@Kicker I think this is a great theory that is not going to work in the current political climate of girls youth soccer. I think your kid is at risk of falling out of favor if she doesn’t switch to a team in a more competitive league. I think clubs like Beach are going to experience “brain drain” as their best players move to the most competitive league to maintain form and remain in favor with USSF which will make it almost impossible to get promoted.
What suit?
Apparently they tried to fight the rules they put in for clubs that had both gda and ecnl.
Thanks for calling me delusional again. Plus you said your life is better than mine too, lets not forget that elitist comment.....lol!! I spin facts? That is so funny
You have been baiting me bro ever since I started posting here last July and I played your dumb game with your buddy Lastman. I told you 100% about the dangers of the "Jim Jones Express Boat Ride" you and the most of us were all on. I just got off earlier and by choice I might add. I want the best teams & players to play Kicker and so does my dd. For example, I asked her this question the other day. "Hey sweetie, would you rather win a CIF Soccer Championship but most of the top players can't play because of the GDA rules or would you rather lose in the 1st round of CIF because every kid that was top top player for their HS Schools played too? Guess which one she picked Kicker? I never said all Docs are corrupt either or all coaches. I always trying to say, "Doc and coaches in club soccer seem to be snakes ((not all)). I also know you are the wisest dad on here. Always picking the right coach and Doc. You should write a book to teach all the younger parents how to pick the right coach. I will give you that. I picked wrong many times my friend. My dd, she has been spot on with her insights 90% of the time and her decisions have been way better than mine. Lastly, you and Lastman have no idea my competitive make up. You guys keep taking my fun "head to head" challenges as a threat. Bro, you could kick my ass Kicker and I'm sure Lastman can too. It's a friendly competition and you and Lastman are misreading me. I did want to see the non GDA all star 04 team play against this years U16 GNT goat team. Again, I want to see how my dd compares against Americas top 16 year olds. That was just fantasy bro, I promise and I don;t see that match up ever happening. Look, I swear to you when I went to Main Beach in 1983 to play pick up ball one day, I challenged Kevin Mcgee ((UCI Center that was stud)) to one on one. He laughed at me. I pestered that dude all morning and said things like, "I know I can beat you." "You can;t make a shot passed 10 ft." "I'll even let you camp in the paint for 5 seconds." and stuff like that. Guess what Kicker, he finally had enough of my sh*t and played me one on one. He won 10-2. I was up 2-0 and talking so much crap that he got the next 10 on me. Its all fun bro. Please, don;t take me so serious. I will share more about why we left Coach Rogers and why we almost quit club and just focused with HS Soccer. You get free soccer with an excellent coach. Pre-season in the fall, games in the winter and track in the Spring. No travel either. What makes you think I will pay all this money with another year of division? Right now, I am 50/50. That be the truth. Bro, HS Soccer looks like the place to be imo. Go back and read my posts.Keep in mine too that these rankings will look different for 2020-2021
If you go back and review what that small cadre of clubs (all ECNL board member clubs) did during the inaugural year, joining GDA and then pulling out after year one, gave themselves two ECNL teams per age group... that looked premeditated and straight gangster. Lavers is a very polished front man, but his lieutenants are nasty and don't give AF. I could be completely wrong, but I'm guessing none of the teams listed above get in.
read my post....disillusioned does not mean delusional.
Whatever Kicker. Life is not fare and everyone has been hurt now in life & soccer. I see us as all equal. No one better than the other human wise. I'm glad you feel have a better social life and lot's of dear friends in life. It looks like no winners in all this division. The timing by US Soccer to dump their sh*t on us during a time of fear was weak sauce. Something's not right Kicker. I wish and hope the powers in soccer can work together but that won;t happen. Lavers is now a gangster.
I know, but don’t think Clubs like Beach didn’t already experience that for years prior to DA. I am hoping parents see the long game (overly optimistic, I know). Next year is on the rocks anyway. Likely no real National Showcases and USSF shuttered the YNT program at every age not in a WC Cycle (No Coach, no budget, no scout to stay in favor with). I already know a lot former DA Clubs have lost top talent and I am sure Beach will too.
Crazy. I don’t see the need for all the panic amongst parents because girls can always find good competition locally by playing boys teams.
As stated before, I have heard from people in the room that beach has been trying to leave DA for a few years. Yet, at the same time, they are recruiting kids telling them that they have to be in a DA club to have any chance for future success. The DA rules and fiscal commitment were just becoming too much. I guess it is a total coincidence that the Blues just moved into Long Beach the very year the DA ended!
As kids get older, boys teams don’t want to play girls. Boys parents don’t want girls practicing with them. We have a local girl on a boys DA academy team. The team entered a Futsal tournament and at the door she was told she couldn’t play. No mixed gender teams in the tournament allowed. Every time my dd practices with the boys I openly hear the comments about how the boys won’t play hard against her. It’s not easy for girls to hop in with boys.
Agreed, it was a joke throw in. But I doubt it helps beach get in having blues directly competing with them along with slammers (not to mention that Liverpool is really trying to break into the market too).
I keep hearing that too. Let me ask you Poker god, do you think if Beach went to Lavers last June and said, "We want to be all in ECNL and play soccer monopoly with you and the other gangsters" that ECNL would have welcomed them to the ecnl family? Blues were in the idea position because of their brand and success. GDA tried to destroy Tad's top team before age change and then through all this BS, he still has #1 team in the country. Blues had both only because they won championships, period.
No idea. They tried to get in for a few years. But I think your question is flawed. One gangster went to another gangster to get away from another gangster. WHEN A CRIME IS COMMITTED IN HELL THERE ARE NO ANGELS AS WITNESSES.
