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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I look at players in the youth national teams and players signing contracts to clubs in Europe and start seeing ECNL products, then I'll entertain the silly arguments about ECNL being at MLS Academy level.

Your ECNL team winning a game against a MLS Academy when your focus is on winning the game while theirs is on development (with kids playing up) is a hollow statement.

But only true soccer knowledgeable people understand that.[/quote]

Nobody is arguing your point.  Academy is top tier. There is no question about this

But next is not academy--no matter how much they have the marketing engine going. Neither is ECNL.

So let's stop trying to say Next and (Next II and futures and Next III and whatever other layers they have added) is somehow superior to anything else. It's not. It's not as good as academy.  If it was as good as acadmey it wouldn't be called...Next

Whether Next is better than ECNL is dependent on team/club.

Plenty of mediocre Next and plenty of mediocre ECNL. Plenty of good on each side too--somewhat dependent on region...

Since this is DCUM (not CAUM or TXUM), let's just put it out there---VDA, NVA, Arlington, Pipeline, Richmond vs. Alexandria, SYC Bethesda, Achilles, Armour. No way you can say that the Next teams are 'far superior' for every age level. It's just not true. [/quote]

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