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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with sites like DCUM is that for whatever reason it attracts girls parents and most never played a sport at a high level.

For girls, parents get exposed to pay to play and ECNL and ultimately College development styles. What they don't understand is this style of development does not create the best possible players. However it does generate the most amount of money for clubs.

Boys have MLS Next and the Academy system of development. In general it's a pale reflection of what European Acadamies implement but even that is better than pay to play. Girls players and parents generally have no concept of why you want to play up, or why clubs might pay transfer fees for potential new talent. [/quote]

Very few girls are interested either in a pathway to the pros or being the best possible players.  What they are interested in is playing in college.  p4 if they can do it and down from there.  A large percentage of girls  are looking for strong academic colleges where soccer can help them get into places that are tough to get into.  You are trying to create a product that few will buy.  [/quote]
I love how you know exactly what girls want.

Ridiculous....[/quote]
Hilarious I agree. Watch what happens when NWSL implements Acadamies. The same idiot club hoppers that beg to be on whatever girls ECNL team is hot at the moment will do the same thing and beg to be on whatever NWSLN team is hot.[/quote]

You laugh at someone who says most girls don’t want to go pro yet here you are making similar assumptions.

Girls may choose to play in a NWSL academy but many will do so as a pathway that still allows the choice of going to college. There are more college roster spots than pro.

What’s hilarious is that kids think because they are in MLSNext that they will go pro. If your kid is still on SYC at 15 and not on DC United, it ain’t happening. [/quote]
What you don't understand is that if players play on a youth academy team in MLS Next or NWSL Next when it becomes available they're still considered amateur.

What this means is MLS Next / NWSL Next players can choose to play professionally or in college. ;-)

This is why all the boys want to play for MLSN teams. [/quote]

I understand that perfectly well but there are only 14 NWSL teams to even play for. Playing pro just won’t be an option for most anyways. [/quote]
How is the number of professional opportunities relevant when you can always choose to play in College as a backup plan?[/quote]

Because you’re trying to sell a pro pathway when very little of one actually exists. [/quote]
Hmm...
Not really sure what you're trying to say.

With MLSN you have the ability to play professionally or in college.

With Boys ECNL you have the ability to play in college.

Which option sounds better to you?[/quote]

Of the options that actually exist now and in the near future? ECNL is the best option for girls. If the market shifts, then players will shift with the market. There will be know loyalty for getting ahead. In fact, if NWSL does what you have proposed it would be an open cattle call to a Spirit Academy anyways. So you might as well play at the highest level possible until your dream scenario happens a decade sooner than it will.

That said:
[b]With MLSN you have the ability to play professionally or in college.[/b]

The only ability to play professionally in MLSN is if you are on DC United. EVERYONE else in non-MLS clubs are all looking to play college.

[b]With Boys ECNL you have the ability to play in college.[/b]
Literally the same opportunity for college as every non-MLS Academy MLSN player has. Neither ECNL Boys or MLYSN like SYC are not on a pathway to pro.
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I LOVE how you're applying the girls knowledge you've acquired and are now such an authority that you feel it applies to boys/mens high level soccer. However sorry, it's not how mens Soccer works.

The biggest difference is that college coaches can recruit from anywhere in the world including foreign Academies. What this means is that it's much harder for boys to get noticed by college coaches.

Imagine if you're a college coach and you have a choice between a 24 year old Liverpool FC or PSG Acadamy washout and an 18 year old from an ECNL club. Which one would you choose? This is going on at all the big D1 teams. You don't see this as much on the womens side because foreign Acadamies for women haven't matured enough that they're on that level. But, it's coming.

Here's what the top Mens college coaches prioritize.

1. Foreign high level Academy players
2. MLS Academy players
3. MLS Non Academy players
4. ECNL and Everyone else

The other thing you don't understand about MLS next is that it's not an US vs Them mentality. MLSN is more like all the MLSN clubs in a certain geography are feeders for the main MLS Academy. What this means is that even if you're not playing on the MLSN Academy team it's very likely that you'll be given an opportunity to practice with the team to see how you fit. MLSN Academies do look at other leagues for talent as well but you're just more likely to get noticed playing in a non MLSN Academy.

Does any of this make sense?

See how different things are when a "pro Pathway" is introduced to youth sports?

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I never stated any of the things that you implied. Men's college soccer programs are full of internationals who, by the way, washed out of their own academy systems. So what I stated was that unless you are actually playing in the actual MLS club's academy your pathway to pro is limited. Once that is established your chances of landing in college playing either ECNL or MLSNext are about the same. Your college competition is MLS affiliated players who do not catch on professionally, Internationals and then just regular domestic players from ECNL or MLSNext.

there is no real material difference between a non-academy MLSNext player and a ECNL player. I'll grant a difference between some clubs but the real separation between players is between the actual academies and non-academies and ECNL. [/quote]
The ECNL Koolaid is strong with this one...

There's a HUGE difference between MLSN and boys ECNL teams in that the MLSN teams play the MLSN Academies and boys ECNL teams generally do not.

At the end of the day if your son is good enough they'll find their way to a MLSN Academy. However look at the rankings app and you'll see that Nationwide MLSN teams are the top tier for boys.  [/quote]

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