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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DA is more for developing kids for Division 1 soccer than for  professional soccer.  [b]Playing professional soccer in the US at a young age is not really a thing.[/b]  Kids in the US have many more options than their non-US counterparts.

In South America or even parts of Europe, professional soccer is the one and only option for top players.  In the US, using soccer to score a college degree is more important to them. [/quote]

I don't really agree with the bolded, unless you change it to say that going pro at a young age happens far less frequently in the US than in countries with a more entrenched soccer culture.  If you are familiar with what's going on in the DA around the country, you'll see that significant numbers of kids are skipping college to go pro overseas and in the US, and the number is increasing each year with the expansion of USL teams and increasing interest in US players from foreign leagues.  I personally know over a dozen boys from this area who are trying to make it in USL or in lower tier leagues in Europe, and there are kids from here signed to MLS contracts and playing in higher level leagues in Europe as well.  Whether these kids end up having long or lucrative soccer careers, time will tell.

When the DA started, most boys on the U20, and even U23 national teams had played in college, and that's not true at all now.  Almost all of the US boys who played in the U17 World Cup are already pros.  Of course, lots of kids in the DA will go on to college, either because they think a pro career is unlikely or because they or their family place a lot of value on a college degree and the admissions boost high level soccer can bring.  But the landscape has changed a lot for men's soccer in the US over the last few years. 
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