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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another marketing play or real change?

"Later today the Black-and-Red will officially unveil “DMV Pathway 2 Pro,” a partnership with five Washington metro area youth clubs designed to strengthen and streamline the developmental pyramid by which United aim to nurture the region’s top young talent..."

https://www.soccerwire.com/news/pro/mls/with-new-pathway-2-pro-dc-united-aim-to-raise-the-level-in-dmv/[/quote]

It's to build up the pipeline for the DC United DA team - having more flexible relationships with potential feeder and other teams esp. while the kids are still younger - and a nice marketing and affinity relationship builder for them and the clubs involved.  [/quote]

It's just making it more closed.  I saw the Travel Club DA video in the other thread and if we are limiting ourselves to those players, this whole thing closes the player pool even more and we are leaving out a huge swath of players that have better soccer iq and skill.[/quote]

This initiative isn't going to make anything more closed.  As others have pointed out, DCU and other DAs are still going to take the best players they can get their hands on, regardless of where they come from.  [/quote]

It's the 'come to'.  There are some outstanding non-DA teams all over VA/MD.  They should be looking at kids from there.  It's our system that only looks at a very small percentage of kids in the area.  The best is not in that video, yet now they are limiting the pool to what is coming over to them when much better is all over.  It's backwards.  It leads back to the whole US scouting thing with USSF and how it is unfunded and very few at all.  Our system needs a MAJOR overhaul or we can just continue to be happy with losing.[/quote]

US scouts are totally worthless that's why you see kids that they think are 'the best' look shockingly mediocre to bad when a Euro scout looks at the same player pool.  I am not so sure having more of those guys would do that much.[/quote]

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