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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ricketts played for Michigan Jags which is a GA club at one point, I think after that she played for a USLW team.

Regardless there's been plenty of contributions to NWSL from GA and ECNL.  First pick this year played in GA prior to UNC and now at Utah.  More known locally, Ellie Wheeler played at FCV and then went on to PSU and now at KC Current.[/quote]

She also played for Michigan Hawks which is ECNL.[/quote]
Who were girls development academy when she played for them. ;-)

I wish more people knew the history of clubs. If they did they'd know that the youth sports landscape can change overnight.[/quote]

And they were ECNL before DA just like 99% of all the former DA clubs.

In fact the GA clubs who developed were former DA and former ECNL clubs. So, it is the clubs that have a history of developing the players and not GA or ECNL.

This is why if NWSL creates a league they will ask clubs to join before they partner with a current league. NWSL will seek out the clubs with the best developmental history while being blind to the ECNL/GA patch.

"It's the clubs stupid", it just so happens that ECNL has most of the top clubs in the country with proven track records of developing college, pro and national team players. [/quote]
It's not the clubs. It's the players stupid. Clubs can only work with the players they have. When a great player comes along, the club likes to claim they developed them, when in reality that player had the internal drive and talent and resources to succeed and any club would have worked for them[/quote]

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