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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]Looks like they are trying to own the whole US market. USL must be very concerned

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I don’t think USL is concerned. The MLS reserve teams draw a few hundred fans per game and don’t offer consistent competition to the other clubs. They were helpful in elevating USL when the NASL folded and helped serve each other’s needs, but USL has sufficient teams nationwide to have two strong divisions without the MLS reserves. [/quote]

Maybe MLS got sick of their 16-20 year olds consistently being beaten by teams with 30 year olds in the USL.[/quote]

I think this goes both ways. USL wanting more competition for its teams, MLS wanting a space for their players coming up to play. The group that will lose out the most is NCAA. This will now provide a pathway to skip out on college, get into a pro system and earn some money while still not being thrown into the deep end. [/quote]

Hmmm.  Not so sure it will have a impact on NCAA.  A kid might forgo a subsidized college degree to play MLS.  But to play MLS Next Pro?  I doubt there will be many kids willing to forgo college for whatever pittance that league will pay.[/quote]

This is not about college. European clubs view of US soccer has changed. MLS is a selling league and you need a pool to continue that. The big names like Pepi will earn MLS 12-15 million but there is money to be made below that level. College is amateurs hour. Look for a clear separation of paths between pro or college on the men’s side. The girls side will continue to sell “playing in college” dream but the boys will be about playing on Tuesday and Wednesday. [/quote]

I see a lot of ECNL kids who have dreams of playing pro migrating to an MLSNext team next year...[/quote]

I don't follow this logic.  Moving from Loudoun to SYC isn't going to be a pathway to MLS Next Pro.  These teams will be for the better kids from the MLS club's own youth academy + other young pros they want to take a look at.  Kids from the local MLS Next clubs have no greater chance of playing MLS Next Pro than the same kid on an ECNL team.[/quote]  Of course, you'd want to get on one of the MLSNext teams that have the MLSNext Pro league.  All of the local MLSNext teams are feeders to DCU and that's the path to take since DCU will have MLSNext Pro next year.[/quote]

The local MLSNext teams are no more feeders to DCU than the ECNL teams.  What little formal feeder system there is (P2P), consists of five or six teams most of which are ECNL teams.  In practise of course DCU takes kids from wherever it finds them.  Last year for example, DCU took many more kids from ECNL teams than MLS Next teams, and there are several kids who came from neither.[/quote]

I am a little mystified by what else you would have expected - there had been one year of MLS Next play at U13 and U14 for Alexandria, SYC and Achilles, with little or no practical ability to recruit when Covid hit. I still think one of these clubs had a significant number of players go to DCU. Because player talent has started moving more to MLS Next, I suspect you will see more of this as time goes on. I think it is a function of where younger talent is choosing to go. That is why you see the family of one of the best recent DCU academy players choose SYC for a younger son instead of VDA or Arlington. But sure, there will be terrific players joining DCU from other clubs as well. They will select whom they think is best. We will see how many ECNL 08s end up at DCU next year. VDA probably has the most possibilities there among those teams. Maybe a couple from Loudoun as well. [/quote]

Wow SYC coach you really know a lot. Stop doing so poorly in MLS Next[/quote]

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