The panicked voices crackled through Zoom well past 10 p.m. on the night the girls soccer pipeline crumbled.
So their clubs, intent on retaining them, had a choice.
Richards, the ECNL commissioner, in his statement through a publicist, said “the ECNL added as many clubs as possible on both the boys and girls side without overwhelming the competition structure and calendar creating an unmanageable number of clubs or reducing member service, and without reducing the quality of play for existing clubs.”
U.S. Soccer paid the Belgian consultancy Double Pass to essentially audit DA clubs; it employed regional DA managers to support best practices and police noncompliance. And that now is what the ECNL, GA and others lack.
They often default to the ones who offer exposure, but exposure often requires taxing travel and an overload of games. It can turn girls into"80-year-olds by the time they're 22," Gallimore says. Robertson coaches teens, and he agrees: “It's like watching grandmas walk sometimes.” It can sap joy and hinder personal growth, too.
“It's clear that even at the Under-20 level, we're not there anymore,” Hickey says."And we [once] were.”
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