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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]USMNT DCU bias only 2 DCU kids all age groups?[/quote]

Where do you see DCU kids?[/quote]

U17 and U16 November camp rosters came out today and no DCU players on the roster.  Union and red bulls are represented on both.  [/quote]

The International behemoth Red Bulls has 1 player on U17 and none on U15

They are probably the best U16 team in the country but strangely has only 2 [/quote]

Irrelevant.  These stats are all better than what DCU is doing and how it's performing on a national scale...You're trying to tear down a club that is actually getting results but yet, have nothing to offer about DCU??  Doesn't work like that.  DCU is not on the same level and not a strong academy.  There is no other conclusion that can be drawn.[/quote]

Red Bulls had 25 players not make U15s 
Same as DCU

Red Bulls had 24 players not make U17s 
1 less than DC

Red Bulls had 23 players not make U16's
2 less than DC[/quote]

Red Bull
u15 - 0
u16 - 2
u17 - 2

Philly
u15 - 2
u16 - 1
u17 - 3

DCU
u15 - 0
u16 - 0
u17 - 0

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The numbers don't lie[/quote]

It's actually this:

Red Bull
u15 - 1
u16 - 2
u17 - 2

Philly
u15 - 3
u16 - 1
u17 - 3

DCU
u15 - 0
u16 - 0
u17 - 0[/quote]

Do you have stats for non-Academies?  I heard many made the next round.  Shocking 0 from DCU.[/quote]

This has actually been covered in this thread.  If you're not in a MLS academy you have practically ZERO, and I mean almost ZERO chance of making the final national team camps.  You may make a regional camp but that is as far as a kid will go from pay to play clubs. If you're at a pay to play club in the DMV you will never make the actual national team the way the current system is structured with the MLS filtering and basically running the youth pool.  Unless you are FAR better than everyone else in the pool which is extremely rare.  The only reason why the pay to play clubs/players even get a chance in the regional camps is political.  US Soccer throws those clubs a bone to give the impression that they are being equitable and to help pay to play clubs with their narratives about ability to get kids national team exposure for the commercial side of their businesses.  But everyone knows those kids will never make it to the national team just on the fact that they aren't in a MLS academy and the national team rosters are 99 percent MLS academy players. The other players making it that are not in MLS academies are coming from overseas clubs that are FAR superior to the MLS.  What you really see as the kids get older and to the real national team is that the pendulum shifts.  The majority of the players for the Mens national team are coming from overseas because they are just in better environments and playing at a higher level.  USSF doesn't want to give off the impression that the US can't field strong youth teams with just domestic talent.  It would be a complete and utter failure on their part if this was the case and they are already pretty much inept as an organization. Why only 3-4 overseas players usually make the youth national teams from overseas.  If they weren't on such weak footing in terms of their efficacy at the youth levels, and didn't care about that perception, the youth national teams would literally be made up of all kids from overseas who have eligibility to play for the US because all of them are better than our domestic talent. Just like the first team. Let THAT sink in.

DCU isn't even a real player in this game.

It isn't shocking that DCU players are not in the camps.  They are not as strong nationally especially when up against kids in better environments and with more athletic ability.  You see this clearly when they play better systems and academies.  It's obvious in the first 5 minutes that they don't know what they are doing  (over dribbling/useless contacts on the ball, poor decision making, lack of understanding of how to move without the ball, weak positional discipline, shaky fundamentals, zero understanding of team strategy/but strong understanding of individualism and generally poor weak foot ability).  This is present in all ages at DCU not one team. Even with this, they are regionally strong and a step above most regional talent.  But even regionally, there are kids that are better and developing faster. Nationally they are a few steps behind.  Why Philly and Red Bulls have so much representation and DCU doesn't. [/quote]

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