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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You still don't understand that this means what you hope or think it means. It is not lining up GA to be DA 2.0

US Soccer is out of the youth soccer business after being in it for 10 years.

NWSL is easily 20 years behind MLS at this point and is just not in a position financially or size wise to run a useful academy system.

If, NWSL clubs were interested in bringing HS age kids on board there is nothing stopping NWSL from scouting ECNL or GA events alongside colleges.

It is going to take a long time to both grow NWSL from the league that is half the size of MLS to the size of MLS while being financially able to fund both their own academies and the league.

Even MLSNext is little more than a pyramid scheme. Parents at SYC and other MLSNext clubs paying for your "pathway to pro" all the while your league fees are helping to fund the actual academies. DC United doesn't care what club you play for. It isn't necessary to play for any local MLSNext team. If you can make their academy team you can make the team. Everyone else in the league, you're funding MLS academies.

NWSL is a long ways from having that kind of system.

The other issue women's professional soccer has to contend with is Title 9. There are far more women's college programs than there are men's. Unlike men, women have a greater chance of playing in college versus men. The draw of leagues like ECNL understand this and attract large numbers of girls who are willing to pay for a relatively realistic chance at playing in college. Playing pro is not necessarily a part of the plan for girls. On the boys side, a pro path is almost necessary just to even be considered for top college programs due to the fewer college roster spots and the large international influx of players taking college spots.

If we are to take the next step NWSL need to scout ECNL and GA for youth players while making it worth their while to turn their back on college pathway. That will be a hard sell for most without big money behind it. League affiliation won't nor shouldn't matter during these early stages. NWSL has enough on its plate simply growing it's own league before it can just tack on a Academy system.

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]

Yeah thanks for the monologue, duh! You missed that fact that GA will be the path of development because there are not current pro-pathways. But if you are not given the chance to improve and train like a professional there is absolutely no chance because of narrow male viewpoints like yours. If you can't see it of course you won't believe in it, like a religion, stick to yours ECNL. I'll stick to mine, which is not GA its Development[/quote]

I never mentioned ECNL as a pathway beyond college. College is the draw not professional soccer. There is no money in it either to earn or to spend on the development and infrastructure necessary. There are not even enough teams in NWSL for the size of our country. Look at a map and tell me how a league already strapped for cash can create a useful academy system that serves the nation?

https://sportleaguemaps.com/soccer/north-america/nwsl/

If your kid doesn't make Spirit's academy are you going to move to North Carolina or Florida so your kid can earn $35k a year?[/quote]

Why not?
Many unhappy, depressed, mentally unhealthy people are making more than $135K a year[/quote]

If we're talking about NWSL salaries, drop the 1 from the 135. The fact that you think there is a 1 there shows how terrible pay is for those players. [/quote]

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