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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]To all the ECNL people sweating the MLS/GA alliance.

You might want to check out who is in charge of youth development at NWSL and where they came from. (Hint it's US Soccer)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-thompson-3880222b

https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2020/11/to-new-heights[/quote]

Do you know what a coach educator or staff instructor is for US Soccer? It’s the staff that teaches coaching license courses. You should look up the number of coaches and the levels they coach at that are instructors for US Soccer. It’s not what you think it is.

Both my DD’s coaches do the same thing. One is RL coach and one is ECNL. They teach licenses.

What’s the link between US Soccer/NWSL/GA?[/quote]
NWSL Director of Youth Development

What does that tell you?[/quote]That they have a title but no real job or responsibilities. Like being a banks' Director of Ethics.[/quote]
The job and title are there for a reason.

Put more simply the NWSL employee in charge of integrating youth players with NWSL has a 15 year history with US Soccer (not ECNL).

My guess and I could be reaching out on a limb here. She has more experience working with US Soccer then any other group or entity. This person was hired because of their background and relationships (and maybe because she's black. But if you look at her background there's a lot of merit)

If I was working at ECNL this is the person I'd be buying drinks for at events.[/quote]

Why would you be buying drinks for this person?[/quote]
Hahaha keep sweating 😓 [/quote]So you are speculating that this person can conjure up about $5 to $10 m per year and put together an NWSL youth league because of a network and former role as an advisor/consultant? That would take support, a team, a business model, vision and the willingness to absorb huge losses. Placing that on one person without any knowledge of what they do is unfair. You should write for the National Enquire.[/quote]
Why would they do all that?

Just align with GA the way MLS aligns with MLSN.

Wait, did MLS Next and GA just announce a strategic alliance? Because that would be the first step in implementing.[/quote]MLS doesn't align with MLSN, it started it from the ashes of DA with the hope of a self sustaining business model for each club (someone here said losses are serious money but that would be a total rumor) where player sales covers costs. Can NWSL get ownership of players for each team by covering their development costs and then selling the players to someone especially when they only have 12 teams? Just having GA "aligning" with MLSN doesn't do any of this this. I wish the NWSL youth lead the best but guessing what they are about to develop isn't fair to them. Maybe in 5-7 years or so. Not sure why NWSL would align with GA. They would probably just start from scratch. And no dog in the fight but these are businesses not charities.[/quote]

Why start from scratch when you can just rebrand.  The logos are already similar. [/quote]Solve the financing part first, logos would be last. Rebranding as DA seems like a bad idea, might want to start NWSL Academies separate from a failed project that had a very short runway.[/quote]
Or just make GA like MLSN with a homegrown rule from NWSL + contracts and take over the entire girls side just like MLS Next has done with boys.[/quote]We can all dream and it doesn't have to be realistic in any way shape or form, best of luck.[/quote]

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