Anonymous
12/12/2025 05:56
Subject: DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not
Anonymous wrote:If anyone needs any more evidence that DCUA and it's Regional Development School/Academy is a complete disgrace, please see the fact that the RDS is selling merch to anyone that wants it. Not even hiding that it is a pure money grab. You can't make this stuff up...
I really wanted to put a 😂 emoji on IG.
I was so close.
Anonymous
12/12/2025 04:38
Subject: DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not
If anyone needs any more evidence that DCUA and it's Regional Development School/Academy is a complete disgrace, please see the fact that the RDS is selling merch to anyone that wants it. Not even hiding that it is a pure money grab. You can't make this stuff up...
Anonymous
11/26/2025 10:01
Subject: DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not
Anonymous wrote:I see clubs announcing some u14s (and u13s) participating in DC United ID sessions. how do you get to one? is it for dc partner clubs only?
it's only for non-futures players anyway, who presumably are the kids actually being considered, so maybe just part of the p2p pony show?
Anonymous
11/26/2025 07:53
Subject: DC United Academy - aa strong academy or not
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see clubs announcing some u14s (and u13s) participating in DC United ID sessions. how do you get to one? is it for dc partner clubs only?[/quote]
Like clockwork. Pavlov's dogs.
If your 2012/2013 did not get an invite to SoFive tomorrow, they are just not there yet locally. I broke down the exact methodology on how to know whether your kid is a baller so you don't have to have FOMO on IG about 100 pages ago.
Keep developing your kids game and they will develop into a player any academy wants and you won't be thirsty on IG when these invites are thrown around. [/quote]
Or they are there but just not in the orbit of DCUs scouting which is primarily word of mouth from the bigger clubs...if you're not in a club that has some visibility or connections with DCU it is much harder to get noticed. Just a reality of the situation. It shouldn't be this way but because DCUs scouting is very minimal and they do the basics the net the cast to get players isn't as wide as it should be and good players get left off of identification opportunities.[/quote]
I know many of these kids, some are ballers who deserve it and some are good players I thought don't have the level. anyhow this is only u14 so things can change a lot in 2 years.
Like clockwork. Pavlov's dogs.
If your 2012/2013 did not get an invite to SoFive tomorrow, they are just not there yet locally. I broke down the exact methodology on how to know whether your kid is a baller so you don't have to have FOMO on IG about 100 pages ago.
Keep developing your kids game and they will develop into a player any academy wants and you won't be thirsty on IG when these invites are thrown around. [/quote]
Or they are there but just not in the orbit of DCUs scouting which is primarily word of mouth from the bigger clubs...if you're not in a club that has some visibility or connections with DCU it is much harder to get noticed. Just a reality of the situation. It shouldn't be this way but because DCUs scouting is very minimal and they do the basics the net the cast to get players isn't as wide as it should be and good players get left off of identification opportunities.[/quote]
I know many of these kids, some are ballers who deserve it and some are good players I thought don't have the level. anyhow this is only u14 so things can change a lot in 2 years.