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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Achilles because of location and the coach's affiliation to a prominent private school plus being in MLS Next will always draw some good individual players

Otherwise,  the coaching is horrible and the teams are whipping posts for everyone

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THIS!  They groom a few key boys they can show off, and ignore the rest.  Just watch a practice.  Practice after practice, he creates groups, shouts out a drill to do, creates teams for the scrimmage, but field full of boys with no coaching, just drilling / scrimmaging among themselves.  Sometimes a random assitant coach is placed somewhere but never SAYS anthing.  And Sal focus on a small group of 10-15 of his favorites -- they are the better ones.  For them, they get your own private training, stay on Sal's good side (boy and parents), and you get to start and play most of the game.  Rest are revenue.[/quote]

This is 100% accurate.  And as for the kid signing with the age-level (U17) Bundesliga academy, he also has an Italian passport -- without it, he could not make the move.[/quote]

The kid already got minutes for the first team. Like right away.  Stop acting like he trying to make it in the academy. [/quote]

Right, he went from being an average player in high school soccer and not dominating high school soccer, in the DMV to being on the first team at Eintracht Frankfurt which is 3rd in the Bundesliga right now.  BRO are you serious???  He's in the academy and trying to establish himself in the academy.  That will be a hard task for him, especially in that system.  He played for 30 minutes in a u17 game this past weekend.  He is light years away from the first team.  FACTS.  No amount of hype on Instagram can hide the truth or the skills.  [/quote]

And he's got a very small window of time to establish himself.  This year and next year.  Which is probably the duration of his youth contract. There is no u18 in the youth Bundesliga, so if he can't make the jump to U19 after next year, he's out like a lot of players.  It's a win win business proposition for the club, they get a player for free (which is harder at these ages in Germany), if he's successful great, if not, no biggie, they paid nothing, move on and bring in someone else.  It's a doggy dog world in Europe.  You cant pay your way to success and hide out with instagram.hyoe like you can in America. You have to play and beat the best week after week and day after day.  In training and in the games.  Being consistent at that level is difficult and it takes some time to adjust to the speed of play.  Hope he does well, but this talk.of him playing in the Bundesliga is just really.misinformed.  [/quote]

The sad fact is no matter how any of these kids do or how far they go, you are not happy for anyone associated to the program.

Let me ask you a quesion: how is your son doing relative to this cat? What local powerhouse program is he playing at after being spurned at Achilles FC, causing your 2+ year non-stop Achilles FC rage posts?
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and BTW, you do realize posting as two different people back-to-back isn't a good look?  The second "post", designed to support your first post, is a hot mess--High School 101.  You did it at least twice on this thread and on every other Achilles FC thread you rage-post on.  [/quote]

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