DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not

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Anonymous wrote:Can coaches act as gatekeepers than essentially?

Coaches can and often do act as gatekeepers. Good ones are transparent. Bad ones are not always.

This blows my mind, how does a coach gatekeep? Will they actually not tell a player that an academy is interested? Or tell an academy that a player is not as good as they may think? That just sounds farfetched.

It's about money and keeping players. This happens for sure especially at clubs that don't cooperate with DCU and think they are at the same level. You can guess which clubs those are

But wouldn’t it be harder to gate keep now that there’s Taka - which in principal, is kind of a third party evaluator of the players. Especially at U13 and U14. If they have Quality of Play data, they’ve got to have stats on each kid?

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What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

Im not PP but I do think the online school option makes other parts of the country more attractive. I mean the draws of being at your local academy is still proximity to somewhat a regular in-person school option. And you have to pay for that option. If families are going to pay for education anyway, they should be able to pick any education locally or just send their kid to public school for free.

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What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

I can't tell if you're ignorant or trolling, top kids already have been going to other academy teams. I didn't say all, I said the top kids who the academy is willing to invest in by paying for boarding/food/schooling. Top kids as in, projected to go pro, not the pro/college or college path players.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

I can't tell if you're ignorant or trolling, top kids already have been going to other academy teams. I didn't say all, I said the top kids who the academy is willing to invest in by paying for boarding/food/schooling. Top kids as in, projected to go pro, not the pro/college or college path players.

Where is this database of players from the DMV that at 13, 14, 15 years old are known to be going Pro (Mr Nostradamus) and are all now at other academies across the country?
How high are these massive numbers of kids?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

I can't tell if you're ignorant or trolling, top kids already have been going to other academy teams. I didn't say all, I said the top kids who the academy is willing to invest in by paying for boarding/food/schooling. Top kids as in, projected to go pro, not the pro/college or college path players.

Where is this database of players from the DMV that at 13, 14, 15 years old are known to be going Pro (Mr Nostradamus) and are all now at other academies across the country?
How high are these massive numbers of kids?

I myself want to see the current active Pros who left the DMV to go to academies other than DCU

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

A press release full of bullsh#t messages that only someone that knows nothing about DCU and it's history would accept as legitimate. The TRUTH without the .messaging garbage is:

DCU dropped it's u14 team to help offset the costs of the online school.

DCUs program isn't a residency program because it does not house the kids or board the kids. Using "residency" is DCU trying to purposefully mislead you. It offers online schooling while the kids train 2 times a day. THATS IT. A true residency program houses and feeds the kids all year round. .DCU is light years away from.this.

"Regional pool"of talent for the U14s is an absolute joke. What other successful.academy do you know of worldwide or in the US, that doesn't have their kids in house? This is just a way for them to try and soften the reality of the fact that they can't pay for the U14s because the ownership are cheap bums.

DCU is not producing pros through their academy and haven't done so in quite a while and the pipeline is weak. Largely because the academy system is weak and the kids they do have will.have minimal chances of becoming pros in their system because they don't have the coaches or infrastructure to sustain top class development of footballers.

Online school is mandatory and it costs close to 10k. Which makes DCU pay to play. The only club in the ENTIRE MLS system to take a step backwards in this way.

The entire restructuring is about saving money and that is all. The wording of the release is to try and paint of better picture of the reality at DCU.The press release could have said this and been totally accurate:

DCU DROPS U14 PROGRAM TO SAVE MONEY AND KEEPS ACADEMY SYSTEM PAY TO PLAY FOR ALL AGES WITH A MANDATORY ONLINE SCHOOL.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

I can't tell if you're ignorant or trolling, top kids already have been going to other academy teams. I didn't say all, I said the top kids who the academy is willing to invest in by paying for boarding/food/schooling. Top kids as in, projected to go pro, not the pro/college or college path players.

Where is this database of players from the DMV that at 13, 14, 15 years old are known to be going Pro (Mr Nostradamus) and are all now at other academies across the country?
How high are these massive numbers of kids?

Don't be ridiculous. Why would there be a database of kids from here at other academys? Just because you don't know who they are, means they don't exist? You act like I'm the one picking out these kids, ask the scouts why they pick who they pick.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

I can't tell if you're ignorant or trolling, top kids already have been going to other academy teams. I didn't say all, I said the top kids who the academy is willing to invest in by paying for boarding/food/schooling. Top kids as in, projected to go pro, not the pro/college or college path players.

Where is this database of players from the DMV that at 13, 14, 15 years old are known to be going Pro (Mr Nostradamus) and are all now at other academies across the country?
How high are these massive numbers of kids?

Don't be ridiculous. Why would there be a database of kids from here at other academys? Just because you don't know who they are, means they don't exist? You act like I'm the one picking out these kids, ask the scouts why they pick who they pick.

I believe the phrase is put up or shut up

Spreading rumors because of this obsession gonna give you ulcers

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

I can't tell if you're ignorant or trolling, top kids already have been going to other academy teams. I didn't say all, I said the top kids who the academy is willing to invest in by paying for boarding/food/schooling. Top kids as in, projected to go pro, not the pro/college or college path players.

Where is this database of players from the DMV that at 13, 14, 15 years old are known to be going Pro (Mr Nostradamus) and are all now at other academies across the country?
How high are these massive numbers of kids?

Don't be ridiculous. Why would there be a database of kids from here at other academys? Just because you don't know who they are, means they don't exist? You act like I'm the one picking out these kids, ask the scouts why they pick who they pick.

I believe the phrase is put up or shut up

Spreading rumors because of this obsession gonna give you ulcers

It's ok, out of sight out of mind right.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

I can't tell if you're ignorant or trolling, top kids already have been going to other academy teams. I didn't say all, I said the top kids who the academy is willing to invest in by paying for boarding/food/schooling. Top kids as in, projected to go pro, not the pro/college or college path players.

Where is this database of players from the DMV that at 13, 14, 15 years old are known to be going Pro (Mr Nostradamus) and are all now at other academies across the country?
How high are these massive numbers of kids?

Don't be ridiculous. Why would there be a database of kids from here at other academys? Just because you don't know who they are, means they don't exist? You act like I'm the one picking out these kids, ask the scouts why they pick who they pick.

I believe the phrase is put up or shut up

Spreading rumors because of this obsession gonna give you ulcers

He’s right though; they’re not rumors. All these personal insults at him aren’t going to change the status of DCU academy.

And what are you even concerned about? DCU is still an MLS academy and will attract players. This thread isn’t going to affect that.

[Anonymous]

It's the same person that claimed there aren't any DMV kids playing in other academy teams. I believe his argument was that there are plenty of talent in their own region, why would they take any kids from out of state. Obviously he's clueless, even when plenty of posters provided proof.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the same person that claimed there aren't any DMV kids playing in other academy teams. I believe his argument was that there are plenty of talent in their own region, why would they take any kids from out of state. Obviously he's clueless, even when plenty of posters provided proof.

In addition to not fully cooperating with DCUA, it seems as local clubs and parents in the know are actively trying to get their players into other clubs instead of DCUA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's the same person that claimed there aren't any DMV kids playing in other academy teams. I believe his argument was that there are plenty of talent in their own region, why would they take any kids from out of state. Obviously he's clueless, even when plenty of posters provided proof.

In addition to not fully cooperating with DCUA, it seems as local clubs and parents in the know are actively trying to get their players into other clubs instead of DCUA.

BUT BUT BUT .. THERE'S NO DATABASE OF THESE KIDS!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpr-SJgawD/?igsh=MXF6dmVvMmQ2ZWlrZg==

What exactly is a U14 regional pool mean for DCU academy? Basically the kids that got offers that were pulled? All the players they scouted? Anyone have any ideas?

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/d-c-united-to-restructure-academy-system-launch-full-time-residency-program/


“At the U14 level, D.C. United will introduce a regional pool model, selecting the most promising talent from local youth clubs and bringing them together for once-a-week elite training sessions across four locations throughout the DMV. This structure allows the club to extend its reach while maintaining a close connection to local communities and youth soccer organizations.”

What a joke.

That's how you lose all your top u14 players to other academies. Every MLS academy will be fighting to grab the top young talent in this area. Unless DC is dirty and places all of them on their list.

So in your version of this fantasy, all the families with U14 kids exceptional enough to be MLS Academy quality are going to send their sons to other parts of the country?

We did. Thank God we got away from DCU. Watch the movie Major League - they are the Cleveland Indians.