GA & MLS NEXT Form Strategic Alliance
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Anonymous
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MLS NEXT announces strategic alliance with Girls Academy to enhance player development and grow the sport in North America.
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Anonymous
| This is nothing new. |
Anonymous
| Yawn... |
Anonymous
| This changes everything. Wake up. |
Anonymous
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Interesting - PR says that top GA teams will be included in the 2025 Generation Adidas Cup as well as other showcase events...
Plus usually other blah, blah about coaching education, programming, etc. IMO, not just a yawn, but not a seismic shift either. |
Anonymous
| Denial denial |
Anonymous
What will girls teams attending the generation Adidas cup do? |
Anonymous
If they're partnering to run showcases to include MLSN and GA clubs, maybe it's interesting? But the college game is so different from the men's side to the women's side, not sure how it would be helpful. The only game changing announcement would be an MLSN style academy system for females, which with how the CBA is now and no draft, in order for the NWSL to continue to grow they really should begin thinking about implementing it for real player development. |
Anonymous
| It’s a start. Now you wonder what teams with ECNL girls and MLS Next will do. |
Anonymous
| Why would women want to be part of MLS anything? |
Anonymous
Footprint |
Anonymous
But Colleges are also mostly recruiting from MLS Next…. |
Anonymous
For the men's programs, which again, they're not one and the same with women's and sometimes schools don't have both. It's not like them running showcases would save schools money on recruiting trips. MLSN's largest appeal is prepping for the pros first and foremost, collegiate play is second tier, where does that leave GA with no official pathway to the pros for females yet? Until that happens and NWSL makes a statement, nothing changes. |
Anonymous
MLSN needed a girl's partner to stay birth year. GA just happy for the attention and to be invited for a dance and something to differentiate themselves from ECNL by staying birth year. Not going to work but there is pressure to do something from GA. Makes sense. |
Anonymous
| Let this play out. A lot of chess pieces being played here. ECNL may come take the rest of the big clubs. If not, they are in trouble. |