Girls Development Academy
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MakeAPlay
DA
True. I am well aware of the rule. But why not play with your peers getting ready for the upcoming college season. I am pretty sure if this player is going to Arizona that her family is going to want her to be ready to play. It's all about the competition and getting your player ready to step onto the college field as a senior in case this is your first go around. Either way she is a good player.
madcow
SILVER ELITE
Sooo, Are the Pink Panthers another Stellar United States Development Academy team? I heard the Blue Dragons may get accepted. Maybe you will play them later?
I thought this was a complete joke until I saw a CalSouth tweet today!!! LOL!!
The club is FCKC which is the youth side of the NWSL side. I was worried and kept checking about Development Academy status but rest easy as all is good. Legends is and will continue to be a Development Academy Club. One of 53 in the entire country. Guess what? Legends could stand on fifth avenue and shoot people and they would still be a United States Soccer Development Academy Club. Gotta admit that's quite an impressive feat for a little non ecnl club. Does the league plan on keeping the first letter of their monicker? Because you know it may be a matter of time before people start to complain that they're paying for Elite but the elite has gone away..........
CaliKlines
Well-Known Member
You know what is really funny...you guys still call Strikers part of the Elite Clubs National League. But I guess you're hung up on names (valid or not), and not on performance or achievement. Those Pink Kitties would crush many ECNL sides. Me-f-ing-ow!
Cali the Real are not so real, the west coast may be eroding, the strikers are not striking, and the arsenal maybe don't quite have the arsenal...the Elite are still Elite though, I'm sure of that. What I'm also sure of is that the Elite is going to the DA, which leaves the CNL. The CNL will still have showcases without coaches. They will still be competitive without the best players. They will still be the CNL.
Silky Johnston
SILVER
sounds to me that you may have an issue with JH? Unlike like most my opinions are based on what I see not if I or my daughter has been slighted by a team or coach. Fortunately for us it hasn't happened to us yet. I don't follow every u 14 or 15 teams roster like some of u in here and I can guarantee I am not looking for bread crumbs to see where someone's DD plays. But I don't see much development happening at any of the clubs in So Cal development starts way before u 14 so like I said previously who is developing these kids? The only coaches who could probably claim credit for their present teams success is the Fabulous Baker Brothers as they have had their group since u11.
Zerodenero
GOLD
Ah yes.....and apparently they started with Legends flagship 99's.
madcow
SILVER ELITE
I don't doubt it. They sound pretty tough. I did hear they were a second half team. But that was mainly because of the orange slices and juice boxes they got at halftime. If we ever find ourselves in such a prestigious tournament that we face a Pink Panther team, I will make sure we pack both juice boxes and orange slices so we don't fall to the same fate as the mighty Legends squad.
Silky Johnston
SILVER
Do u think the Pink Panthers ride together to the games in the Mystery Machine?
NoGoal
DA
Good thing Legends got girls DA, because there were no Legends team who qualified from GU13-15 and U18 at USYS Championship finals. In my DDs U17 age group everyone knows how average that Legends team is, yet made the finals.
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3thatplay
SILVER
Cor
Right individual, and again wrong team. Which means she will play for the LA Galaxy SD 99 U18 team, yep another name change, not Surf or Blues as you have reported before. And she is attending CU as you pointed out not ONLY due to soccer but mostly due to our roots in Colorado and what it has to offer her and what she might eventually want to study. As for you, I wish Kennedy all the best in her studies and endeavors and I hope she sticks with soccer long enough for our daughter to meet on the field. You usually have good insight in the youth soccer world but your forum obsession is rather disturbing. Again good luck to your dd and your future enjoyment of watching her play.
Mr. Smith,
Right individual, and again wrong team. Which means she will play for the LA Galaxy SD 99 U18 team, yep another name change, not Surf or Blues as you have reported before. And she is attending CU as you pointed out not ONLY due to soccer but mostly due to our roots in Colorado and what it has to offer her and what she might eventually want to study. As for you, I wish Kennedy all the best in her studies and endeavors and I hope she sticks with soccer long enough for our daughter to meet on the field. You usually have good insight in the youth soccer world but your forum obsession is rather disturbing. Again good luck to your dd and your future enjoyment of watching her play.
Silky Johnston
SILVER
Is Mr Smith his Christian name?
MakeAPlay
DA
He mistakenly thinks that NoGoal's daughter is KS from Strikers U18 ECNL who is a 2016 UDub commit.
MakeAPlay
DA
Wrong person. I will say that KS is a sweet girl and will do well in college. She is a fiercely loyal kid and her parents are absolutely wonderful people.
MakeAPlay
DA
Legends hasn't put out an Elite team in years. Hodges is as much a soccer coach as Kanye West is a fashion designer. I can't believe that you are trying to defend your flagship team losing to a friggin AYSO side called the Pink Panthers!! Kickball didn't work this time what is DA going to achieve for your daughter? Or are you a coach/admin and this is part of your social media strategy? You are looking worse than Cali!! At least he doesn't deny that he is a Hodges puppet/lap dog and that he likes having the top guys hand up his rear!!
You are pretty funny.
NoGoal
DA
I've been posting for 9 years and your pathetic guess was that my DD plays for Strikers, especially after I already posted not once, but TWICE in this very thread that my DD plays for a ECNL/DA club. Anyone with any common sense knows Strikers didn't get DA, thus Strikers couldn't have been my DDs club. Let me make this easy for you, my DD plays for Eagles.
I NAILED your identity and you (LMAO) attempted to return the favor, but FAILED miserably in the process. BTW, why bother explaining the reason your DD choose Colorado? As the Rock use to say on the WWE, "it doesn't matter why she choose Colorado!" The fact of the matter is, Colorado had 7-8 players transferred out of Boulder this off season. Which is a HUGE number for any soccer program without a head coaching change.
BTW, do you like eggs? Because, it's all over your face for totally putting someone and their DD on blast
For the record, the snapshot I posted of you and your DD was public information and I never had to type either of your names. You have to admit it was pretty clever
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MakeAPlay
DA
Okay you've got a ton of false statements that I want to rebuke.
First, JH is the Kanye West of SoCal youth soccer and is all marketing no training. He is a great salesman and he apparently has got you.
Second, they have never slighted me or my daughter. I did my research once I decided to move my player and believe me Legends wasn't even considered. They would kill to have a player of her quality.
Next, there are plenty of coaches in SoCal that are AMAZING developers of talent and the coach that my player had for most of her time from U14-U18 did amazing things to continue her development so you are way off on that.
Finally, my daughter trained with the Bakers for a year and she chose to stop due to non-soccer issues. They are good skills trainers but if my daughter was in the age groups that they coach I would absolutely never consider letting her play for them. I can't even see how the Junipero Serra HS parents put up with it!
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