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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at how crazy the Youth Travel programs are locally.  Not development, win at all cost.  The end result is all the clubs are blowing up because everyone is seeking ECNL or top league play but nobody is truly qualified for it.  When you have a group of national players who are all about how many goals they score individually, you don't win games.  PERIOD.  The style of play in the US has descended into chaos and will only get worse with the current USYNT leadership.[/quote]

Yes, and also look at all the new young talent in the USWNT, specifially this selection, the following players did not go to college or left early to go pro, I might miss one:

Horan (not young but first notable player to forgo college to go pro)
Shaw
Rodman
Smith
Moultrie
Albert
Fishel
Swanson
Thompson

ECNL again is the elite option for college, but a failing model for international soccer success and long term skill development because coaches are too powerful and play for results. Girls need pro-pathways ASAP! GA are you paying attention, this is a market inefficiency waiting for a league to create pro-pathways [/quote]

There aren't enough girls good enough to skip college to make a league focusing solely on pro-pathways viable. [/quote]

I don't believe this to be true. There are very talented girls but the ID processes are political and not based on talent. That also goes for who is selected or the USWNT too.

Secondly, most pro soccer players on the women's side are making around $50k on average and that was after fighting for better pay. Who is putting their bodies through all that for a starting salary of $35k? You may as well use soccer to go the college route and have a degree and marketable skills. Your salary would likely be increased much faster working a regular career. Most will not have a Morgan or Rodman salary.[/quote]

A national league requires thousands of players. There are not thousands of roster spots in NWSL let alone thousands of opening per year. Academy systems work because you concentrate talent in the academies so you don't need a whole national league. Academies cost money and there is no organization on the women's side with money [/quote]

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