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  1. USL is supposedly starting a pro/rel top flight league to compete with MLS and has four tiers to their pyramid so that could be interesting (especially if MLS is interested in a merger 🤷🏽‍♂️
  2. How does school work with USL2? I’m assuming he’s a freshman, so I’m assuming training in the morning, academy online schooling, then training again in the evening, correct? I think that’s how ATXFC does it. Is USL2 free and will they pay all expenses, including travel? Will they pay for a parent to travel with their 15yo? All things being equal regarding playing minutes, obviously ATXFC has more prestige and likely better coaches and far superior competition, but from what I’ve seen you can get dropped pretty quickly from the club and they are ALWAYS trying to recruit someone better than who they have. USL2 may seem safer to latch onto for longer but likely have fewer pro connections at the highest levels and therefore fewer opportunities to advance up the pyramid, IDK. I would ask about QOL outside of soccer/training, talk to other players and parents in the club. Are they happy? Is their kid happy? Is your son absolutely obsessed with soccer? Because you kind of have to be to basically be a 365 day athlete, especially at 15. Will he miss going to his high school to do online courses? There are a ton of questions to ask even before you start getting into playing time and prestige of club. My own son is 13 and on the highest level team for his age at his club but with ECNL. He chose that over MLS next because he still wants to do a lot of shit outside of soccer, including playing other sports, basketball and American football might actually be his favorite. Ask A LOT of quality of life questions of the clubs and talk to your family about the answers. Burnout and confidence loss is super common at those levels but you prolly already know that. Talk about what he will do if/when that happens. It sounds like he’s awesome, so what’s his ultimate goal? MLS? Europe? College? Just having fun at the highest level for as long as possible? I think another poster on here has a son who’s at the professional level through MLS or MLS2 but I can’t remember whom. Hopefully he sees your post. Out of curiosity what position does he play? Mine moved from the 9 to a winger and finally to RB which is a hot position right now because, at least on his team, he’s a box to box wingback style RB due to his physicality and speed and that feels like that’s a position of need and novelty in the game rn. I’m wondering about if your kid plays an attacking spot where it feels like there’s always gonna be another Messi coming up right behind him.
  3. In I guess. I’m happy it’s free again. Paying last year sucked because we sucked
  4. Bottlecap

    Austin FC

    I mean 16oz is a pint. I need one of those, perfect size
  5. I’ve hung w sax a few times. Very cool guy. He went back to school at UT, he and Ruff moved to NOLA and he became a NUR$$$$E with his degree so Ruff is prolly a stay at home gold digger 😛
  6. Excited to see some pitching FROM AN ACTUAL PITCHING COACH … LETS FUCKIN GOOO
  7. Damn! Almost 60% from 3 and 41 rebounds lol
  8. Sometimes these things don’t work out. We made him a millionaire and CDC can feel content in that. Let’s move the fuck on now.
  9. Gary Neville and Ryan Seacrest
  10. Dont forget the “+”s on the hand to remind him to stay POSITIVE. I’m sure Luka would have loved that gesture
  11. The talent disparity was crazy. We win by 16 with even a decent coach.
  12. Bottlecap

    Austin FC

    Depth is good. Very good. Especially with a versatile wingback/forward like Gallagher. He’ll get plenty of minutes and even start on double game weeks/cup games. I hope Zan gets on the pitch. Still may favorite and his left foot is deadly. I can see Brandon Vasquez loving him on the wing but he won’t displace Biro. Fortunately they’re not like-for-like so Zan still has a role on this team
  13. This team has way to much talent to be wasted on RTs “coaching”
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