MLS Next Academy Division (MLS 2)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did all these new MLS and MLS2 clubs have badges already? Club who have been in the MLS league since inception don't have any for their new players and uniforms.

Your club is struggling with basic administrative functions.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear MLS Next 2 parents,

- We have the same MLS Next patch
- Some are going to MLS Next fest
- We are NAL rebranded and our clubs will have opportunities in the future for promotion if your are with a club whose top team is playing in MLS Next 2
- We should not confuse ourselves with MLS Next Homegrown division (MLS Next 1). We are officially the MLS Next Academy division.
- Clubs are very being very loose in the marketing and not including the 2 in their marketing which does not help and causes confusion.

I have two kids, one in each division, MLS Next 1 and MLS Next 2. I still love them the same. Please don’t take yourself so seriously.

If you have questions about MLS Next 2, post them here please so you are not confused with questions and answers from MLS 1 parents.

who the hell cares except yall chasing a patch. Little to any of these boys will be D1 none the less pro. Both if they want will be mainly D3 and maybe D2.

Our club just joined this new Academy level. We were previously E64 and our best players typically left for MLSN 1 teams because that's just how it worked. The Academy level appears to provide more opportunities for advancement and exposure than E64 and just maybe we'll hang on to our talent a bit longer. If that how it works, it's not chasing a badge, it's doing right by your players by giving them a better opportunity.

No its badge chasing when you complaint that MLSN2 have same badge. Also there is also a difference between an Academy level team vs a team that is in MLSNext. And yea same badge. The vast majority of the players end up in same place.. not playing or D2/D3

The real question isn't about a badge. It's whether MLSN2 will be better than USYS or other options. We're about to find out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dear MLS Next 2 parents,

- We have the same MLS Next patch
- Some are going to MLS Next fest
- We are NAL rebranded and our clubs will have opportunities in the future for promotion if your are with a club whose top team is playing in MLS Next 2
- We should not confuse ourselves with MLS Next Homegrown division (MLS Next 1). We are officially the MLS Next Academy division.
- Clubs are very being very loose in the marketing and not including the 2 in their marketing which does not help and causes confusion.

I have two kids, one in each division, MLS Next 1 and MLS Next 2. I still love them the same. Please don’t take yourself so seriously.

If you have questions about MLS Next 2, post them here please so you are not confused with questions and answers from MLS 1 parents.

who the hell cares except yall chasing a patch. Little to any of these boys will be D1 none the less pro. Both if they want will be mainly D3 and maybe D2.

Our club just joined this new Academy level. We were previously E64 and our best players typically left for MLSN 1 teams because that's just how it worked. The Academy level appears to provide more opportunities for advancement and exposure than E64 and just maybe we'll hang on to our talent a bit longer. If that how it works, it's not chasing a badge, it's doing right by your players by giving them a better opportunity.

No its badge chasing when you complaint that MLSN2 have same badge. Also there is also a difference between an Academy level team vs a team that is in MLSNext. And yea same badge. The vast majority of the players end up in same place.. not playing or D2/D3

The real question isn't about a badge. It's whether MLSN2 will be better than USYS or other options. We're about to find out.

Define better

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Anonymous wrote:Dear MLS Next 2 parents,

- We have the same MLS Next patch
- Some are going to MLS Next fest
- We are NAL rebranded and our clubs will have opportunities in the future for promotion if your are with a club whose top team is playing in MLS Next 2
- We should not confuse ourselves with MLS Next Homegrown division (MLS Next 1). We are officially the MLS Next Academy division.
- Clubs are very being very loose in the marketing and not including the 2 in their marketing which does not help and causes confusion.

I have two kids, one in each division, MLS Next 1 and MLS Next 2. I still love them the same. Please don’t take yourself so seriously.

If you have questions about MLS Next 2, post them here please so you are not confused with questions and answers from MLS 1 parents.

who the hell cares except yall chasing a patch. Little to any of these boys will be D1 none the less pro. Both if they want will be mainly D3 and maybe D2.

Our club just joined this new Academy level. We were previously E64 and our best players typically left for MLSN 1 teams because that's just how it worked. The Academy level appears to provide more opportunities for advancement and exposure than E64 and just maybe we'll hang on to our talent a bit longer. If that how it works, it's not chasing a badge, it's doing right by your players by giving them a better opportunity.

No its badge chasing when you complaint that MLSN2 have same badge. Also there is also a difference between an Academy level team vs a team that is in MLSNext. And yea same badge. The vast majority of the players end up in same place.. not playing or D2/D3

The real question isn't about a badge. It's whether MLSN2 will be better than USYS or other options. We're about to find out.

Define better

Level of competition, college exposure, opportunities for either the club or the player to get to MLSN1 and beyond (or to ECNL, if that makes sense). All these existed for the player before in USYS to varying degrees with some lacking. It's why the club switched.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dear MLS Next 2 parents,

- We have the same MLS Next patch
- Some are going to MLS Next fest
- We are NAL rebranded and our clubs will have opportunities in the future for promotion if your are with a club whose top team is playing in MLS Next 2
- We should not confuse ourselves with MLS Next Homegrown division (MLS Next 1). We are officially the MLS Next Academy division.
- Clubs are very being very loose in the marketing and not including the 2 in their marketing which does not help and causes confusion.

I have two kids, one in each division, MLS Next 1 and MLS Next 2. I still love them the same. Please don’t take yourself so seriously.

If you have questions about MLS Next 2, post them here please so you are not confused with questions and answers from MLS 1 parents.

who the hell cares except yall chasing a patch. Little to any of these boys will be D1 none the less pro. Both if they want will be mainly D3 and maybe D2.

Our club just joined this new Academy level. We were previously E64 and our best players typically left for MLSN 1 teams because that's just how it worked. The Academy level appears to provide more opportunities for advancement and exposure than E64 and just maybe we'll hang on to our talent a bit longer. If that how it works, it's not chasing a badge, it's doing right by your players by giving them a better opportunity.

Just move the better players on. Know where your club stands and what the role of the club is. Biggest issue in the US is this. It is okay to be a feeder club or seller club (if we use European club terminology)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear MLS Next 2 parents,

- We have the same MLS Next patch
- Some are going to MLS Next fest
- We are NAL rebranded and our clubs will have opportunities in the future for promotion if your are with a club whose top team is playing in MLS Next 2
- We should not confuse ourselves with MLS Next Homegrown division (MLS Next 1). We are officially the MLS Next Academy division.
- Clubs are very being very loose in the marketing and not including the 2 in their marketing which does not help and causes confusion.

I have two kids, one in each division, MLS Next 1 and MLS Next 2. I still love them the same. Please don’t take yourself so seriously.

If you have questions about MLS Next 2, post them here please so you are not confused with questions and answers from MLS 1 parents.

who the hell cares except yall chasing a patch. Little to any of these boys will be D1 none the less pro. Both if they want will be mainly D3 and maybe D2.

Our club just joined this new Academy level. We were previously E64 and our best players typically left for MLSN 1 teams because that's just how it worked. The Academy level appears to provide more opportunities for advancement and exposure than E64 and just maybe we'll hang on to our talent a bit longer. If that how it works, it's not chasing a badge, it's doing right by your players by giving them a better opportunity.

Just move the better players on. Know where your club stands and what the role of the club is. Biggest issue in the US is this. It is okay to be a feeder club or seller club (if we use European club terminology)

Sure it's OK to be a feeder club, but it doesn't have to stay that way. Sometimes, the clubs now on top get arrogant, toxic and staid in their ways, too. And when there's only 1 or 2 in your area it's better when mid-levels start to punch up. Disruption can be good.

[Anonymous]

What is USYS? How does that translate for local club level? My U14 just moved from a team that played EDP to an MLSN2 team. This was a good move for him. Loves his coach and his teammates and is working hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is USYS? How does that translate for local club level? My U14 just moved from a team that played EDP to an MLSN2 team. This was a good move for him. Loves his coach and his teammates and is working hard.

EDP is USYS around these parts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is USYS? How does that translate for local club level? My U14 just moved from a team that played EDP to an MLSN2 team. This was a good move for him. Loves his coach and his teammates and is working hard.

Would assume playing EDP he had a player card that said USYS and you must have ignored all the USYS emails

[Anonymous]

Not helpful thanks. So EDP is in USYS but mls next is its own things with its little local umbrella orgs and in our area that’s NAL. So a club can have an NAL pathway and a USYS pathway. Is that right, dckhds?

[Anonymous]

Q about Mlsn2 at the U 13 level.
Can the kids just be subbed in and out as normal? I understand that the coaches required to play the player for at least one full 25 minute segment out of the three segment, can they be subbed in and out freely during the other segments? I know there are structure substitutions as the kids get older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Q about Mlsn2 at the U 13 level.
Can the kids just be subbed in and out as normal? I understand that the coaches required to play the player for at least one full 25 minute segment out of the three segment, can they be subbed in and out freely during the other segments? I know there are structure substitutions as the kids get older.

Looks like U13 allows 2 "moments" per segment, unrestricted. So basically you can sub as many (or as few) as you want on two occasions and unlike older age groups, re-entering during a segment where you've been subbed off is allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not helpful thanks. So EDP is in USYS but mls next is its own things with its little local umbrella orgs and in our area that’s NAL. So a club can have an NAL pathway and a USYS pathway. Is that right, dckhds?

The dckhd is the one who has MLS Next and MLS Next 2 confused while talking schmack

MLSN2 is under local umbrella organizations like NAL