Anonymous
Post 09/22/2025 09:24     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:They all do it, DCU and all the other MLS Next teams has kids playing on the DL. Lake Braddock, Westfields, Herndon, list goes on and on. Riverside and Lightridge has a few NVA players, will be interesting how many will play HS. You have to get caught first I guess.



Will they be called out? More importantly, Can those schools achieve any competitive results without those MLS players? #LassoMindset
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 22:29     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
SYC is guilty of doing this but some how manage to get away with it ALLL THE TIME.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 22:11     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why is there a waiver? What is the point of having a rule and then a waiver?


Some kids are on athletic scholarships to private schools and will not have access to that education if they don’t play for the school. MLS will typically waive the restriction and allow that kid to play.

I know alot of people in this area play for Arlington and ECNL specifically because their kid wants to play high school. This is the right approach.

DCU should be looking for kids willing to sacrifice to go pro and pour their resources into them starting from age 14. They are picking who “appears” the best at age 14 but if Mommy and Daddy feel it is more realistic to go to Princeton and choose those AP classes over additional football sessions, you end with the 💩 show that it the DCU academy. Nobody has it all. Successful business people know that you have to sacrifice something.

No decision is wrong for any family. People have to simply make choices about what they want. DCU needs to understand development is 75% mindset and most of these kids who have guaranteed 4-year college ahead of them are not hungry enough to go pro.


Are you advocating for DCU to disqualify all players who seem eligible to attend college in the future?

In the land of expensive pay-to-play soccer, do you imagine a large percentage of players with minimum chances of going to college?


A professional player in the rest of the world is not thinking of college soccer. That is an American phenomenon. I have no problem if you guys want to hold onto that model as long as you stop complaining about D1 spots being taken by internationals or that the USMNT sucks. You simply can’t have it both ways.

Not even close to sure what are you asking in the second question.


When did professional players in America start thinking of college soccer as the next step?

Most pay-to-play kids in our area have college as an option. So DCU shouldn't take any of them?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 21:19     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why post this like this? Suspended by who? I assume it was 12 MLSN games? Why would DCU get fined for this?


When you play for a MLS Next team, you agree not to play outside of the sanction games. The club is fined if you are caught. It will be interesting in Loudoun County where NVA has about 100 kids that will automatically be DQ from playing HS soccer.


They will all waiver and play.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 20:08     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why is there a waiver? What is the point of having a rule and then a waiver?


Some kids are on athletic scholarships to private schools and will not have access to that education if they don’t play for the school. MLS will typically waive the restriction and allow that kid to play.

I know alot of people in this area play for Arlington and ECNL specifically because their kid wants to play high school. This is the right approach.

DCU should be looking for kids willing to sacrifice to go pro and pour their resources into them starting from age 14. They are picking who “appears” the best at age 14 but if Mommy and Daddy feel it is more realistic to go to Princeton and choose those AP classes over additional football sessions, you end with the 💩 show that it the DCU academy. Nobody has it all. Successful business people know that you have to sacrifice something.

No decision is wrong for any family. People have to simply make choices about what they want. DCU needs to understand development is 75% mindset and most of these kids who have guaranteed 4-year college ahead of them are not hungry enough to go pro.


Are you advocating for DCU to disqualify all players who seem eligible to attend college in the future?

In the land of expensive pay-to-play soccer, do you imagine a large percentage of players with minimum chances of going to college?


A professional player in the rest of the world is not thinking of college soccer. That is an American phenomenon. I have no problem if you guys want to hold onto that model as long as you stop complaining about D1 spots being taken by internationals or that the USMNT sucks. You simply can’t have it both ways.

Not even close to sure what are you asking in the second question.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 16:19     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:Why post this like this? Suspended by who? I assume it was 12 MLSN games? Why would DCU get fined for this?


When you play for a MLS Next team, you agree not to play outside of the sanction games. The club is fined if you are caught. It will be interesting in Loudoun County where NVA has about 100 kids that will automatically be DQ from playing HS soccer.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 15:53     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
They all do it, DCU and all the other MLS Next teams has kids playing on the DL. Lake Braddock, Westfields, Herndon, list goes on and on. Riverside and Lightridge has a few NVA players, will be interesting how many will play HS. You have to get caught first I guess.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 14:15     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:This kid is 08, senior in high school


This was called out back In spring. Broad Run HS. Coaches never started him so his name wouldn’t be announced in hopes of preventing DCU finding out his player was violating rules by participating in high school soccer…

Not sure what was the point as BRHS ended at the bottom of their district with negative record for consecutive seasons.

DMV soccer area is so nuts I’m so happy I was never raised here.
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 12:22     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why is there a waiver? What is the point of having a rule and then a waiver?


Some kids are on athletic scholarships to private schools and will not have access to that education if they don’t play for the school. MLS will typically waive the restriction and allow that kid to play.

I know alot of people in this area play for Arlington and ECNL specifically because their kid wants to play high school. This is the right approach.

DCU should be looking for kids willing to sacrifice to go pro and pour their resources into them starting from age 14. They are picking who “appears” the best at age 14 but if Mommy and Daddy feel it is more realistic to go to Princeton and choose those AP classes over additional football sessions, you end with the 💩 show that it the DCU academy. Nobody has it all. Successful business people know that you have to sacrifice something.

No decision is wrong for any family. People have to simply make choices about what they want. DCU needs to understand development is 75% mindset and most of these kids who have guaranteed 4-year college ahead of them are not hungry enough to go pro.


Are you advocating for DCU to disqualify all players who seem eligible to attend college in the future?

In the land of expensive pay-to-play soccer, do you imagine a large percentage of players with minimum chances of going to college?
Anonymous
Post 09/19/2025 11:59     Subject: DCU academy kid is banned for 12 games after playing for high school team
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why post this like this? Suspended by who? I assume it was 12 MLSN games? Why would DCU get fined for this?


Why post anything on this forum? Why have this forum?

Because soccer parents are nuts.



and you posted because you clearly care