GA & MLS NEXT Form Strategic Alliance

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL didn’t repost/share the news about Kang’s investment…The GA did…..let that sink in for a sec

Kang does not have tons of money! This will not be a new hit every year.

You clearly did not do any research on it. You just want to come on here and naysay. The money isn't straight out of Michelle Kang's pocket.

She may have made a donation, i assume she did, but others have donated too. It is reported that Arthur Blank gave a sizeable donation. He is worth almost $10 billion. As long as there are people like Mr. Blank willing to help fund girls and womens sports, the money will keep flowing.

I will go this far. If the teams were owned by Arthur Blank types then you could be on to something. But for the most part they are not. Kang is rich. Not Blank rich. New Boston team owners have money but not crazy stupid money. KC is owned by Chris Long and Mahomes. Mahomes is on his way to stupid money and he would likely be there but Chris long does not have stupid money. This could all work but for the next bunch of years the money is not there.

I will make one point on Blank. I think he would put the money up but he is only going to do it if he thinks this could work. He would have to be convinced this is just not throwing money away. I doubt we are there yet.

Chicago Red Stars are owned by Laura Ricketts, her family is worth over $5 billion. Jennifer Pritzker is a co-owner and from one of the wealthiest families in America. She's a billionaire in her own right.

Lead owner of Gotham is Jennifer Tisch Blodgett. She's a daughter of the family who.owns the NY Giants. Her dad is a billionaire and won't live forever.

San Diego Wave. is owned by Levine Leichtman family-billionaires

Bay F.C. is backed by Sixth Street

Zygi Wilf, owner of Orlando Pride, is you guessed it, a billionaire.

Billionaire Marc Lasry is/was reported to be interested in buying Courage. However, he has sexual assault allegations against. It remains to be seen if the sale will go through. It may already have been turned down.

The money is there in this league. The days of rather wealthy people buying these women's soccer teams are over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL didn’t repost/share the news about Kang’s investment…The GA did…..let that sink in for a sec

Kang does not have tons of money! This will not be a new hit every year.

You clearly did not do any research on it. You just want to come on here and naysay. The money isn't straight out of Michelle Kang's pocket.

She may have made a donation, i assume she did, but others have donated too. It is reported that Arthur Blank gave a sizeable donation. He is worth almost $10 billion. As long as there are people like Mr. Blank willing to help fund girls and womens sports, the money will keep flowing.

I will go this far. If the teams were owned by Arthur Blank types then you could be on to something. But for the most part they are not. Kang is rich. Not Blank rich. New Boston team owners have money but not crazy stupid money. KC is owned by Chris Long and Mahomes. Mahomes is on his way to stupid money and he would likely be there but Chris long does not have stupid money. This could all work but for the next bunch of years the money is not there.

I will make one point on Blank. I think he would put the money up but he is only going to do it if he thinks this could work. He would have to be convinced this is just not throwing money away. I doubt we are there yet.

Chicago Red Stars are owned by Laura Ricketts, her family is worth over $5 billion. Jennifer Pritzker is a co-owner and from one of the wealthiest families in America. She's a billionaire in her own right.

Lead owner of Gotham is Jennifer Tisch Blodgett. She's a daughter of the family who.owns the NY Giants. Her dad is a billionaire and won't live forever.

San Diego Wave. is owned by Levine Leichtman family-billionaires

Bay F.C. is backed by Sixth Street

Zygi Wilf, owner of Orlando Pride, is you guessed it, a billionaire.

Billionaire Marc Lasry is/was reported to be interested in buying Courage. However, he has sexual assault allegations against. It remains to be seen if the sale will go through. It may already have been turned down.

The money is there in this league. The days of rather wealthy people buying these women's soccer teams are over.

Funny that you the Ricketts and Wilf. Ask cubs and vikings fans whether or not they are cheap owners

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GA>ECNL. GA forever.

I'll take Acadamies over pay to play.

Hopefully this is the direction GA is looking to go.

Sure, everybody wants someone else to pay their way but where would GA get the money to offer free soccer to thousands of girls?

This is all you ever say.

It's going to be fun watching to come to grips with the reality going on around you.

If the barrier to GA offering free soccer like MLS Academies is money, focus on what would solve the barrier and don't just dream it away.

Kang's $30 million over 5 years is going to USSF to fund what they should have already funded, not to start an NWSL Next or give cash to an endowment fund for GA or ECNL.

I'm not pro or anti GA or ECNL but if some wants a catalyst for change, it's going to cost money.

I have a feeling there's a reason you don't run a soccer league. Sports might not be your thing. Maybe try accounting.

Maybe start with this --- let's say there are acadamies. How many? One per NWSL team? What about all of the other GA teams? They fold? If only 1 per NWSL team -- that it about $25 million a year. Where does that come from? Even if that happens and let's say 20 girls on each team -- that is 280 per age group. But there are thousands of girls in GA and ECNL in each age group. Where would they play? ECNL I guess. Not all of the top girls will go. For some parents just too far to drive. Others have busy lives and no time to be that devoted. I agree you will shift a numbert of the top girls. And maybe you create elite teams but there would not be anywhere near enough girls to satisfy college needs which is really true if a number of these girls would go pro. At the end of the day you create a new elite but it does not really change anything. And back to the money -- where is it coming from?

NP. Where earth did you come up with $25million per year to run an NWLS academy? Also, we have MLS academies who also play MLS Next Academies, it works fine. The MLS academies do not provide the players with room and board, just training, coaching, equipment and a location to train. You could ease into an NWLS style academy for $300k per year on the low end to get things going. Sponsorships and NWLS team kickbacks could get their arms around those numbers and they would continue to build from there by selling home grown players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ECNL didn’t repost/share the news about Kang’s investment…The GA did…..let that sink in for a sec

Kang does not have tons of money! This will not be a new hit every year.

You clearly did not do any research on it. You just want to come on here and naysay. The money isn't straight out of Michelle Kang's pocket.

She may have made a donation, i assume she did, but others have donated too. It is reported that Arthur Blank gave a sizeable donation. He is worth almost $10 billion. As long as there are people like Mr. Blank willing to help fund girls and womens sports, the money will keep flowing.

I will go this far. If the teams were owned by Arthur Blank types then you could be on to something. But for the most part they are not. Kang is rich. Not Blank rich. New Boston team owners have money but not crazy stupid money. KC is owned by Chris Long and Mahomes. Mahomes is on his way to stupid money and he would likely be there but Chris long does not have stupid money. This could all work but for the next bunch of years the money is not there.

I will make one point on Blank. I think he would put the money up but he is only going to do it if he thinks this could work. He would have to be convinced this is just not throwing money away. I doubt we are there yet.

Chicago Red Stars are owned by Laura Ricketts, her family is worth over $5 billion. Jennifer Pritzker is a co-owner and from one of the wealthiest families in America. She's a billionaire in her own right.

Lead owner of Gotham is Jennifer Tisch Blodgett. She's a daughter of the family who.owns the NY Giants. Her dad is a billionaire and won't live forever.

San Diego Wave. is owned by Levine Leichtman family-billionaires

Bay F.C. is backed by Sixth Street

Zygi Wilf, owner of Orlando Pride, is you guessed it, a billionaire.

Billionaire Marc Lasry is/was reported to be interested in buying Courage. However, he has sexual assault allegations against. It remains to be seen if the sale will go through. It may already have been turned down.

The money is there in this league. The days of rather wealthy people buying these women's soccer teams are over.

Funny that you the Ricketts and Wilf. Ask cubs and vikings fans whether or not they are cheap owners

"Cheap" in MLB and NFL terms are different to NWSL. Wilf just won an NWSL title. I'd imagine Pride supporters will give him a little grace.

'Funny that you"offered nothing more than what you did as a reply and even then couldn't make a coherent sentence.

[Anonymous]

Looks like Denver is the next expansion. 105-120M expansion fee, highest of any professional us womens sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Denver is the next expansion. 105-120M expansion fee, highest of any professional us womens sports.

It would not surprise me if Stan Kroenke was interested. He may not be, but if he were, it would make sense.

[Anonymous]

Congrats! This thread made DCU Mom's most active thread headline! Woot! Well done poster's!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congrats! This thread made DCU Mom's most active thread headline! Woot! Well done poster's!

You can thank the nearly 500 page age thread for making this one of the go to places for generic youth soccer discussion on big topics. Good for Jeff since at least there's the smallest amount of moderation before it completely devolves into fights aka TS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GA>ECNL. GA forever.

I'll take Acadamies over pay to play.

Hopefully this is the direction GA is looking to go.

Sure, everybody wants someone else to pay their way but where would GA get the money to offer free soccer to thousands of girls?

This is all you ever say.

It's going to be fun watching to come to grips with the reality going on around you.

If the barrier to GA offering free soccer like MLS Academies is money, focus on what would solve the barrier and don't just dream it away.

Kang's $30 million over 5 years is going to USSF to fund what they should have already funded, not to start an NWSL Next or give cash to an endowment fund for GA or ECNL.

I'm not pro or anti GA or ECNL but if some wants a catalyst for change, it's going to cost money.

I have a feeling there's a reason you don't run a soccer league. Sports might not be your thing. Maybe try accounting.

Maybe start with this --- let's say there are acadamies. How many? One per NWSL team? What about all of the other GA teams? They fold? If only 1 per NWSL team -- that it about $25 million a year. Where does that come from? Even if that happens and let's say 20 girls on each team -- that is 280 per age group. But there are thousands of girls in GA and ECNL in each age group. Where would they play? ECNL I guess. Not all of the top girls will go. For some parents just too far to drive. Others have busy lives and no time to be that devoted. I agree you will shift a numbert of the top girls. And maybe you create elite teams but there would not be anywhere near enough girls to satisfy college needs which is really true if a number of these girls would go pro. At the end of the day you create a new elite but it does not really change anything. And back to the money -- where is it coming from?

NP. Where earth did you come up with $25million per year to run an NWLS academy? Also, we have MLS academies who also play MLS Next Academies, it works fine. The MLS academies do not provide the players with room and board, just training, coaching, equipment and a location to train. You could ease into an NWLS style academy for $300k per year on the low end to get things going. Sponsorships and NWLS team kickbacks could get their arms around those numbers and they would continue to build from there by selling home grown players.

Selling homegrown players to whom? Each other? Average MLS salaries 7x that of MLS, https://www.essentiallysports.com/soccer-football-news-nwsl-salaries-how-much-do-female-soccer-stars-earn-in-us/.

[Anonymous]

What is the actual link between the girls Academy and NWSL? There doesn’t seem to be anything other than girls Academy parents trying to speak it into existence. Nwsl and MLS don’t have anything to do with each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the actual link between the girls Academy and NWSL? There doesn’t seem to be anything other than girls Academy parents trying to speak it into existence. Nwsl and MLS don’t have anything to do with each other.

Ok keep telling yourself that.

[Anonymous]

Trying to out the trolls in the forest without seeing the treess my friend

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What is the actual link between the girls Academy and NWSL? There doesn’t seem to be anything other than girls Academy parents trying to speak it into existence. Nwsl and MLS don’t have anything to do with each other.

Ok keep telling yourself that.

When NWSL teams start having mini ID camps for youth players, will it not exclusively be for GA players?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the actual link between the girls Academy and NWSL? There doesn’t seem to be anything other than girls Academy parents trying to speak it into existence. Nwsl and MLS don’t have anything to do with each other.

Ok keep telling yourself that.

When NWSL teams start having mini ID camps for youth players, will it not exclusively be for GA players?

As has been mentioned several times already in this thread, NWSL isn't the ultimate goal for my daughter unless she ends up at USWNT level in a couple years. ECNL realizes this on the girl's side. There is no clamoring for a pro pathway on the girls side.

[Anonymous]

No one will go according to you, cause who wants to encourage their DD to chase their professional soccer dreams, they have kickball college factory university as the alternative all lined up with ECNL hats