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Playing for a highschool team primarilyGive up so much what?
Playing for a highschool team primarilyGive up so much what?
What has happened often in the Boys DA is that Seniors (or even Juniors with firm early college commitments) bail out of DA and enjoy the game with their HS friends.Playing for a highschool team primarily
Playing time if not in the top 8 players, high school soccer, ecnl, odp, playing other sports, anything else that a normal teenager likes to do.Give up so much what?
That's good to know. It's the early years of high school though, that are so important for fitting in and finding your group. Being a part of a high school team in freshman and sophomore years can really help a girl navigate through her high school experience. In the interest of having a happy confident well rounded child, it's not something we're willing to forgo.What has happened often in the Boys DA is that Seniors (or even Juniors with firm early college commitments) bail out of DA and enjoy the game with their HS friends.
Why not? The US WNT roster has 24 spots, and there are going to be approximately 70 Girls DA clubs, with 3 teams per club, with 23 players per team. That means that every year, they will have a pool of 1610 stud players feeding those 24 spots. That seems very doable.
Second girls DA expansion worrying for
For clubs dissatisfied with the ECNL’s more relaxed standards as opposed to what’s being offered by U.S. Soccer, this could be the opportunity they’ve been awaiting for years.
The ECNL long hung its hat on its fully national organizational model. It has clubs all over the country in every major market and in a bunch of minor ones too, and it has long said that each of those needs to be dealt with differently. That drove the ECNL’s more hands-off approach with its requirements, allowing each club to determine what was best for them in the confines of their unique market. If the ECNL couldn’t determine what was best for those clubs, they reasoned, the boots on the ground certainly could.
IndeedGDA's goal is to produce national players for their team not for college. Let's not forget that.
US soccer's self preservation is reliant on the success of the national team. They could care less if our girls play, attend or flunk out of college. Let's get real here.
Looks like that isn't going to happen. A buddy text this to me yesterday. DA clubs are not leaving ECNL as ECNL is marketing that the most successful clubs are playing ECNL the 2017-2018 season during DA's inaugural season.
http://www.eliteclubsnationalleague.com/home/920431.html
As I posted prior, there will be clubs participating in both Girls DA and ECNL. These are the clubs that will dominant the market in SoCal. The Girls DA only clubs such as Legends, Beach, LA Premier and Carlsbad. When they conduct open tryouts the spring of 2017 and over half of their A team players DO NOT make the DA team will be very upset. I can almost guarantee families will feel a sense of betrayal after the club cuts their DDs. What is the club going to say, "we had a lot of new talent trying out for the DA teams, unfortunately we can only offer your DD a spot on our B team that will be playing National League". They will then go to other DA clubs to tryout and if they don't make it there....ECNL will be the final destination for those players.
The same can be said, for the ECNL clubs who do not have DA status. Their best Ulittle players will be trying out for DA clubs. Why are they gonna play for an ECNL only club? When they can play for a club that has ECNL and DA affiliation. This way there is an opportunity to be called up to the DA team.
Google Josh Legends soccer and Cle Kooiman. Impressed with Kooimans career wow! Impressed with what I read regarding Josh comments on soccer and Legends club. Another question is about the ESCL. What is it and are they automatically DA because they are all elite? Lastly Surf is a strange name for a club in the IE?Josh is very passionate about his club and it shows. He has thrived and is now being rewarded. Legends is the obvious choice in the IE.
The Kooiman's were great for the IE as well. But have not been able to replicate the same success they had a Arsenal.
Of course you are going to post this. You're the Legends HOMER, which BTW should have been your new alias. If ECNL is the B team League then National League is the C team league. LMAODude, you really are an Agatha Christie. Now you are telling youngers and olders how their soccer experience is going to be? While you're writing fiction about how much better a DA/ECNL club is better than a DA/National League club is, I think it is a step in a positive direction that you are acknowledging that ECNL will be the B team. And not being on a DA roster but playing in the United States Youth Soccer National League is a great way to develop as a player and get recruited by a Power 5 conference.
You love Legends so much! Josh must bend you over and you must take it like a champ. Do you also say, "Josh may I have another please"Google Josh Legends soccer and Cle Kooiman. Impressed with Kooimans career wow! Impressed with what I read regarding Josh comments on soccer and Legends club. Another question is about the ESCL. What is it and are they automatically DA because they are all elite? Lastly Surf is a strange name for a club in the IE?
How good a coach is he?You are funny, Josh must bend you over and you take like a champ. Since, you love Legends so much!
I believe I posted my unbaised opinion about Arsenal and Legends already. As for their playing resume and if I had to start a team...I would draft Cle Kooiman over Josh Hodges as a player every day of the year. Cle Kooiman played in the World Cup with the US Mens National Team. Enough said!
Dude, you really are an Agatha Christie. Now you are telling youngers and olders how their soccer experience is going to be? While you're writing fiction about how much better a DA/ECNL club is better than a DA/National League club is, I think it is a step in a positive direction that you are acknowledging that ECNL will be the B team. And not being on a DA roster but playing in the United States Youth Soccer National League is a great way to develop as a player and get recruited by a Power 5 conference.
Cali, I've been reading No Goals posts for some time and it appears that he is floating on his college soccer cloud and no one better disagree because he thinks he knows it all, proud little papa for sure. No Goals only endgame is college and money, nothing else, but little does he actually know and it is starting to get a little annoying. It is one thing to have an opinion, its another to belittle everyone that doesn't agree. What he fails to realize is that college soccer is not everyone's dream or end goal and I am talking strictly from an athletic standpoint, some kids actually really do want to make the USN SR squad, or SR squad of their country of heritage and represent their country and/or play real soccer, professionally and some just play for fun and then quit, nothing wrong with that either. National team/Pro soccer should be on a different path than college/amateur soccer (and yes no goal your kids will be playing amateur soccer, so calm down), we need players committed to the cause no half in/half out and suddenly jumping ship and go for that schollie once things get a little rough. Wanting to get an education and wanting to be a professional athlete, should have nothing to do with each other, but that is a discussion for another day.
Is pursuing a professional soccer career the most financially wise decision right now? probably not, but neither is becoming an actor, musician, boxer, mma fighter, you name it and US soccer is trying to change ALL that on the soccer front and hopefully one day there will be an established women's league where these players can keep developing and continue to play the sport they love, it will happen, no doubt.
Making the Olympic team for any other sport is probably not the financially wisest decision either, yet we have plenty of people who do and we clean up the medal count every 2 years. Not everyone comes from the same economic background, so different strokes for different folks, some amazing stories out there every Olympic cycle.
We are in a unique situation here on many fronts, we have the best athletes in the world, we have a huge country with many different cultures, many different states and not many countries take school sports as serious as we do, so it presents unique challenges in trying to evolve and align at the same time. One has to wonder how many stars the USMNT has lost in the shuffle because those players went to college, played some garbage college soccer and got a job instead of taking on some risk and pursuing what i'm sure was their original dream, to play professionally or for a SR Squad. The other issue probably was that back in the day US soccer scouted mostly college playing athletes, well that creates a bit of a void as we all know our best soccer players don't always end up in college and it was evident by the way US soccer played, like a college team.
US soccer's job is to be able to compete on the International stage both men and women and that is what they are trying to accomplish, but you won't if you show up to the world cup with 24 college players. Right now it is working on the womens side because to be quite honest no one else in the world gave 2 "cents" about the womens game until recently. There were what 12 countries in the womens "world cup" in the 90's? Some countries don't even have the finances to support the mens national teams let alone the womens. So the US womens game is working for now but needs to keep evolving to stay ahead of the curve. What US soccer is doing is a huge step in the right direction from an athletic standpoint and if we can be the first country to have a nice professional league for women I'd be all for it. The DA system is a proven feeder system in SOCCER.
Of course you are going to post this. You're the Legends HOMER, which BTW should have been your new alias. If ECNL is the B team League then National League is the C team league. LMAO
Again, I have no dog in this fight as my DD will be in college this time next year. Your DD on the other hand will still be with Legends and playing the inaugural DA season and why your posts are baised towards Legends, DA and National League.
Cali, I've been reading No Goals posts for some time and it appears that he is floating on his college soccer cloud and no one better disagree because he thinks he knows it all, proud little papa for sure. No Goals only endgame is college and money, nothing else, but little does he actually know and it is starting to get a little annoying. It is one thing to have an opinion, its another to belittle everyone that doesn't agree. What he fails to realize is that college soccer is not everyone's dream or end goal and I am talking strictly from an athletic standpoint, some kids actually really do want to make the USN SR squad, or SR squad of their country of heritage and represent their country and/or play real soccer, professionally and some just play for fun and then quit, nothing wrong with that either. National team/Pro soccer should be on a different path than college/amateur soccer (and yes no goal your kids will be playing amateur soccer, so calm down), we need players committed to the cause no half in/half out and suddenly jumping ship and go for that schollie once things get a little rough. Wanting to get an education and wanting to be a professional athlete, should have nothing to do with each other, but that is a discussion for another day.
Is pursuing a professional soccer career the most financially wise decision right now? probably not, but neither is becoming an actor, musician, boxer, mma fighter, you name it and US soccer is trying to change ALL that on the soccer front and hopefully one day there will be an established women's league where these players can keep developing and continue to play the sport they love, it will happen, no doubt.
Making the Olympic team for any other sport is probably not the financially wisest decision either, yet we have plenty of people who do and we clean up the medal count every 2 years. Not everyone comes from the same economic background, so different strokes for different folks, some amazing stories out there every Olympic cycle.
We are in a unique situation here on many fronts, we have the best athletes in the world, we have a huge country with many different cultures, many different states and not many countries take school sports as serious as we do, so it presents unique challenges in trying to evolve and align at the same time. One has to wonder how many stars the USMNT has lost in the shuffle because those players went to college, played some garbage college soccer and got a job instead of taking on some risk and pursuing what i'm sure was their original dream, to play professionally or for a SR Squad. The other issue probably was that back in the day US soccer scouted mostly college playing athletes, well that creates a bit of a void as we all know our best soccer players don't always end up in college and it was evident by the way US soccer played, like a college team.
US soccer's job is to be able to compete on the International stage both men and women and that is what they are trying to accomplish, but you won't if you show up to the world cup with 24 college players. Right now it is working on the womens side because to be quite honest no one else in the world gave 2 "cents" about the womens game until recently. There were what 12 countries in the womens "world cup" in the 90's? Some countries don't even have the finances to support the mens national teams let alone the womens. So the US womens game is working for now but needs to keep evolving to stay ahead of the curve. What US soccer is doing is a huge step in the right direction from an athletic standpoint and if we can be the first country to have a nice professional league for women I'd be all for it. The DA system is a proven feeder system in SOCCER.
Then she can play ECNL her last year in club. Why would you have your DD play National League when all of the best players are playing DA and the next level of players playing ECNL? That won't prepare her for college soccer competition in the ACC!Yes, I am a Legends FC supporter. But you are wrong about the inaugural DA season. I am not sure my daughter will be good enough to make it.
Dude, you really are an Agatha Christie. Now you are telling youngers and olders how their soccer experience is going to be? While you're writing fiction about how much better a DA/ECNL club is better than a DA/National League club is, I think it is a step in a positive direction that you are acknowledging that ECNL will be the B team. And not being on a DA roster but playing in the United States Youth Soccer National League is a great way to develop as a player and get recruited by a Power 5 conference.