Texans Acquire Land for New Training Facility

Tiki-taka wrote:Did Texans acquire the land? Or was The Texans organization puting in an entry for the US Soccer Foundations Grant Program to acquire the land?

After reading about the Grant Competition it looks as though the US Soccer Foundation will contribute Grants for persons or organizations to build a field of dreams to help disadvantaged kids play soccer. I imagine a parking lot picture in a urban environment being a better candidate for such a grant.

golgolgol wrote:

Tiki-taka wrote:Did Texans acquire the land? Or was The Texans organization puting in an entry for the US Soccer Foundations Grant Program to acquire the land?

After reading about the Grant Competition it looks as though the US Soccer Foundation will contribute Grants for persons or organizations to build a field of dreams to help disadvantaged kids play soccer. I imagine a parking lot picture in a urban environment being a better candidate for such a grant.

good point. I imagine by the wording of the tweet, that they are making a plea to US Soccer to build the land into fields.

"@ussoccerfndn 25 acres of pasture land in a great location just waiting to be soccer fields. ‪#fieldofdreams‬ pic.twitter.com/x6R0n6XG"

nowhere in there did they imply that the Texans already own this land, nor do they plan to build there. Looks more like wishful thinking on the Texans part.

EPL Fan wrote:It seems like every time we hear about a club acquiring land it is followed six months later that coaches are not getting paid. I hope you are right 02dad and they have a plan in place.

larry7405 wrote:Even if they build it our DD's will never see it..Texans cater to the boys...

larry7405 wrote:DD's have been in the boys shadows for years. US Academy is very expensive project to run on boys side.

2ddgotskillz wrote:How about the fact the boys u16 and up was gonna be free if you made the academy
team while the girls that made Ecnl still had to pay there dues.

Only reason they paid this yr was because the boys side did not represent well at Dallas Cup from what ive heard.

2ddgotskillz wrote:How about the fact the boys u16 and up was gonna be free if you made the academy
team while the girls that made Ecnl still had to pay there dues.

Only reason they paid this yr was because the boys side did not represent well at Dallas Cup from what ive heard.

Pele98 wrote:

2ddgotskillz wrote:How about the fact the boys u16 and up was gonna be free if you made the academy
team while the girls that made Ecnl still had to pay there dues.

Only reason they paid this yr was because the boys side did not represent well at Dallas Cup from what ive heard.

Used to be, but slowly changing.

The U17 and U18 Texans ECNL teams get full waiver on uniforms and partial waiver on dues. I believe this is already in effect starting this year. As far as I know, Texans is the only Club to do that. Obviously it will be great if they can do that to all age groups in ECNL (U14 - U18), but at least it is a good start and at some point the upcoming age groups will benefit on the inclusion too.

golgolgol wrote:

Pele98 wrote:

2ddgotskillz wrote:How about the fact the boys u16 and up was gonna be free if you made the academy
team while the girls that made Ecnl still had to pay there dues.

Only reason they paid this yr was because the boys side did not represent well at Dallas Cup from what ive heard.

Used to be, but slowly changing.

The U17 and U18 Texans ECNL teams get full waiver on uniforms and partial waiver on dues. I believe this is already in effect starting this year. As far as I know, Texans is the only Club to do that. Obviously it will be great if they can do that to all age groups in ECNL (U14 - U18), but at least it is a good start and at some point the upcoming age groups will benefit on the inclusion too.

Since my dd is U16 this year, I hope all ECNL do something similar next year! Although I just bought new uniforms so I'll just need reduced dues.... I'll take whatever I can get!

I don't see D'Feeters doing this though, as they don't have a lot of teams to pull $$$ from. FCD and Sting should be able to, as well as Solar.

Uncle Numanga wrote:The money going to pay some of the Texan's fees are from sponsorship. You will see a new patch on the U17 and U18 girl's uniforms this fall.