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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They’ll give out 20-25 GA offers and everybody else gets a dual-roster offer (“You’re a great player and we definitely think you’re on track to play GA but you’re not quite ready just yet. So we want to dual roster you and you’ll train and play with the GA team on a regular basis! In the meantime, we have phenomenal EDP and NCSL teams…”).  And then a few short months later, all those players and parents who thought they were going to Revolution to play GA will realize the reality of their situation.  But at least Revolution could continue to make their mortgage payment on the Sportsplex![/quote]

Is this what FCV has done in the past?  Curious since CC is the GA director now at VRSC. [/quote]

This happens at ECNL clubs also.  They just swap the names and offer RL and say dual, offer training with ECNL, rinse and repeat.[/quote]

Indeed.  A lot of big clubs are guilty of doing this with their top teams regardless of whether it’s GA or ECNL. Nobody wants to lose a player to another club because 1) that’s revenue lost and 2) they’d rather have you in their club on the off chance that they might want/need you at some point than to lose you to a competitor.  The beauty of youth soccer (from a club’s perspective) is that there’s always a new wave of parents/players coming through who don’t know any better. If you have multiple kids that play soccer, you might have learned this with the first kid and then you’d probably question the sincerity of it with the second kid. But as a percentage, those types of families are, without a doubt, a minority.  Before anybody screams “Well, my kid started as a dual roster and they moved up!”, I’m obviously not saying that it never happens, just that it is much more common that it doesn’t.  It works out great for the clubs, though, because if they can convince a kid to stick around for a couple of years before they (or their parents) realize that it’s time for a change, that’s still two years of revenue that they collected and, oh look, there’s a new group of players/parents coming in the door right now![/quote]

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