don't think that another club was needed in the OC (it already had 4 at the highest level) and although San Diego has a ton of talent I would argue that there are only 4-8 per age group that are truly elite in the county and that talent would be much better served (as is has been in the past for the most part) by playing on the same team. My player had several of her college teammates on her U18 team and although they didn't play a ton of club games together due to outside soccer commitments, it was a good experience to have other elite players training with her.
I just think that the best players benefit by playing together.
Been saying it for 3 years- everyone labeled club but the DA should be one regional team made up of people who want to travel the 60 minutes- make it equidistant- length of time for visions of playing in the National Team. They SHOULD play together. And the parents that believe that their child is elite because they share the same backpack space as their elite teammate SHOULD have their wake up call. When you play less than fifty percent of total club minutes you should be questioning placement. Right now I am hearing a lot of “well we are the CYZ TEAM” and “my girl is training with the best”
Right now you see 1-3 impact players running the show.
MakeAPlay
DA
I agree with you 100% on this.
Hired Gun
SILVER ELITE
Good info Striker. I totally agree that ECNL ignored LA and also Legends as well. But two wrongs don't make a right... I also believe in breaking up the monopoly. My main point is 99 percent of the best players in the IE go to one club. Not the case for the other counties.
Why are you on here? Shouldn’t you be preparing for the biggest showdown in history!!!!
Sitting on edge of seat!!
chargerfan
GOLD
Legends and Surf are both recruited teams. Half of surfs players are from outside the county. Hats off to LAGSD for developing and promoting girls from within.
There is no need for 2 DA Clubs in the SouthBay.
There is no need for 2 DA Clubs in the SouthBay.