GA departures

As tryouts and team shuffling gets underway, is it confirmed that Beach and Legends are out of GA? Any other teams moving?

Where are girls Strikers playing?
 
Strikers girls are ECNL. Look at their Instagram. They have their coaching staff and tryouts listed for the ECNL teams for next season.
 
As tryouts and team shuffling gets underway, is it confirmed that Beach and Legends are out of GA? Any other teams moving?

Where are girls Strikers playing?
I believe this weekend @ Great Park bro. Come on out and check out the matches. My dd HSS team is traveling to West Covina tonight for first round action of the Ford Focus CIF and if they can pull off the upset, then it will most likely be a Second Round match at home this Friday Night Lights. The good news in all this mess, the girls are playing soccer. I know that is the silver lining in all this Gies. The Naysayers are just want they are. Look, take everything I say with a grain of salt and a shot of your favorite Tequila. Whatever floats your boat, just do it. Rumor mill is so crazy right about now. For the kids sakes, I hope the adults are honest and transparent so the kids don;t get played again by all the adults looking for what's best for them and their child and not what's best for all the kids.
 
I know it's not GA - but I think DPL is the 2nd tier for GA teams, right?
I heard that Liverpool (formerly LA Galaxy OC) will have teams in DPL next year. Will they have GA teams too?
 
I know it's not GA - but I think DPL is the 2nd tier for GA teams, right?
I heard that Liverpool (formerly LA Galaxy OC) will have teams in DPL next year. Will they have GA teams too?
yes that is correct DPL is second to the GA. make sure there is a good path with that club beyond DPL. We played DPL with LAGOC --but the DPL team in OC was actually out of southbay where the Academy was. SD had its own Academy and DPL. OC didn't. Near the end of our season when all teams were almost filled for the next year we learned that the DPL designation was moving to south bay. It was not handled well and there was only transparency once they were caught and families called them out. We had an amazing team, families and record. LAGOC did not retain one player. Had I understood in the beginning of the structure we would not have gone there because there was no higher level path. There may be now and not sure if your goal is to play GA or DPL I just wanted to share our story if it helps.
 
There were a few clubs let in DPL for this coming year that do not have GA and Liverpool was one of them. Maybe those clubs get GA after a year I am not sure but originally all DPL teams were the B teams to the clubs A teams in DA.
 
Looks like the 2 Vegas teams and Del Sol have been moved to the Mountain West division.

Do you think the GA is abandoning (so to speak) SW conference and building the mountain conference? Adding teams to the SW conference at a later time?

Interesting move. From an AZ perspective (and Vegas), this makes travel less convenient, more airplane rides (CO/UT).

We will see how this will be pitched to parents after the fact (tryouts and offers are complete). I'm pretty sure out of conference games will still be played VS the SW conference.

Is this a trend that ECNL will follow? Move AZ and NV into the mountain conference and consolidate the SW conference to just CA teams. Would make a ton of sense to consolidate.
 
Socal really should be the trend setter and just make it one league (ECNL + DA). Add 3 of the 5 remaining clubs based on geography of existing ECNL teams.
CA really doesn't have a need for an outside league - to your point, CA could create it's own league and still drive the train. Why travel to AZ and NV when they can play quality games locally. Have a showcase every now and again - teams from out of state will travel. The GA has seemed very willing to allow it's teams to compete in out of league games.
 
If you look at the 2nd tier league for GA which is the DPL there seemed to be major expansion this past season. They added LVSA, Murrieta Surf, FRAM, SM Surf, Santa Barbara , South Valley Surf and Liverpool. From what I can tell it looks like GA will make an expansion in the SW for the 2022 season. Looking at the GA map its interesting to see that there is no presence in the OC or south bay/west LA. Looks like PATS is deciding to play ECRL next season, will be interesting to see if they remain DPL as well.
 
If you look at the 2nd tier league for GA which is the DPL there seemed to be major expansion this past season. They added LVSA, Murrieta Surf, FRAM, SM Surf, Santa Barbara , South Valley Surf and Liverpool. From what I can tell it looks like GA will make an expansion in the SW for the 2022 season. Looking at the GA map its interesting to see that there is no presence in the OC or south bay/west LA. Looks like PATS is deciding to play ECRL next season, will be interesting to see if they remain DPL as well.

Personally, I hope they add a North OC team. I know of plenty of great players driving to Irvine to be part of the Slammers/Blues/WC/Strikers. North OC could also attract players from Anaheim, Norwalk, Cerritos. Plenty of talented players in this North OC area.
 
Yeah they're clearly looking to reduce travel requirements to and from SoCal. I'd expect to see more SW GA club announcements in the near future. Probably one more club in San Diego (SD Force) and a few LA/Inland Empire/OC clubs. This will also solidify GA as the clear 2nd tier league to ECNL in SoCal (not that it wasn't already). I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, although one has to wonder if a National league is really needed at this level of competition. That said, I do like what GA has been doing as a league and I really hope they grow and see success.
 
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