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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.

Whats funny is, majority of our men's national team spent some, most or all of their youth soccer getting developed outside the USA. Fact that can't be disputed.

Yet this person wants to say the DMV is the weak area.
Why isn't the rest of the country producing top national players?

The rest of the country is producing national team players. That's the point.

USYNT just released the U17s roster

11 of 27 MLS Academies are represented for that age group

You're right, the rest of the country is producing national team players

Talent is the overwhelming factor for all of these players, physican tangibles and mental intangibles that are well beyond the reach of most coaches, good or bad. There are top-notch academies that have dominant academy teams that do not have a single player on national teams. Do you really think they are not developing those teams well? Or is it possible they are getting the most of the players that they have? You are massively overestimating the difference that any club or coach can make, as are the clubs who take credit for players they coached for a year or two. Give me a break.

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.

Whats funny is, majority of our men's national team spent some, most or all of their youth soccer getting developed outside the USA. Fact that can't be disputed.

Yet this person wants to say the DMV is the weak area.
Why isn't the rest of the country producing top national players?

The rest of the country is producing national team players. That's the point.

USYNT just released the U17s roster

11 of 27 MLS Academies are represented for that age group

You're right, the rest of the country is producing national team players

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.

Whats funny is, majority of our men's national team spent some, most or all of their youth soccer getting developed outside the USA. Fact that can't be disputed.

Yet this person wants to say the DMV is the weak area.
Why isn't the rest of the country producing top national players?

The rest of the country is producing national team players. That's the point.

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.

Whats funny is, majority of our men's national team spent some, most or all of their youth soccer getting developed outside the USA. Fact that can't be disputed.

Yet this person wants to say the DMV is the weak area.
Why isn't the rest of the country producing top national players?

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.

Whats funny is, majority of our men's national team spent some, most or all of their youth soccer getting developed outside the USA. Fact that can't be disputed.

Yet this person wants to say the DMV is the weak area.
Why isn't the rest of the country producing top national players?

Six players on the current roster is not a "majority."

You looked up the current Men's National team roster and saw only 6 players who spent time outside the US developing as youth players?

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.

Whats funny is, majority of our men's national team spent some, most or all of their youth soccer getting developed outside the USA. Fact that can't be disputed.

Yet this person wants to say the DMV is the weak area.
Why isn't the rest of the country producing top national players?

Six players on the current roster is not a "majority."

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Anonymous wrote:Is it that the pool as a whole is weak? Or is it that the pool that is being pushed onto US Soccer by these local scouts weak?

In an area that has this large of a population, I find it hard to believe that the pool itself is weak. Money and politics is the cause of a weak national team. It's a pay to play sport, and its pay to play to get seen even, there is no level playing field. The amount of players internationally that have came from nothing FAR outweighs the amount here in the US.

The only rags to riches stories left here are from baseball (typically international scouts fining them) or football (which is slowly going away because even football is going to become a club style sport)

The PP is just making exaggerated attention seeking utterances because he feels his kid wasn't given his proper due by whomever.

Typical response from someone likely with huge amounts of disposable income.

Be objective about it, look at all the local kids that get looks, whether it be invites to YNT ID centers or ID2, so on and so forth.

$$$$$$$

You must be missing the part that we are in a PAY-to-play system from day 1

The fact the pool of kids getting selected for USYNTs have $$$$ is because it takes money to play soccer here.
The poor are filtered out of the $4000+ a season system

Must have real deep pockets when referring to groups as 'The Poor'.

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Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.

Whats funny is, majority of our men's national team spent some, most or all of their youth soccer getting developed outside the USA. Fact that can't be disputed.

Yet this person wants to say the DMV is the weak area.
Why isn't the rest of the country producing top national players?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it that the pool as a whole is weak? Or is it that the pool that is being pushed onto US Soccer by these local scouts weak?

In an area that has this large of a population, I find it hard to believe that the pool itself is weak. Money and politics is the cause of a weak national team. It's a pay to play sport, and its pay to play to get seen even, there is no level playing field. The amount of players internationally that have came from nothing FAR outweighs the amount here in the US.

The only rags to riches stories left here are from baseball (typically international scouts fining them) or football (which is slowly going away because even football is going to become a club style sport)

The PP is just making exaggerated attention seeking utterances because he feels his kid wasn't given his proper due by whomever.

Typical response from someone likely with huge amounts of disposable income.

Be objective about it, look at all the local kids that get looks, whether it be invites to YNT ID centers or ID2, so on and so forth.

$$$$$$$

You must be missing the part that we are in a PAY-to-play system from day 1

The fact the pool of kids getting selected for USYNTs have $$$$ is because it takes money to play soccer here.
The poor are filtered out of the $4000+ a season system

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it that the pool as a whole is weak? Or is it that the pool that is being pushed onto US Soccer by these local scouts weak?

In an area that has this large of a population, I find it hard to believe that the pool itself is weak. Money and politics is the cause of a weak national team. It's a pay to play sport, and its pay to play to get seen even, there is no level playing field. The amount of players internationally that have came from nothing FAR outweighs the amount here in the US.

The only rags to riches stories left here are from baseball (typically international scouts fining them) or football (which is slowly going away because even football is going to become a club style sport)

The PP is just making exaggerated attention seeking utterances because he feels his kid wasn't given his proper due by whomever.

Typical response from someone likely with huge amounts of disposable income.

Be objective about it, look at all the local kids that get looks, whether it be invites to YNT ID centers or ID2, so on and so forth.

$$$$$$$

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is it that the pool as a whole is weak? Or is it that the pool that is being pushed onto US Soccer by these local scouts weak?

In an area that has this large of a population, I find it hard to believe that the pool itself is weak. Money and politics is the cause of a weak national team. It's a pay to play sport, and its pay to play to get seen even, there is no level playing field. The amount of players internationally that have came from nothing FAR outweighs the amount here in the US.

The only rags to riches stories left here are from baseball (typically international scouts fining them) or football (which is slowly going away because even football is going to become a club style sport)

The PP is just making exaggerated attention seeking utterances because he feels his kid wasn't given his proper due by whomever.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read the thread. Only Two players from the area have made any youth national team in the last five years. No players on any youth national team in the last five years from a non MLS academy. Philly had three players on u17 national team alone this year More players on other age groups. Years ago Bethesda had 5 or 6 players from one team make the regional camp from the 2006 age group at u15. One or two made the actual national team. That was when the player pool was diluted even more and DCU was pay to play like everyone else. Now, DCU has consolidated the player pool and is producing LESS players that are national team level talent. The selections speak for themselves. Two main reasons for this...DCU is controlling the player pool and is not good at developing talent. Local clubs have lost so much talent to DCU and elsewhere and they have made the choice to prioritize winning above all else to keep parents happy and the development has stopped or best case, slowed Why talented players leave this region and go elsewhere to get better training. You also have greedy private trainers who run kids through cones and don't teach a damn thing. Take all of that and it is very difficult to become a top national level player from our area in its current state

Glad you got that off your chest.

What's the point you're making?

How many players on the US Men's National Team were fully developed from youth level at clubs in the US?

How many of the 28 MLS Club academies are represented in the current U20's?

Point is our player pool in the DMV is weak on a national scale. Despite so many people thinking otherwise.