The Slammers are very good but there is no way this team will stay together in my opinion. There's always those parents that care more about being recognized than being developed.
For example. Slammers had a kid that was good. The dad decided to take the kid to Pateadores which is not as good as Slammers right now. He left because he would rather play for an Academy rather then play for a club team. This Kid had a bright future with Carlos and now he will be a rotation player on Pats.. This was a very bad decision that the father made.
You obviously have a lot of inside information, but not enough. The kid you are talking about left Golden State Academy to play for Slammers. If the only thing he cared about was academy, he could have stayed with Golden State. Or he could have gone to any number of academy teams, because he was constantly being recruited.
There's always a certain amount of conflict of interest between what's good for the player and what's good for the team. It's really hard to achieve a good balance between these two interests. For the kid you're talking about, the Pats coaching staff and their program focused on and did a lot of work on his weakest areas, where he needed a lot of work and improvement.
Slammers Godinez, on the other hand, is focused on coaching what they need to do to win right now. And they should, because they are in position to win right now. If I were coaching a team as good as that team, I would focus on winning right now too because things change fast for kids at this age, and I would want to win when I had the size and physical maturity advantage, and I would not slow the team down to address one player's weaknesses.
The kid's decision, and it was most definitely his decision, didn't come down to winning, or academy team vs non-academy team, or money (he left a nearly fully funded GSA team because it wasn't the right fit). It came down to which team and coaching staff had the program to make him a better player.
This is why Slammers won't last. No loyalty from parents who Carlos helped develop. Unless Carlos gets the LAFC partnership like the Girls did then Slammers will have to find big time sponsors to keep this team together..
Are you done with your rant? Several kids on that team, just like every other team, were picked off from other teams. Galaxy picked off bunch of GSA and TFA players, both GSA and TFA picked off Chivas players, who in turn picked off players from Cosmos and other Inland Empire teams, GSA also picked off bunch of Celtic and Cosmos players. That's how the soccer world works. If you don't like it stay home.
Coaches cut players that are not as good or aren't the right fit, or limit their playing time or their role on the team. Is that a lack of loyalty by the coach to the player?
Every coach makes decisions which players to keep, their playing time, the role of each player, and these decisions are made based on what the coach sees as his team's best interest. Should a coach make those decisions based on loyalty to the players who have been with him longest? Because if he does, then he is going to have a hard time recruiting new players, and that team is going to die.
I think you are very naive to throw in the word loyalty when it comes to decisions regarding team selection and when to change teams, because the way you are using loyalty, it's only one way, player loyalty to the coach. "Loyalty" is basically your way of saying that players should ignore their best interest and instead stay with a coach or a team that's not as good a choice for that player.
Personally, I think it is very bad advice on your part, and since you are clearly a very smart guy, I'm sure you would not follow your own loyalty advice when it comes to your son.
Goudinez is a funded team that is funding less fortunate players with low income families. This is the only team that can claim this.
TFA claims to keep the kids out the streets and collects a lot of money for it. More than half of the TFA players are not from the streets. Most of them are above middle class. At least last year it was.
TFA funded but not many poor kids
Galaxy funded only a few poor mostly well off families
GSA 10 percent low income players
Goudinez 95% low income. The 5% went to pats to spend 2k a year.
I have no idea how it is even possible for you to know the incomes of the parents on every team, since no team that I know of requires you to provide an income tax return to sign up. I'm just gonna say that your numbers are ridiculously off, and again, you are naive to think funding was based on need or income. The best players get the most funding, regardless of income, and it's like that on every team.
