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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something big is coming, NCCA?[/quote]
NCAA and this...

https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/01/12/berman-speaks-of-future-of-nwsl-draft-updates-on-local-broadcasts-and-more/
Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.[/quote]
Wow, the GA parents talking about Acadamies might be right.[/quote]

This is just silly.  There is no money, expertise, or will to do this.  NWSL is barely making it.  Most of the teams are losing a fortune.[/quote]
Is this before or after the new $240 million media deal?
https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/nwsl-espn-cbs-amazon-scripps-tv-deal/#:~:text=The%20National%20Women's%20Soccer%20League,across%20linear%20and%20digital%20platforms.
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I would hope they can invest in the youth system with that kind of money.  It’s not hard to understand how youth academies work in Europe and make that happen here.  Kids are already investing a lot of time, but poorly trained coaches are wasting it.[/quote]]
There's more to academies than coaching. One of the biggest differences is teams and players aren't bound by age. If you're good you play up, maybe 1, 2,, 3 years up. Conversely if you're just learning you play down (within reason). You can see what this means for a club. You don't end up with  a team for each age group. You do end up with players that are MUCH better at skills and IQ when/if they get a chance to play in a game. All the parent nonsense gets thrown out the window because if you play is all dependent on how much you learn and apply in practice.[/quote]
This is what my kids Futsal coach does. He groups both the boys and girls into 3 different sessions. Primarily the groups are age bound littles, youngers, olders but he also puts newer players with the younger age group until they get better and earn their way up to the better age group. If you've never seen skills based training vs age based training it seems weird when an older is playing with youngers. However if you watch the practices after a while you can see what's going on. The older playing with youngers (and vice versa) is either being able to learn skills at an appropriate rate or they're being challenged and able to play at a much higher level than normally they'd be allowed. [/quote]

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