DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U16s lost to NVA. DCU is having trouble beating local teams. Whether it was kids playing up or not is irrelevant. DCU should be dominating these teams if it was worth a damn as a developer of talent.

As a NVA parent, I notice we posted all over social media that the NVA U16 beat DCU

Maybe its an oversight that no one says the NVA U16 beat the DCU U15
2:1 on a last second goal

Thank you for this. The mud slinging is so personal on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U16s lost to NVA. DCU is having trouble beating local teams. Whether it was kids playing up or not is irrelevant. DCU should be dominating these teams if it was worth a damn as a developer of talent.

As a NVA parent, I notice we posted all over social media that the NVA U16 beat DCU

Maybe its an oversight that no one says the NVA U16 beat the DCU U15
2:1 on a last second goal

Thank you for this. The mud slinging is so personal on here.

Its mainly one guy or gal who can't deal with the academy either not accepting their kid or released their kid
They been on a crazy crusade

[Anonymous]

Crusader (or crusaders, it’s hard to tell) claims to have no dog in the fight bc either their kid never did get rejected or was smart enough to explore other options. But then continues to monitor and bash at will. If crusader cares this much about what is going on at the academy that has he or she claims has had and never had a direct impact on his or her life, I truly hope he or she is doing more than being a keyboard warrior. Since this crusader knows so much and has so much experience with running an academy and developing international talent, I would love to hear what he or she is doing apart from posting here. But bashing the academy at every opportunity by stalking the board for any mention of the academy, pretending to be some selfless and altruistic being, and then not actually doing anything else is just really … interesting.

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up. An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game. You can only play the teams on your schedule. And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players. They have what they have and that’s it. An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers. They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them. Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so. Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display. There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up. The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents. DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play. If they score, they score the same types of goals other teams do. When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place. The depth just isn’t there. No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up. An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game. You can only play the teams on your schedule. And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players. They have what they have and that’s it. An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers. They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them. Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so. Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display. There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up. The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents. DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play. If they score, they score the same types of goals other teams do. When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place. The depth just isn’t there. No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

Have you actually even seen this (U15) team recently? It’s is not made up of kids who grew faster when they were in 5th grade. Not sure you know what you are talking about. At least not on this particular point.

[Anonymous]

It’s well known that the pro-DCUA poster is a sock puppet. Just ask Jeff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crusader (or crusaders, it’s hard to tell) claims to have no dog in the fight bc either their kid never did get rejected or was smart enough to explore other options. But then continues to monitor and bash at will. If crusader cares this much about what is going on at the academy that has he or she claims has had and never had a direct impact on his or her life, I truly hope he or she is doing more than being a keyboard warrior. Since this crusader knows so much and has so much experience with running an academy and developing international talent, I would love to hear what he or she is doing apart from posting here. But bashing the academy at every opportunity by stalking the board for any mention of the academy, pretending to be some selfless and altruistic being, and then not actually doing anything else is just really … interesting.

They are a psychologist's dream

Claims to operate in a youth soccer stratosphere way beyond and above the comprehension of us lowly dcum folks, yet is completely obsessed with inconsequential dcu kids and constantly on a quest for anonymous people to give them insider information, in addition to all the inside information they already possess

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up. An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game. You can only play the teams on your schedule. And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players. They have what they have and that’s it. An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers. They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them. Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so. Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display. There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up. The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents. DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play. If they score, they score the same types of goals other teams do. When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place. The depth just isn’t there. No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

The critique of your unhealthy obsession means nothing to you huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up. An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game. You can only play the teams on your schedule. And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players. They have what they have and that’s it. An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers. They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them. Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so. Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display. There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up. The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents. DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play. If they score, they score the same types of goals other teams do. When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place. The depth just isn’t there. No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

Why are you watching other people's kids if you say you have nothing to do with dcu?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s well known that the pro-DCUA poster is a sock puppet. Just ask Jeff.

I see people being more anti-You versus pro dcua

[Anonymous]

I have a big brain and when I go to youth soccer games over the past decade and a half I am able to notice things I guess.

[Anonymous]

Sock puppeting galore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a big brain and when I go to youth soccer games over the past decade and a half I am able to notice things I guess.

Creepy

You claim to have no dog in the fight, but you're investing time going to their games (kids) to give your biased opinion on an anonymous board

[Anonymous]

Not that creepy. Pretty much every parent who goes to soccer games to watch the game makes the same comparisons that I am with teams at a variety of levels and ages. It’s actually what this entire forum relies on for content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not that creepy. Pretty much every parent who goes to soccer games to watch the game makes the same comparisons that I am with teams at a variety of levels and ages. It’s actually what this entire forum relies on for content.

Yeah well, I don't know of a parent who says they have grown children and are busy being involved in highest levels of international soccer who goes to games of others peoples kids so they can rag on them in an anonymous forum