DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not
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Anonymous
I'm not knowledgeable on this stuff. What does homegrown player mean? What happens to you if you're a homegrown player? |
Anonymous
It just means they came up through their teams academy development program. |
Anonymous
Who designates a player as homegrown? |
Anonymous
If you come up through the clubs academy and sign a pro contract with them, you are a homegrown player. There's not an "entity" per say, that designates a player as homegrown. |
Anonymous
I think anyone from the area can be designated homegrown even if they didn’t spend any or much time in the academy. For example, k fletcher |
Anonymous
The rules say as little as one year with an academy and they can call you homegrown if they so choose. So you can spend 8 years at FC Delco, one year at Philly Union and get designated Homegrown by Philly. Everyone says 'a Philly developed product' |
Anonymous
This is what bugs me. One year at DCU and they get a say where you go next if it doesn’t work out. I mean u don’t even have to be in the academy for them to put you on their protected list. That is, they can require other academies to pay a fee to allow your player to move to an academy in a different region. I understand the rationale for this when the club has invested in their players for years but that is not how DCU “develops” at all. |
Anonymous
Right, it's wild they can claim a player that's not even rostered. Players in the academy sure, I can understand. But putting kids on a protected list that never played for them seems wrong. |
Anonymous
What's the difference between DCU and every academy in the country? If you get to Inter Miami at U16 and leave at U18, you were developed there for 2 years, no? |
Anonymous
Comparing DCU to InterMiami. 😂 |
Anonymous
That's your takeaway? Critical Thinking was banned in your schools? |
Anonymous
Seems to be nonexistent in your posts. |
Anonymous
It is wrong. Plain and simple. But since football is not sophisticated in our country, and there are no real watchdogs regulating the MLS,,they are doing whatever they want to make money. There is no one really protecting the players. It's not a DCU issue only it's a MLS issue. MLS is trying to control the player pool in the US so that they can make money whenever and wherever a talent develops and is sold/transferred. But what no one fully realizes, even many of the parents whose kids are at MLS academies like DCU is that DCU now has a say in your child's movement as a player if they are moving to professional contracts. And with that power they can do things that are in their interests and not in your child's interest. In Europe,, this plays out once you're in a professional academy but if youre at a local club no one can claim rights to your movement and demand compensation if they have never touched your development. What MLS has done here is so bad and places needless limits on player movement only for short term club greed. |
Anonymous
The biggest difference between DCU and many of the better academies is that they have less teams and start their pathway later in a players career. Starting at u14 is too late in my opinion. Why many academies in Europe start with u9. Player development takes time and years to get right. With no grassroots system and defined player pipeline, DCU takes the best local kids that have been developed elsewhere and tries to mold them in a very short period of time. It's the reason why they aren't successful. DCU only has 4 teams. That's only four years to work with a player, who is already pretty far a long in their development when they arrive in the system. Couple that with a weak academy development system and a players chances of developing are slimmer. Of course if you go to inter Miami for two years they can claim they developed you for those years. And they should be able to. The issue is that MLS teams can claim rights to your player even if they have never spent one second in the academy system. That is just wrong. |
Anonymous
And inter Miami winning that comparison is even more laughable. |