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[quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous]You have to exclude the players that were not developed in DA system.   It would be preposterous to suggest that guys like Weah, Green, Brooks, etc are products of DA.  Out of two guys listed for Spain, it is difficult to make a case that either of them was developed by DA.  Moore had a total 4 months of "development" with FC Dallas before moving to Spain, while Akale spent his last four years in Spain with Villarreal academy and first team.    [/quote]

Point taken, but Weah spent a few years with BW Gottschee and the Red Bulls, so the DA deserves some of the credit there. Pulisic also was in the DA before moving to Germany.

The list above is terrific research. I wonder, though, how much of that growth is driven by the big clubs compiling larger and larger rosters and sending tons of players to their U23 team or out on loan. Do we really count Matt Miazga, who actually did make a couple of appearances for Chelsea but seems quite unlikely to get back there, as an EPL player? And technically, Mix Diskerud belongs to Manchester City.

From the list of older players -- a lot of those players weren't just taking up space on the roster. Tim Howard actually played well at Man U before being benched far too soon -- I guarantee you an English keeper would've kept his place in the same situation -- and he went on to a great run at Everton. Brian McBride is a legitimate Fulham legend, and Clint Dempsey did quite well. Steve Cherundolo was practically the mayor of Hannover. (On the other hand ... Freddy Adu.)

Today's significant top-five players in my mind would be ...

Yedlin - Newcastle 
Williams - Huddersfield (developed in Germany)
Brooks - Wolfsburg (developed in Germany) 
Chandler - Frankfurt (currently injured; also developed in Germany)
Pulisic - Dortmund 
Wood - Hannover

Weah and McKennie are surely on their way. Maybe Sargent as well.

(Until this year, Geoff Cameron. Tim Ream played a lot for pre-promotion Fulham but not much this year.)[/quote]

I think the key is that older players, such as Howard, Chrundolo, Dempsey, McBride, etc, were the key players for their teams.  If we had them in their prime today, there is no question they would have been shoe-in starters on the USMNT.  Out of the six modern players who somewhat approximate that status (even Pulisic with all his talent lost his starting spot in Bundesliga this year), three were developed in Germany.  Out of the remaining three, Pulicic and Wood moved to Germany as teens and started to play in German youth system when they were 16 and 15, respectively.  Only Yedlin can be considered a fully American "system" product.  I think DA could legitimately claim credit for developing him, even though he also played for non-DA clubs, which filed a lawsuit demanding solidarity fees and training compensation.

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