New MLS HG clubs in SoCal for next year

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Lou789

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At great park today a parent was talking about Albion and Laguna United both getting HG next year. When is this decided ? Is it for all age groups if it happens? Won’t this water down the mls next teams with so many clubs in SoCal having a HG and AD team at each age group?
 
Last year around this time I heard a rumor from AYSO United parents they are getting EA. A year later AYSO United is no more. Spreading rumors before tryouts could be a tactic to retain players.
 
Lou789 said:
At great park today a parent was talking about Albion and Laguna United both getting HG next year. When is this decided ? Is it for all age groups if it happens? Won’t this water down the mls next teams with so many clubs in SoCal having a HG and AD team at each age group?
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You already have clubs struggling to make hg and ad rosters so yes adding anyone at this point (even SoCal elite…maybe riverside excepted) would water down competition. Which Albion…riverside might be the only logical pick.
 
Lou789 said:
At great park today a parent was talking about Albion and Laguna United both getting HG next year. When is this decided ? Is it for all age groups if it happens? Won’t this water down the mls next teams with so many clubs in SoCal having a HG and AD team at each age group?
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Per the MLSN site, it is decided at the end of Jan, and communicated sometime in Feb. No idea how they do age group selection, but I'd guess it would be considered per individual team (not all clubs have strong teams at all ages).

Regardless, I also suspect you'll not get any definitive information until MLSN does their announcement; I'd assume any club admins/parents who know are obligated to not say anything before that point.
 
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You already have clubs struggling to make hg and ad rosters so yes adding anyone at this point (even SoCal elite…maybe riverside excepted) would water down competition. Which Albion…riverside might be the only logical pick.
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In December, a Dad whose son plays for Albion SC Santa Ana B13 EA2 told me they (Santa Ana) are getting MLS Next.
 
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In December, a Dad whose son plays for Albion SC Santa Ana B13 EA2 told me they (Santa Ana) are getting MLS Next.
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Albion Santa Ana I think has ea and ea2. It’s also not a great fit because reds and strikers are already in the area, though as I understood it Santa Ana (like Albion la) has been drifting northward towards Long Beach due to facility limitations in Santa Ana. The entire Albion structure is a big mess in Los Angeles…they should just fold La and send the component parts to Santa Monica and Santa Ana.
 
Strikers announced they are getting a second ad division on insta (like when La surf had two ea teams), competing as strikers oc. Strikers is probably the one club you don’t need to worry about dilution with as the second strikers teams is likely to be better than at least 6 of the clubs (including some hg clubs) with existing teams. I presume that means Albion Santa Ana did not get it???

The other one I saw for ad on a list posted on Reddit was the California athletic soccer club. I see the mls logo on their website. If true this is horrible news for the Bulls which has been scattered over the east valley/santa Monica and has struggled to build out three tiers across all its ages. Again not seeing any rhyme nor reason for these decisions. 😳 Iiuc they play on mostly grass fields in SoCal league. It will be another bulls/oaks/juventus situation of having to build out rapidly but this time in the same draw as the hg/ad bulls which is based around gols??? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️. If I have that right this one is probably the biggest head scratcher of them all.
 
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Ps I really don’t understand where casc will get its player base. With juventus at least you had the rationale that bulls migrated to east valley, Santa Monica had been purchased, and to compete with breakers ecnl. With oaks you had sticking it to eagles who had been unable to get ecnl. But casc will be right on top of gols where the bulls train, hemmed in the east by surf la and lasc, hemmed in the west by oaks. Point north to the antelope valley? 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Pps these two moves should forever put a dagger in the idea that service to players in underserved areas is a concern. Chasing parent deep pockets (now it looks like for parents chasing the high school varsity teams) and facilities.
 
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