Yes, I know about Legend NTP, also NTP from WestCoast, and LA Galaxy.
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Yes, I know about Legend NTP, also NTP from WestCoast, and LA Galaxy.
The 04 Quake team was almost completely made up of NTP, very hard to beat.
I think if a player had Interest to join MVLA, it would be a no brainier for the coach to displace a current player.
Lionel Hutz
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Before the GDA was created, the 04 Quakes teams was the DeAnza Force 04 team. Both rosters have remained mostly the same from then until now, with very few changes. Back when they played each other, the MVLA team beat that team repeatedly and consistently. I just took a look at the current MVLA roster, and 16 of the girls remain from years ago when they never lost an important competition to the players on the current Quakes team. Having NTP on a resume looks great, but that isn't going to automatically get you a spot and knock of a player who's consistently outperformed you on an even playing field.
A little bit of both and sprinkled with YNT players from other clubs I wont name. This will be the #1 team in the country hands down at the U17.
Yes, your partially correct.
Being a NTP looks good on paper, I would think that player would shine during tryout. Then again it all depends on what the coach is looking for.
Soccerfan2
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1/3 of the players at the March U15 YNT camp were not from DA.
There’s no question ECNL was being discriminated. 1 YNT event had 6 Earthquakes girls and 0 MVLA girls.
Now with a level playing field, the call-ups will have much more validity. And, not doubting that most of those girls deserved it and will be called back.
There were ECNL players in England in Feb.
There were 4 ECNL players and 16 DA players in England. That seems to prove @Anon9's point. The year before, the NT for that age group had 1 ECNL player and the rest were DA.
Doubting whether Quakes girls deserved it is exactly what you are doing. In one sentence, you’re claiming it was “discriminatory” that Quakes had 6 and MVLA none, and the next you’re claiming that you’re not doubting they deserved it.
youthsportsugh
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There were, but 16 of the 20 were from the DA (I think). It had definitely skewed toward DA clubs in the last couple of years. Out of the 60 girls at the January U14, 50 of them were DA. You also saw a lot of the same clubs over and over.
youthsportsugh
SILVER ELITE
You can do both by using arguably the top 2 teams in their respective leagues. To have 6 girls from the top DA team and 0 from the top ECNL team (which before the DA split hadn't really lost to that DA team) would show some discrimination. Then you can follow that up with the I am sure those 6 girls are excellent and will probably be called back. Not sure if that is what was meant, but the 2 are not mutually exclusive.
I think it is also important to look back to the 2018 CONCACAF tournament roster and see how many were returning by league. By my rudimentary count:
ECNL
1 returning
3 new
DA (important to note that many of the girls played for Clubs that at the time had DA and ECNL, these players went DA)
10 returning
6 new
Definitely not even numbers but a lot to take into consideration when you are looking at positional needs, etc. when selecting teams. I don’t have a count on how many ECNL girls were called into the Florida camp in January, but I don’t think it deviates from the numbers above by much of anything.
Oh lord. Stop rationalizing. Claiming that 6 Quakes girls and 0 MVLA is “discriminatory”, and that “most”, but not all, of the Quakes girls should get called back by it’s very nature means that the guy doubts that Quakes girls deserved it.
When you look at the roster for the Florida camp, the DA bias looks even worse. 4 ECNL players and 24 DA players. Every single ECNL player from the Florida camp made the final roster for England.
The YNT was essentially a DA all star team with a few ringers from ECNL.
Of course, making the DA all star team is one heck of an accomplishment. Those girls have every right to be proud.
But it is not a basis for DA/ECNL comparisons. Not that we need those anyway.
No comment......lol!!!! Bro, let it go......it's all over and it's time to look ahead to the future. Timing is everything on this planet and being at the right club at the right time made all the difference for many players. I'm happy for all who made The Lists over the last three years or so. It's a great accomplishment. Now, no more list for anyone with little U14 players whose parents are sold the chance to be on the U14 National team. That was not a fair process and frankly, was stupid to pitch that to us parents. The docs used it as way to manipulate families and boy, some of them did. It a business Kicker and we were in the middle of the market share war. Many clubs used the YNT carrot as way to entice players to their clubs from other clubs who were not invited to the GDA party. I watch one top goat after another leave their current club to go to GDA and The List. Now, some are going to ECNL and the exposure for what this has always been about. Access to college bro. Make the list, better access.
and then they tried to get some of the ECNL players over to GDA. That is fact. "Sally, you need to be over here where true world class development is taking place." Hog wash!!!
I’m not arguing the bias....actually somewhat supporting that it existed.....nothing to let go of.