LA City United

[Karlton Athletic]

This is interesting:

WHAT IS LA CITY UNITED​

LA City United is an elite soccer club designed to develop players to represent the City of Los Angeles at the highest levels in the SoCal and US Club Soccer leagues. We will play outside of the LA Rec & Parks leagues. It’s also the first soccer program in the country to be supported and subsidized by a city.

https://www.laparks.org/lacityunited

 

[Carlsbad7]

People love free stuff.

Big letter leagues aren't going to let them in. This will end up being a Socal/NPL club + occasional tournament team.

 

[crush]

People love free stuff.

Big letter leagues aren't going to let them in. This will end up being a Socal/NPL club + occasional tournament team.

Especially people who can't afford the travel league. I love this and I've always said, "free soccer for all kids!!!"

 

[aong cangkol]

People love free stuff.

Big letter leagues aren't going to let them in. This will end up being a Socal/NPL club + occasional tournament team.

They should not even try to join ECNL, DA, etc.
People who need free stuff cannot afford "letter" leagues travel anyway. NPL travel is already too much for them.
It will be interesting if they provide multiple training location because this will allow kids who are currently cannot join anything because their parents have to work and get home around 7pm (perhaps 70% of LA family in this condition, some commutes 2 hr one way).

I really hope this will take off, imo they should leverage AYSO existing structure to speed up the process, essentially creating and selecting talented players from AYSO players. Similar to AYSO extra/all-star selection. This program and city funding can provide the professional training coach and structure that AYSO is lacking.