GA departures
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I believe this weekend @ Great Park bro. Come on out and check out the matches. My dd HSS team is traveling to West Covina tonight for first round action of the Ford Focus CIF and if they can pull off the upset, then it will most likely be a Second Round match at home this Friday Night Lights. The good news in all this mess, the girls are playing soccer. I know that is the silver lining in all this Gies. The Naysayers are just want they are. Look, take everything I say with a grain of salt and a shot of your favorite Tequila. Whatever floats your boat, just do it. Rumor mill is so crazy right about now. For the kids sakes, I hope the adults are honest and transparent so the kids don;t get played again by all the adults looking for what's best for them and their child and not what's best for all the kids.
yes that is correct DPL is second to the GA. make sure there is a good path with that club beyond DPL. We played DPL with LAGOC --but the DPL team in OC was actually out of southbay where the Academy was. SD had its own Academy and DPL. OC didn't. Near the end of our season when all teams were almost filled for the next year we learned that the DPL designation was moving to south bay. It was not handled well and there was only transparency once they were caught and families called them out. We had an amazing team, families and record. LAGOC did not retain one player. Had I understood in the beginning of the structure we would not have gone there because there was no higher level path. There may be now and not sure if your goal is to play GA or DPL I just wanted to share our story if it helps.
Desert Hound
DA
Yes. DPL is under GA. For those GA clubs that have DPL, DPL are their 2nd teams.
VegasParent
SILVER ELITE
Looks like the 2 Vegas teams and Del Sol have been moved to the Mountain West division.
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SoccerFan4Life
PREMIER
Socal really should be the trend setter and just make it one league (ECNL + DA). Add 3 of the 5 remaining clubs based on geography of existing ECNL teams.
what-happened
GOLD
Do you think the GA is abandoning (so to speak) SW conference and building the mountain conference? Adding teams to the SW conference at a later time?Looks like the 2 Vegas teams and Del Sol have been moved to the Mountain West division.
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Interesting move. From an AZ perspective (and Vegas), this makes travel less convenient, more airplane rides (CO/UT).
We will see how this will be pitched to parents after the fact (tryouts and offers are complete). I'm pretty sure out of conference games will still be played VS the SW conference.
Is this a trend that ECNL will follow? Move AZ and NV into the mountain conference and consolidate the SW conference to just CA teams. Would make a ton of sense to consolidate.
what-happened
GOLD
CA really doesn't have a need for an outside league - to your point, CA could create it's own league and still drive the train. Why travel to AZ and NV when they can play quality games locally. Have a showcase every now and again - teams from out of state will travel. The GA has seemed very willing to allow it's teams to compete in out of league games.
zags77
SILVER ELITE
If you look at the 2nd tier league for GA which is the DPL there seemed to be major expansion this past season. They added LVSA, Murrieta Surf, FRAM, SM Surf, Santa Barbara , South Valley Surf and Liverpool. From what I can tell it looks like GA will make an expansion in the SW for the 2022 season. Looking at the GA map its interesting to see that there is no presence in the OC or south bay/west LA. Looks like PATS is deciding to play ECRL next season, will be interesting to see if they remain DPL as well.
SoccerFan4Life
PREMIER
Personally, I hope they add a North OC team. I know of plenty of great players driving to Irvine to be part of the Slammers/Blues/WC/Strikers. North OC could also attract players from Anaheim, Norwalk, Cerritos. Plenty of talented players in this North OC area.
Yeah they're clearly looking to reduce travel requirements to and from SoCal. I'd expect to see more SW GA club announcements in the near future. Probably one more club in San Diego (SD Force) and a few LA/Inland Empire/OC clubs. This will also solidify GA as the clear 2nd tier league to ECNL in SoCal (not that it wasn't already). I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, although one has to wonder if a National league is really needed at this level of competition. That said, I do like what GA has been doing as a league and I really hope they grow and see success.
PracticeWYpreach
SILVER
Ok so dumb question. Why Couldn't SCDSL Discovery serve this exact same purpose for So Cal. Why does there have to be so many leagues claiming to be the best.
Desert Hound
DA
GA in the SW looks very weak. Can you run a conference with just 5 teams?
Messi>CR7
GOLD
They need to have new and existing members sign a 3-year commitment and play the top teams in GA in each age group. If not, ECNL can easily come in and cherry pick the most successful club(s) again (i.e. Legends, Beach, Utah Royals) if GA starts to have too much momentum. No GA club would ever turn down an invitation to join ECNL.
The end game for Beach and Legends was always ECNL, even prior to DA. These 2 clubs were held out by other Member clubs in the area so when US Soccer came around with GDA, it was a no brainer for these clubs.
ECNL really didn’t cheery pick, rather they honored a commitment they made to Clubs that were willing to make a sacrifice to put their Top Teams in their 2nd Tier League.
zags77
SILVER ELITE
This seems like a strange one, I know nothing about the program but the GA has added a 6th member for the 2021-2022 for the SW conference, Murrieta Surf.....
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Murrieta Surf Joins the Girls Academy (GA)
MURRIETA, CA (7th June, 2021) – Murrieta Surf is proud to announce the invitation into the Girls Academy (GA) beginning for the 2021-22 season. It is both an honor and a privilege for Murrieta Surf to join the very best clubs from around the nation and participate in the leading youth development
murrietasurf.com
This seems like a strange one, I know nothing about the program but the GA has added a 6th member for the 2021-2022 for the SW conference, Murrieta Surf.....
Murrieta Surf Joins the Girls Academy (GA)
MURRIETA, CA (7th June, 2021) – Murrieta Surf is proud to announce the invitation into the Girls Academy (GA) beginning for the 2021-22 season. It is both an honor and a privilege for Murrieta Surf to join the very best clubs from around the nation and participate in the leading youth development
I'm not sure why you think it's strange. The GA has holes to fill in the SW with the conference reshuffling and I guessed Murrieta Surf would be one of the clubs added. It makes sense geographically. I think SD Force is a likely addition as well, although this would make less geographic sense with SDSC literally sharing the one of their practice facilities. These club announcements likely won't blow anyone's minds but it is what it is at this point.