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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]Just heard Syc and McLean are joining alliance/merger?[/quote]

Alliance, not a merger.  Club sends its best players to form ECNL team for ages U13-U19 for boys and girls.[/quote]

Best SYC boys are not going to play ecnl. They would play mls next.[/quote]

MLS Next is only for 2009, 2008 and 2007 boys. The rest of the club will be in Alliance.

SYC will be recruiting for MLSnext so not sure how many of the SYC kids will be on MLSnext for those ages...[/quote]

Based on this partnership it sounds like mls next will likely only be u13 and u14 so no 07s. U15s will have to go to dc United. [/quote]

Any other club I would agree.  You wouldn't go into this partnership if you were still trying to expand your MLSNEXT.  However, SYC isn't the most stable club (a different league each year for the last several years), so maybe they are only going into this partnership for a year or two and then going to go onto something else.  I can't imagine MLSNEXT granting anymore age groups after this partnership, however, so you are probably right.[/quote]

It seems you’re missing the point - you recognize that the point of MLSNext is to grow into the youngest ages and not jump straight into the older years and hurt existing clubs or create crappier older teams right?  Start at younger ages and expand as those teams age into older age groups and younger ages take their place until all ages are full.[/quote]

This was the way DA was supposed to work.  But my guess is that this was/is not the point of MLSNEXT.  DA was run for US soccer and its goal was to create the best soccer environment for developing talent nationally.  MLSNext is run by and for MLS clubs, and I think DCU wants feeder teams for its U15 roster and nothing else.  I suspect for example that one reason Arlington went to ECNL instead of MLS Next was that DCU vetoed Arlington's older teams which DA had just awarded them (I don't know this for certain but I'm trying to make sense of a couple of off the cuff remarks I heard).  So - if that's true and they said no to Arlington who already had those teams which were, or had previously, performed well in DA - why would they grant those age groups to SYC/Alexandria/Achilles?[/quote]

You are clearly happy at Arlington, so I am wondering why you care?[/quote]

I'm neither happy nor unhappy, nor at Arlington, and I'm not quite sure what you mean by "care".

I'm ruminating on a discussion board about why certain soccer-related decisions may have been made and therefore, perhaps, what might happen in future.  I don't have any personal stake, or special emotional attachment, to one outcome or another wrt to how MLSNext develops over the next few years.[/quote]

I simply don’t believe you. My apologies for saying so. You seem upset with the notion that the mls next teams would get an expansion that Arlington did not receive under the old DA system. Things change. Regardless of whether you are at Arlington, my question remains: why do you care whether other clubs get an expansion that Arlington did not?  If you were simply curious, you would wait and see what happens. Why would you begrudge expansion for other clubs?  Or why would your question relate back to an old Arlington grievance about not getting more age groups?[/quote]

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