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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][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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What's the difference between DCU and every academy in the country?

If you get to Inter Miami at U16 and leave at U18, you were developed there for 2 years, no? [/quote]

The biggest difference between DCU and many of the better academies is that they have less teams and start their pathway later in a players career. Starting at u14 is too late in my opinion.  Why many academies in Europe start with u9.  Player development takes time and years to get right.  With no grassroots system and defined player pipeline, DCU takes the best local kids that have been developed elsewhere and tries to mold them in a very short period of time.  It's the reason why they aren't successful.  DCU only has 4 teams.  That's only four years to work with a player, who is already pretty far a long in their development when they arrive in the system.  Couple that with a weak academy development system and a players chances of developing are slimmer.  Of course if you go to inter Miami for two years they can claim they developed you for those years.  And they should be able to.  The issue is that MLS teams can claim rights to your player even if they have never spent one second in the academy system.  That is just wrong. [/quote]

Someone pointed out that Union, Red Bulls and FC Dallas have never won MLS

Why are they then successful and dc is not, based on your opinion?
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