LA Galaxy to remove alliance program

Speed said:
Sorry you are going through this. We left after last season and had one on the boys and girls side. On the girls side LAGOC screwed over an entire team and they were not able to retain one player.
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We all get "fished" every year. I was Stanley from 2015-2018. The dealerships are the clubs. Russell was my Doc back in the day :)
 
timbuck said:
......He said "Yeah, sort of. We actually got a lot of great stuff from the Galaxy organization. They provided a lot of coaching education. We would go to Carson for workshops. They'd send us their goal keeping coaches. I'm kinda bummed it's going away."
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I know first hand, by directly talking to couple of coaches that were involved in working with LAG and LAGOC, that they did a lot the last couple of years but this past year, not so much - best I can tell.

LAGOC just sent out an announcement to have Club Awards Night on 11/4 with a teaser "And Exciting News for 2020" so maybe something gets announced then.

For us, we don't care because our last kid is a senior in HS and this is THE LAST SEASON for youth soccer for us. After nearly 15 years of club soccer between two kids, our eye brows don't get raised very often any more so whatever the branding change is, or isn't, it will all workout in the end. Worse case scenario is that you have to find anther club...
 
mirage said:
I know first hand, by directly talking to couple of coaches that were involved in working with LAG and LAGOC, that they did a lot the last couple of years but this past year, not so much - best I can tell.

LAGOC just sent out an announcement to have Club Awards Night on 11/4 with a teaser "And Exciting News for 2020" so maybe something gets announced then.

For us, we don't care because our last kid is a senior in HS and this is THE LAST SEASON for youth soccer for us. After nearly 15 years of club soccer between two kids, our eye brows don't get raised very often any more so whatever the branding change is, or isn't, it will all workout in the end. Worse case scenario is that you have to find anther club...
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Yep I can back they don’t do much. Think priorities are more about everyone wearing same gear, kicking the same balls, using same canopies and signing kids before the season ends. Development probably doesn’t make it on the top 10 list of priorities
 
SBGCDALife said:
What did you confirm and with which coaches?
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Was told by a Beach coach that Galaxy SB will be absorbed by Beach. I think its good for both clubs. I feel its pretty saturated in the southbay so merging these two clubs will make it more competitive as well as eliminate some of the wide range of talent on each team. having everyone on your team around the same talent level will keep players from being held back or left behind during training.
 
MSK357 said:
Was told by a Beach coach that Galaxy SB will be absorbed by Beach. I think its good for both clubs. I feel its pretty saturated in the southbay so merging these two clubs will make it more competitive as well as eliminate some of the wide range of talent on each team. having everyone on your team around the same talent level will keep players from being held back or left behind during training.
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I think Beach might come out the winner but I'm not very good with how the soccer biz goes. So the OC Galaxy will get "absorbed" by Beach too and now becomes, OC Beach? Maybe they take the SD Galaxy franchise and they become, SD Beach? They can compete with LA Surf, OC Surf and SD Surf. We will have a SoCal Beach Club and a Surf Club that actually Surfs at the Beach? Legends can have the IE and Blues can decide to go OC Blues, LA Blues and SD Blues to maybe have four Big Clubs handle things for all of us?
 
Justus said:
I think Beach might come out the winner but I'm not very good with how the soccer biz goes. So the OC Galaxy will get "absorbed" by Beach too and now becomes, OC Beach? Maybe they take the SD Galaxy franchise and they become, SD Beach? They can compete with LA Surf, OC Surf and SD Surf. We will have a SoCal Beach Club and a Surf Club that actually Surfs at the Beach? Legends can have the IE and Blues can decide to go OC Blues, LA Blues and SD Blues to maybe have four Big Clubs handle things for all of us?
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I can only speak for Galaxy SB, the other Galaxy locations might have different plans. Until it actually happens though, I would still keep this as a possibility. But since the source isn't a parent I think it has more validity.
 
MSK357 said:
I can only speak for Galaxy SB, the other Galaxy locations might have different plans. Until it actually happens though, I would still keep this as a possibility. But since the source isn't a parent I think it has more validity.
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I dare someone to email South bay Beach, The Galaxy of the OC and Galaxy of the South Bay with a fake email address letting them know you just relocated to the USA from Sweden and have a 12 year old dd 5 9' looking to join a team mid season. If you're on one of these teams, the info you get will most likely be wrong or I might say, off a little. This could be just another big hat no cattle merger too. Anyone from the Galaxies of the South Bay Or OC have any intel for us?
 
Unless it is a Director, from past history, Coaches seem to know as much about this stuff as parents do. It is all rumors until it is actually announced. Beach may come out better but if there is minimal to offer why would a club "take over" another club. From what has been said on this forum the Galaxy SB boys side left last year as they were struggling financially (I think that was said?) and with fields, so where is the benefit to any club if they are losing the Galaxy name anyway?
 
RedNevilles said:
Unless it is a Director, from past history, Coaches seem to know as much about this stuff as parents do. It is all rumors until it is actually announced. Beach may come out better but if there is minimal to offer why would a club "take over" another club. From what has been said on this forum the Galaxy SB boys side left last year as they were struggling financially (I think that was said?) and with fields, so where is the benefit to any club if they are losing the Galaxy name anyway?
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The reason to "take over" would be to keep a competitors player pool and eliminate the competition. Without Galaxy SB you just have smaller clubs in the immediate area around Beach SB. Now if you want your daughter to be in a major club team and compete against the best teams where are you going to go? FRAM? No disrespect, but a merger like this would help consolidate the best players in the area. Lots of Pros and Cons with this but I like the Pros better than the Cons. Clubs including Beach will always have room for all level of players as long as there's enough to form a team and willing to pay. Not everyone has to be Flight 1.
 
LAG OC sent out a letter also according to a parent I know at the club but no word on if they are joining another club or what
 
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