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[quote=Cruzado][quote=DCUdad][quote=anonimouswon]MLSNext is mainly for players looking to go pro especially with MLS creating the MLSNext Pro league which provides a full path to MLS.  This doesn't mean colleges don't recruit from MLS Next teams, they do, but traditionally Academy (now MLS Next) is where you want to be to play at the highest level.
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This is not really true. Non-MLS academies that play in the MLS Next youth league (think Bethesda or Armour) don't put you any closer to playing in the new MLS Next Pro league, which is essentially a league made up of the reserve teams of full MLS teams. The similar names of the leagues, and their marketing, make it seem this way; but it is not so. If you want to make the reserve team of an MLS side, you need to be on the MLS team's academy (think DC United or Phil Union), not a different academy in the same league. There may be a tiny handful of exceptions, but they are just that.[/quote]

Sure, playing for one of the MLS academy teams (e.g. DC United) is the best place to be in order to make it to the MLS / Next Pro.

I would guess, however, that playing for one of the non-MLS academy teams in the MLS Next youth league (e.g. Bethesda or Alexandria) is the [i]next[/i] best place to be---it's where a non-MLS academy player will get the most visibility to the MLS academy. [/quote]

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