GA 2020-2021 Season

Desert Hound said:
Those are usually where sc del Sol plays most/all of their games.

Normally Royals use fields in the Phx area. This yr with Covid field availability is different.
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We played Royals and Del Sol at Copper Sky. Nice fields and Maricopa had quite a few nice places to eat. I stayed at Harrahs Ak-Chin which is 2 minutes down the street from the fields but most of the team stayed in Chandler.
 
Giesbock said:
What gives with Casa Grande? Kinda funky, down trodden place. I hear the FC Barca Academy trains there and that John Wayne had a big ranch out that-a way but doesn’t seem like much going on there now. Fields were super nice though.
Fc Utah/Phoenix Royals are solid. Game fit, fast, unrelenting defense. We were fortunate to get outa there with a 4-1 score line.
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Del Sol parents have a love hate relationship with Casa Grande. Fields are great, the drive is a pain, but there is a bar which opens at 11.

Barca has a resident academy there, the only one in the US. ASU provides a prep school for the players. Interesting place for sure. The Barca staff likes to joke that the grass seed is imported from Spain. Del Sol has a vague relationship with Barca - use of facilities, training with Barca teams, etc.

RSL was the former user of the facilities before moving all operations back to Utah.
 
happy9 said:
Del Sol parents have a love hate relationship with Casa Grande. Fields are great, the drive is a pain, but there is a bar which opens at 11.

Barca has a resident academy there, the only one in the US. ASU provides a prep school for the players. Interesting place for sure. The Barca staff likes to joke that the grass seed is imported from Spain. Del Sol has a vague relationship with Barca - use of facilities, training with Barca teams, etc.

RSL was the former user of the facilities before moving all operations back to Utah.
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I thought that grass looked like some I saw in Barcelona! ;). Thanks for the insights. We’ll be back!
 
I keep hearing about new state to state travel restrictions..eg. anyone traveling out of CA must self quarantine for 10 days after returning to CA.

is there an “official“guide? I’d assume the GA and ECNL administration would be on it..?
 
whatithink said:
I wouldn't call it expensive ... absurd more like, assuming the numbers I hear are true which run into the tens of thousands (assuming no scholarship naturally)
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Absurd, crazy, indeed. About 75K a year. Barca's pockets are deep but I don't know the subsidies work out. That 75K gets you grass seed imported from Spain, a view of palm trees, a golf course, and the sound of small engine aircraft spraying insecticide on the nearby fields. And don't forget a top notch education provided by ASU prep.
 
Giesbock said:
We’re rolling down the road to AZ this weekend for some GA league games.

Semi hermits.. Yeti cooler full of good stuff. No fun restaurants or socializing but the girls have been working hard and mom and dad are ready to cheer them on!
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Nice! League games between CA teams? The AZ teams are done for the season, unless I missed something.
 
Hard to really tell how any so cal team is doing because the number of real games varies so much in league and because you don't know how often any team is able to really practice/scrimmage....some are following the rules more closely than others. If you can't really play and you are a team with a lot of turn over its hard to find your way....but here are the 05 league standings:

GotSport

system.gotsport.com
 
From the Spot said:
But this is Legends second 05 team, right? Isn't their top team playing ECRL?
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I think this is accurate. The scores for their latest matches in AZ were too one sided in favor of AZ GA teams. Close games last year, this year they were not close, losing both games by a wide margin. During the last DA (2020) season, Legends split games with the AZ teams and both games were close.
 
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