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US YOUTH SOCCER PROVIDES ELITE PROGRAM AFTER DA DEMISE

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US Youth Soccer Leads Development of New Elite Soccer Platform

With the goal of helping the disenfranchised youth soccer teams that participated in U.S. Soccer’s Development Academy, US Youth Soccer steps up. On April 15, 2020, U.S. Soccer shut the DA citing the financial impact of COVID-19 as one of the reasons.

The wake of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s decision to close the country’s elite youth soccer player development, the U.S. Soccer Development Academy, left a void. While the MLS has stepped up with an option, and US Club‘s ECNL has provided a home for several of America’s top clubs, US Youth Soccer also has announced a solution.

Read: MLS TO THE RESCUE WITH NEW ELITE COMPETITION AFTER U.S. SOCCER SHUTS DA, and...

FIFPRO: WOMEN’S FOOTBALL NEEDS FINANCIAL SUPPORT

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Women’s Soccer Vulnerable to COVID-19

Economic downturns have always negatively impacted women’s soccer — how do we protect women’s soccer today from the ravishes of the Coronavirus COVID-19?

A new FIFPRO paper warns that the growth of professional women’s football and evolution into a strong and viable industry is threatened by the implications of COVID-19.

The absence of basic worker protections and global industry standards for working conditions in women’s football also means the livelihoods of female players are extremely vulnerable.

The view is part of FIFPRO’s paper COVID-19: Implications for Professional Women’s Football.

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The current economic standstill could ultimately result in insolvencies of otherwise profitable and stable clubs across many markets, the paper says, adding the sector faces “an...

WHY U.S. SOCCER CLOSED THE DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY

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How Can The Soccer Federation Not Have Answers? If Not Them, Who?

While the idea of the DA was born from a necessity to raise the level of training for both players and coaches in the USA, and the concept was to not have the program last a lifetime but to gradually give the age groups back to the clubs, why during a time of unprecedented uncertainty would any Federation totally abdicate their role and responsibility now?

It is with profound disappointment that U.S. Soccer has made the determination to end the operation of the Development Academy, effective immediately. pic.twitter.com/WdnmrsIqZr

— Development Academy (@ussoccer_da) April 15, 2020
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After days of torrid tales of the impending demise of the U.S. Soccer Development...

SAN DIEGO SURF AND REAL SO CAL LEAVE DA AND JOIN ECNL GIRLS

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Two Founding Members of ECNL Return

As the landscape continues to shift in response to U.S. Soccer closing the Development Academy, nationally recognized, high-level competitive clubs seek sanctuary and future growth with ECNL.

The Elite Clubs National League Girls is excited to announce that the San Diego Surf and Real So Cal will be joining the ECNL Girls in 2020-2021.

For more than a decade, the ECNL has supported the nation’s leading youth players to compete at the highest level while supporting the development of their players based on the specific needs of their players, teams, and culture.

Read: TOP SO CAL BOYS TEAMS MOVE TO ECNL IN ANTICIPATION OF DA DEMISE

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