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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=RantingSoccerDad]I hadn't really thought about this until it came up in the PAC thread of all places, but is the DMV failing to produce good players?

The only player I could find who has been near the men's national team recently is Bill Hamid. The WNT is a bit better -- Andi Sullivan, Midge Purce, Emily Fox and Ali Krieger.

SoCal is always going to be the biggest source of players. But the DMV is trailing Colorado and Atlanta, among other places.

Are we doing something wrong? Or is this what we would expect?[/quote]

You need to do a bit more research.[/quote]

Agreed.  There are many more but that would not support his "expert" analysis. [/quote]

Name them.[/quote]

Joe Gyau, Jeremy Ebobisse, Gideon Zelalem, and Nicholas Gioachinni have all spent some time with the national team. [/quote]

Not recently for Gyau, though it's unfair that injuries have held him back.

Ebobisse is at least on the radar. Zelalem seems to have fallen out -- his career has declined quite a bit.

Gioachinni wasn't here that long, but the DMV can claim partial credit if you like.[/quote]

https://www.sbnation.com/2019/1/29/18199509/usmnt-roster-pool-demographics-latinx-foreign-born-players

The DMV area is fourth overall, behind only California, Texas and NY/NJ, according to actual research, and not your hunches.[/quote]

More than two years ago, according to the date on the file, not your angry musings.

And if you dig deeper into the story, you'll see Maryland at 3.4% and Virginia at 2.8%. She gives 6.3% for the DMV as a whole. The District itself is lumped in with "under 2%."

I can ask Alicia if you like, but unless the District itself is at 1.9%, Baltimore produced very little and the rest of Virginia produced very little, the "DMV" is quite broadly defined here.

Virginia -- all of Virginia -- is tied with Georgia and Arizona.

More recently, again, it's just Hamid. Then two, if you count Gioachinni.

Maybe try more than one Google search before you come in with some nonsense about me not doing my homework when I'm asking a simple question. If you have evidence that the DMV is doing better than this data would make it seem, great. That would at least partially answer my question.

But you're apparently obsessed with me, so you'd rather not contemplate the question.

If you'd like to talk further, DM me or PM me or email me or whatever.[/quote]

Over the course of 10 years. It's called a trend. And your response is that they define the area too broadly? Sure. 
You had a theory, it's been proven wrong. Let it go. [/quote]

Wasting your time arguing. He'll move the goal posts every time.

Notice that the initial thread was about producing good players. Then it morphed into a discussion about men's national team representation. Is the national team the only barometer of producing good players? Pretty sure good players from DMV are in colleges all across the country. They're in lower divisions too and MLS. Article shows Virginia and Maryland have higher per capita representation than bigger states and he looks to discredit. Just walk away.[/quote]

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