Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA

Kicker4Life said:
Your spot on. My DD has decided that she wants to stick with her Coac and Club despite a 2nd tier league. she is willing to play in ECRL and has a massive chip on her shoulder to prove a point.

game on! Gonna be ugly!!!
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Best of luck to your DD, she's the real deal. Toughest forward my DD has defended over the last few years. My daughter said the toughest part of defending her was her ability to move off the ball, as a CB not being able to know where she was forced her into having to follow her, not allowing to help out her other defenders as much.

Most forwards were one trick ponies and would go 1 vs 1 but the IQ on Kickers daughter is insane. Regardless of platform, that's why she's on "The List", not for the other reasons certain posters have accused of.

Looking forward to watching her continue to grow. Stay safe!
 
pokergod said:
I agre Hi q a
beach has some really good coaches. But Beach, at the top, used the DA designation as a sword, not a shield. They really, in my opinion, acted terribly toward many people I know. As Iron Mike says, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. They just got rocked with a hook to the chin. Will be interesting to see if they fix their problems and weather this storm. I personally think the next shoe to drop for beach will be the break up of the long beach and south bay clubs.
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I can’t argue with your experience, but I see Beach using this as an opportunity to unify not divide.
 
Technician72 said:
Best of luck to your DD, she's the real deal. Toughest forward my DD has defended over the last few years. My daughter said the toughest part of defending her was her ability to move off the ball, as a CB not being able to know where she was forced her into having to follow her, not allowing to help out her other defenders as much.

Most forwards were one trick ponies and would go 1 vs 1 but the IQ on Kickers daughter is insane. Regardless of platform, that's why she's on "The List", not for the other reasons certain posters have accused of.

Looking forward to watching her continue to grow. Stay safe!
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Thank you!
 
Overtime said:
Are the girls on the former DA teams looking to play HS or pass on that opportunity?
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If the opportunity is there, they will play...I can’t speak for anyone but my DD who is cool with playing HS, but strictly from an social standpoint. We will see what the HS does in terms of a commitment to the Girls program.
 
Kicker4Life said:
If the opportunity is there, they will play...I can’t speak for anyone but my DD who is cool with playing HS, but strictly from an social standpoint. We will see what the HS does in terms of a commitment to the Girls program.
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No CIF Championship to bring to the school? What things would you like to see the girls program do besides get a better coach?
 
El Cap said:
My assumption is that all of the DPL teams from each club become their GAL team. The new teams in GAL will be GDA teams or others that opt in.
Using a club like Legends as an example, perhaps the GDA teams are playing ECRL with the goal of getting into ECNL ASAP, the GAL team is the 2nd team, the DPL team is the 3rd team, etc. Don't know any of this for fact, just speculating. I think that the GAL having more GDA teams committed in addition to WCFC is a good bet.
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Seriously, does no one else think it is dumb to call the league GAL?
 
Technician72 said:
Best of luck to your DD, she's the real deal. Toughest forward my DD has defended over the last few years. My daughter said the toughest part of defending her was her ability to move off the ball, as a CB not being able to know where she was forced her into having to follow her, not allowing to help out her other defenders as much.

Most forwards were one trick ponies and would go 1 vs 1 but the IQ on Kickers daughter is insane. Regardless of platform, that's why she's on "The List", not for the other reasons certain posters have accused of.

Looking forward to watching her continue to grow. Stay safe!
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Tech, is this how your doing "Tech Specs" for 2020? Did you get that "One Trick Pony" from RB? Since I'm the only dad who talks about "The List", the pony can only be my dd. The reason I ask Tech, after my goat left her Blues Pin and played possession for 6 months with her new team, RB came over to talk it up with her coach PD after we won Surf Cup. He said, "Wow, #7 is not a one trick pony anymore." I kid you not so I bet 100% you got that tagline from him or maybe a slow parent who hated it when my dd scored goals when she was 11. I was standing right there and he had no idea I was #7s daddy. I actually hated that and I still do. Its what slow people say when their not fast.
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Today's lesson will be about "The U14 YNT List of 2017." For anyone who is new on here and have no idea what "The List" is, I will be sharing how "The List" and "The Training Centers" were used to try and get "one trick ponies" from one club ((mostly non ECNL Clubs players)) over to their clubs because this new league had the list and you needed to be at a club that is proudly a part of the new Girls Development Academy. Only in this league can you punch your ticket to Hollywood they said, right @pokergod? I feel that is the big rub from clubs who got players stolen back in the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons. GDA bragged and pumped their fists in the air and said, "we are the way, the truth and the life" for the new kind of development soccer. That was 100% true. The List of 2017 is really the only list my dd tried out for. All the other lists she had no interest in. She chose HS in early 2018 and walked away from any list opportunities. The marketing part for the club is what makes the list so valuable, besides the value to the parents and child for future D1 deal. For example, let's say the Sharks had a stud forward that they developed since the goat was 5. Surf recruits the forward and says, "You need to be here because of this and this and that." The forward leaves Shark Pin and makes YNT the next year. How does the Sharks feel? I know EOTL says it's both the Sharks and the stupid parents fault for taking the freebie from surf. Now, the forward is plastered on all online platforms to show all the other parents and friends on FB that they ((The club and GDA)) developed this goat, when in all honesty it was the goat who put in all the training with the help of a coach and a club. For example, the GDA said this about SM,
Sophia Smith Becomes First Girls' Academy Alum Drafted Into NWSL.

She will also be the answer to a new trivia question. Who was the only player to be the first & last player drafted in the NWSL from the GDA? Back to the shark analogy. The Sharks lost their stud player and now others from the area will want to be on the list too. Clubs from the GDA pitched this to the top players. Question, can the Sharks take her image and say, "Were so proud of so and so for making U14 National team. It was because of us she made it though. Without our club, no way she makes the list." No they won;t do that, right? Tech, the list was only used to get one trick ponies ((goats)) from one club with no GDA and to a club with the badge of honor. U14 was not even a team like they preached to me and dd. The List Kickers dd made is not the list I was talking about so were all clear. I have made comments about that list, but nothing about his kid not deserving at all. In fact, I pm kicker and publicly said congrats. Plus, she earned it on the field and with hard work. I just want the facts to be known for all the viewers. My dd was not trying to make any list after the Sept 2017 list or the nexts one after that or if their will ever be ones like before. My dd is not chasing ECNL National Championship, only wants to play against all the top players and teams and see what lady luck in soccer can bring. If theirs one sport where miracles can happen it's girls soccer. She is 100% chasing a CIF HS Soccer championship. The school has zero and it would be cool to get one for her. I will share later about my findings of how this list benefited the GDA clubs with huge growth the last two years, all the while the smaller club is losing customers left and right. In fact, the club that paid for the goat is also trying to buy the little clubs. If you can;t beat them, buy them :)
So I have changed my mine again. All the GDA teams going to ECRL will just have to kick everyone's ass like you did in half the GDA games the last two years. Do that for one more year and then the next year when my dd doesn;t play it can get all sorted out. What a mess all this is.
P.S. Tech. I told my dd about someone on the forum saying she's one trick pony like what RB said. She got a good laugh out of it and so did I and I mean that. No hard feelings at all. Lastly, it's cool your dd got in all those defensive battles with Kickers dd the past few years. Cool memories for the kiddos :)
 
Sunil Illuminati said:
There's literally no other country in the World so vested in creating leagues and clubs to help develop kids who aren't good enough to go pro! Can you imagine any clubs in the rest of the World that are worth their salt touting "We've got kids going to College" Lol. People come on here like they're deciding the future of the game for the rest of the World. Soccer in the US is small potatoes and the USSF and equally at the youth level have been publicly "found out" 10 years too late. Come on people we can do better. Put your kids with the best coaches and lets stop this nonsense
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I just don't see a lot of people wanting their daughters to be pro soccer players. It is seriously a small percentage of that extremely small percentage that does really well financially as a pro women's soccer player. My kid is a pro soccer player and although she is enjoying herself she is aware that soccer right now is a passion more than a career. Her roommate/teammate has already been accepted into law school and is delaying enrolling while she is playing out her dreams and my kid is studying for the LSAT.

Most of these women that make it to the pros are unicorns beyond anything imagineable on the men's side. They not only are talented and dedicated but almost all of them are brilliant and many are well educated. Just imagine if Paul Pogba was also a brilliant scholar and had a graduate degree. Many of our professional women's players have them and are playing more for the love of the game than any sort of financial reward. The NWSL is the most successful women's professional league in terms of attendance in the US yet it is still unfortunately not there yet. My point is that college to most is a great outcome.

Good luck to you and you player.
 
dad4 said:
It is worse than that. Most top teams in the country are going to break up because ECNL wants to kill off the programs at DA clubs.

The da teams break up when top kids leave. The ecnl teams break up to make room for the top da kids.

Kids on both types of teams lose- except for the top 200 kids in the country. They get a more competitive league. The rest go through a lot of bother for nothing.

(And, if you think your kid is in the top 200, take off the parent goggles. Most of us who think that are wrong.)
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Now you are getting it. In the end it won't be the top players that suffer. They will get a better product. It won't be the bottom players that suffer either. It will be the middle players who had parents that thought that they were top players. Those will be the ones who will be getting replaced, unless of course their parents can stroke a big enough check..... Unfortunately that part never changes...
 
timbuck said:
Wouldn’t it be great if the clubs that don’t get to move from DA to ECNL said :
“We are bummed that we didn’t get the golden ticket. We feel that our players deserve to play in this league against the best players. But we realize that too many teams can have a negative impact. We respect the decisions made by ECNL. We will continue to discuss future options with them. We will always encourage our players to choose whatever is best for them. Our teams will focus on playing in our local club league (scdsl/Coast) and we hope to that our local league will have the prestige and competitiveness from 5 years ago. Our club is a founding member of scdsl and we will get back to the roots of why this league was formed.”
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Money?? How would that help them retain players? It is no secret that, right around the time that your older daughter took her first dip into the "club circuit" pool, the founding members started SCDSL so that they could field more than two teams in each age group so that they could sign up more players so they could make more money? How is that an effective sales pitch? In your position, you should know that better than most.
 
pokergod said:
No idea. They tried to get in for a few years. But I think your question is flawed. One gangster went to another gangster to get away from another gangster. WHEN A CRIME IS COMMITTED IN HELL THERE ARE NO ANGELS AS WITNESSES.
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Satan is an angel. An Archangel at that. Your point is taken though.
 
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