Confusion with DC United and Virginia Revolution and SAI

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to understand what this means. "Beginning in January 2024, DC United will partner with VA Revolution and SAI to use the RSA as the home for DC United Academy players who are on the pathway to a professional career. “D.C. United is proud to work with VA Revolution to offer our academy players enhanced programming including online school and multiple training sessions per day."
Link: https://varevolution.com/news/announcing-revolution-sports-academy-rsa/

I interpret DC United academy players will come to Revolution sports plex to use their indoor offices for SAI and RSA for school. Only available to DC United academy players and not VA Revolution players. Virginia Revolution SC and DCU both have teams in UPSL. Why would DC United Academy not use an SAI partnership with Loudoun United as a professional career? That makes more sense to me than VA Revolution, who does have an UPSL team, but MLS Next and Academy-USL-MLS makes more sense to me.

How do you all interpret this information? Do we have inside details? What does this mean for the future of VA Revolution players-going into-DC United Academy?

[Anonymous]

Money.

[Anonymous]

VA Revolution reminds me of a tech company with venture funding, but no actual plan

[Anonymous]

The online school is not good and it costs about $8,000 a year (at least according to a current DCU parent who was complaining about it to us).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VA Revolution reminds me of a tech company with venture funding, but no actual plan

Lol! Tons of cash…and plenty of bad ideas!

[Anonymous]

It's the younger age groups when soccer is still mostly about playing and having fun with your friends that really keep them going. And as those kids grow up and the players/parents that become "serious" about soccer realize that they need to go somewhere else, there's a whole new wave of young players and their parents coming in the door to fill up the coffers again.

The fact that they celebrated (on social media) U8 and U9 teams getting accepted into Jefferson Cup while stating that "The Jeff Cup is the nationals biggest tournament with only ECNL, MLS Next and GA clubs competing" is a great example of something that sounds really good on paper but in reality, has just a few things wrong with it. Hiring CC could be the best decision they've ever made but it will take time and they'll need to get rid of some of the dead wood, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the younger age groups when soccer is still mostly about playing and having fun with your friends that really keep them going. And as those kids grow up and the players/parents that become "serious" about soccer realize that they need to go somewhere else, there's a whole new wave of young players and their parents coming in the door to fill up the coffers again.

The fact that they celebrated (on social media) U8 and U9 teams getting accepted into Jefferson Cup while stating that "The Jeff Cup is the nationals biggest tournament with only ECNL, MLS Next and GA clubs competing" is a great example of something that sounds really good on paper but in reality, has just a few things wrong with it. Hiring CC could be the best decision they've ever made but it will take time and they'll need to get rid of some of the dead wood, too.

Agreed about using those kids. Fun fact: more than half of them came from FCV who they were formerly known as Barca academy before they merged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:VA Revolution reminds me of a tech company with venture funding, but no actual plan

Lol! Tons of cash…and plenty of bad ideas!

LMAO!

[Anonymous]

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the younger age groups when soccer is still mostly about playing and having fun with your friends that really keep them going. And as those kids grow up and the players/parents that become "serious" about soccer realize that they need to go somewhere else, there's a whole new wave of young players and their parents coming in the door to fill up the coffers again.

The fact that they celebrated (on social media) U8 and U9 teams getting accepted into Jefferson Cup while stating that "The Jeff Cup is the nationals biggest tournament with only ECNL, MLS Next and GA clubs competing" is a great example of something that sounds really good on paper but in reality, has just a few things wrong with it. Hiring CC could be the best decision they've ever made but it will take time and they'll need to get rid of some of the dead wood, too.

Agreed about using those kids. Fun fact: more than half of them came from FCV who they were formerly known as Barca academy before they merged.

They never merged. Not sure about more than half, but maybe.

[Anonymous]

FCV acquired TGS which owned the naming rights to Barca

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCV acquired TGS which owned the naming rights to Barca

Right but FCV/TGS never merged with VRSC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the younger age groups when soccer is still mostly about playing and having fun with your friends that really keep them going. And as those kids grow up and the players/parents that become "serious" about soccer realize that they need to go somewhere else, there's a whole new wave of young players and their parents coming in the door to fill up the coffers again.

The fact that they celebrated (on social media) U8 and U9 teams getting accepted into Jefferson Cup while stating that "The Jeff Cup is the nationals biggest tournament with only ECNL, MLS Next and GA clubs competing" is a great example of something that sounds really good on paper but in reality, has just a few things wrong with it. Hiring CC could be the best decision they've ever made but it will take time and they'll need to get rid of some of the dead wood, too.

Well, they are a new club, founded in 2018... The U8/U9 teams are the first homegrown teams that have come through their pipeline "Youth Academy". Yes the kids will have to look elsewhere if they don't get ECNL/MLS Next.

[Anonymous]

VRSC is run by a salesman that also likes/maybe previously played soccer. A salesman whose previous business ventures were under big time scrutiny from local homeowners. Hope he's changed his ways but I'm not holding my breath. I don't even think the guy holds any notable coaching licenses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:VRSC is run by a salesman that also likes/maybe previously played soccer. A salesman whose previous business ventures were under big time scrutiny from local homeowners. Hope he's changed his ways but I'm not holding my breath. I don't even think the guy holds any notable coaching licenses.

Oh wow, did not know that. I don't know much about him.