US CLUB SOCCER AND USYS

[Carlsbad7]

I don't know if MLS or GA want to bother with a littles league.

But one thing I keep thinking about is a lot of parents like to be able to say "she does ECNL". Well.... No, in the case of X you actually do ECRL, the offer letter says ECNL-RL, but nobody keeps that straight or cares much.

A third league (ECNL, ECRL the first 2) to wall it off a little more. This would be for 13-19, not littles, it would definitley be an attempt to drive the stake.

Where it fails is boys side MLS Next is clear top dog. But overall market share is most likely the goal, US Soccer is just rubber stamping some corporate goodness.

Any geography that has local MLSN and GA leagues could create their own littles league. The reason they haven't done it is littles are a huge amount of work and if you can play against everyone. Not just MLS and GA clubs usually theres not as much travel. Also MLS and GA would have to do this across the nation all at once which would be a massive undertaking. Finally, something that nobody considers is while you could automate the entire thing with an app for some reason refs like to get paid in cash. Maybe theres a reason many can't speak English .

Even with all the challenges eventually there will be a tipping point where financially and to maintain Marketshare it makes sense for GA and MLS to do their own thing if littles leagues are partnering with their primary competitor.

US Soccer is supposed to be the king maker for everything soccer in America. Right now they're allowing multiple kings to exist who waste resources competing against each other at a business level. Wouldn't it make more sense to spend those resources developing the best possible players by competing against each other on the field? Next time you see XYZ club owner show up in a gold plated Mercedes to an event. Keep in mind that they literally are the reason Amercan Soccer sucks internationally and US Soccer is allowing it to happen.

 

[Scrub It Kook]

So basically doesnt do much and drives the stake between MLSN + ECNL even deeper increasing the chances that MLS + GA will say screw it and create their own littles leagues.

US Soccer you're supposed to be keeping this type of thing from happening so everyone can play each other.

MLSN has their own ecosystem already with EA and EA2 starting at U11. At U13, the better players go up to MLSN HG or AD (if the club has it) while the others are spread between EA and EA2 (3rd and 4th teams).

 

[Carlsbad7]

MLSN has their own ecosystem already with EA and EA2 starting at U11. At U13, the better players go up to MLSN HG or AD (if the club has it) while the others are spread between EA and EA2 (3rd and 4th teams).

Good to see that US Soccer has allowed walled off leagues to exist all the way down to u11. At least with MLS theres some free soccer for youth players but even then it funnels into a pro league that has salary caps and no payments for development.

The more you know the less you want to know.

 

[Lou789]

How does this impact EA? Will it no longer exist or just fewer teams playing in EA?

 

[shankbone]

Any geography that has local MLSN and GA leagues could create their own littles league. The reason they haven't done it is littles are a huge amount of work and if you can play against everyone. Not just MLS and GA clubs usually theres not as much travel. Also MLS and GA would have to do this across the nation all at once which would be a massive undertaking. Finally, something that nobody considers is while you could automate the entire thing with an app for some reason refs like to get paid in cash. Maybe theres a reason many can't speak English .

Even with all the challenges eventually there will be a tipping point where financially and to maintain Marketshare it makes sense for GA and MLS to do their own thing if littles leagues are partnering with their primary competitor.

US Soccer is supposed to be the king maker for everything soccer in America. Right now they're allowing multiple kings to exist who waste resources competing against each other at a business level. Wouldn't it make more sense to spend those resources developing the best possible players by competing against each other on the field? Next time you see XYZ club owner show up in a gold plated Mercedes to an event. Keep in mind that they literally are the reason Amercan Soccer sucks internationally and US Soccer is allowing it to happen.

USA Soccer is supposed to be the king maker. 100! That is laughable at this point.

How does this impact EA? Will it no longer exist or just fewer teams playing in EA?

That is the wait and see what happens right? In southern california they have bumped the same kids into different sounding letters (EA/EA2) to try and gobble market share just like this ECRL2/National League/NPL thing. Who wins? Definitely not families or kids.