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Anonymous
| BY and SY debates know no holidays. Happy Easter everyone |
Anonymous
Not everyone celebrates Easter |
Anonymous
Doesn't mean someone can't give well wishes, especially if it comes from an honest and good place. We need more goodwill in this world these days. |
Anonymous
TBF debate is pointless…SY won… |
Anonymous
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“There’s a civil war happening in U.S. Soccer, and it’s flying under the radar. At the center of it: MLS NEXT vs. ECNL. And it’s about to impact every club in the country.
U.S. Soccer recently announced that affiliated organizations can now choose between birth year or school year groupings. Sounds like flexibility, right? But what it’s really done is create a national divide that will have long-term consequences until one side eventually wins.”-Kyle Wilson This goes inline with what I heard from my daughter’s club coach. ECNL/MLSN both trying to pull clubs to join their side. That eventually GA will merge with the NWSL and be NWSLN. Both will be a high quality pathway for College recruitment and Pro play. My coach does not believe clubs will be allowed to keep their girls in ECNL if the boys are MLSN. |
Anonymous
| Most girls are on the college pathway. There aren’t a ton of girls that are saying I want to go pro and make 55k per year playing soccer |
Anonymous
Make it more lucrative -- and it IS growing -- and they would/will. |
Anonymous
Like a farmer in a drought saying if it only rained, I could grow crops. |
Anonymous
Some farmers thrive, even in the desert. You also could lament about boys going pro -- although they DO make more. Women make more like men in minor leagues of other sports, like baseball, BUT they make a ton more than women most elsewhere in the world. No need to deride their pro dreams if they choose to pursue them -- just to get there they've excelled in a system designed to make a ton of money off them -- where the true problem therein lies. |
Anonymous
So would you send your U12 daughter to a ECNL club or GA club? |
Anonymous
It's interesting that USYS and US Club formally announced they were switching to SY registration at the end of February. In the two months since, this thread keeps going and going with zero substantive updates. Instead, we get comments about farming. |
Anonymous
Tough question at such a young age, especially not knowing your area and the changing landscape of the leagues. I wouldn’t focus on badge until U15/16 and even then it’s not always a clear answer. Find a club where she can play, develop, and has good coaching. If she’s good in either league she can play in either league. But worry about that later. |
Anonymous
I'd send her to whatever team was had better players, better coaches, and better development within a reasonable commute distance of my house because we're just living our lives out here you know? And thats the thing I think league commissioners don't get. My son plays at an ECNL club because in the city/state where I live ECNL is better than MLS Next except for academy teams (and no one has recruited him to one of those yet) and the ECNL club has, in my opinion, the best program in town. So national pyramid whatever, these decisions are local. |
Anonymous
Most American boys/men will be on the college pathway as well. Only a small group will pass up a college education for the pro life. Things will drastically change if soccer scholarships are removed from college. Many colleges may lose the funding to pay for non revenue sports. |
Anonymous
| Pro soccer for females is a disaster. |