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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There seems to be a weird disconnect on what the point of the DA program is. 
It's not to improve the skills of your kid, it's for US Soccer to produce professional players.

In other threads, people complain that the US doesn't do enough to produce professionals, and that our training programs are terrible compared to European programs.

In this thread they complain that coaches are doing everything in their power to bring the best players into the program.

Being a pro is about competing with everyone around you on a daily basis, and if someone else is a hair better, you'll be lower on the charts. 
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This discussion proves that DA is attracting and produces the wrong kind of players, soft, entitled, etc.   DA has been in existence since 2007, i.e., over 10 years.  How many DA graduates are currently playing in the top five leagues in Europe?  [/quote]

No, it's producing the wrong kind of parents. 
The players are doing well.
Far more US players in top leagues than there were ten years ago, and most of them went through the DA program. [/quote]

It is an unsupported assertion.  Name 10 DA players that are starters in the top five leagues (La Liga, Premier league, Serie A, Bundesliga, and Ligue 1).  Take EPL, for example, about 10 years ago.  We had Beasley, Bocanegra, De Merit, Dempsey, Donovan (part time), Feilhaber, Friedel, Howard, Guzan, Hahnemann,Holden, Eddie Johnson, Jemal Johnson, Jermain Jones, Keller, Eddie Lewis, Kirovski, McBride, Onyewu, Reyna, Spector, etc.   [/quote]

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