Say bye-bye-bye to Girls and Boys DA

lafalafa said:
That can't or won't do that because there simply too many unknowns.

With MLS cutting back expensive, airlines going broke, clubs without income there is no model of any youth travel leagues to exist at the moment.

ECNL is in no better position than DA or xyz league, it's all speculation. Until you eat in a restaurant or just go to the park nothing is going to be happen with youth soccer. Schools will not be giving out permits to train until the health risks are contained.
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BS!!! You can stay home with that attitude....whatever dude!!!
 
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Ellejustus said:
No, not fair and not fun. I say just for the olders, say 9th grade and up and start learning about home and away games and travel. ECNL is prepping your dd for college, not just local games. Again, I'm talking about big time club soccer where all the top top players are playing.
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Rubbish. There is no reason SoCal families should prop up clubs in weaker regions. If a region can’t support its own high level league, they should go where it exists if they want it that badly. GDA was doomed to fail in part for this reason. USSF tried to make the parents of clubs in strong soccer regions spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in unnecessary travel to subsidize the development of kids in weak regions.

The US is a big place whether you like it or not, and not everyone gets to be a great soccer player, especially if they live in areas where the weather and lack of population don’t cooperate. If you want to live in Salt Lake City, be a skier. If you want to live in Minnesota, be a hockey player. If you live in LV or Phoenix, do whatever it is kids do when it’s 115 degrees outside. If you live in SoCal, spend the $6 in gas money to play the other excellent teams just down the road, and use the 6 hours you would have spent traveling to Phoenix for league games getting better at soccer, taking piano lessons, or doing something else more productive than watching the cactus go by from the back of the car.
 
chiefs said:
Just stay home with your kid. We will be playing. Simple.
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(smh) Games (or even practices) are organized by orgs, which provide insurance etc - without that, there are no games because there are no facilities. If social distancing rules from local, state or national govt are in place, no org will get insurance and by extension facilities and so no games etc. So you can play away on some private facility, but not in a club team nor in an organized league.
 
Desert Hound said:
Well here is what has to happen now. These rumors are ALL over the country. Soccerwire had an opinion piece, the various forums are talking about it, and clubs are emailing their players/parents trying to reassure them.

So since bad news is flowing out there, US Soccer has to respond now. So if they are continuing on, it is easy to put out a release saying the rumors are completely false. Right?
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If there wasn't at least a grain of truth to the rumors, there would be plenty of people from the Federation willing to loudly go on record and set it straight. That would have happened immediately and been included in the Soccerwire piece. It didn't happen. Given the wildfire that's raging nationwide with the rumor, I have to imagine there would have been a release from US Soccer on Friday (certainly by first thing this morning) debunking the rumors. That hasn't happened.

So either US Soccer is completely and entirely incompetent and irresponsible in letting this sit out there, or there is truth to the speculation.
 
timmyh said:
If there wasn't at least a grain of truth to the rumors, there would be plenty of people from the Federation willing to loudly go on record and set it straight. That would have happened immediately and been included in the Soccerwire piece. It didn't happen. Given the wildfire that's raging nationwide with the rumor, I have to imagine there would have been a release from US Soccer on Friday (certainly by first thing this morning) debunking the rumors. That hasn't happened.

So either US Soccer is completely and entirely incompetent and irresponsible in letting this sit out there, or there is truth to the speculation.
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I learnt if there is a smoke, it must be a fire. It's coming......
 
Ellejustus said:
I like that. June 13th or July 13th or July 4th??? It's time to just go play and take our chances. If i sit in my house I won;t get killed but whats the point on being on this planet? Trump will tell us to go work and it will be rolled out slowly. Mask life, get used to it. Gavin might want parts of Cali to stay home longer. Cal South will want the kids out playing. Let the kids go play under safe conditions. There not at that much risk folks.
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Always remember, viruses mutate, EVERY YEAR! That is why the vaccine is redone every year. As a virus mutates it can infect different populations differently. We have to be extremely careful to protect our youth! If the second wave hits in the fall, which experts are saying can happen, we don't know who it might affect. This particular virus has so many unknowns. A large biotech company is close to having an antiviral available after phase one trials, they are waiting for FDA approval to mass release it. It might be prudent to wait until it is widely available before our kids start playing with teams again.
 
timmyh said:
If there wasn't at least a grain of truth to the rumors, there would be plenty of people from the Federation willing to loudly go on record and set it straight. That would have happened immediately and been included in the Soccerwire piece. It didn't happen. Given the wildfire that's raging nationwide with the rumor, I have to imagine there would have been a release from US Soccer on Friday (certainly by first thing this morning) debunking the rumors. That hasn't happened.

So either US Soccer is completely and entirely incompetent and irresponsible in letting this sit out there, or there is truth to the speculation.
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Actually soccerwire did go on record with a Fed source.

A Federation source has told SoccerWire that the current 2019-2020 DA season is “likely” to be canceled soon due to the repercussions of the COVID-19 crisis, though no announcements are imminent over Easter weekend. The DA’s long-term fate? That appears to be up in the air at the moment.
 
Soccerfan2 said:
His post was after Glen Crooks’ tweet.
Does anyone have any source of information that is directly from US Soccer and did not originally come from this tweet?
The tweet refers to rumblings - that means the tweeter does not have first hand information. Coaches were talking a couple days before the tweet, so where did that talk come from?
Where’s the first hand information?
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My post had nothing to do with Glenn's post. I didn't even know about that until someone else posted it. I know people who know people in low places.
 
Ellejustus said:
I spoke to some high ups but not at the highest of ups and they said they heard nothing about this GDA league crashing & burning. This Glenn guy started some rumor and we just don't have any clue yet on those meetings. Time to get all this out fast, not the old slow drip game these wise guys played on us 3 years ago. Always waited until the very last minute to lets us know about the future. I would appreciate some openness here.
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Crashing and burning does not describe the league or the players, more like the management team at the very top level. I realize there are a lot of bitter parents and players out there, but let's be real. We have played both in ECNL and DA. The DA league has been great for dd in terms of level of play, safety of play, college coach exposure and fun.
 
chiefs said:
Let’s be honest with Data: in California someone has a better chance of passing away driving to the soccer fields. Or crossing the street.
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Except that my decision to cross the street does not change the risk for a car accident 20 miles away.

It is different with infectious disease. My decision to go to a party *does* increase the probability of someone else getting sick 20 miles away and 2 weeks later.

Open it all up today, and you won't notice any increase in deaths tonight.

But, if you open it all up, one to three months from now, LA will look like Italy or New York City. (This is why the IMHE projections have the bar at the top saying they assume social distancing policies are kept through May.)
 
azsnowrider said:
Actually soccerwire did go on record with a Fed source.

A Federation source has told SoccerWire that the current 2019-2020 DA season is “likely” to be canceled soon due to the repercussions of the COVID-19 crisis, though no announcements are imminent over Easter weekend. The DA’s long-term fate? That appears to be up in the air at the moment.
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Fair enough. I missed that. So the official stance from US Soccer as of last Friday on whether or not the DA/GDA will exist next year is that "it's up in the air." Interesting, and most definitely not a denial.
 
sirfootyalot said:
If you know anyone with the USSF, they will tell you, or neither deny or confirm it :)
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I do know someone with USSF and that person told our DOC last Thursday that it is just a rumor. I still have yet to hear one single person report who at USSF said anything different. If someone knows something real, please say it.
So who do you know and what did they say??
 
timmyh said:
If there wasn't at least a grain of truth to the rumors, there would be plenty of people from the Federation willing to loudly go on record and set it straight. That would have happened immediately and been included in the Soccerwire piece. It didn't happen. Given the wildfire that's raging nationwide with the rumor, I have to imagine there would have been a release from US Soccer on Friday (certainly by first thing this morning) debunking the rumors. That hasn't happened.

So either US Soccer is completely and entirely incompetent and irresponsible in letting this sit out there, or there is truth to the speculation.
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I do agree with not understanding why USSF wouldn’t put it down immediately because the rumor itself is going to do damage even if it’s not true.
 
espola said:
Based on what?

California Car Accident Death Statistics. More than 32,000 people die every year in car accidents.
Pedestrians made up 22 percent of all California vehicle-related fatalities during that period–in the nation as a whole that was 14.2 percent. All of it is too high.Jun 19, 2019
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whatithink said:
(smh) Games (or even practices) are organized by orgs, which provide insurance etc - without that, there are no games because there are no facilities. If social distancing rules from local, state or national govt are in place, no org will get insurance and by extension facilities and so no games etc. So you can play away on some private facility, but not in a club team nor in an organized league.
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That makes sense, but if you don't open soon, there will be no organizations around to provide revenue to the insurance company, or facilities. It will all fold up.
 
Copa9 said:
What else goes away?? A lot of ECNL current players being replaced by DA players and some DPL players.
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Unless they expand the league and go 2 tier.

Of course, that risks the possibility that a club's top team in a bad year has to play in tier 2. (Horrors!)
 
Do you think these people know what is going on?

ECNL Officers
President: Christian Lavers
Vice President: Doug Bracken (Ohio Elite)
Secretary & Treasurer: Jason Dewhurst (FC Stars of MA)
 
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