soccerobserver
GOLD
I was wondering... how can this all work? There is already a set of empirical data to examine.In the North LA area, there is an axis of elite soccer that runs from Camarillo through the Valley all the way to Pasadena. The axis is anchored by a big GDA/ECNL club on one end and a new GDA club on the other end and a huge GDA/ECNL club in the middle.
All three are excellent large clubs and regularly place players in the top soccer powerhouse colleges as well as the elite academic college soccer teams. If you look across the leagues they play in...it's striking...even Stevie Wonder would see that none of the them have a highly competitive second team in a given age band. Therefore, the only way this works is if the three can take market share from the other clubs in the area which is something no club in the area has done with a second team in any age group...hopefully for them the DA carrot can induce people the join the second squad but history suggests it will be a wise move but a daunting task.
All three are excellent large clubs and regularly place players in the top soccer powerhouse colleges as well as the elite academic college soccer teams. If you look across the leagues they play in...it's striking...even Stevie Wonder would see that none of the them have a highly competitive second team in a given age band. Therefore, the only way this works is if the three can take market share from the other clubs in the area which is something no club in the area has done with a second team in any age group...hopefully for them the DA carrot can induce people the join the second squad but history suggests it will be a wise move but a daunting task.