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[quote=Anonymous]I have no problem with people giving a reality check to starry-eyed parents who think their kid is going to go pro just because he made a U12 DA team.  Your odds are very long of even getting to play D1, much less get a significant scholarship at a D1 school, much less go pro.  That being said, European scouts and club reps (including those from Dortmund) do indeed come to a number of DA events to evaluate players.  If you were at the GA cup in Atlanta last weekend, you would have noticed quite a few.  In some cases they are there to see particular players, but they definitely watch games to scout potential unknowns/little knowns as well.  There are plenty of foreign scouts at the playoffs and some at the regular DA showcases too.

Many of the players who the scouts look at are, of course, those on the youth national teams.  How did they get on the youth national teams?  In almost all cases for the recent crop of players, it's because they performed well on their DA teams, and this includes both MLS and non-MLS DA teams.  Check out this recent post from bigsoccer about a bunch of kids who are trying/poised to go pro:  http://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go.2081252/  Virtually all of them grew up in the US and rose to prominence from within the DA program.

Also, as has been pointed out many times before on here, it's kind of ridiculous to just say kids should go to Europe at 12 (or whatever age) if they want to have any chance of going pro.  That is simply not possible for kids under 18 to do in 99% of cases unless the family has a European passport, which most don't.[/quote]

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