LA Galaxy to remove alliance program

If club directors realized they could buy them in la for $20 and sell them to the parents for $60. The $40 difference is probably more than they get back from Nike/soccer.com
 
If club directors realized they could buy them in la for $20 and sell them to the parents for $60. The $40 difference is probably more than they get back from Nike/soccer.com

Well except not too many want to pedal non authentic or questionable stuff, Knockoffs, clones, stuff from China.

Althouth there are more legit places like nikys-sports.com that sell the real name brand stuff for much less than those kickback sites.
 
Its just the drive that sucks , there's always traffic on the 5, but all the women boutiques in OC , the owner or at least some of them buy merchandise in LA and pedal it for high dollar design crap. Personally with a kid, that 80-100 dollar jersey from dicks or soccer.com is gonna stain the same as my cheapie and my kid is gonna outgrown it in the same amount of time , chose wisely
 
I don't mind the characters & dispensaries next door but regular OC soccer mom's might not enjoy the ambiance
Lol, like the time I took my kid to play indoor soccer at the Anaheim Indoor and my wife was “never again”. Think the drunk dudes peeing in the corner by the fields and half the fields with no carpet might have been the deal breakers. Although she was down with the fruit vendor across the street in front of the Sports Complex.
 
Biggest thing I noticed with the knockoffs is that they don't breathe like the real thing would.
Pretty sure they are 100% nylon and plastic
Adult indoor league I used to play in bought each team a Euro team jersey. We were Inter-Milan. After one wear, you couldn't wash the stink out of it.
Ones my kid was getting looked like legit Nike and Adidas gear - seemed like legit Shirts with slightly off logos or missing patches. Hell artists have knocked off own products for hundreds of years - just so they get paid. They figure if anyone is going to make extra money, it might as well be them.
 
I’m wondering if the affiliate program being cut has anything to do with the mothership reducing liability when an affiliate has a legal issue? Let’s say, a coach, club member or employee has a lawsuit against one of the affiliates for a just cause. Can the person with the case sue the mothership as well as the affiliate? If so, I bet a lot of these professional affiliate programs will start disappearing.
 
I’m wondering if the affiliate program being cut has anything to do with the mothership reducing liability when an affiliate has a legal issue? Let’s say, a coach, club member or employee has a lawsuit against one of the affiliates for a just cause. Can the person with the case sue the mothership as well as the affiliate? If so, I bet a lot of these professional affiliate programs will start disappearing.
No idea if that lawsuit would have merit, but I’m sure that someone filing a lawsuit would name anyone and everyone they could. And hope that the deepest pockets pays up.
Would this same logic apply to “affiliates” of youth clubs (Slammers, surf, etc)
 
I’m wondering if the affiliate program being cut has anything to do with the mothership reducing liability when an affiliate has a legal issue? Let’s say, a coach, club member or employee has a lawsuit against one of the affiliates for a just cause. Can the person with the case sue the mothership as well as the affiliate? If so, I bet a lot of these professional affiliate programs will start disappearing.
Motherships 100% always looking to mitigate any liability. Don’t know what the contract look like but I’m sure LAG covered their ass. That doesn’t mean they aren’t also trying to mitigate any bad press. Even if they are only affiliates, the pro club is always going to try to avoid news leaks of things like: coaches sleeping with players parents, poor treatment of coaches, poor treatment of players, snake oil salesman rep and worse. Most Motherships get calls and emails from parents about stuff going on. So when they pull affiliations it is usually because they know affiliates are not good for their business/brand. Otherwise they would just keep using the affiliates to keep selling tickets and merch.
 
Can you tell us more about what happen in Texas ? Or how can I have get more info

The Texas Affilate found here:
LiverpoolAmerica.com redirects to a BVB Dortmund affiliate now. on to the new hustle.

interestingly the LinkedIn TX seemed to be the oldest of them all with all the coaches linked to that page. https://www.linkedin.com/company/liverpool-fc-america

In any case you can see generic marketing materials. Nothing big. You can google all the Liverpool FC and read all the other message boards. Just a jersey to sell. Could have easily swapped for Chelsea or any other Euro club pimping their name out
 
Every weekend I see teams playing in Santa Ana wearing fake Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Puma and others.....affiliated? o_O
Theres a team around San Diego that wears a Liga MX shirt, complete with alcoholic sponsoring. Didn't think that was allowed!..
 
And now that marijuana is legal ...
Still Taboo. Know a few companies who wanted to do big sponsorships and have been denied. Even been denied sponsoring small local youth clubs. Only place I saw that has accepted the ads are in Las Vegas - even then it was big enough to hit most media outlets
 

Indoor only, Straight from East LA. Overpriced like most clubs but they do have some LA Kings like swag.

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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...
How is the awards ceremony going? Shiny new toy with some promising improvements coming or just a new branding same toy?
 
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...

Just saw the Liverpool FC "partnership" was confirmed earlier tonight. Our daughter is in the PCA program and this has been the item of discussion for over a month.
 
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