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Post by Soccerhouse on Jan 27, 2017 9:26:10 GMT -5
Wow - in a single year, the landscape of youth soccer in this state has drastically changed. Crazy how there is little the state organizations can do at this time.
Yes, I'm still bitter about the age group change. Yes, I'm still bitter about the field sizes for 7v7 and 9v9, taking the same size pitches and just throwing another body on them. Some fields are fine, others are not.
But who would have predicted 3 years ago that we would be where we are today. I'm shocked. We have had a few huge club mergers. We have seen age mandates and small sided mandates. We have seen age mandates not line up between various you soccer levels. We have seen Atlanta United's impact. We have seen ODP essentially die (yes extreme) We have seen DA expand to 6 u12 boys DA teams. We have seen GA United, the most successful DA program in the southeast give up its older age groups. We have seen, and have to assume, now GA United will give up the younger age groups, and maybe bring back the older age groups? We have seen girls DA created. We have seen boys ECNL created. We have seen multiple clubs get awarded u13/u14 boys DAs.
I repeat, in a million years, prior to the quick Atlanta United announcement about being awarded a MLS club, I never would have predicted what would happen. Honestly, the only thing that I predicted that is right is that TA would get hired at Atlanta United. I think its safe to say I'm not a fortune teller for sure!
My future guess are the following - -TA will be coaching a first team in the MLS soon. -Atlanta United creates a girls academy -another big club merges -MLS spins off its own higher level mandated fully funded DA program -fees will continue to increase for most clubs
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Post by allthingsoccer on Jan 27, 2017 12:10:44 GMT -5
Yep, crazy train.
I agree on your future predictions.
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Post by mark on Jan 28, 2017 13:41:15 GMT -5
Prediction: the youth support for Atlanta United quickly disappears when everyone realizes that all their homegrown signings never see the field.
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