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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And this conclusion you came to is exactly why the sport is allowed to be mediocre in the DMV and why DCU is allowed to continue to be crap.  You think and rationalize that no one is doing it well so it is ok that DCU doesn't do things well.  But you're just so wrong on this.

Union, Red Bulls and Real Salt Lake (these are just three examples but there are others that are close) are literally so far ahead of DCU with their academies it isn't even fair to compare them.  DCU isn't in the same stratosphere. You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

If youth national team makeup was the only barometer of the success of a youth academy then most of the top youth Academies in the world would also be failing according to your logic.  Why Barca, Sporting Lisbon, Zagreb, man City have some players on youth national teams but the entire roster is of course not all from those academies.  But those academies CLEARLY are some of the best in the world and the big difference is that they consistently put kids on the youth national teams and the national team and their pro teams.  This consistency is the mark of a better academy.  Consistency is something that DCU doesn't and probably never will have.

And yes, youth national teams are also political. Like you say. But unfortunately for your argument, that also means that DCU is also not politically connected or savvy.  All around, DCU is just not it.[/quote]

16 MLS clubs are not represented in the U17s 
That’s the Fact

It's your Opinion as to the levels of dcu compared to the other 15 not represented in the U17s [/quote]

So what??  Literally does not speak to the quality of their acsdemies...just that USSF didn't select some of their players at this point in time.  USSF also didn't select DCU kids for this roster AND it has a terrible academy so it isn't surprising.  Not a surprise that Philly Union and Red bulls lead the selections with 4 and 2 respectively.  Real Salt Lake also has 2.  Almost 40 percent of the roster is made up of the three academies I listed in my PP( Union, red bulls and salt lake) How about those facts?

It isn't my opinion that DCU isnt comparable.  It is widely known and accepted.  [/quote]

Do you have a speech prepared for the U15 and U16 rosters that have DCU kids

Or your entire logic is based on this snapshot selection of U17s? [/quote]

My entire logic is based on the fact that even if DCU had the most players on a youth national team roster it wouldn't make it a good academy.  Just an academy where a miracle happened and kids got through the system despite the poor quality [/quote]

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