Anonymous wrote:Not that creepy. Pretty much every parent who goes to soccer games to watch the game makes the same comparisons that I am with teams at a variety of levels and ages. It’s actually what this entire forum relies on for content.

Anonymous wrote:I have a big brain and when I go to youth soccer games over the past decade and a half I am able to notice things I guess.

Anonymous wrote:It’s well known that the pro-DCUA poster is a sock puppet. Just ask Jeff.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up. An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game. You can only play the teams on your schedule. And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players. They have what they have and that’s it. An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers. They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them. Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so. Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display. There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up. The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents. DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play. If they score, they score the same types of goals other teams do. When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place. The depth just isn’t there. No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up. An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game. You can only play the teams on your schedule. And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players. They have what they have and that’s it. An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers. They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them. Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so. Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display. There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up. The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents. DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play. If they score, they score the same types of goals other teams do. When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place. The depth just isn’t there. No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

Anonymous wrote:Crusader (or crusaders, it’s hard to tell) claims to have no dog in the fight bc either their kid never did get rejected or was smart enough to explore other options. But then continues to monitor and bash at will. If crusader cares this much about what is going on at the academy that has he or she claims has had and never had a direct impact on his or her life, I truly hope he or she is doing more than being a keyboard warrior. Since this crusader knows so much and has so much experience with running an academy and developing international talent, I would love to hear what he or she is doing apart from posting here. But bashing the academy at every opportunity by stalking the board for any mention of the academy, pretending to be some selfless and altruistic being, and then not actually doing anything else is just really … interesting.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t matter if they play a year up and win or lose because that is the choice they made. In fact, the team was designed to play a year up. An older team that beats them should not be faulted for winning a game. You can only play the teams on your schedule. And let’s not act like the teams in MLS or ECNL hand select players. They have what they have and that’s it. An MLS academy with the resources DC United has should be running circles around HG and ECNL teams.

The choice to play up has gotten DC United into the habit of prioritizing-selecting players who have grown faster than their peers. They do have a few small guys but these players would not be able to play up a year without their fast growing teammates carrying the load for them. Much of their roster has not had sustained success in ECNL or MLS Next despite being given every opportunity to do so. Only portions of their roster have. The recruitment process/staffing is flawed and incomplete.

If you go and watch an academy team play you will see this on full display. There will be players on the pitch that you will notice are misplaced. Players will foul in positions where they shouldn’t because they are outmatched playing a year up. The team rotates several players on defense because they cannot defend, don’t want to defend, and do not match up well against their older non academy level opponents. DC United players will whine at teammates when they make a bad play. If they score, they score the same types of goals other teams do. When they press, it is unorganized and not effective. The majority of DC United academy players that you will see are not in the top 100 players in the DMV in their age group and if they once were, it is likely because they grew faster when they were in 5th and 6th grade.

Like any other team, they have kids playing out of position and they have weak links all over the place. The depth just isn’t there. No one should be bashing the older, non academy teams that beat them regularly.

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Anonymous wrote:U16s lost to NVA. DCU is having trouble beating local teams. Whether it was kids playing up or not is irrelevant. DCU should be dominating these teams if it was worth a damn as a developer of talent.

As a NVA parent, I notice we posted all over social media that the NVA U16 beat DCU

Maybe its an oversight that no one says the NVA U16 beat the DCU U15
2:1 on a last second goal

Thank you for this. The mud slinging is so personal on here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U16s lost to NVA. DCU is having trouble beating local teams. Whether it was kids playing up or not is irrelevant. DCU should be dominating these teams if it was worth a damn as a developer of talent.

As a NVA parent, I notice we posted all over social media that the NVA U16 beat DCU

Maybe its an oversight that no one says the NVA U16 beat the DCU U15
2:1 on a last second goal