They aren't paying her to play at the club (assuming this rumor is even true). They are paying to use her name and image to promote and advertise the club. Considering every club is already using the names and images of their players, posting them all over their social media, I say it's about time the club starts paying and I hope this becomes more of a thing around here. |
Why not? Nice to see a family and player with the upper hand on these clubs for once. |
No one's going to respond because these are all salty FCV parents in here lol |
Dates have been out for some time... where are the coaches?? |
on line - google is your friend |
Brilliant maneuver by the Townes camp. She has zero incentive to play club soccer again until she steps onto campus in Athens or for USYNT for u17 WC. Now she may make some appearances to stay in shape, and for the TSJ media machince to prove that she is in uniform and playing for FCV. Zero impact from a competitve soccer standpoint but is a win win for both camps with the value her NIL will bring to recruting the youngers. Hopefully the lean years that wll come in the short term can benefit from this savy media attempt |
Brilliant post from her agent! |
So in the modern pay for play model, you’ll have some families being paid and others paying. I’m fine with tuition fees contributing to a family that might need some help but I’d be uncomfortable with this going at my DD’s club. How many other players at FCV are going to receive this treatment? |
wrong thread, there is a completely separate FCV thread for this. |
You could actually play this out to its extreme. Image there is a club with enough money that decides they want to collect all the best players in the region. They offer NIL deals to the top players of all the other teams to build a super team. Corporate sponsors pitch in because now this team will get a lot more exposure and now you have high schoolers doing ads with local car dealerships. Probably not going this way because soccer clubs don't have the money but it could happen in theory |
Wouldn't that be something, completely disrupting the current pay to play model within US youth soccer...one can only hope |
Are the other 2 07 ynt players from NOVA shaking their clubs down too? I doubt vda has money to spend. McLean could find it. |
It would only disrupt it for a small handful of very top players, and a very small handful of clubs. Everyone else would stay business as usual. |
yet it's a proven model that works for the rest of the world. Our best youth athletes don't play soccer (our wealthiest athletes play youth soccer and some are really good) because there is no free pathway to play professionally like there is in baseball, basketball or football. |
I thought going forward Revolution and old FCV were synonymous. |