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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2017/12/29/17/28/20171229-news-ynt-first-ever-us-soccer-mens-ynt-summit-brings-153-players-together-in-single-camp

USMNT summit, several players from the area are a the ding, was surprised to see the German club's have academy products.  Also, didn't see any travel club's mentioned, just DA or European academies, a couple "unattached" including one from Manassas VA.  For me, if there was any doubt the national championships and national league for both USYS and Club Soccer were irrelevant when it comes to being scouted by the US Soccer, this list of summit attendees removed all doubt.  Onky parents and club's cashing in travel fees care about those championships.[/quote]

Exactly what travel club do you expect U20 players to be training with? The list you looked at and are complaining about are college age kids now and are no longer affiliated with club soccer. ?[/quote]

The summit has several age groups, you just have to read more.  There are U19 age groups in club soccer, btw.  They started after the age group change.[/quote]

And the U19 age group only had 4 kids listing a European club. But either way your whole point is flawed as the kids in Europe were already scouted while in DA before they made their move to Europe. In fact it was DA that gave them the platform to be scouted by the European clubs. Pulisic was scouted by Dortmund while he played in DA. [/quote]

DA is different than travel soccer, although both do a fair amount of traveling.  Travel soccer in it's early teen years takes a very results-oriented path that can be followed through the USYS championships, cross-country tournaments, league games to stake a place in said championships and to win the league in different states, state cup championships, separately ODP can have a very involved path on its own.

That being said, you can have a travel club with it's diaspora of red/white/blue teams and it also have a DA team in various age groups that competes against other DA teams.  They are not mutually exclusive.  My point, which I don't believe you have countered if that was your intent, was that it seems the DA teams is where most players for the USMNT will be coming from.  We as American's tend to outsource the quality control when we can, so collegiate soccer programs, if they have not already, will follow suit.  It then follows that the national youth championships will be irrelevant, after all what are you the champion of if the majority of players serious about playing soccer in collegiate and professional teams aren't competing against you.

Let me say that facts are often insufficient, on their own, to persuade others.  If you believe that you or your DC are champions of the United States then no one will be able to sway you from this belief.[/quote]

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