DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not
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Anonymous
Sounds like you're just nosey and desperate to get insider information Why do you need so badly to know what these people's kids are doing that they're okay with, even if others aren't? |
Anonymous
Terrified to know what the Littles waste time doing |
Anonymous
Just seeing if you have anything to add to my insider information. We all know who you are. Seriously, get a life. No one takes you seriously. You just hurt your kid with the stuff you do. |
Anonymous
You’re not a neutral. Ur the same troll posting again. You’ve been taken down before, you will again. |
Anonymous
How do people hurt their kids here? Just need to know if I should stay away from commenting. |
Anonymous
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2011 DC United are the worst pro academy in the area, behind Philly, Red Bulls, NYCFC, New England.
They have three tactics when playing: kick long to the big kid, foul, and flop. The team has a few players with skills but instead they just kick and run. Good luck to those couple of big fast kids when everybody else hits puberty and too bad for the couple of kids that could do better and instead have to play like some desperate short sighted pay to play club. Then again DC was so recently pay to play maybe they haven’t gotten it out of their system. |
Anonymous
Yes, stay away from commenting troll. |
Anonymous
Uh… what are you talking about about? |
Anonymous
Gummies and alcohol cooking tonight |
Anonymous
This perspective on DCUs style of play is supported elsewhere on this thread and other threads talking about the lack of quality in the instruction and coaching at DCU. You saw that this weekend against Red Bulls where once again they were outclassed from minute 1 to the end in pretty much all the age groups and in every way DCU has some quality kids it's just that they are in an environment where growing as a player is very difficult. Especially when compared to what is happening elsewhere. If you're a parent and DCU is considering your son and you are considering DCU, please do your homework and make sure that if you do decide to go there that you have a plan outside of DCU to make him better. The hardest thing about this is that they monopolize so much of your kids time that there isn't much else he can do but you have to try. This is why the investment in DCU is just a gamble because their investment in your kid and what they are offering your kid is just really poor. For that much time, you have to ask yourself is it worth it if you have other options. And, if you have a high level player, you must consider other options for him if you're serious about a professional pathway. DCU is just not a good organization and the academy has been proven to be beneath its peers in the MLS. If DCU is your only option, use it to make another move or if you have to stay there make sure you're on top of your kids development and set your own high standards to measure his progress and how you will measure that progress. Without that, leaving it up to DCU is a massive mistake. |
Anonymous
What happens when a quality organization meets one that is inferior. |
Anonymous
Why do you post here then? |
Anonymous
One, you're assuming no DCU parents both present and former are participating now in offering opinions about the club. Too many specidics for these people to be complete outsiders. Two, I'm sure if there was a compelling argument as to why DCU is a good place to be it would have been offered and more importantly, accepted by the thread. The whole thread is about whether DCU is a GOOD academy or not. If someone offered the good I'm sure others might do the same. One poster did offer the good things actually and that post was informative. But the reality of DCU is that the bad far outweighs the good and you're seeing that in this post. A completely new thread was created by someone that asks for ONLY the good things about DCU and that thread died in a matter of hours with literally nothing there. In an open forum about soccer in the area where DCU is a hot topic, that should tell you enough. Judge for yourself what is truthful and what isn't about DCU on here. It's obvious. |
Anonymous
| Most of the parents at DCU know DCUs faults and are willing to accept them. Denying them or ignoring them is just not smart because it only hurts one person - your son. |
Anonymous
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This thread is like the vaccine threads during covid on FB
All of a sudden, everyone was an expert in immunology, epidemiology People who's kids have never been, are not and will never be at DC academy or any academy are giving their opinions as expertise on academies. How can any of us tell someone else something isn't a good fit for them when they're fine? Especially if we don't know what being in their shoes is like. |