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[quote=Anonymous]I know everyone hates the idea of these sports academies, but they are a prevalent and accepted thing in every foreign country. Kids in Europe who are great at basketball, hockey and soccer attend academies where there is very little schooling and the kids are essentially barely literate. The DR has baseball academies affiliated with every MLB team where kids train essentially all the time starting at 12 and again are barely literate. China removes their top athletes from formal schooling and also sends kids to equivalent academies where they just train all the time. The difference in the rest of the world as that these kids are all trained to go pro as there is no college sports (though some who aren't going to make it pro might get D1 scholarships in the US...especially in soccer). There also aren't travel sports. Either you are accepted at these sports academies and they exclusively create their pro players...or you play rec for fun. [/quote]
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