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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest issue of discussion at this year's US Soccer AGM in February was the USWNT gender discrimination lawsuit, the botched and sexist legal challenge from the Federation, and the overwhelming negative PR backlash for organization from fans and sponsors.  A short time later, Carlos Cordeiro abruptly resigned as President.  US Soccer quickly installed Cindy Parlow Cone, [u]the first female President[/u], who is a two time Gold Medalist and a member of the fabled 1999 World Cup team.

They only national level soccer organization that has deep pockets, with multiple income streams, and is best positioned to weather this current CV situation--is the US Soccer Federation. In general, US Soccer will continue to have a DA in order to be the driving influence on US youth soccer development, just like it controls the national coaching license curriculum.  US Soccer will keep having a DA.

USSF will not give up the girls DA, especially with a new female president.  Cindy Parlow Cone, in her first few months as head of USSF, and under the heavy strain of CV on the entire world of soccer right now, will not make any big moves with GDA that would be detrimental to the investment and commitment of USSF to bring the girls side up equal to the boys--the reason for launchng the GDA.

Having an MLS-only boys DA league is a non-starter as being unfeasible.  How could teenage boys travel all around the country to play weekly games throughout the year?  They can't.  It's logistically and financially impossible for so many reasons.  There will always be a need for available local/regional competition.

So the legitimacy of this so-called anonymous and unsourced "rumor"--no matter how many times repeated--has no merit and does not make it true.  There are a lot of ECNL'ers that will perpetuate this "rumor" ad infinitum, with desperate hopes of trying to will the DA out of existence.  [b]The only [u]credible[/u] "rumor" people should be talking about is US Soccer buying out ECNL and folding it into the DA program.[/b]  ECNL'ers can only hope that the ECNL mothership will advocate for no current ECNL club to be left behind by US Soccer in the merger.[/quote]

Is that why DA clubs sent emails to our teams about the possible dismantling (in particular on the girls side)?  Because they were just playing an April Fools joke on us?[/quote]

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