Strikers ECNL rumors

BIGD said:
Who would the 06-03 teams play? Or are you suggesting they aren’t going to maintain teams at those age groups?
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Their U17 team will be playing in their own league with other MLS clubs around the country. They won't have a U16.
 
vegasguy said:
What should happen is USL and MLS create an Academy League and ECNL should run their league. This gives the academy regional opportunities (Lights, Galaxy, LAFC Loyal, Phoenix Rising, OC, and so on). Win your region and play in a National Championship Tournament. ECNL is their league. Now clubs like strikers and surf may not like this but if ECNL continues their championship platform it would survive. Their would still be the argument of the better league but both would still draw college coaches.
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I haven't heard anything about Surf leaving ECNL. Have you? I thought it was only Strikers.
 
BIGD said:
Where did you get this information? Is this your personal opinion or from a legitimate source (Surf parent/coach doesn't count as a legitimate source)?
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Ironically, there are fair number of parents on the boys side at SD Surf that are complaining they are in ECNL, and not MLS Next.
 
watfly said:
Ironically, there are fair number of parents on the boys side at SD Surf that are complaining they are in ECNL, and not MLS Next.
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They are not head and shoulders the top half of ECNL. So their complaints may be ego driven. Just my opinion.
 
BIGD said:
Where did you get this information? Is this your personal opinion or from a legitimate source (Surf parent/coach doesn't count as a legitimate source)?
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An MLS Club might be one of the few clubs Surf hasn't tried to franchise yet. Although there's still time and their revenue trajectory is heading in the right direction.
 
watfly said:
Ironically, there are fair number of parents on the boys side at SD Surf that are complaining they are in ECNL, and not MLS Next.
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FC Dallas is making tons of money on their academy graduates. More and more mls teams need to see the value of youth player development. The market for young American players is very hot right now and the Europeans will be looking at mls academies rather than an ECNL boys program.
Girls is different and ECNL is a great path for their development.
 
BIGD said:
Where did you get this information? Is this your personal opinion or from a legitimate source (Surf parent/coach doesn't count as a legitimate source)?
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It's very difficult for a new league to take roots in the current environment of constant changes. The dynamics of youth Soccer and especially MLS academies keep changing in post Covid times. I seriously doubt we have seen the last of these changes after everything that happened the last 15 months.
 
Goforgoal said:
I miss the days when we played in whatever league was available in our neighborhood, rode our bikes to practices and games and drank from the hose when we got home to hydrate.
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Those were the days alright, and I'm sad to say they are gone forever. And yet, I wonder if your young self back then could see into the future the way it is now (from a kid's perspective), what would they choose. Most of the discontent is centered at the parent's level, not the kids.
 
SoccerFan4Life said:
FC Dallas is making tons of money on their academy graduates. More and more mls teams need to see the value of youth player development. The market for young American players is very hot right now and the Europeans will be looking at mls academies rather than an ECNL boys program.
Girls is different and ECNL is a great path for their development.
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Clubs like Surf or Albion would receive zero dollars from a Euro club if a player is picked up by a Euro Club. See DeAndre Yedlin. An even better example is Pulisic.
 
vegasguy said:
Clubs like Surf or Albion would receive zero dollars from a Euro club if a player is picked up by a Euro Club. See DeAndre Yedlin. An even better example is Pulisic.
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Actually, Crossfire won its case before FIFA that it deserved solidarity payment for Yedlin, but the problem was that FIFA agreed that Tottenham had already paid the solidarity payment to MLS and so Crossfire will have to sue MLS to get it. The question is what happens on the next case, where the youth clubs know to get in their claims alongside MLS in a timely fashion and the buying clubs are on notice that only paying MLS is not sufficient.

Pulisic's club, Penn Classics, announced that it would not be seeking training compensation or solidarity payment for Pulisic. Instead, Pulisic recently donated a brand new training pitch to the team.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1385413101579902978
 
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