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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up.  An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game.  You can only play the teams on your schedule.  And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players.  They have what they have and that’s it.  An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers.  They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them.  Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so.  Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display.  There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up.  The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents.  DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play.  If they score,  they score the same types of goals other teams do.  When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of  DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place.  The depth just isn’t there.  No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

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Have you actually even seen this (U15) team recently? It’s is not made up of kids who grew faster when they were in 5th grade. Not sure you know what you are talking about. At least not on this particular point. [/quote]

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