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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

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https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

Haha! So GA and MLSN have had an alliance this whole time? Only took 5 years to come up with their new plan?

Thats how 5 year plans usually work

GA lost most of their top clubs to ECNL during that 5 year period.

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

Like this?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

Haha! So GA and MLSN have had an alliance this whole time? Only took 5 years to come up with their new plan?

Read it how you wish. The strategic partnership then is different from now, and both releases are not vague. Not a GAstan, but if it creates more competition at the league level (ECNL vs GA), making GA a real alternative for top talent, that is a good thing.

As an ECNL parent, it’s extremely frustrating how lazy ECNL is because it doesn’t have a competitive peer on the girls side, and it can’t seem to find the will to do anything of substance on the boys side to compete with MLSN. If this spurs ECNL to do SOMETHING as a league to meet the moment. Great.

If it ends up GA forges a pathway that meets the moment and draws the best talent, great too! This is a no-lose as a player or parent unless you’re stuck on the branding.

What’s been done here? Girls games at GA cup? What should ECNL do? Have boys games at ECNL Girls Florida?

What’s the link between NWSL and GA? Neither press release mentions NWSL.

Is anyone moving their DD to TSJ, VAR, or SYC so they can possibly play some games at a boys showcase?

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

Like this?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

Haha! So GA and MLSN have had an alliance this whole time? Only took 5 years to come up with their new plan?

Thats how 5 year plans usually work

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

Like this?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

Haha! So GA and MLSN have had an alliance this whole time? Only took 5 years to come up with their new plan?

Read it how you wish. The strategic partnership then is different from now, and both releases are not vague. Not a GAstan, but if it creates more competition at the league level (ECNL vs GA), making GA a real alternative for top talent, that is a good thing.

As an ECNL parent, it’s extremely frustrating how lazy ECNL is because it doesn’t have a competitive peer on the girls side, and it can’t seem to find the will to do anything of substance on the boys side to compete with MLSN. If this spurs ECNL to do SOMETHING as a league to meet the moment. Great.

If it ends up GA forges a pathway that meets the moment and draws the best talent, great too! This is a no-lose as a player or parent unless you’re stuck on the branding.

Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind that MLS seeks to dominate the entire market, especially with the World Cup on the horizon. This is just the beginning of significant changes that are on the way.

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

Like this?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

Haha! So GA and MLSN have had an alliance this whole time? Only took 5 years to come up with their new plan?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

Like this?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

Haha! So GA and MLSN have had an alliance this whole time? Only took 5 years to come up with their new plan?

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

Like this?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

Haha! So GA and MLSN have had an alliance this whole time? Only took 5 years to come up with their new plan?

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Anonymous wrote:I like it. I hope ga/MLSN take over and create multiple divisions and ecnl disappears so everything becomes MLS. It will be the best to USA soccer.

Like this?

https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-partners-girls-academy-largest-all-girls-youth-soccer-organization-usa

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Anonymous wrote:GA had just started and MLSN had just started.

That was a PR move to help the GA brand. They have had 4 years to collaborate and scheme how they will recreate a better version of DA.

The first step is allowing girls to GA Cup. The biggest tournament in the states.

So after four years of "collaborating", the brilliant combined minds come with up allowing girls in the GA Cup? Just imagine what they will do in the next 10 years!

Don't worry what GA is doing. You're not invited so it doesn't matter.

Stick with ECNL + the SY rec leagues and talk about RAE all day. I'm sure it's the right way to attract top talent.

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So what is going to happen is Washington Spirit will start an academy. That academy will play in the GA?

They will either create one or take an existing club (probably an old DA one) and they will play in the GA.

I do agree though that this was a Hail Mary to keep the last of their top clubs. I do think the clubs that have GA/ECNL may get plucked

Ok so assume your first part - the Spirit creates an academy. What is the advantage to playing in GA vs ECNL? Why do you assume the default is they would go to GA?
There are two NWSL teams with academies (not fully funded) today - NC Courage and Portland Thorns - and they both play in ECNL.

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Anonymous wrote:Same freak responded 3x lol.

Look up how many teams have mls next and ECNL. Look up how many teams have GA and ECNL. I’ll let your mind do the rest of the work.

Now I'm confused. Say what?

Only club around here that already has MLSN and GA together is everyones favorite SYC. Does this make them more stable and prepared for the long haul? Or does it not matter because nobody actually wants this combo because the MLSN and ECNL combo u=is preferred? Does it mattter, I don't think it does but if you are trying to integrate training and methodologies and want to give players cross training opportunities at all levels. I"m no genius but one combo does make more sense if they are already partnered.

In the past one could say that girls ECNL was better than GA and that MLSN was better than boys ECNL…

This alliance now makes GA/MLSN = ECNL…possibly better if it becomes the only path to the pros.. you see there…

You can no longer just compare ECNL to GA. You will have to compare ECNL to the Alliance

The main path to NWSL for youth players has been ECNL. Hard to see that changing anytime soon. MLSNext is a boys league

No, the main path to NWSL has been college. ECNL is the main path to college. There is no special link between ECNL and NWSL. I think that's the open space here to provide an alternative path to NWSL that isn't just college.

Correctomundo. And those that don’t go to NWSL still go to college

I think the bigger point here isn’t ECNL to College, but rather Youth to Pro on the girls side. If you don’t see that wave coming, you’re blind.

ECNL just doubled down on Youth to College.
The NCAA is doubling down on chaos. And GA just placed its bet on Youth to Pro. If you can’t see that, you’re blind.

GA’s bet looks like a risky one, but it isn’t, because of the pot odds, it’s actually very savvy and has a tremendous EV for very little wagered.

ECNL however basically just put their future in the hands of a newly unstable bipolar scratch ticket addict (the NCAA). Their bet looks like “business as usual” but the payoff of business as usual is linear and low payoff, so they made a huge bet on a small payoff. Sounds smart, but it’s closer to a coin flip than a sure thing, so it’s actually a pretty bad bet, with a negative EV because of the bet size.

ECNL is suffering from the innovators dilemma. Whereas GA has little to lose at trying new things.

Fine to be called blind but I really do not think there is a market for Youth to Pro on the girls side. No market at all. Sure you could fill the seats but at least half if not more of the top girls would stay on the Youth to College path. NCAA is not all that unstable when you go outside of revenue sports. Actually doing fine.

But there is a bigger problem with your analysis. GA did not place a bet on Youth to Pro. What they did was enter into an agreement that paves the way for future work and agreements. The GA Youth to Pro is at best 3-5 years in the future and will take 3-5 years to get off the ground is MLS acadamies are a guide. 6-10 years is a long time. I agreee you have to start somewhere and this may be the start.

If the top GA teams leave this year -- GA dies.

You are having a hard time understanding how this would work. No one is saying that this pathway to pro would make everyone on a specific team a pro player.

What will happen (see any MLS Academy) is that they will attract the top talent in an area. The very top players could “possibly” go pro, while the 99.9% have a guaranteed roster spot on the top colleges.

Unfortunately there are no big money European teams willing to pay millions for a few NWSL academy graduates to fund the academies, there are very few pro women roster slots with only 14 teams and the average player makes $65k. Limited supply and limited demand now and at least for the next decade.

Soccer is choosing to pretend GA is something it isn't with a press release and no real actual action rather than supporting girls club soccer with funds through any of these leagues. Not a great sign for the future of the women's NT.

The fact is the top of the pyramid for women’s soccer in the US right now is college. That’s where most of the money comes from (total college scholarships/NIL money is more than what NWSL provides). The leagues are set up to support college as the destination. This will remain until there is more money coming from the pro system. On the men’s side pro system has more money than colleges so it works differently. Follow the money, people. The pro money needs to be there first before the system that everyone here wants can happen. The system doesn’t change first.