DA should play v ECNL
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Anonymous
Only FC Stars, which has 2 ECNL teams (East and West). You may be thinking of PDA, but last time I checked, NJ is not in New England. |
Anonymous
| NE conference is 15 teams. |
Anonymous
So that would make 8 teams per age group across 6 states. |
Anonymous
| MA is only 11. |
Anonymous
NE conference is "North East", not New England. North East conference includes NY, NJ, PA and MD--in addition to the New England teams |
Anonymous
New England clubs ECNL: FC Stars (East and West) (MA) Scorpions (MA) CFC (CT) FSA (CT) DA: NEFC (MA) Seacoast (NH) |
Anonymous
| Anyway you slice it there are way too many so called "high level" roster spots for the number of high level players with the cash to play in such a league. Situation is not good at all. |
Anonymous
New England may be better then some areas but the entire sport at youth level has enter loco land. |
Anonymous
Looks like New England is stronger at ECNL too. FC Stars is the clear top dog. Did US Soccer try to get the NT players on FC Stars to move to DA? |
Anonymous
If they did or did not is of no consequence to 95 percent of youth players. Ussf was hoping more players would care about that then did care about that. |
Anonymous
Stars had DA last year, but dropped it this year. They have 3 girls currently on NT rosters, I believe (2 U17, 1 U15), and at least 2 others that were in the pool this year. None opted to leave Stars when they dropped DA. I don't see why they would. |
Anonymous
| No. Why would they. And why would most players concern themselves with it regardless. Using nt players as a marketing strategy has not proved to be terribly successful. Ecnl used to use that market strategy and dropped it the second gda came along. |
Anonymous
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True but DA still uses the "US Scouts at Every DA Game" marketing to convince players to come to DA.
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Anonymous
To try to convince. Works on some and not on others. Same as when ecnl used to use it. |
Anonymous
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"The reality is that the number of young people playing soccer as registered players under the umbrella of U.S. Soccer has stagnated. People may debate and disagree over the specific numbers, but we should all be able to agree that the ranks of our registered players shouldn’t be stagnant—they should be growing.
Think about it—we have 3 to 4 million kids in our ranks. The fact is millions more are playing— it’s just that they are not registered players under our umbrella. This is perhaps our single greatest opportunity—and our single greatest challenge—reaching out and bringing these players into our ranks. And we all know the barriers that are standing in the way of our growth—they’re no secret. The landscape is too fragmented and fractured. Competition is good, but sometimes youth soccer becomes more about winning trophies and making money when it should be about having fun and developing players. In a country as big and diverse as ours, we’re never going to have a single, unified national youth program like many smaller countries—we’ll always have different programs in different places. But there does need to be a level playing field—competition has to be fair. And we have to forge a more unified landscape where—instead of programs competing with each other for players— we work together to recruit those millions of kids as registered players. Player development is not a single-lane road. Not every player will or should go to an academy, and not every state has DAs. We need options for all players at all levels, including ODP." - Carlos Cordiero, US Soccer President, July 2018 |