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Post by Soccerhouse on Mar 23, 2015 12:49:29 GMT -5
I personally don't know the history etc, so maybe they did start a youth system and it didn't thrive. I know Boris has from what i've been told a very healthy and successful (profitable, i guess) adult league and indoor league. Assuming field space is/was an issue.
Was there ever a discussion to start a youth academy system? not having one, could that also contribute to their ultimate demise? having a youth academy, the current players (some of them) could have had salaries offset with support for coaching teams (many which do anyway). The greater atlanta market is flooded with former silverback players as coaches, imagine if many were still coaching within a silverbacks youth system.
look at orlando city, they had a lower level USL team, and the pyramid of a youth system underneath it.
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Post by soccerfan30 on Mar 23, 2015 14:38:15 GMT -5
Soccerhouse
Not sure how long you've been involved with youth soccer in Georgia but there was a failed and not very well thought out attempt to have a club under the Silverbacks brand. Back in early 2000's there were two clubs in the Marietta area: United Quest Soccer Club (Canterbury Park) and Metro North Soccer Club ( Nasa fields off Paper Mill) both we're both sizeable and successful clubs.
I'm not sure on the actual facts but these are just comments and observations that were relayed to me from people within the club and from perceptions from the outside. Someone feel free to correct and or add to the discussion.
United Quest and Metro North both merged and became the Silverbacks Soccer Club. I don't think there was any foresight into making it a true merger/academy...mainly the Silverbacks had a financial stake in the merger and visibility for their brand. The club used the same jerseys and color scheme as the Men's team, believe they used Joma brand, which wasn't a very good quality. It was touted as providing the youth players a pipeline into the pro team and access the Silverbacks players and coaches. Not sure how much of that actually happened. From many people that I knew they were very unhappy and vocal against being part of the Silverbacks brand. You should have seen the other forum back in the day, pages and pages of rants about this topic.
The Silverbacks don't have a successful track record in running their own pro teams while in existence, high turnover in coaches, for a long time no local players, players not getting paid, etc. Many people didn't have confidence they could run a successful youth program. Turns out those people were right, I think the Silverbacks club only lasted two or three years and both clubs left which I think lead to the formation of NASA.
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Post by Soccerhouse on Mar 23, 2015 14:49:07 GMT -5
Soccerhouse Not sure how long you've been involved with youth soccer in Georgia but there was a failed and not very well thought out attempt to have a club under the Silverbacks brand. Back in early 2000's there were two clubs in the Marietta area: United Quest Soccer Club (Canterbury Park) and Metro North Soccer Club ( Nasa fields off Paper Mill) both we're both sizeable and successful clubs........ That is exactly what I was wondering! my kids were just little ones back then! honestly never even knew the prior history with NASA! so what your saying is ironically, this entire "superclub" concept is the silver backs fault.... (just kidding about super club and silverbacks obviously..) |
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Post by soccerfan30 on Mar 23, 2015 17:55:56 GMT -5
Soccerhouse Not sure how long you've been involved with youth soccer in Georgia but there was a failed and not very well thought out attempt to have a club under the Silverbacks brand. Back in early 2000's there were two clubs in the Marietta area: United Quest Soccer Club (Canterbury Park) and Metro North Soccer Club ( Nasa fields off Paper Mill) both we're both sizeable and successful clubs........ That is exactly what I was wondering! my kids were just little ones back then! honestly never even knew the prior history with NASA! so what your saying is ironically, this entire "superclub" concept is the silver backs fault.... (just kidding about super club and silverbacks obviously..) I wouldn't describe it as a superclub, I think the Silverbacks got a percentage of each kid registered and the club was wearing their kits so I'm not sure they were that hands on other than promoting their brand. |
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Post by Soccerhouse on Mar 24, 2015 7:29:16 GMT -5
Meant the creation of NASA, I guess concorde and atlanta fire merge was just before the NASA creation.
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