{"id":4731,"date":"2020-12-14T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usclub.gotsportsites.com\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2021-07-28T05:36:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T09:36:03","slug":"us-club-soccer-welcomes-southern-california-developmental-soccer-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/us-club-soccer-welcomes-southern-california-developmental-soccer-league\/","title":{"rendered":"US Club Soccer welcomes Southern California Developmental Soccer League"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4731\" class=\"elementor elementor-4731\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-dce2f8e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"dce2f8e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d700bfb\" data-id=\"d700bfb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37200c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"37200c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\nUS Club Soccer welcomes Southern California Developmental Soccer League<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-60689b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"60689b0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-336948c\" data-id=\"336948c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08196eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"08196eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"layoutContainer row layout-100 \"><div class=\"column-1 column col-sm-12 col-md-12\"><div id=\"pageEl_504170884\" class=\"pageEl\"><div class=\"pageElement textBlockElement clearfix\"><div class=\"text clearfix\"><p>US Club Soccer is excited to welcome the\u00a0<strong>Southern California Developmental Soccer League (SCDSL)<\/strong>\u00a0to its membership, beginning with the 2021-22 season.<\/p><p>With this partnership,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scdslsoccer.com\/club-directory\">71 clubs<\/a>\u00a0and their more than 2,200 teams and 37,000 players and staff in U-8 through U-19 age groups will benefit from an all-inclusive suite of programming and resources managed directly by SCDSL.<\/p><p>&#8220;This really is an exciting time in SoCal youth soccer,&#8221; said Michelle Chesters, SCDSL Director of Operations. &#8220;The ability for the SCDSL to directly control our programming and calendar will allow us to expand our program offerings, making the SCDSL all-inclusive for our members&#8221;<\/p><p>\u201cThe timing is right for SCDSL member clubs to take matters into their own hands,\u201d said SCDSL Technical Committee member and Strikers FC Director of Coaching Don Ebert. \u201cThe move to US Club will allow us to better serve our members as the landscape of youth soccer continues to change and evolve. This puts us at the forefront of that change. Quite frankly, this is the time to bet on ourselves and see what we can achieve as members of US Club Soccer.\u201d<\/p><p>Among the highlights:<\/p><ul><li><strong>League play.<\/strong>\u00a0SCDSL will provide league competition for all flights and intends to extend the season beyond the fall into winter and spring. SCDSL\u2019s Discovery NPL will be part of US Club Soccer\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usclubsoccer.org\/npl\">National Premier Leagues (NPL)<\/a>, a collection of 21 leagues unified under one national competition platform and based on a common technical framework. Qualifiers from the SCDSL\u2019s Discovery NPL will join teams from other NPLs throughout the country in competing for a national championship via the NPL postseason.<br \/>\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>State Cup.\u00a0<\/strong>SCDSL will run a Southern California-based State Cup to include all flights in the league. Qualifiers from each flight in U-9 through U-19 age groups will then meet qualifiers from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.norcalpremier.com\/\">NorCal Premier Soccer<\/a>\u00a0to determine a true State Cup champion in each age group, from which age-applicable teams will advance directly to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usclubsoccer.org\/national-cup\">National Cup Finals<\/a>, US Club Soccer\u2019s national cup-based championship event. More details will be released subsequently in a joint release by SCDSL, the NorCal Premier Soccer, and US Club Soccer. Further, relationships with the top venues in Southern California will mean less travel and premier facilities for State Cup competition.<br \/>\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>College Showcases<\/strong>, including combined programming and competition with NorCal Premier Soccer.<br \/>\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Olympic Development Program (ODP)-sanctioned player identification and development pathway.<\/strong>\u00a0SCDSL members will benefit from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usclubsoccer.org\/player-identification\">US Club Soccer\u2019s ODP-sanctioned programming<\/a>, which includes PDPs at the local level, id2 Training Camps at the regional and national level, as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usclubsoccer.org\/national-selection-programming\">National Selection programming<\/a>\u00a0at the national and international level. This pathway provides opportunities for exposure to National Team staff. A few of the past participants include Tyler Adams, Emily Alvarado, Jonathan Gonzalez, Lindsey Horan, Catarina Mac\u00e1rio, Christian Pulisic, and Tim Weah, among others.<br \/>\u00a0<\/li><li><strong>Coaching education.<\/strong>\u00a0SCDSL will internally host\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usclubsoccer.org\/coaching-license-courses\">U.S. Soccer coach licenses courses via US Club Soccer<\/a>, and benefit from US Club Soccer\u2019s other educational and developmental offerings, such as its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usclubsoccer.org\/laliga-coach-education\">LaLiga coaching education programming<\/a>. By controlling the calendar of coaching education courses, SCDSL can ensure that coaches whom desire to further their licensing have the opportunity to do so.<\/li><\/ul><p>\u201cWe are very excited to welcome the SCDSL and its member clubs and their players into the US Club Soccer family,\u201d said Kevin Payne, US Club Soccer CEO\/Executive Director. \u201cThese are some of the strongest and most forward looking clubs in America and they will help us continue to strengthen our programming on multiple levels.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"layoutContainer row layout-100 \"><div class=\"column-1 column col-sm-12 col-md-12\"><div id=\"pageEl_504170897\" class=\"pageEl\"><div class=\"pageElement textBlockElement clearfix\"><h3>ABOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENTAL SOCCER LEAGUE (SCDSL):<\/h3><div class=\"text clearfix\"><p>The Southern California Developmental Soccer League (SCDSL) was created in 2011 to serve the needs of clubs looking to have the ability to control player and team environments. The league platform and format was designed collectively by coaching directors from some of the most respected youth clubs in the country, and emphasis has been placed on providing a match day environment conducive to promoting player development.<\/p><p>The principal mission of the Southern California Developmental Soccer League (the \u201cCorporation\u201d) is to allow all participating clubs to have the freedom to make decisions that are in the best interest of all their players and to place the League\u2019s priority first and foremost on true player development.\u00a0\u00a0All SCDSL clubs understand that the landscape of youth soccer is dramatically changing across the country and the philosophy of the Corporation\u00a0ensures that players of all abilities will be training or competing in an environment that allows them to reach their full potential.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Club Soccer welcomes Southern California Developmental Soccer League US Club Soccer is excited to welcome the\u00a0Southern California Developmental Soccer League (SCDSL)\u00a0to its membership, beginning with the 2021-22 season. With this partnership,\u00a071 clubs\u00a0and their more than 2,200 teams and 37,000<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/us-club-soccer-welcomes-southern-california-developmental-soccer-league\/\"> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-custom_post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usclubsoccer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}