ECNL moving to school year not calendar

[Anonymous]

ECNL is pretty clear they want to switch. But does US Soccer just allow leagues to make their own decision ? That really risks fracturing an already broken system if we have MLS Next/GA/DPL in BY and ECNL and USYS in SY.

If US Soccer wants to actually improve soccer they will make it uniform. I doubt they did that though

[Anonymous]

Why do they have tryouts in December?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ECNL is pretty clear they want to switch. But does US Soccer just allow leagues to make their own decision ? That really risks fracturing an already broken system if we have MLS Next/GA/DPL in BY and ECNL and USYS in SY.

If US Soccer wants to actually improve soccer they will make it uniform. I doubt they did that though

The Pitch to Pro episode made it clear that it needs to be as consistent as possible across leagues in order to report back to FIFA. MLSnext has a reason to stay BY, the others don’t

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:ECNL is pretty clear they want to switch. But does US Soccer just allow leagues to make their own decision ? That really risks fracturing an already broken system if we have MLS Next/GA/DPL in BY and ECNL and USYS in SY.

If US Soccer wants to actually improve soccer they will make it uniform. I doubt they did that though

The Pitch to Pro episode made it clear that it needs to be as consistent as possible across leagues in order to report back to FIFA. MLSnext has a reason to stay BY, the others don’t

A lot of clubs with MLS Next also are GA clubs on the girls side. If state associations go SY though clubs that are MLS Next will have to maintain two separate systems

[Anonymous]

The USSF won’t really make us go to bed without any info at all right?

[Anonymous]

There won't be a press release today. Official announcement will be made by the end of the year.

[Anonymous]

Neat. So we learned absolutely nothing today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neat. So we learned absolutely nothing today.

Gives us more time to get to 300! Relax

[Anonymous]

Wtf. How is there not a leak

[Anonymous]

Haha agreed where is the leak.

[Anonymous]

They’ve had to tell someone at this point. A neighbor, their kid, their bestie who runs a club.

One of us should’ve befriended the spouse of one of the USSF representatives

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They’ve had to tell someone at this point. A neighbor, their kid, their bestie who runs a club.

One of us should’ve befriended the spouse of one of the USSF representatives

You mean the "one" who voted for Trump?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They’ve had to tell someone at this point. A neighbor, their kid, their bestie who runs a club.

One of us should’ve befriended the spouse of one of the USSF representatives

You mean the "one" who voted for Trump?

I voted for Trump, unfortunately I don’t know nobody at USSF. 😄

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Anonymous wrote:And as Pitch to Pro podcast pointed out a few years ago youth national teams were dominated by Q4 players (something CY was trying to fix) so expect in a few years, youth national teams to be dominated by Q4 players again.

So, what you're saying is that the national team scouts in the US are pretty much clueless?

Yes, and not for just this reason. At some point we need to get away from choosing the biggest fastest strongest and start focusing on soccer IQ, technical skills, and fundamentals. The number of poor first touches, lack of two feet and lack of technical passing is troubling to me.

"Send Trinity" is getting old, especially when you start playing teams like Spain who slice and dice us with ease.

meh lose lose in USA system. Watched one too many “technical teams” lose to fast strong athletes. US soccer just doesn't attract a good number of players who score high in all attributes that make a player. The problem is they don't force development of the athletic kids. They put them on defense or striker. And in 90% of the cases there athleticism trumps technical. These coaches just want to win early and make their side hustle money.

Correct. They abuse oversized kids who have some skills over really ballers who perhaps have not developed yet. Is all about the coaches in many instances.

Let's see how your 3 or 4 or 5 average or short defenders do against tall forwards on those corners and free kicks 😄

Lisandro Martinez

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you guys are saying kids need more skill work at practices? But the easiest and cheapest thing to do at practices is scrimmage. And clubs get into exclusive club v club leagues by winning. Sounds like a big problem is that it pays $$ to be a talent aggregator club, and does not pay $$ to be a talent developer club.

This sounds like the “battle cry of the Bethesda soccer parent”.

Say it with me! Team practice isn’t for individual skill development!