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CFC fields challenge teams but not at every age level. I think this is due to lack of numbers. i think CFC and USA lose players to CESA every year because of this. I know of some players that jumped ship from both clubs because CESA fields higher level teams. If these clubs merged it would give them the player pool to build on. Just an Idea.



Exactly one of the reasons why ASA and CASC decided to merge (along with others). ASA's most successful girls team lost their best players to CESA (2 on 93Premier, 2 on 92Premier, 3 on 91Challenge). I can only see good coming from a merger of small, close clubs: better players, retention of players, shared facilities, control of escalating costs.