US Soccer pays the WNT contract players 100K a year for their service on the team and then also pays another 74K a year to supplement them for their NWSL salaries. This money is guaranteed pay (not sure about the NWSL part if the NWSL isn't playing). They are also given benefits. The MNT is paid only when they attend camps and play matches. The men have a much higher bonus structure, however.
US soccer has completely and formally dropped the inferior strength, speed, and responsibility argument One more for tonight on the #USWNT front: a joint stipulation filed to clarify that USSF is completely backing off the “equal skill, effort and responsibility” argument. pic.twitter.com/K6nJh936Zj— Meg Linehan (@itsmeglinehan) April 2, 2020
Here’s the ‘fine upstanding gentleman’ who’s going to lead the USSF against the USWNT russell.sauer he works for @lw.com
It's only fair. Team quality is cyclical. There is every reason for the entire program to benefit from one half's success. When the two halves of USSF are run equally, sharing should not be a problem.
I was concerned in another post that the USWNT may get paid but it will come on the backs of Youth Soccer. that appears to be what is happening according to soccer wire. It looks like they will close shop for all DA programs for girls and boys in order to pay the USWNT a potential settlement of this lawsuit. Wonder if the USWNT will be happy knowing the money they collect from US Soccer will be money that could have given young girls a chance to fulfill their dreams but now they won't have that money.
Runhard, that is quite an assumption you made, based on no factual data. The Girls DA never truly took off, and clubs were defecting to ECNL. It was only a matter of time for the DA to implode. The uncertainty of the virus allows US Soccer to save face, while dropping the DA. I cannot speak for the boys DA as I am not involved in the boys game. But, ECNL boys now exists, so US Soccer no longer has a real need to be involved.
Shutting down a girls youth soccer program to fund a payment for the USWNT, many who already make several hundred thousand a year, is a terrible thing to do.
Runhard, you are assuming these are related. No one has said they are. The girls DA was struggling. There were rumblings over the past year that its future may be bleak. Clubs were leaving every season to go to ECNL. Don't blame the women's national team. First, they have every right to fight for equal rights. Just shame on you for denying them that. Second, you are choosing your own narrative as to why the DA is being shut down. There is new leadership at US Soccer. Maybe they just don't want it anymore since it was struggling.
I hadn't come to this board recently. Now I've seen posts #633-637. I fully support what taosjohn and ytrs have written. taosjohn rightly called Runhard's view "tortured." I'd call it downright ugly.
The non-pro academy teams in the boys DA have been wanting the pro academy teams to make their own league for years now. For the most part, they simply didn’t have the resources to compete with them. I would not assume that the DA going away is anything other than the pro academies being split off into their own system from the non-pro academy teams.
OPINION: COVID-19 provides opportunity for U.S. Soccer to shut down Development Academy https://www.soccerwire.com/resource...-u-s-soccer-to-shut-down-development-academy/
Does anyone truly believe the WNT cares about the development of youth and the future compared to their own financial wealth and well being?
Why are they related? The DA has not proven to bring any results. Girls soccer was just fine with ECNL, before the DA came in and watered down both leagues. The women were usually the best in the World. Boys DA only led to a missed qualifying for the World Cup.
The girls DA is only a few years old, so it never had the opportunity to do pretty much anything. The problems that led to the US failing to qualify for the World Cup (and missing out on the last few cycles of the Olympics) predate the creation of the boys DA.
And girls teams were defecting from DA every few months so obviously it was not successful. Boys DA has been around for years. The boys DA formed in 2007, yet you think it had no affect on the current state of the men's team? That was 13 years ago. The men's team took a giant step backward by not qualifying for the 2017 world cup, which was the first time since 1986.
No one has said that, least of all Yoshou. You, on the other hand, made a firm attribution with no further evidence. 2018 And need I repeat that, as easy as CONCACAF has made things, Mexico was almost in an IDENTICAL position 4 years before that. The ONLY difference (besides a phantom goal in Panama on the final matchday that helped drive the final nail) is that the USMNT scored two stoppage time goals after they had already sewn up first place in 2014, thereby 100% rescuing Mexico from the same fate.
And even pre-Girls DA in the ECNL era we were struggling at the U-17 and U-20 level In the last decade the results for the U-17s has been particularly dire. In fact, in the 10 tournaments listed below, The U.S. won a grand total of four knockout round games. Three in the run to the 2012 U-20 Championship (with a really nice roster), and one (on a stoppage time goal over Mexico) four years later which was immediately followed up by two losses. I just went back to look, and the last U-17 knockout game (and wins) was the runners-up performance in 2008. 2018 U-20s - Failed at Group Stage (behind ESP/JPN) U-17s - Last in Group Stage (behind GER/PRK/CMR) 2016 U-20s - Fourth Place U-17s - Failed at Group Stage (behind JPN/GHA) 2014 U-20s - 2nd in Group, Lost in Qtrs to PRK on PKs U-17s - Failed to Qualify, 3rd in CONCACAF (behind MEX/CAN) 2012 U-20s - Champions U-17s - Failed at Group Stage (behind PRK/FRA) 2010 U-20s - Won Group, Lost in Qtrs ot NGR on PKs U-17s - Failed to Qualify, 3rd in CONCACAF (behind CAN/MEX)