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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]according to IG, the DC 2024 class had 11 kids go to good colleges, 4 of which are ivy league

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You do understand that is an epic failure for a professional academy.  There is no problem with kids wanting to go to college and play high-level soccer.  That is what ECNL is for.

MLS academies exist with the goal of producing footballers for the first team of DCU or to sell to another club, NOT to send kids to college, especially Ivy’s.  That boast may work at the country club for posh parents but is an insult for a professional academy to boast about.

Now I understand the defenses from this chat.  It is coming from posh parents who know as much about professional soccer development as DCUA.  Again, it is perfectly okay to want to go to college and play soccer.  That is not what DCUA is supposed to be designed for and college is a nice way to say, “we failed miserably at making you a professional footballer but now you can go to college, keep hope alive and probably become the fittest Wall Street banker in your alumni association.”[/quote]

Unless you know something we don't, none of the MLS academies are sending kids to teams at the highest professional levels in significant numbers

If you're going to choose playing in MLS for $60,000 versus going to an Ivy League university, more power to you
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But more academies are sending players to the first team than DCU.  [/quote]

Where is this list?[/quote]

Already been posted, look through the thread.[/quote]

Looked

Can't find a link to MLS or US Soccer or FIFA that shows all the MLS academies players that spent years at the youth academies then got sold to professional clubs

Which page is it on?[/quote]

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