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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And read Griffin Yows comments about his time at DCU and this mirrors what happened with Akinmboni.  Why they both were like what the h#ll are we doing at DCU waiting for them to give a crap.

http://americansoccernow.com/articles/now-confident-and-in-form-yow-excited-to-see-his-career-take-off-in-belgium[/quote]

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[b]“As soon as I got to Westerlo, they had a plan for me,”[/b] Yow told ASN

"While at DC United, Yow never felt he was never given a clear direction of what he needed to do to break into the first team on a regular basis."

"Yow says he was always told to be patient but was never given anything specific in terms of a timeline or what he needed to do in order to get into the first team."

"I felt I was just kind of stagnating there. It was definitely a difficult situation."

[b]“There were times at DC where I just didn't really feel valued very much,”[/b] Yow added

[b]"I was coming home from training and sitting in my car for two hours in my driveway just thinking, what's going on? Where can I be better? How can I improve? Do they like me? Do they care about me? All of these questions. I never really got answers to them, even what I would go and speak to the management."[/b]

This is one of the one's who MADE IT and is a DCU success story!

[u]For parents currently at DCUA,[/u] it's okay to say you are selfish and don't care.  It's okay to say you don't have the money spend on P2P.  It's okay to say I don't want to invest in such a hard opportunity to go pro.  It's okay to say I didn't know any of this when I committed.  It's okay to say I don't want to relocate my kid.  At this point, what is [u]not[/u] okay is to say DCUA is a strong academy.

[u]For parents not eligible to be recruited yet by DCU[/u], there are plenty of available opportunities so you know your kids talent relative to their peers so you can make educated decisions.  Futsal tryouts are coming up.  The best kids in my kids age group easily make any of the major futsal teams even if they choose not to play.  One of the top 2015's in the area made it to the regional ID event with the 2013's last year in ODP.  He will be in the DCUA pool when eligible if he continues to develop so that is a barometer.  Can you make a Philly Union PPP team even if you don't choose to play?  Do you stand out at a Red Bulls residential camp where you are pulled to the side?  Are you being invited to unsanctioned tournaments like Copa Talento?  Do you stand out?  Guest in tournaments up in NJ and PA in the top brackets.  Can your kid hang up there?  You will know because more opportunities will evolve if your kid performs.  There are dozens of scouting services like The Scouting Game where you can send full game tapes and get evaluations from professional Premier League scouts.  What do they say?  Go to multiple tryouts during the spring.  If no coach ever comes up to you [u]directly after[/u] the tryout with a verbal 1st team offer at a MLS Next or ECNL club, you're just not good enough [u]yet[/u].  Get back to work and try again next year.  You don't need to do everything but each of them is a measuring stick to assess where you are relative to the field.

Educate yourself in these ways and [u]when[/u] DCUA invites you in or wants to see your kid, you can confidently say "no thanks" because [u]you know how good your kid is[/u] and you will have options.  Go overseas once a year, network, read the FIFA transfer regulations to know your options.  There are American expat FB groups in every country and there are Americans in every country that you can connect with on your trips and learn how they navigated the move.  If you prefer to stay stateside, attend events with Philly Union, Red Bulls, Nashville and CLT to have a defense against the DCUA restricted list and don't attend DCUA events.  You already know how good your kid is so there is no need to attend the DCUA events.

[b]It's okay if my kid doesn't become a professional.  It's really, really hard[/b].  Probably harder than becoming a CEO.  But why not try if you have a kid who is motivated?  The planning starts way earlier than the American marketplace wants to freely admit.

You can have your feed back.  I am done arguing.  I just want other parents to understand their options.  I hope something here helps somebody navigate their journey through this Wild West which is an immature soccer market here in the US and an emperor with no clothes with the DCUA monopoly in our marketplace.[/quote]

Lunacy in thinking more than 2 people on DCUM have kids with European Div 1 club professional careers probability futures 🤣

Probably not even 2 currently in the entire DMV

I'm pretty sure their ain't no true experts who can get people's kids to the mountain top wasting time bantering here
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