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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone give a quick summary of why this change might have been made and the implications, either for ASA or for soccer in the region generally?  We’re new to travel and my kid is on black so this really doesn’t affect us, I’m just curious to understand the landscape better.[/quote]

First of all, things change, so I would not assume this cannot affect your kid. It could down the road. Second, this is just reshuffling the same old cards with a new brand on the other side of the cards. ECNL is attempting to destroy rival leagues by forcing affiliates to add clubs to the second “R” league (just like CCL has two tiers). Nothing really changes at all except it limits the ability of clubs in a particular region to play each other more often, forcing them to go elsewhere instead. And of course the top of the ECNL is all about that - travel costs become an enormous economic barrier that prevents less fortunate kids from paying tons of money to travel to play teams that may not be as good as those in their backyard. Of course that problem gets even worse with more dilution. So this is exactly the question that people should ask as these leagues chase clubs and clubs chase leagues, with parents chasing their tails the whole time. [/quote]

Thanks for this, I appreciate it.  Realistically, if my kid probably will never be better than blue team, what should be my concerns here?[/quote]

None, more games will be local (assuming they don’t get a bad draw in NCSL) [/quote]

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