Imma set the record a little more “straight”. Beach FC started in Long Beach. A few years later, SM left what was South Bay Force and started the South Bay Chapter of Beach FC. It’s not a affiliate, it is a division. There is only one President, one Board and one DOC. However there are multiple “Directors”. Both Divisions feed into their Girls Academy program that operates as a 3rd “Division” of the Club.
Indeed...can’t knock the hustle for even planting the seeds that far north. MBSS put together some solid teams in the SB for a few years then after the Galaxy/Exiles merger, the pendulum swung. Nevertheless there has been some really talented kids coming out of the SouthBay for years. It’s about time the parents haven’t had to commute for 1+ hours each way to get “exposure”.
Long Beach. Was originally like a Blues, all flight one and boutique. Clearly, those days are long past.
You keep making very broad statements, selling soul to devil and one person changing the culture. There are some great people and coaches there. Like any big entity, they have issues. Unless you are more specific in your critique, it falls flat.
And that is where the tension seems to be. They are adding tons of teams to fund the academy. But the $$ and numbers are in the southbay now and it seems that the LB coaches do not appreciate the power shift.
That's what I remember. The original Legends FC was out of Glendora ca. Small, boutique club that started with one team. JH started winning and then the competition started to poach his goats like when my dd played there. Kicker said it best. South Bay peeps had to travel 1+ hours to find "exposure" and now they don;t. Fair competition is what makes this gr8t country awesome. I'm not so sure how fair all this has been on us customers, but I will 100% learn from it and I'm sure the rest of us will too
”adding teams to fund the academy”, how so? I have 2 in the program and can tell you, the Academy is FAR from “funded”!
I was advised they lost money last year. There are rules on $ to remain an academy club. Thus, adding other clubs and many flight iii teams to keep the $$ in coming in.
A number of LB coaches recently had a meeting to discuss being second class citizens in the club now. The consensus was that SB is favored, pathway to DA is clearly showing signs of favoritism, are we just a forgotten part of organization. The LB part of the family is not feeling like family any more. Rumors of coaches leaving LB are first domino to fall since meeting.
You say “clearly” please explain how that is? In the first year of DA there were equal #’s of LB and SB players for the ‘03’s and ‘04’s. The following year there were actually more LB players than SB (by maybe a single player). This year when the ‘06’s formed there were more players pulled from LB than SB, especially because they pulled from 2 different LB teams (only one SB team). Another factoid to look at is where the DA staff originated from, all but one came from the LB staff and the one that isn’t came from outside the club.
Must have just taken it down then as of 2 weeks ago it was listed.
