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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at how crazy the Youth Travel programs are locally.  Not development, win at all cost.  The end result is all the clubs are blowing up because everyone is seeking ECNL or top league play but nobody is truly qualified for it.  When you have a group of national players who are all about how many goals they score individually, you don't win games.  PERIOD.  The style of play in the US has descended into chaos and will only get worse with the current USYNT leadership.[/quote]
Yes, and also look at all the new young talent in the USWNT, specifially this selection, the following players did not go to college or left early to go pro, I might miss one:

Horan (not young but first notable player to forgo college to go pro)
Shaw
Rodman
Smith
Moultrie
Albert
Fishel
Swanson
Thompson

ECNL again is the elite option for college, but a failing model for international soccer success and long term skill development because coaches are too powerful and play for results. Girls need pro-pathways ASAP! GA are you paying attention, this is a market inefficiency waiting for a league to create pro-pathways [/quote]
Umm… US Soccer recently promoted GA to the same level as MLS NWSL USWNT USMNT USL etc.

These are the same people that created Development Academy to address this issue 10 years ago.

They know we’re in trouble. Soon there’s going to be an NWSL Next equivalent for girls.[/quote]
So, SYC/GA dad, while some of the things you hope will happen, should in some form happen, but unless you are expecting a newborn currently there isn't a single child of a parent in this thread who's kids will ever benefit from such a system. It is 10-20 years off. [/quote]
Bla bla bla...

All NWSL has to do is implement a homegrown rule and take all the MLS Next paperwork and scratch out MLSN and replace it with GA.

NWSL could  complely upend the youth soccer market overnight if they wanted to.[/quote]

How many NWSL teams are there compared to MLS? How many of them have their own stadium? NWSL just isn't currently in a situation financially or logistically to create an academy system right away just because SYC got GA. And yes, they scored a lucrative TV contract, thats great but that money will be reinvested into growing the league at the professional level. US Soccer has been footing NWSL's bill for years and that is not how a healthy domestic professional league should function.

It is more complex and more expensive than just "crossing out MLSNext and writing in GA" Even if NWSL wanted to create an extensive youth academy system and league it would be in their best interest to start where the players already are vs spending millions trying to win players over to their league.

I think you miscalculate how driven girls are with playing professionally and real economic viability of that venture. Our best players are heading to Europe on the men's and women's side because of quality and money, money that NWSL just doesn't have now nor will have in ten or twenty years.

It just will not happen in time for anyone reading this now. Should it happen? Yes, but it is a long way down the road and it will take more failure at the National level to open people's eyes. But with failure comes less eyeballs on the product, less eyeballs on the NT product equals less interest by little girls.  [/quote]

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