What's happening at Cal South?

lafalafa said:
Rumor has it that AC Brea, Boca OC, Breakers Oceanside, and Golden State FC all will be leaving CSL & CAL South for USclub leagues, DSL, NPL's.

Not sure on the boys side who is still going to be playing CSL/ Cal South next season or how it will all shake out but it's going to be different.
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This is normal - rats running off of sinking ship
 
lafalafa said:
Rumor has it that AC Brea, Boca OC, Breakers Oceanside, and Golden State FC all will be leaving CSL & CAL South for USclub leagues, DSL, NPL's.

Not sure on the boys side who is still going to be playing CSL/ Cal South next season or how it will all shake out but it's going to be different.
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On the Boys side, the interesting thing is that the clubs that have probably supplied the most players to the LA Galaxy and LAFC academies in recent years, as well as a fair number of other clubs playing in the MLS Next league, would still be in CSL, making its Premier division pretty strong (and perhaps the second strongest division in boys socal in a couple of age groups, ahead of everyone but MLS Next). The big one is TFA and some of its affiliates, and there are a few others like Riverside City FC, but there are a ton of smaller clubs like Laguna Academy, Paramount, Orange County United, Puma USA Kickers, that tend to just be vehicles for individual super teams coached by a parent who knows the kids from the neighborhoods - and these are neighborhoods that are full of kids who live and breathe soccer - and gets them out there. These aren't clubs with big technical directors or directors of coaching who are trying to make a living doing this and therefore the attraction of SCDSL isn't as great. They often just have a couple of teams at their kids' age groups that affiliate with a club to meet CSL requirements like Kickers does with Puma USA or many teams do with TFA's affiliates.

That could change. AC Brea has had a younger team that was very strong and Boca OC has had some individual teams like this, but clubs like FC Golden State have long since hollowed out their core program with so many teams in ECNL, ECRL etc. CSL will still have a lock on a lot of boys talent in central LA and other areas north and east at the moment, if for no other reason than geography.
 
Dargle said:
On the Boys side, the interesting thing is that the clubs that have probably supplied the most players to the LA Galaxy and LAFC academies in recent years, as well as a fair number of other clubs playing in the MLS Next league, would still be in CSL, making its Premier division pretty strong (and perhaps the second strongest division in boys socal in a couple of age groups, ahead of everyone but MLS Next). The big one is TFA and some of its affiliates, and there are a few others like Riverside City FC, but there are a ton of smaller clubs like Laguna Academy, Paramount, Orange County United, Puma USA Kickers, that tend to just be vehicles for individual super teams coached by a parent who knows the kids from the neighborhoods - and these are neighborhoods that are full of kids who live and breathe soccer - and gets them out there. These aren't clubs with big technical directors or directors of coaching who are trying to make a living doing this and therefore the attraction of SCDSL isn't as great. They often just have a couple of teams at their kids' age groups that affiliate with a club to meet CSL requirements like Kickers does with Puma USA or many teams do with TFA's affiliates.

That could change. AC Brea has had a younger team that was very strong and Boca OC has had some individual teams like this, but clubs like FC Golden State have long since hollowed out their core program with so many teams in ECNL, ECRL etc. CSL will still have a lock on a lot of boys talent in central LA and other areas north and east at the moment, if for no other reason than geography.
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I dunno how that will all shake out but premier has turned into a shell of its former.

TFA already has two feet out.. Next and EA, third or affiliated teams in CSL. Will they jump the shark?

Fringe circuits and clubs not going away they may grow also it's just if or who they choose to affiliate with or not?
 
timbuck said:
We have promotion and relegation now.
A local, community based team at u9 has some strong players. They have a good season. The ECNL club in town comes out and "promotes" themselves to the 2 best players on the team. The other 9 players are now "relegated" to trying to recruit a few new players to fill those spots. Either from a team that they beat last year in their league or from the "b" team within their same club.

Those 9 decent kids would probably thrive playing with those 2 players who got "the call up" now have an average season. The parents can't figure out why they arent winning every game by 3 goals this year. They see the ECNL club that now has those 2 players is doing well. They hear that ECNL is the best place to be. They hear about that club having an ECNL Regional League and a Flight 1 team, so they go to a "Player Identification" camp to check things out. The big club offers their kid a "Spot" but doesn't say which team. Just "pay your deposit and we'll let you know someday soon."

Lots of people talk about youth sports as promoting "team work" and "work hard values." The current landscape is more about managing change every year and how to deal with something new every 9 months.
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Besides, it sounds cooler to say "Player Identification Camp" VS "tryouts". Just changing the name makes it sound more elite.
 
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