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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here,

Can someone tell me about DC United?  I'm not saying my kid would play for them, just curious what "lost some players to DC United" means.  [/quote]

DC United's MLS Next teams start at U14. So when they started up their U14 team from scratch last year, they took many of the best players from other teams in the area. 
Three players from PPA, two or three from Bethesda, a few from Pipeline, etc. [/quote]

When you say they "took" someone, does DCU recruit, or do those kids chose to try out?  [/quote]

They scout, recruit, and make offers through the coaches/directors of the various clubs.[/quote]

So would it be fair to say that the best players at each age group at the major clubs (or at least the clubs that have regularly sent kids to DCU) are already known to DCU maybe bc the club or coach have told them about these kids?

Is this something that a parent can ask a coach? Eg, is my kid good enough to be considered by DCU?[/quote]

The club does not tell them about good players and they do not want DCU taking their best players. They compete against each other in mlsnext. [/quote]

That doesn’t make sense. Isn’t one of the selling point of these big clubs is that they have track record of developing kids to be good enough to go to DCU academy or to get on a pro track?

Are you saying the club is actively sabotaging a kids chance of being scouted by DC United, for example, by saying a kid is not good, because they want to make sure the player doesn’t leave the club?

I mean that just sounds like the club didn’t think the kid was that good and DCU agreed, and then the parents thinking something nefarious happened as opposed to accepting their kid wasn’t good enough. That parent would probably pull the kid out of the club and find some other club. [/quote]

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