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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's with all the fake homegrown players wiki links?[/quote]

Doesn't take a genius to figure out that for some reason, wiki breaks the link.  You can click the "Did you mean: Homegrown Player Rule (MLS)?" with the big light bulb next to it.[/quote]
Exactly. Just click the hyperlink on the page that says did you mean... Wikipedia breaks links all the time and that is what happened here.[/quote]

Inter Miami founded their academy in 2020 (during covid so imagine how difficult that was) and between 2020 and 2024 they produced more than double the amount of homegrown players than DCU did in that same period.  DCU has been running an academy for two decades.  Inter Miami academy didn't even EXIST four years ago.  [/quote]

I'm not knowledgeable on this stuff.
What does homegrown player mean?
What happens to you if you're a homegrown player?[/quote]

It just means they came up through their teams academy development program.  [/quote]

Who designates a player as homegrown?
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If you come up through the clubs academy and sign a pro contract with them, you are a homegrown player.  There's not an "entity" per se, that designates a player as homegrown.[/quote]

I think anyone from the area can be designated homegrown even if they didn’t spend any or much time in the academy. For example, k fletcher [/quote]

The rules say as little as one year with an academy and they can call you homegrown if they so choose.
So you can spend 8 years at FC Delco, one year at Philly Union and get designated Homegrown by Philly. 
Everyone says 'a Philly developed product' [/quote]

This is what bugs me. One year at DCU and they get a say where you go next if it doesn’t work out. I mean u don’t even have to be in the academy for them to put you on their protected list. That is, they can require other academies to pay a fee to allow your player to move to an academy in a different region.

I understand the rationale for this when the club has invested in their players for years but that is not how DCU “develops” at all.
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Right, it's wild they can claim a player that's not even rostered.  Players in the academy sure, I can understand.  But putting kids on a protected list that never played for them seems wrong.[/quote]

It is wrong.  Plain and simple.  But since football is not sophisticated in our country, and there are no real watchdogs regulating the MLS,,they are doing whatever they want to make money.  There is no one really protecting the players.  It's not a DCU issue only it's a MLS issue.  MLS is trying to control the player pool in the US so that they can make money whenever and wherever a talent develops and is sold/transferred.  But what no one fully realizes, even many of the parents whose kids are at MLS academies like DCU is that DCU now has a say in your child's movement as a player if they are moving to professional contracts.  And with that power they can do things that are in their interests and not in your child's interest.  In Europe,, this plays out once you're in a professional academy but if youre at a local club no one can claim rights to your movement and demand compensation if they have never touched your development.  What MLS has done here is so bad and places needless limits on player movement only for short term club greed.[/quote]

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