How’s the 2024-2025 season going?
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I think you’re being a little dramatic here. Next year the girls will be olders with college scouts in attendance so you’ll see more interest and investment because it’s a showcase event. Just this year in particular the SoCal playoff coaches don’t care.
The girls junior and senior years will mean more than the transition year going into freshman year and their sophomore year.
Maybe, we'll see what happens with NCAA + 28 player rosters.
If college coaches can't just outrun other teams with 40+ player rosters and unlimited subs recruitment might start mirroring USYNT selection processes.
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It's been posted a bunch, but you can make your own determination on what would be considered a large drop off or not. Here are the top GA 2010G teams in CA. #22 is less than a goal weaker than City at #13. Almaden at #32 is about two goals weaker than City.
In general the top GA teams are similar to upper Girls ECNL team. There's more Girls ECNL top teams which means in playoffs they tend to cancel each other out. There's less GA top clubs so there's fewer to cancel each other out in playoffs.
After you get past the top 20 ECNL teams and the top 5 GA teams the rest of the teams from both leagues are pretty much the same. GA basically copied everything ECNL does for league events, showcases, playoffs, finals, etc.
What makes Southwest ECNL different than other geographies is theres 4-6 high level clubs. Most regional leagues don't have this many top teams so close together. Usually there's 1-2 top clubs that dominate a regional league and all the other teams suck. Having high level teams to play that are all really close is a double edge sword. Local league games are cheap and high level. Traveling to other places to blow out competition is annoying. Basically you're paying a bunch of $$$ to blow out crappy teams.
For SoCal GA teams like City and FRAM it's the opposite. Local league competition isn't ideal. Which means they need to reach out to local ECNL clubs for friendlies or travel to other geographies to play against the top 5 GA clubs. Or play in ECNL tournaments like Surf Cup.
Fram vs Surf should be exciting this afternoon. The team that wins advances to play vs EJE7 in semis. Not sure how this Florida team made it this far but I hear they brought an All Star crew from all over the country including the eagles top forward. Looks like they tried to put together one of those goat 
teams. On the other side of the semis game we have the ecnl finals rematch Koge vs Legends.
teams. On the other side of the semis game we have the ecnl finals rematch Koge vs Legends.Koge bracket was very close, + several ties.Fram vs Surf should be exciting this afternoon. The team that wins advances to play vs EJE7 in semis. Not sure how this Florida team made it this far but I hear they brought an All Star crew from all over the country including the eagles top forward. Looks like they tried to put together one of those goat
Not surprised at all. Hawai’i always has the athletes and probably one of the few teams that can match Koge’s athleticism. Didn’t watch but assumed the Hawaii defender that played with Koge during their championship run went back to playing with Rush. One of the former Rush’s forwards moved to Florida and plays GA and is playing with the EJE7 this tournament.
Each top goat at Legends has different custom player development programs (CPDP). When my child played for the great JH, he moved her around from time to time to challenge her. Some parents don't like this because they just want the same team for that year and win. JH believes in what is best for the child and not the parents' egos of winning. Don't get me wrong, everyone wants to win but player comes first. My guess and this is just a guess, is that JH wanted her to play with the 10s this time around.
GOAT Fram FC, I love it.Fram vs Surf should be exciting this afternoon. The team that wins advances to play vs EJE7 in semis. Not sure how this Florida team made it this far but I hear they brought an All Star crew from all over the country including the eagles top forward. Looks like they tried to put together one of those goat
Have you even watched a recent legends game yet?
It's been a while Super Soccer Star. When I get back to the states, I might check one out
Silverlakes in Norco, CA is the new Goatville. Professional fields and excellent CPDP for each Goat. Top notch training. Yes the weather can be hot and sticky, but that's good training for the Top Goats to be prepared for all sorts of weather challenges. Top Goats around the world have battled weather unlike the perfect weather in Del Mar and Oceanside that can make some players soft.Inferior? That 10’s team is solid they don’t need her for the regular ecnl season. That team right now next to Surf has the mostnational team player candidates in SoCal.
Does it mean that this tournament does not mean much to the players and coaches? Since HBK had most of their top players playing, they should not play as hard? Same with Legends who played their top players? The revamped Blues roster should not be taken seriously (surprisingly did well)? Mustang traveled with their full roster? Come on, these girls are all competitive and they would go for the win. Should there be an asterisk on this tournament?
Surf made it through...
If Surf isn't going to take their own tournament seriously something else will take Surf Cups place.
Now that college soccer teams need to make $$$ to exist I could see a college like UCLA putting on youth soccer tournaments during the summer. What better way to make a bunch of money and have all the top recruits come to you. Combine a tournament with a sleepover camp in the dorms and they could make even more $$$.
Legends is figuring things out with their new additions. For example, the first game they played opened with an experimental roster and then second half went with their playoff roster.
I can’t speak about koge as I haven’t spoken to parents from that team.
Blues I can reasonably say that they’re in rebuild mode so RH is likely trying to see what he has on his team and is playing his aces.
Pats are rebuilt and are trying to win, but didn’t have the outcome they wanted this weekend.
Like one coach told his parents. And I’m paraphrasing here: we’re going to give players the opportunity to make a case for themselves on the roster and everyone will get a fair shot. But if we make it to Monday, we’re playing to win at that point.
I think some coaches are trying to win, but I think others are looking more towards strategic growth rather than short term results.
But you’re right, for the kids playing and the parents paying and taking the time to go, it does mean something for them. But these coaches are playing chess and you’d be kidding yourself if you don’t think these coaches put too much thought about the outcomes of these games.
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I'm not sure if they are not taking their own tournament seriously, 10's, 11's, 12's, 13's, 14's, 15's are all represented to play tomorrow.
UCLA camp would be money grab, heck sign me up! lol
Bench players are competitive and want to win too. Surf went with their starting lineup. Rotated the bench in, but kept some core players on the field.
With many former Blues players in that Legends team, it should be an easier transition and we hope that there will be good chemistry. I watched part of the 2nd of half of that game and they played the best players in their strongest positions. I was expecting the worst for the Blues, but I was wrong.
HBK are missing 3 players from playoffs and one of their new players, but given that they are THE champs, we'd expect more. My DD would say, it's HIM.
Pats, I just don't think they have it (would have been nice to see them in the best of the best bracket)... just my opinion.
Blues, I thought they no longer should be in the top bracket given the turnover of players, but they have some decent players, they could be just 1-2 good signing away.
True that the coaches maybe aren't putting so much into these games since this is the time for coaches to experiment heading into the new season. But once the players are on the field, they would go for all out.