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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And if you want to really know how everyone is being played in the US youth system think about this...if you took all the players with US eligibility who are playing overseas and put them all on the youth national teams in the US they would literally DESTROY the current youth national team selections.  At all age groups.  They are just in better systems with stronger competition and faster speed of play.

But US Soccer can't do this even though it wants to because at the younger ages it has to have parents believe that the US system overall is good.  It fuels pay to play and it also fuels the MLS academies.  But notice what happens at the ages where really playing football at a high level matters.  The older age groups and the actual national team.. almost all of those teams are made up players that are coming from overseas. And many of them were developed overseas.  USSF COMPLETELY gives up on its own system in favor of kids developed overseas because they know, as everyone else does, those kids are just better players because they have been in stronger environments for longer periods of time.  MLS players on the national team are the outliers, not the standard like it is on the youth teams. .

What this tells you is that even the USSF knows the system is faulty overall.  But what it also tells you is that within this system, there are acsdemies that are doing things the right way and because of that they have more political sway and also have more consistency on the youth national teams.  Union, red bulls, salt lake, Dallas are a few.  DCU is not close to having any sway and it is known within USSF that DCU is not really productive..[/quote]

Based on the numbers of MLS academy kids who end up on National teams and go top tier professionals, the percentage of "productive", to use your term, players is less than 0.84%

So that clearly shows that all this hoopla about which academy organization you're in is much less relevant than the individual when looking at final outcomes.

But let's all tell ourselves whatever we want[/quote]

Again, in a game of low margins, you try to increase your chances of success by putting a player in better environments.  DCU is not one of those environments.. the chances of success are low all around.  But best believe you would put your kid in Barca over DCU.  Hmmm..wonder why that is?[/quote]

Unless one is in a rubber room wearing a straight jacket, you'll choose Barcelona Academy over all MLS academies

Since Barca has a consistent proven track record of matriculation of players to top professional and international levels, which no MLS academy does[/quote]

But some.mls academies have a WAY stronger track record than DCU.  The entire point of the thread.  [/quote]

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