New Additions to Leagues Check Up (ECNL & GA)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There is room and enough $$$ for two leagues to co-exist. They just need to differentiate with different offerings and customers will choose the best option for them. Plenty of areas for differentiation whether it be around college recruiting, development philosophy, cost, geography and travel requirements, associations with professional leagues MLS, NWSL, etc. Competition is good. There are usually at least two main competitors in any market. A single dominant league is good for no one.

How do these youth leagues work in countries like Germany or Spain?
I wonder if they have multiple competing "top leagues."

I wonder..

most countries don't have leagues or the "club system" like us. They have academies at each age level built up and attached to their local pro teams.

Oh, you mean no competition outside of the academy system. Got it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rangers are good.

This is huge for GA in Socal.

It is not. Ranger is not a strong club. At most the girls can get RL and that is it. West Coast is better than them, and still a very low level team in ECNL stadnard.

Lmao? What standard?

Go look at half of the ECNL clubs. They are horrible

My kid's RL team beat Ranger 5:0. In Socal, top GA team City is at most lower bottom ECNL team. City usually places their GA team in a lower bracket to play against Surf RL team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rangers are good.

This is huge for GA in Socal.

It is not. Ranger is not a strong club. At most the girls can get RL and that is it. West Coast is better than them, and still a very low level team in ECNL stadnard.

Lmao? What standard?

Go look at half of the ECNL clubs. They are horrible

My kid's RL team beat Ranger 5:0. In Socal, top GA team City is at most lower bottom ECNL team. City usually places their GA team in a lower bracket to play against Surf RL team.

Sounds like you're talking about youngers and local tournaments.

Tournament directors choose level and placement in the tournament. Club directors can provide feedback but ultimately it's the Tournament directors decision.

Also City olders top teams typically don't play in local tournaments other than Surf Cup.

I highly doubt your RL team played a GA top team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rangers are good.

This is huge for GA in Socal.

It is not. Ranger is not a strong club. At most the girls can get RL and that is it. West Coast is better than them, and still a very low level team in ECNL stadnard.

Lmao? What standard?

Go look at half of the ECNL clubs. They are horrible

My kid's RL team beat Ranger 5:0. In Socal, top GA team City is at most lower bottom ECNL team. City usually places their GA team in a lower bracket to play against Surf RL team.

Sounds like you're talking about youngers and local tournaments.

Tournament directors choose level and placement in the tournament. Club directors can provide feedback but ultimately it's the Tournament directors decision.

Also City olders top teams typically don't play in local tournaments other than Surf Cup.

I highly doubt your RL team played a GA top team.

Wrong, they lost to 2 RL teams at their own Rangers Cup...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rangers are good.

This is huge for GA in Socal.

It is not. Ranger is not a strong club. At most the girls can get RL and that is it. West Coast is better than them, and still a very low level team in ECNL stadnard.

Lmao? What standard?

Go look at half of the ECNL clubs. They are horrible

My kid's RL team beat Ranger 5:0. In Socal, top GA team City is at most lower bottom ECNL team. City usually places their GA team in a lower bracket to play against Surf RL team.

Sounds like you're talking about youngers and local tournaments.

Tournament directors choose level and placement in the tournament. Club directors can provide feedback but ultimately it's the Tournament directors decision.

Also City olders top teams typically don't play in local tournaments other than Surf Cup.

I highly doubt your RL team played a GA top team.

Wrong, they lost to 2 RL teams at their own Rangers Cup...

So, you're saying Rangers teams (you don't know which level) playing at a Rangers tournament lost to 2 RL teams before they joined GA. Does that sound right?

And somehow City SC slipped into your discussion?

I think 2 things...
1. You're a ulittle parent
2. You're trying to elevate an RL team

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rangers are good.

This is huge for GA in Socal.

It is not. Ranger is not a strong club. At most the girls can get RL and that is it. West Coast is better than them, and still a very low level team in ECNL stadnard.

Lmao? What standard?

Go look at half of the ECNL clubs. They are horrible

My kid's RL team beat Ranger 5:0. In Socal, top GA team City is at most lower bottom ECNL team. City usually places their GA team in a lower bracket to play against Surf RL team.

Speaking of cali. Is tudela in ga or definitely joining ga or neither? Seems like they harvest some talent in that group

[Anonymous]

Friday BOOMS! on the way

[Anonymous]

love that this forum always blasts out how bad the bottom of the ecnl is....have you looked at the bottom of the ga?? teams ranked in the 2000's and lower. Rec teams, brah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:love that this forum always blasts out how bad the bottom of the ecnl is....have you looked at the bottom of the ga?? teams ranked in the 2000's and lower. Rec teams, brah

Hopefully Aspire and dpl will fix that. Good Aspire teams up, bad ga down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friday BOOMS! on the way

Cadence of booms has the ECNL hats shook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friday BOOMS! on the way

Cadence of booms has the ECNL hats shook.

Naw, they are too busy at work to pay for their showcase airplane tickets to Phoenix and weekends in Charlotte

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:love that this forum always blasts out how bad the bottom of the ecnl is....have you looked at the bottom of the ga?? teams ranked in the 2000's and lower. Rec teams, brah

Hopefully Aspire and dpl will fix that. Good Aspire teams up, bad ga down

The bottom will always be the bottom. These clubs don’t play and sell players. It’s the same players moving clubs.

[Anonymous]

ECNL hats are preparing to go to SD as 6th seeds. All about the experience!!! Oh and 1000s college coaches at field 135b!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friday BOOMS! on the way

Cadence of booms has the ECNL hats shook.

Naw, they are too busy at work to pay for their showcase airplane tickets to Phoenix and weekends in Charlotte

You know 3 of the GA's total events are in Norco, California, right? Unlike ECNL that has a ton to chose from at least..

U12-U14 West Regional
GA Winter Showcase
GA Playoffs

Other Events:
GA Champions Cup - Florida
GA Spring Showcase - North Carolina
GA Final 4 - Virginia


All of youth soccer is expensive, you look silly comparing two leagues that do the same thing. Winter months you have to go to warmer climates to play showcases, and that unfortunately for a lot of the country means flights. Reality.

And if you think this is expensive.. check out youth Hockey...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ECNL hats are preparing to go to SD as 6th seeds. All about the experience!!! Oh and 1000s college coaches at field 135b!

Better than going as a 6th seed to GA playoffs, where 4 college coaches will be on field 78C

Reminder that GA is now larger than ECNL.. have fun with those fields