It is absolutely true that we need a solution to how to structure a pyramid in the United States that is uniquely American. We can look to the rest of the world for what needs to happen but how we are going to make a unified pyramid with Promotion and Relegation work for our geography and sports landscape? We need our own way to do things.
BTW yall if we structure the pyramid like this... creating basically a merger of Champions League, college sports, and hyper local HS culture that allows every community in. We can take advantage of our size & our existing sporting culture/norms.
— Chris Kessell (@THEChrisKessell) August 21, 2020
Every city/town big & small pic.twitter.com/Wzex60LnI4
"American sports" like football, baseball, and basketball thrive off of the hyper local nature of high schools and the regional rivalries of college sports. HS and college sports are most sports fans in the United States live and in person access to the game . This local and regional nature to sports in the US has to be recreated in our pyramid.
The EUFA Champions League is the epitome of what the "best of the best" that American sports fans love and is the world standard for high end club soccer... and if you take in to account how people in the US consume sports it is really what the NFL and NBA playoffs are and something like it has to be included. A national competition of the best of the best...
Everyone involved with soccer at the elite youth level knows we need 1st teams for our youth players in every community to drive development and competition. That is why ECNL and USL are both starting similar youth leagues.
Why doesn't US Soccer just create a pyramid for actual First Teams... instead of youth clubs mimicking what is needed with this program and USLs Academy set up?
— Chris Kessell (@THEChrisKessell) December 3, 2020
https://t.co/cRw6ckwgFZ
It is going to take 1000's of clubs to fill out the men's and women's pyramids. The most obvious question to ask is "Where are all of these clubs going to come from?"
Beau Dure has started a database of youth clubs in the United States and is already over 1450 of the over 9000 youth clubs that exist in the United States...
Have I mentioned recently that I spent weeks assembling a directory of 1,455 youth clubs, with information on their leagues and a compilation of various ranking sources?
— Beau Dure (@duresport) December 3, 2020
Because I did ... https://t.co/ZVXWetAjOJ
The most obvious answer is right here. We have thousands of youth clubs all across the country...
These youth clubs are already starting "1st Team" type of environment to compete in the two aforementioned leagues along with the adult u20 league that exists this year within the existing USYS National and Regional League system.
When you add these youth clubs to the existing thousands of adult teams, the hundreds of "Elite Amateur Clubs", and the professional clubs already in existence we see that filling out a pyramid is going to happen much quicker than many people expect.
Hopefully eventually leadership within US Soccer and all of its members will decide that we want to do right by the millions of players, coaches, and referees out there...
— Chris Kessell (@THEChrisKessell) December 1, 2020
Instead of doing right by a few dozen owners of a marketing company... #ProRelForUSA #ReformUSSF
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