DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what going dcua older age groups lost to Toronto FC, dcua u16 is considered the best of academies?

As someone who is not fond of DCU, RESULTS DON’T MATTER. I recently heard a guy from Sporting in Portugal talked about how their U19 would lose a lot because they are playing their best U17’s in the U19 division. We have no idea what the academies are doing with their teams.

It feels like a broken record as this point. Go to a monastery and search your inner soul on why your ego must win all of the time.

DCUA can lose every game in every bracket. If they produce 2-3 sellable players or 1st teamers in each age bracket versus almost everyone just going to college, the academy would be an overwhelming success. D1 is not a flex for an academy product. Kudos to you, but no where near a flex.

The DMV has the kids, parents and resources to succeed but the emperor has no clothes. As long as uneducated parents keep blindly sending their kids to DCUA and DCUA selects talented kids from uneducated families who don’t know how to take the next step, it will simply continue to be the way high-achieving parents with talented son get their sons into Princeton and Penn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what going dcua older age groups lost to Toronto FC, dcua u16 is considered the best of academies?

As someone who is not fond of DCU, RESULTS DON’T MATTER. I recently heard a guy from Sporting in Portugal talked about how their U19 would lose a lot because they are playing their best U17’s in the U19 division. We have no idea what the academies are doing with their teams.

It feels like a broken record as this point. Go to a monastery and search your inner soul on why your ego must win all of the time.

DCUA can lose every game in every bracket. If they produce 2-3 sellable players or 1st teamers in each age bracket versus almost everyone just going to college, the academy would be an overwhelming success. D1 is not a flex for an academy product. Kudos to you, but no where near a flex.

The DMV has the kids, parents and resources to succeed but the emperor has no clothes. As long as uneducated parents keep blindly sending their kids to DCUA and DCUA selects talented kids from uneducated families who don’t know how to take the next step, it will simply continue to be the way high-achieving parents with talented son get their sons into Princeton and Penn.

Do you personally know all the parents of the kids at DCUA?
You personally know all their experience, knowledge, background and network connections in the world of soccer?

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Anonymous wrote:my ds was passed over by dcu not even on protect list, slap in the face. phila saw potential swoop him up now he is one of top 5 in the country. his other two brothers heading to phila, avoid dcu.

looks like the dcua defender may have always been right saying the anti-dc movement on this thread is lead by someone who's kid got rejected and has an axe to grind
they finally let it slip and confessed lol

so we're clear, dcua only wanted one of your 3 sons so they're bad
Philly only took the same one of 3 sons, but they're awesome, because they promised they may take the other two later?

Doesn't really matter. Philly is a better program than DCU. There is no one that has any credibility anywhere that would argue with that.

This is not Fox news
The truth matters, to many of us at least

The anti dc crusader has revealed themselves to be totally biased and upset that DC did what Philly did, which was accept one of their three sons.
In their words, "a slap in the face"

Explains the motivations here

There is always a better academy
Yesterday it was FC Dallas then it was Philly Union, next its Inter Miami then LAFC

When a MLS academy has Barcelona, PSG or Real Madrid status and impact on their National and International stage, then they're truly above and beyond in real life.
Not just rhetoric

Ok. So Philly is not Barcelona. Accepted. Should we not aspire to be in Philly academy because we live in the DMV and should accept DCUA academy?

Do you really think DCUA is anywhere near the Philly academy?

The point is, if Philly is greener pastures for you and they are allowing you to graze, go and make the best of it for you and yours

Why so much energy and focus on other pastures

No place is best for everyone or perfect fit for everyone or a desired place to be for everyone. Nor can 40 people fit in a canoe built for 2

Facts are, more of what you become and where you end up in life and career is more about you and not just the institution.

Going to Philly Union has zero guarantees of a professional or international career of substance. Thousands of players have been through Union and you know nothing of them today, but we only focus on the less than 0.5% that made a name.

Goes for all the academies, even if some have slightly better results than others in the grand scheme of things.

No sh#t. The bottom line is that all of the programs are better than DCUs. And if you're spending your time and energy doing this why suffer through an academy that is literally the laughingstock of the MLS. You shouldnt if you have options. No academy is the best for everyone. But, there are some academies that just offer more to their players. DCU isn't one of those academies.

We already know your foundation is biased

So your opinions on repeat still remains as such. Your opinions

When you have numbers, data, metrics, measurements to collaborate your statements, let us know.

Till then, keep yelling and beating drums on sidelines

There are pages of data and metrics in this thread. You're just ignoring them, hoping people don't go back and read the thread because it's long now (with said data). What facts do you have to offer?? So many facts have been offered to support the argument that DCU is sh#t. The bottom line is that you know, just like everyone else,that any thing you provide that will attempt to support DCU will be immediately torn down and destroyed because it can't be supported or is woefully out of date. It's a crappy place to be. Just like DCU.

Every request I've seen scrolling through many pages of this thread asking to show real facts, data of objective measurement comparisons between dcu and the other academies are met with the same response. That they've already been shown.

Which organizations are the keepers of all this true scientific comparisons so I can go look for myself?

False

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what going dcua older age groups lost to Toronto FC, dcua u16 is considered the best of academies?

NCSL and Rec simplistic small minds of soccer ignorance focuses on the scoreboard

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:what going dcua older age groups lost to Toronto FC, dcua u16 is considered the best of academies?

As someone who is not fond of DCU, RESULTS DON’T MATTER. I recently heard a guy from Sporting in Portugal talked about how their U19 would lose a lot because they are playing their best U17’s in the U19 division. We have no idea what the academies are doing with their teams.

It feels like a broken record as this point. Go to a monastery and search your inner soul on why your ego must win all of the time.

DCUA can lose every game in every bracket. If they produce 2-3 sellable players or 1st teamers in each age bracket versus almost everyone just going to college, the academy would be an overwhelming success. D1 is not a flex for an academy product. Kudos to you, but no where near a flex.

The DMV has the kids, parents and resources to succeed but the emperor has no clothes. As long as uneducated parents keep blindly sending their kids to DCUA and DCUA selects talented kids from uneducated families who don’t know how to take the next step, it will simply continue to be the way high-achieving parents with talented son get their sons into Princeton and Penn.

Are the parents with a kid at dcua and one at premier league club Bournemouth uneducated and blind?

How about the parents of the dcua kid who just completed a trial at Chelsea? They also uneducated and blind?

Maybe you mean the parents of the dcua kids playing for concacaf youth national teams being uneducated and blind