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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GA>ECNL. GA forever.[/quote]
I'll take Acadamies over pay to play.

Hopefully this is the direction GA is looking to go.[/quote]Sure, everybody wants someone else to pay their way but where would GA get the money to offer free soccer to thousands of girls?[/quote]
This is all you ever say.

It's going to be fun watching to come to grips with the reality going on around you.[/quote]If the barrier to GA offering free soccer like MLS Academies is money, focus on what would solve the barrier and don't just dream it away.

Kang's $30 million over 5 years is going to USSF to fund what they should have already funded, not to start an NWSL Next or give cash to an endowment fund for GA or ECNL.

I'm not pro or anti GA or ECNL but if some wants a catalyst for change, it's going to cost money.[/quote]
I have a feeling there's a reason you don't run a soccer league. Sports might not be your thing. Maybe try accounting. [/quote]Fyi, this is not a winning Shark Tank argument.[/quote]
See. accountant. You don't even realize your calling.[/quote]

Ha, that poster is right though.  The barrier is, and will continue to be, money.  If GA is going to overtake ECNL from behind, it's going to have to offer something attractive that ECNL doesn't.  The pro-pathway gets more attractive if there's more money in women's pro soccer, if they go that way against ECNL's college-first-pathway.  They could also waive fees for players, which, again, takes money.  Marketing with MLS and NWSL could help, but it just doesn't seem like enough without money.  ECNL is not untouchable, but you're overestimating the power of a marketing-only alliance.  If someone partners with GA in a way that injects their money or player-selection power into it, *then* ECNL is toast.

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