AYSO UNITED

[Grace T.]

This is predictable but sad news in general. Years ago when my oldest started playing soccer, I have hopes that a single pyramid of youth soccer competition will be developed, just like everywhere else in the world. There was hope that US Soccer will see this is a problem to be solved. AYSO is an organization that already have good national network. Also US has public schools with fields (advantage that almost no other nations have). I guess in the end I have to admit this is never going to happen in US. Youth sports will continue to operate like any other businesses.
I think we should be thankful that AYSO still exist. This may eventually go away as well.

You might get the pyramid. In fact the boys side is more pyramidy now than it was even 5 years ago. It’s just not going to be what most people like (if it happens). On the boys side:
-no pro/rel
-a handful of mega national clubs including with vc funding and the academies control over thing.
-Locally 25 clubs divide up the barrios and prevent entry of any new comers.
- No real competition so fees continue to rise
-for the older mls academies at the top, mls1, mls2, ea. everything else goes away because of you can’t do letter league you can’t make a go of it. Ecnl folds.
-For the Youngers more options but the mega clubs are dominant and local clubs finish disappearing.
-ayso (which is struggling now as it is) just disappears. The Youngers have a rec option but it’s controlled by the mega clubs which keep pushing travel as young as it can go.
-participation numbers continue to decline because kids and parents feel if you can’t be on top of the pyramid why bother.

I said this back in the coast days…if you want to maximize participation, it looks like a pear not a pyramid.

 

[aong cangkol]

-participation numbers continue to decline because kids and parents feel if you can’t be on top of the pyramid why bother.

I said this back in the coast days…if you want to maximize participation, it looks like a pear not a pyramid.

Agree, participation will decline.
All these giant clubs are forgetting that they have these thousands of players from AYSO.