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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chloe Ricketts starts and should be credited with a goal[/quote]

Glad she is on the field and playing well now. [/quote]

Choe Ricketts contract was not renewed by the Washington Spirit.  Sad to see how she was advised by parents and adults around her.  Her options going forward are limited and she is 18.[/quote]

Why are her options limited? What's preventing her from signing with another team or going international? Your view seems limited. [/quote]
The obvious thing limiting her options is that the Spirit didn’t think she was good enough to offer her a contract. That’s after watching her up close for years. International is a possibility or maybe the other local pro team DC Power. Is college still an option or did she become ineligible when she signed a pro contract.[/quote]

She can go to college. She can't play for a college soccer team. [/quote]
I’ll bet her parents are wishing they just kept her in school. Could have gone to a top college with a nice soccer scholarship. [/quote]
Like many soccer parents they were told and believed she was better than she actually was. But my daughter is different.[/quote]

This player is still on the Spirit roster, practicing and did play, score a goal in that match against the Central American club ... Yes, she's not starting/second string but she clearly got game for a young player. We should wish her well wherever she lands next.[/quote]

Ricketts traded to Houston for the rest of the year and then goes to Boston to try and play for a new NWSL team next year.[/quote]

Still in NWSL. Seems like probably still better than college -- with money in her pocket and with experience far ahead of all her peers.[/quote]

I would disagree.  She was way to young to make this decision and live on her own.  Maybe she's happy as can be and made some decent money, I have no idea...I'm just coming at this as a parent.  Not playing at all, generally sits the bench and is only rostered because it's in her contract until she turns 18 so the Spirit had no choice.  Now that they had a choice she got dumped for a 15K transfer fee and will move to Houston for a month for 2 games that she probably won't play in...though it looks like Houston is out of the playoffs, so maybe she'll get some minutes.  Then moves to Boston to join the new team hoping to start over.  I did watch her play on her age group national team and she was not very good against girls her own age.  It's impossible to project players, but this was a total whiff by all involved.  She is very small, completely out of her depth and while this is a harsh opinion, that's what I think.[/quote]

She doesn't live on her own. She's been living with family who collectively supported her decision to go after her dream -- which continues. Any player can find themselves on the bench at any level, including college, be for injury or change in coaches (which both happened at the Spirit). From an FAQ on her website from when she started her pro contract:

"What about college? She`s going to miss out on a college scholarship and the whole college experience.

"It was a lengthy decision to choose the professional path but in the end, that`s been Chloe`s objective ever since she started playing soccer. She won`t get a "scholarship" but college will be paid for nonetheless. What if she got hurt in college and that end her dream completely. Chloe plays with a lot of highly developed technical skills and can play at the professional level now... so why not?

"After she graduates high school (which she`s taking on-line now), she`ll attend college on-line like so many students do today even if they have the choice between on-line and brick and mortar. Both her brother and sister attend "regular" college and each only have one class with a "classroom"."

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[b]The other young girl who went pro for Angel City was over hyped too.[/b]  I'm very interested to see what they do with her contract.  AC continue to lose and will not make the playoffs again.  LA was supposed to be "THE" franchise in the league.  Riley Tiernan from Rutgers was totally passed over and only got an opportunity because of injuries and coaching connections and went into that team and took over.[/quote]

Just for us that aren't up to all things NWSL, who are you talking about?  As pro players, I think it's ok to mention their name.  There's a huge risk at signing these young players to pro contracts - and the ages just seem to get younger and younger - Mak Whitman signed with Gotham when she was only 13!  Now 15 and playing with the U17 USYNT team, but still.  That's a big reach, IMO.  Plus there's a young women, Stella Spitzer, playing with Carolina Ascent in the USL Super League that is about the same age.  Not sure what the end game is with these really, really young players.

Not quite the equivalent but the NBA went through this when there was all the rage to draft kids directly out of HS.  There were quite a few that didn't live up to expectations- anyone remember Kwame Brown from the Wizards.  Of course, he made it through 12 years in the NBA and made almost $64 million so I wouldn't mind having his under achieving career.  LOL.  [/quote]

The best comp -- and why it is happening -- is that male players can and have signed pro contracts as teenagers and Olivia Moultrie successfully sued over it to join the Portland Thorns, making that very point. She seems to be the most successful of all these younger players -- although also has played the longest. [/quote]

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