The League for Clubs

the pecking spotlight is FC Soho.

They are a league for clubs team launching and set to hit the field next year.

And when they introduce themselves, they are Gabba and Constantine, the two owner and directors of FC Soho.

They're 21 years old.

Yeah, and there's some new ones coming in.

League for Clubs and the amateur teams are starting to be released and expansion, you know, the ever-changing American soccer landscape continues.

So we might have some new clubs to review in the chamber in the future.

But we've got a whole lot to talk about.

But to me, Robert, this, this, this signals that, like, not only do, does NCAA see the potential in, you know, college soccer and just the growth of soccer and maybe capitalizing a little bit on that, you know, but also maybe just getting a more streamlined development system going in America where, you know, players that are growing up can be like, "Okay, you know, if I wanna play professional soccer, which route do I go? Oh, I can play, you know, for, you know, on the same schedule in college as they do in MLS.

Maybe I do that instead." And so the other question I have, Robert, how does this affect USL 2, Midwest Premier League, the League of Clubs, et cetera, because those leagues basically is, are sustained on college players.

Yeah, it's a good question, and I'm sure that makes a lot of folks in those, those summer soccer leagues a little bit nervous, but it could be one of those things that forces the change to happen to where the amateur teams aren't, uh, just, you know, almost solely relying on college talent.

But, um, on the, the kinda college system itself, I mean, the, up until very recently, until the, like the, the recent rise of, like, MLS academies and, and stuff like that, the, the whole development, uh, conveyor belt, if it were, is like youth soccer.