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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since I don't pretend to have expertise about soccer at pro academy levels, I used Google AI and Chatgbt to ask two questions coming from statements made on here

Can scouts and coaches accurately predict which youth players are going to become successful professionals?

List professional players who were rejected or looked over as youth players by club academies?

Based on the responses, the best scouts and coaches and academies in the world not only can't predict, they admit they can't predict.

So I'll take these comments here on that topic as light toilet reading 
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Pretty dumb questions to ask as the answers are obvious.  If anyone could predict those things why have academies?? There are scouts and coaches that have a better eye and a better track record than others.  DCU does t have either. Nice try...so many better uses of chatgpt tha to fuel a ridiculous argument.  [/quote]

So someone claims DC academy doesn't have any youth players that can become professional here or Europe

Someone points to clear evidence that not even the best scouts and coaches at youth level in the world can make such predictions

Another or same as first person agrees, the best scouts and coaches can't predict, but DCU can't predict either, so nanny nanny boo boo

*since Americans aren't becoming professionals through MLS academies in general, seems the hat fits everyone 
Unless there are secret files of players going to Europe in significant numbers to top division clubs[/quote]

Please stop.  This line of "reasoning" has already been dismissed.  Bukayo Saka and I had the same number of goals in the Premier League this weekend - zero.  That doesn't mean I'm as good as Saka or that you can't evaluate and come to the conclusion that he's better than me.  (he is, by a whisker)[/quote]

You're also a world class International player on a Division One senior team in England or Europe?

Your analogy would be crazy in a mental hospital much less outside

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I know you have trouble with logic, and I'm sorry.  It must be a struggle.  You spend so much time on here doing nothing more than trying to cast doubt on the myriad reasons DC United does not compare favorably to other academies.  The end result of your efforts is more and more evidence that it is in inferior academy.  No one on here WANTS that to be true.  It is true.  That needs to be admitted in order for it to improve.  The Philly Union article linked above, which I doubt you read, is more than a little cheerlead-y but provides a great overview of what the cost and benefits of their approach is.  It's working from a development and financial standpoint. [/quote]

Fluff articles and opinion pieces from non experts in the field are a dime a dozen and always slanted one way or another depending on the author

Since MLS Next started 5 years ago, thousands of players have been through all the MLS Clubs academies combined and less than a handful are now or have been top level professionals. FACT

So the reality is, your odds making it by going to any academy is the same, regardless of how shiny it is.

[b]Less than 1% of all soccer playing boys U13 to U19 will go to a MLS Club Academy.  Probably about 0.66%

This discussion is irrelevant to over 99% of us.[/b]
Even dumber, are people trying to put down the kids and parents who are in the elite few. [/quote]

For real[/quote]

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