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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those idealizing the European academy system:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/oct/06/football-biggest-issue-boys-rejected-academies

Considering the odds, not being able to send our kids to Europe at a young age may be a blessing in disguise... [/quote]

It is absolutely cut throat. But that is what happens when the player is the product. That was a really great article and thanks for sharing. So, to my point, that article represents the type of system that the MLS is up against. And cruel or not, it pretty much weeds out the lesser players or reveals them. There was a similar article about AJAX academy a couple of years ago and it is another very demanding program.

But the passion and drive that kids (and mostly their parents) have to make their local club's academy is what I've been driving at the past page or two, is what we lack. [/quote]

The Ajax set up is very different though.  They only take kids who live within a certain distance of Amsterdam, and kids live at home and attend their local schools for most of their training years.  They likely feel crushed when they are cut, but they have had semi-normal childhoods and have made non-football friends and connections.  I imagine they don't struggle nearly as much with adapting to their post-Ajax life as the kids in the UK do. [/quote]

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