DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not

[Anonymous]

"For all the talk of the failures and faults of America’s youth soccer development (and there are many) there is strong evidence that the MLS Academy system is now delivering the desired results – a production line of talented young players ready for the professional game at the age of 17 or 18..."

https://ussoccerparent.com/mls-clubs-face-a-teenage-talent-test/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--35UZR8T8EyIrUGMtv7Mh_s-l02X4aEqNGxlcig9ZaaXZ2Ykev6hgB7BOyd_3F87f3NTbmhYmzI0BGxphKtgYxwoUOLrVJZH5NYhCV9gg6J27AVDs&_hsmi=415602519&utm_content=415602519&utm_source=hs_email

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"For all the talk of the failures and faults of America’s youth soccer development (and there are many) there is strong evidence that the MLS Academy system is now delivering the desired results – a production line of talented young players ready for the professional game at the age of 17 or 18..."

https://ussoccerparent.com/mls-clubs-face-a-teenage-talent-test/?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--35UZR8T8EyIrUGMtv7Mh_s-l02X4aEqNGxlcig9ZaaXZ2Ykev6hgB7BOyd_3F87f3NTbmhYmzI0BGxphKtgYxwoUOLrVJZH5NYhCV9gg6J27AVDs&_hsmi=415602519&utm_content=415602519&utm_source=hs_email

Too bad the thread is about whether DCU can do this. And what is clear is...IT CANNOT

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what about coaching stability for DCU? with the restructuring of the program, do they have solid coaching for u15, u16 and u17?

DCU has 10 TOTAL employees in it's academy for four teams. 5 of those employees have very little to do with the day to day coaching of the players. The director, the one scout, two administrators.and the equipment manager. 4 coaches and the one athletic trainer make up the rest of the staff. Your kid is not getting much individual development there. Team development only and subpar team development at that because the methodology is based on leveraging speed size and direct football. In contrast, Philly a Union has 32 employees in their academy with all teams having an assistant coach and a coach focused on individual development. And possession based philosophy. They are not alone in the MLS academy system with this type of staff roster.

With DCUs investment in its staff alone, the coaching isnt good enough. Couple that with the fact that the coaches at DCU are not amazing (but try very hard) and there you have it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what about coaching stability for DCU? with the restructuring of the program, do they have solid coaching for u15, u16 and u17?

DCU has 10 TOTAL employees in it's academy for four teams. 5 of those employees have very little to do with the day to day coaching of the players. The director, the one scout, two administrators.and the equipment manager. 4 coaches and the one athletic trainer make up the rest of the staff. Your kid is not getting much individual development there. Team development only and subpar team development at that because the methodology is based on leveraging speed size and direct football. In contrast, Philly a Union has 32 employees in their academy with all teams having an assistant coach and a coach focused on individual development. And possession based philosophy. They are not alone in the MLS academy system with this type of staff roster.

With DCUs investment in its staff alone, the coaching isnt good enough. Couple that with the fact that the coaches at DCU are not amazing (but try very hard) and there you have it.

how much deader can this horse be and the jockey continues to whip

we're all with you and the entire dmv will be going to philly union from now on

yellow brick road to pro and millions for everyone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what about coaching stability for DCU? with the restructuring of the program, do they have solid coaching for u15, u16 and u17?

DCU has 10 TOTAL employees in it's academy for four teams. 5 of those employees have very little to do with the day to day coaching of the players. The director, the one scout, two administrators.and the equipment manager. 4 coaches and the one athletic trainer make up the rest of the staff. Your kid is not getting much individual development there. Team development only and subpar team development at that because the methodology is based on leveraging speed size and direct football. In contrast, Philly a Union has 32 employees in their academy with all teams having an assistant coach and a coach focused on individual development. And possession based philosophy. They are not alone in the MLS academy system with this type of staff roster.

With DCUs investment in its staff alone, the coaching isnt good enough. Couple that with the fact that the coaches at DCU are not amazing (but try very hard) and there you have it.

how much deader can this horse be and the jockey continues to whip

we're all with you and the entire dmv will be going to philly union from now on

yellow brick road to pro and millions for everyone

But yet you keep responding...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what about coaching stability for DCU? with the restructuring of the program, do they have solid coaching for u15, u16 and u17?

DCU has 10 TOTAL employees in it's academy for four teams. 5 of those employees have very little to do with the day to day coaching of the players. The director, the one scout, two administrators.and the equipment manager. 4 coaches and the one athletic trainer make up the rest of the staff. Your kid is not getting much individual development there. Team development only and subpar team development at that because the methodology is based on leveraging speed size and direct football. In contrast, Philly a Union has 32 employees in their academy with all teams having an assistant coach and a coach focused on individual development. And possession based philosophy. They are not alone in the MLS academy system with this type of staff roster.

With DCUs investment in its staff alone, the coaching isnt good enough. Couple that with the fact that the coaches at DCU are not amazing (but try very hard) and there you have it.

how much deader can this horse be and the jockey continues to whip

we're all with you and the entire dmv will be going to philly union from now on

yellow brick road to pro and millions for everyone

And no, I'm not pro Philly Union. I'm just very much anti DCU. ANY MLS academy is better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what about coaching stability for DCU? with the restructuring of the program, do they have solid coaching for u15, u16 and u17?

DCU has 10 TOTAL employees in it's academy for four teams. 5 of those employees have very little to do with the day to day coaching of the players. The director, the one scout, two administrators.and the equipment manager. 4 coaches and the one athletic trainer make up the rest of the staff. Your kid is not getting much individual development there. Team development only and subpar team development at that because the methodology is based on leveraging speed size and direct football. In contrast, Philly a Union has 32 employees in their academy with all teams having an assistant coach and a coach focused on individual development. And possession based philosophy. They are not alone in the MLS academy system with this type of staff roster.

With DCUs investment in its staff alone, the coaching isnt good enough. Couple that with the fact that the coaches at DCU are not amazing (but try very hard) and there you have it.

how much deader can this horse be and the jockey continues to whip

we're all with you and the entire dmv will be going to philly union from now on

yellow brick road to pro and millions for everyone

😂😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what most people on this thread don't understand...even if DCU WON GA Cup it wouldn't make it a good academy. It would just mean they have a collection of kids that defied the odds given to them being at one of the worst MLS academeis in the country. Barca brings their younger kids to almost all international tournaments. Especially ones in the US. Spain for the most part doesn't have the athleticism we have at the younger ages and their players are smaller generally. We can dominate a lot of teams because we just recruit early bloomers. Spain doesnt do that. They take a long term view on talent. We take the short term view. Barca versus DCU at u18 or even the second team versus DCU, would be an absolute slaughter.

Look, tournaments against international competition are always fun for the kids. But I'm not getting hyped up about u15 or u16 soccer. Most of these kids are still babies in the grand scheme of things.

And most importantly, no result anywhere would make DCU a good academy. Period. It would just make them beneficiaries of a strong talent pool.

The DCU kids can say something you nor your kids can ever say and no amount of your toxic hate can change that

They beat Barcelona Academy team in a tournament.
That puts them on an extremely short list of MLS teams and short list of clubs that face Barca Academy teams, period.

You Loser

That's not a trophy though. Congratulations on winning the battle but losing the war!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what most people on this thread don't understand...even if DCU WON GA Cup it wouldn't make it a good academy. It would just mean they have a collection of kids that defied the odds given to them being at one of the worst MLS academeis in the country. Barca brings their younger kids to almost all international tournaments. Especially ones in the US. Spain for the most part doesn't have the athleticism we have at the younger ages and their players are smaller generally. We can dominate a lot of teams because we just recruit early bloomers. Spain doesnt do that. They take a long term view on talent. We take the short term view. Barca versus DCU at u18 or even the second team versus DCU, would be an absolute slaughter.

Look, tournaments against international competition are always fun for the kids. But I'm not getting hyped up about u15 or u16 soccer. Most of these kids are still babies in the grand scheme of things.

And most importantly, no result anywhere would make DCU a good academy. Period. It would just make them beneficiaries of a strong talent pool.

The DCU kids can say something you nor your kids can ever say and no amount of your toxic hate can change that

They beat Barcelona Academy team in a tournament.
That puts them on an extremely short list of MLS teams and short list of clubs that face Barca Academy teams, period.

You Loser

That's not a trophy though. Congratulations on winning the battle but losing the war!

BINGO!