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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what everyone is trying to say is that NWSL Next is coming.

BOYS DA became MLSn
Girls DA became GA (then hit a speedbump with ECNL but is now back on track + well positioned by US Soccer)

Jessica Berman the NWSL commissioner earlier this year said that several clubs were pushing for Acadamies. 
https://equalizersoccer.com/2024/01/12/berman-speaks-of-future-of-nwsl-draft-updates-on-local-broadcasts-and-more/[/quote]

Berman also addressed the future of youth academies, a mechanism that helped spawn exponential growth for Major League Soccer in recent years. Currently, teams are free to sign youth players but there is no direct line to an NWSL through an academy. MLS, which is in many more cities than NWSL has a home-grown rule that allows clubs to retain players who come up through their youth system.

“It is one of the areas we really hope to make progress on in 2024 as we chart our strategic initiatives. [B]There are a bunch of clubs that are very interested in figuring out the most strategic ways to build academies or invest in youth.[/B]

“We also have to recognize that the culture of our country is quite different than Europe. We live in a world where it is entrepreneurial interests that control the youth system. We have to find ways to work with the systems that exist as opposed to being a force that is disruptive just for the sake of being disruptive.”

The latter was a shot at the pay-to-play mechanism that governs youth soccer in the United States. [B]Berman mentioned U.S. Soccer as a necessary partner in navigating the landscape toward having fully built youth programs throughout the league and country[/B]. She also mentioned that some clubs are open to partnerships to create youth pathways meaning not every club necessarily needs to start its own academy from scratch.[/quote]

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