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Grace T. said:
1. Clubs are because of the rising fees moving their focus from poorer areas to the richer areas. Laufa/Albion for example moved its focus from downtown Los Angeles/Griffith Park to Long Beach and then now southward to Torrance, the OC and even sending MLSN teams to Santa Monica. If anybody has the Chula Vista/Nomads story, I would love to hear it because that's been another shift.
2. The big mega Clubs are increasingly relying on satellites for expansion. you have the Bulls for example spread out from the Val to LA West Side, LASC now in the San Gabriel Valley, Albion having acquired 4 clubs.
3. If Clubs are advertising this late into June for EA2, EA and even MLS2 teams, the reorg on those middle levels is a pretty substantial shakeup. Who is left in Socal League? It seems increasingly a place for just youngers. Is E64 gone on the boys side? What about the other non-ECNL letter leagues?
4. MLS2 at least anecdotally right now isn't shaping up to be the big integration that it was supposed to be with the first tier. Seems like it might be headed just for being the new EA, except with all the teams/players scrambled.
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Anecdotally, I had heard the Nomads simply began forfeiting numerous MLSN games at various age levels early in the year. The league apparently sent an email to the players parent's advising of the removal from the league. In all honesty, it could be good in the long-run as it gives them the opportunity to rebuild in SoCal League or another lower level letter league if they can gain access. Right around this time is when Sporting San Diego got MLSN II in no small part from their MLS pro veteran I am sure. If they do well I would not be surprised if they get promoted to full MLSN status. No idea what happened to Chula Vista

I tend to agree, SoCal seems to be a place for youngers before the ABC leagues really kick into gear. I thought E64 was going away as well but haven't seen any confirmation of that.

I also agree MLSN II initially seems to simply be a rebranding of EA teams, EA is a rebranding of the EA2 teams and EA2 is a rebranding of Flight 1/2 teams. It does allow for more shuffling of players within the club to various levels based on ability (if the players/parents agree to the switch). I am also seeing multiple EA teams bio-banding players for the 25/26 season which is interesting.
 
Scrub It Kook said:
Anecdotally, I had heard the Nomads simply began forfeiting numerous MLSN games at various age levels early in the year. The league apparently sent an email to the players parent's advising of the removal from the league. In all honesty, it could be good in the long-run as it gives them the opportunity to rebuild in SoCal League or another lower level letter league if they can gain access. Right around this time is when Sporting San Diego got MLSN II in no small part from their MLS pro veteran I am sure. If they do well I would not be surprised if they get promoted to full MLSN status. No idea what happened to Chula Vista

I tend to agree, SoCal seems to be a place for youngers before the ABC leagues really kick into gear. I thought E64 was going away as well but haven't seen any confirmation of that.

I also agree MLSN II initially seems to simply be a rebranding of EA teams, EA is a rebranding of the EA2 teams and EA2 is a rebranding of Flight 1/2 teams. It does allow for more shuffling of players within the club to various levels based on ability (if the players/parents agree to the switch). I am also seeing multiple EA teams bio-banding players for the 25/26 season which is interesting.
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Chula Vista seems on the ascendancy as a result of the fall of nomads

How it will work for the non mlsn mls2 teams depends really on how many players the bigger clubs drop from mlsn either permanently or for play time. Some of them are carrying very bloated rosters. The issue is reserve and futures players seem reluctant to play down for fear of being permanently sent there. But it doesn’t really work to interlock unless mlsn and mlsn ii share practice at the same branch: otherwise the mls ii players are just getting benched by strangers coming down or you force players to attend double practices.
 
Grace T. said:
Socal Elite will likely have to fix its relationship with Socal League first.

Given the admission of the Reds on top of strikers, and given that Strikers is the one club that is regularly producing at all levels, I doubt they'll let in any OC teams in. Brea is in TFA's area, another club still producing results. Didn't Sand & Surf just partner with City plus it has the same OC issue? Brea and Sand & Surf also just got EA so unlikely after just 1 year particularly since if SoCal Elite sticks together it and strikers are likely to pound all the EA competition.

No...if they let someone else it it's likely a surprise that makes little sense with connections (see Bulls, Juventus, Reds), or it's an ECNL club they poach. I think the days of geographic coverage (like Santa Barbara/Ventura/Murrieta) in Socal are probably over.
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Sand & Surf was in the DPL for 6 months and got promoted to GA Aspire. In another post someone mentioned that they had been told that if they wanted to play GA they need to go to Pasadena....

No correlation the head of DPL is the head of LA surf....

None of these moves make any sense and anything is possible...

Albion Santa Monica and So Cal Elite will dominate EA next season.
 
zags77 said:
Sand & Surf was in the DPL for 6 months and got promoted to GA Aspire. In another post someone mentioned that they had been told that if they wanted to play GA they need to go to Pasadena....

No correlation the head of DPL is the head of LA surf....

None of these moves make any sense and anything is possible...

Albion Santa Monica and So Cal Elite will dominate EA next season.
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I think Albion SM kids are going to join Albion la teams so it is not certain they will dominate but I can see SoCal elite Rangers and ac brea dominating ea
 
Christian10711 said:
I think Albion SM kids are going to join Albion la teams so it is not certain they will dominate but I can see SoCal elite Rangers and ac brea dominating ea
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There aren’t a ton of slots on the Albion la mls2 team because some mlsn players will be played down, competing with players from La Santa Monica fc England and Santa Ana and it adds an hour commute in traffic from the west side because of the airport/culver city crunch. Further Albion la moved some of the mlsn 1 teams to the west side. Further given the demotion to the extent the better players dont go to Albion la, they might go to Juventus the bulls or breakers ecnl. Further most of the fc England kids got moved to Santa Monica. So it will be hit or miss by year and they will have lost their strongest players but with the fc England reinforcements they’ve got full teams ready to go.

But the issue is quite a few of the new ea teams of the other clubs are really still driving for players. The soccer boards are full of announcements still this late into June. They won’t be fully formed given the summer break until July/august.
 
Grace T. said:
There aren’t a ton of slots on the Albion la mls2 team because some mlsn players will be played down, competing with players from La Santa Monica fc England and Santa Ana and it adds an hour commute in traffic from the west side because of the airport/culver city crunch. Further Albion la moved some of the mlsn 1 teams to the west side. Further given the demotion to the extent the better players dont go to Albion la, they might go to Juventus the bulls or breakers ecnl. Further most of the fc England kids got moved to Santa Monica. So it will be hit or miss by year and they will have lost their strongest players but with the fc England reinforcements they’ve got full teams ready to go.

But the issue is quite a few of the new ea teams of the other clubs are really still driving for players. The soccer boards are full of announcements still this late into June. They won’t be fully formed given the summer break until July/august.
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In SoCal league lingo:
MLS next = Flight 1
MLS2 = Flight 2
EA = Flight 3
EA2 = AYSO

Why would anyone drive an hour to play on a flight 2 team?
 
Jamisfoes said:
In SoCal league lingo:
MLS next = Flight 1
MLS2 = Flight 2
EA = Flight 3
EA2 = AYSO

Why would anyone drive an hour to play on a flight 2 team?
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An hour is not THAT bad for a flight 2 team. If you are in the downtown triangle or Val you may not have a choice if you want to play on any flight 2 teams. There are kids commuting 2+ hours for flight 1 and 1.5 ecnl teams. My son’s bestie’s girlfriend drives from the Val to Fontana 2+ hours out and 1 back for her flight 1 team.

I know some parents on one of the Albion mlsn teams that got moved to the west side. Their commute went from 20 minutes to over an hour and a half due to that Culver City traffic.
 
Grace T. said:
An hour is not THAT bad for a flight 2 team. If you are in the downtown triangle or Val you may not have a choice if you want to play on any flight 2 teams. There are kids commuting 2+ hours for flight 1 and 1.5 ecnl teams. My son’s bestie’s girlfriend drives from the Val to Fontana 2+ hours out and 1 back for her flight 1 team.

I know some parents on one of the Albion mlsn teams that got moved to the west side. Their commute went from 20 minutes to over an hour and a half due to that Culver City traffic.
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Personally I wouldn’t do it. 30 min max for any team. An hour if it’s LAFC or Galaxy academy with a full ride and only if he is not on the bench.
 
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