GA & MLS NEXT Form Strategic Alliance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems like other forums are spewing similar ideas about what’s to come.

MLSN may go for ecnls throat next. That’s something to lookout for in the near future.

The funny thing is this was brought up in the early pages on the SY debate thread. The it was an obvious move that GA should do, not that GA seems to be doing it…the same people saying it wouldn’t happen are denying it in their face.

[Anonymous]

If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

It will also likely affect littles.

If certain leagues choose to stay BY they'll also need a youngers feeder funnel. If all the current youngers leagues switch to SY it will force a rival BY youngers league to form.

In the end...

Rec -> ecnl -> college will exist as one path.
Rec ->MLSN/GA -> pro/college will exist as the highest level league.

All the ECNL hats are trying to say that MLSN + GA working together doesn't mean anything. But they're only doing this because they don't understand MLS's power on the boys side.

[Anonymous]

There’s also a reason why ecnl boys never brags about their numbers in college like the girls side does. I think they were a vulnerable target and MLSN may come for the rest.

[Anonymous]

Now the age cut off being delayed a year makes so much more sense. And so does giving all sanctioning bodies the chance to choose what they want to do…

ECNL + the rec leagues go school year
GA + the competitive leagues go BY

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

It will also likely affect littles.

If certain leagues choose to stay BY they'll also need a youngers feeder funnel. If all the current youngers leagues switch to SY it will force a rival BY youngers league to form.

In the end...

Rec -> ecnl -> college will exist as one path.
Rec ->MLSN/GA -> pro/college will exist as the highest level league.

All the ECNL hats are trying to say that MLSN + GA working together doesn't mean anything. But they're only doing this because they don't understand MLS's power on the boys side.

I think they do, BUT they are all about the marketing and reputation. In such a contest, you only trumpet your strengths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

How are all of these ECNL players signing NWSL contracts, if GA is the path?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

How are all of these ECNL players signing NWSL contracts, if GA is the path?

Because ECNL has the market share right now. But ECNL has made it known that college is there destination.

Clubs will soon begin to shift to GA/MLSN in coming years. This will take time but this was in fact strategic

[Anonymous]

And when we have a civil war in the next 4 years does ECNL go with the blue states and GA with the red states? So much conjecture and wishful thinking going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

How are all of these ECNL players signing NWSL contracts, if GA is the path?

Because ECNL has the market share right now. But ECNL has made it known that college is there destination.

Clubs will soon begin to shift to GA/MLSN in coming years. This will take time but this was in fact strategic

ECNL has a track record of college and professional player placement. That won’t change. I have a DD in ECNL. She’s played GA. We don’t care about MLSN. Why would any parent with a DD care about a boys league?

[Anonymous]

GA and ECNL are going school year. There is such a statistically insignificant amount of players that are national team quality players that positioning an entire league to cater to that would be the beginning of the end for that league. College and playing with classmates is the number one driver for most (not all - everyone calm down) players. This whole talk of ECNL and Rec vs MLS and GA is dumb. Every league wants what the other league wants - money from players so they can function as a business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

How are all of these ECNL players signing NWSL contracts, if GA is the path?

To fund 10 academies with 20 girls per team at 5 age groups, so 1,000 girls at $5,000 per, would be $5 million per year.

As soon as someone ponies up $5 million a year and about 30-40 teams join in with their pay to play model attracting the rest of the top girls, this new league could dominate in about 4-5 years with a school year cutoff and sending the bulk of the girls to college.

We no potential revenue streams, would need to commit for say 10 years or more to make the effort worth it resulting in just $50 million needed for start up.

This could take the top girls from ECNL.

So it would need to be a new business model for a disruption not a faux partnership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GA and ECNL are going school year. There is such a statistically insignificant amount of players that are national team quality players that positioning an entire league to cater to that would be the beginning of the end for that league. College and playing with classmates is the number one driver for most (not all - everyone calm down) players. This whole talk of ECNL and Rec vs MLS and GA is dumb. Every league wants what the other league wants - money from players so they can function as a business.

Strategic alliance seems like desperation move from MLSN to have as much of the youth game BY as possible. MLSN could take a serious whack if they are the only ones BY but most of their players want college and are misaligned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

How are all of these ECNL players signing NWSL contracts, if GA is the path?

Because ECNL has the market share right now. But ECNL has made it known that college is there destination.

Clubs will soon begin to shift to GA/MLSN in coming years. This will take time but this was in fact strategic

ECNL has a track record of college and professional player placement. That won’t change. I have a DD in ECNL. She’s played GA. We don’t care about MLSN. Why would any parent with a DD care about a boys league?

This is the perfect girls ECNL parent.

They don't understand what MLS does for the men's game and only understand the buddies, connections, and backroom deals that exist on the women's side.

The one nice thing about boys is because they're more athletic top talent makes itself known. Backroom deals aren't as prominent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you follow identityhybrid on ig, he speaks on youth soccer….This is what he said about the alliance…

📍This is a strategic chess move.
Rook to B5 if you will.

1. Solidifying pre-professional pathway. Laying the ground work on professional pathway via NWSL (remember you don't need to go to college and enter the draft anymore. Remember over 10 players under 17 have signed pro contracts).

2. Isolation of ECNL on one side. Collegiate only pathway.
This will be a 2-3 year ripple. Around 2026 / 2027. World Cup Years.📍

How are all of these ECNL players signing NWSL contracts, if GA is the path?

Because ECNL has the market share right now. But ECNL has made it known that college is there destination.

Clubs will soon begin to shift to GA/MLSN in coming years. This will take time but this was in fact strategic

ECNL has a track record of college and professional player placement. That won’t change. I have a DD in ECNL. She’s played GA. We don’t care about MLSN. Why would any parent with a DD care about a boys league?

lol, you are very short sighted.

ECNL has a boys and girls program.
When ECNL boys clubs begin to switch over to MLSN guess where the girls programs fall.