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[quote=DCUdad][quote=Cruzado]Why does DCU have a U15 and U17 year but no U16 team? That just seems odd.[/quote] Almost all MLS academies are like this. Remember, this is not normal club soccer; DCU runs (and pays for) an academy to produce pro players. In any given age group, only a handful will make it to U17 with that possibility still alive. Some of them will play up on Loudoun United or (in the future) on the reserve team in MLS Next Pro. So that means the best U16s will play up with the 17s. Essentially, by U16 there isn't a full team worth of players with pro potential. They'd rather have a single U16+U17 team of better players than spread those better players out over two teams. Obviously, European academies are larger, with a team per age until U19, generally. But our funnel of potential pros just isn't as big in the US yet; so our academy system is smaller.[/quote]
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