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Anonymous wrote:You could play in a second division or even third division academy in Europe and it may be better than many of the academies in the US ust on the knowledge and history they have with player development. Many of our academies in the US don't even have 20 years of experience. Some haven't even existed for 5 years (inter Miami).

I think some of you need to seriously stop talking about stereotypes, assumptions and how things used to be.

You obviously aren't really following or knowledgeable about elite youth soccer over the past few years since the birth of MLS Next
USYNTs have been doing very well against European and other International competition.
MLS academies have been doing very well against European academies in tournaments, friendlies and international matches.
The results aren't hidden.

Currently, it's when we get to the Seniors levels you see the gap widen.

That's because we are short term investors in youth talent in the US. We take the fastest and biggest kids and put them on our national teams and have them run hard and tackle hard but don't reach them how to use their minds. At the younger ages physical dominance plays a bigger role because there are huge gaps in physical development of the same age players and we.phusically dominate opponents. Why we are successful u15-u17. Once the physical advantage wanes at older ages and the kids have to actually play they are now going up against kids that have been using their minds and skills to solve problems for years instead of their braun and our teams fall behind. Short term, we look like we are successful. Long term we are not

Get over yourself soccer fan/parent. Who is the "we" in this statement? You're not involved in the selection process and don't know anything about it. You're just parroting what hear on boards like this and maybe what you think you see in our national team players.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could play in a second division or even third division academy in Europe and it may be better than many of the academies in the US ust on the knowledge and history they have with player development. Many of our academies in the US don't even have 20 years of experience. Some haven't even existed for 5 years (inter Miami).

I think some of you need to seriously stop talking about stereotypes, assumptions and how things used to be.

You obviously aren't really following or knowledgeable about elite youth soccer over the past few years since the birth of MLS Next
USYNTs have been doing very well against European and other International competition.
MLS academies have been doing very well against European academies in tournaments, friendlies and international matches.
The results aren't hidden.

Currently, it's when we get to the Seniors levels you see the gap widen.

That's because we are short term investors in youth talent in the US. We take the fastest and biggest kids and put them on our national teams and have them run hard and tackle hard but don't reach them how to use their minds. At the younger ages physical dominance plays a bigger role because there are huge gaps in physical development of the same age players and we.phusically dominate opponents. Why we are successful u15-u17. Once the physical advantage wanes at older ages and the kids have to actually play they are now going up against kids that have been using their minds and skills to solve problems for years instead of their braun and our teams fall behind. Short term, we look like we are successful. Long term we are not

Get over yourself soccer fan/parent. Who is the "we" in this statement? You're not involved in the selection process and don't know anything about it. You're just parroting what hear on boards like this and maybe what you think you see in our national team players.

Anonymous wrote:or am I...?

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Anonymous wrote:You could play in a second division or even third division academy in Europe and it may be better than many of the academies in the US ust on the knowledge and history they have with player development. Many of our academies in the US don't even have 20 years of experience. Some haven't even existed for 5 years (inter Miami).

I think some of you need to seriously stop talking about stereotypes, assumptions and how things used to be.

You obviously aren't really following or knowledgeable about elite youth soccer over the past few years since the birth of MLS Next
USYNTs have been doing very well against European and other International competition.
MLS academies have been doing very well against European academies in tournaments, friendlies and international matches.
The results aren't hidden.

Currently, it's when we get to the Seniors levels you see the gap widen.

That's because we are short term investors in youth talent in the US. We take the fastest and biggest kids and put them on our national teams and have them run hard and tackle hard but don't reach them how to use their minds. At the younger ages physical dominance plays a bigger role because there are huge gaps in physical development of the same age players and we.phusically dominate opponents. Why we are successful u15-u17. Once the physical advantage wanes at older ages and the kids have to actually play they are now going up against kids that have been using their minds and skills to solve problems for years instead of their braun and our teams fall behind. Short term, we look like we are successful. Long term we are not

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could play in a second division or even third division academy in Europe and it may be better than many of the academies in the US ust on the knowledge and history they have with player development. Many of our academies in the US don't even have 20 years of experience. Some haven't even existed for 5 years (inter Miami).

I think some of you need to seriously stop talking about stereotypes, assumptions and how things used to be.

You obviously aren't really following or knowledgeable about elite youth soccer over the past few years since the birth of MLS Next
USYNTs have been doing very well against European and other International competition.
MLS academies have been doing very well against European academies in tournaments, friendlies and international matches.
The results aren't hidden.

Currently, it's when we get to the Seniors levels you see the gap widen.

Anonymous wrote:You could play in a second division or even third division academy in Europe and it may be better than many of the academies in the US ust on the knowledge and history they have with player development. Many of our academies in the US don't even have 20 years of experience. Some haven't even existed for 5 years (inter Miami).

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Anonymous wrote:Not one dcu on list

Not one of 16 academies on list

AGAIN, no local club has put any player on any boys youth national team in five years. DCU has put only two in five years. DCU is not an academy that is regularly putting kids on our youth national teams. Facts. And DCU controls the player pool. DMV is just not where the talent is coming from for our national teams. Also, so much talent has left the DMV because of this state of play and the drop in quality of development standards in our area generally.

Majority of the MLS 27 academies aren't regularly putting players in national pool or top level professional ranks.

What are the objective measurements of "quality of development standards" and "state of play"?

But some.atr putting kids on national teams and producing pros. DCU isn't.

All the academies of top division clubs in France, Spain, Germany, England, Netherlands aren't putting players in national youth teams.
Do they suck?

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Anonymous wrote:Not one dcu on list

Not one of 16 academies on list

AGAIN, no local club has put any player on any boys youth national team in five years. DCU has put only two in five years. DCU is not an academy that is regularly putting kids on our youth national teams. Facts. And DCU controls the player pool. DMV is just not where the talent is coming from for our national teams. Also, so much talent has left the DMV because of this state of play and the drop in quality of development standards in our area generally.

Majority of the MLS 27 academies aren't regularly putting players in national pool or top level professional ranks.

What are the objective measurements of "quality of development standards" and "state of play"?

But some.atr putting kids on national teams and producing pros. DCU isn't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not one dcu on list

Not one of 16 academies on list

AGAIN, no local club has put any player on any boys youth national team in five years. DCU has put only two in five years. DCU is not an academy that is regularly putting kids on our youth national teams. Facts. And DCU controls the player pool. DMV is just not where the talent is coming from for our national teams. Also, so much talent has left the DMV because of this state of play and the drop in quality of development standards in our area generally.

Majority of the MLS 27 academies aren't regularly putting players in national pool or top level professional ranks.

What are the objective measurements of "quality of development standards" and "state of play"?

Everyone else sucks so we suck just as much as them is not a great argument. Reality is the DMV is performing poorly even against peers that suck

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not one dcu on list

Not one of 16 academies on list

AGAIN, no local club has put any player on any boys youth national team in five years. DCU has put only two in five years. DCU is not an academy that is regularly putting kids on our youth national teams. Facts. And DCU controls the player pool. DMV is just not where the talent is coming from for our national teams. Also, so much talent has left the DMV because of this state of play and the drop in quality of development standards in our area generally.

Majority of the MLS 27 academies aren't regularly putting players in national pool or top level professional ranks.

What are the objective measurements of "quality of development standards" and "state of play"?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not one dcu on list

Not one of 16 academies on list

AGAIN, no local club has put any player on any boys youth national team in five years. DCU has put only two in five years. DCU is not an academy that is regularly putting kids on our youth national teams. Facts. And DCU controls the player pool. DMV is just not where the talent is coming from for our national teams. Also, so much talent has left the DMV because of this state of play and the drop in quality of development standards in our area generally.

Majority of the MLS 27 academies aren't regularly putting players in national pool or top level professional ranks.

What are the objective measurements of "quality of development standards" and "state of play"?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not one dcu on list

Not one of 16 academies on list

AGAIN, no local club has put any player on any boys youth national team in five years. DCU has put only two in five years. DCU is not an academy that is regularly putting kids on our youth national teams. Facts. And DCU controls the player pool. DMV is just not where the talent is coming from for our national teams. Also, so much talent has left the DMV because of this state of play and the drop in quality of development standards in our area generally.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not one dcu on list

Not one of 16 academies on list