Girls' Academy has also been approved to become a U.S. Soccer member!
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Anonymous
Let's look at the facts... 1. The NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman was at a meeting last week with US Soccer 2. US Soccer promoted GA to full membership on Friday 3. ECNL was not involved At a minimum NWSL and GA leadership know each other. However I believe much more is going on. Which we'll find out about later this year. |
Anonymous
| So many know it alls posting they know how this will turn out. Just go back a few years on this forum when DA ended and see how all the geniuses here were wrong. You people know nothing |
Anonymous
GA has had 4 years to study how ECNL works. If you think they haven’t learned from their past mistakes then I don’t know what to tell you. For US SOccer to grant them full membership after the sh!t show DA was, then there is a good reason for it. This also may be a Hail Mary attempt/pr stunt because they are in fact in their death bed if the rumors of club leaving are true. The timing of all of this is just crazy. The same weekend that rumors are spreading was the same weekend they were to be given full membership. Just mind boggling. |
Anonymous
1. So what 2. No more HS soccer for GA 3. Of course not because it’s a big nothing burger What you’ll find out is that ga clubs will have a lot more governance and compliance paperwork and restrict players from participating fully in HS. |
Anonymous
Do you know that to be fact? |
Anonymous
At least GA getting promoted by US Soccer is real. The GA clubs leaving for ECNL rumor was started by two people on X and the clubs rumored to be leaving has changed multiple times. |
Anonymous
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The immediate impact of this isn't likely to be apparent any time soon but you have to think there is some reason behind why GA pursued this and why ECNL has not. One of the biggest issues I have with the ECNL is that there are no enforced standards. It was one of the things the DA had that the ECNL did not (enforced coaching license standards, training environment standards with 4 trainings a week to 1 game session and no parents allowed to view training sessions). Enforcing them did come at a cost as they had to hire a company to audit clubs which probably attributed to USSF deciding to abandon it. I'm sure people that are actually in the know will be able to dissect what this means for the future of the landscape of youth soccer but post fall out of the DA, MLS Next is not on the losing side when it comes to the boys. Big questions on if this is just a piece of the puzzle GA was looking for on their vision moving into what they wanted post DA and what will that look like.
As far as not allowing girls to play HS soccer? Highly unlikely from any of the current member clubs but if this ever turns into something similar to MLS Club Academies in any way then it will happen, particularly for those players in those programs. Those players in MLS Club more often than not are having their costs to participate taken care of fully or partially, the clubs cannot risk exposing those players to the potential of injury in a questionable HS environment. |
Anonymous
Well put statement. I too would like someone that is familiar with what this all means. No one on X and no one on any forum can fully explain what this means. Some folks who feel they “know” say this is just about insurance and being able to create their own GA Rising program. But I believe there is way more than just that. |
Anonymous
| Even if at first it's to save or generate money for themselves rather than another sanctioning body getting paid to card players or insure them, I'd be more inclined to think the GA would find a way to put that back into the league to benefit clubs or players than the ECNL doing that. |
Anonymous
| And just from having guidelines, the benefits of having USSF as a governing body will ensure development, proper facilities, coaching will be much better. That is a great start. |
Anonymous
| I don’t think US SOCCER would’ve granted them full member ship if they didn’t have a plan to beat out ECNL. |
Anonymous
This is the first really wrong post in this tread. There may be a plan. It will not work. Why? ECNL is about college. They could care less about the national teams. 99.9% of elite girls soccer players could care less about playing on the national teams. If it happened, great. But their goal is college. ECNL is selling a product that most want, including parents. GA can't get the high quality people in the numbers needed for the national teams. Maybe in 5-10 years they can. They will not before that. This whole thing is nothing. Of no significance. No ECNL team will move to GA. Ever. Under any circumstances. They saw DA. DA was winning. DA was beting the crap out of ECNL. They quit. No club will take the chance on something like that again if they have a choice. If SYC had the open choice this year between GA and ECNL (on their own not with Union) does anyone think they would have picked GA? Not a chance. |
Anonymous
Think about who potentially benefits. 1. US Soccer gets more players 2. GA gets validation 3. NWSL could implement a homegrown rule and partner with GA and have an equivalent to MLS Next overnight. More important NWSL could lock down youth players before they have a chance to play in USL or other leagues. |
Anonymous
So you really think GAs only goal is YNT and Nwsl and not college? I am pretty positive college is also their main goal. But now that there is a tie to Nwsl, well…you know the rest. It appears that some of you ECNL snobs are refusing to even somewhat understand the significance of it. Are you hurt that no GA teams have announced that they are leaving just yet? |
Anonymous
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I truly don’t understand why people are against GA. Having another strong league provides better business competition between leagues which leads to better products (training, coaches, fees, etc.).
I don’t understand why anyone would want a monopoly, whether it’s ECNL or GA or anything else. |