Change can be good, thinking about ways to improve the youth soccer development process hopefully with be the best outcome of all the changes. In this way perhaps the "2" or reserve dialog will help in that regard at some point? The current system(s) we have are not good enough or meeting the needs so change is warranted seems to be the message.
There are some good things about the DA program, standards, and platform that a reserve league could focus on that can help players to continue to grow. The 3-4 a day a week training with higher level coaches A and B for example should pay dividends but its not "instant" takes a while and the youngest ages groups should have the better coaches not just the older ones. Teaching procession and creativity /w or without the ball is a longer term process, going to be a few years before you start to see that consistently across teams in these new leagues. Of course this all takes more $ and better coaches so those are somethings hat need to be worked on.
Too many organisations, leagues, comps that are basically competing vs each other for players and $ doing things contrary to a unified youth vision for the US. Instead of being inclusive with closed circuits, protected leagues that don't share or have a way to promote to one or the other we have a very confuted system that is highly fragmented. We can't or don't want to get along and a great % of the posts are about which org, league, club, team or better vs the others, Elitist kind of stuff, instead of top down we need bottom up.
If we can take the best ideas, standards, and processes and learn to cooperate, share, and form a consensus youth soccer structure and programs in the US we will be a lot better off in the long term. Going to take a lot more $ and effort to get there but hope is external. Until then the "new boss is the same as the old boss"
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