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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone would pay this much money to play in NCSL/EDP/USYS and go to a D3 school? Unless Christian, Marvin, and Jack can pull something off I don't understand the direction of VRSC, DC United, and SAI.

SAI is for players who have hopes of going pro, as a way to have flexible schooling with soccer training mixed in as part of their school day. The players enrolled in SAI will play for DC United youth team or others, they will not be playing on VRSC teams!

the kids who have a chance to go pro will be in Philadelphia playing for Unions academy. The ones a tier below them will be playing for united directly. Unless SAI can guarantee team placement, it's a laughable money grab

Where is the data that shows Philadelphia Union academy success rate in producing professional soccer players?

I thought all the MLS Clubs Academies produced professional players.

Anonymous wrote:The online school is not good and it costs about $8,000 a year (at least according to a current DCU parent who was complaining about it to us).

DCU kids who do online schooling pay for it themselves?

They maybe had 10 players tryouts for their RSA, SAI soccer tryouts 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:Someone would pay this much money to play in NCSL/EDP/USYS and go to a D3 school? Unless Christian, Marvin, and Jack can pull something off I don't understand the direction of VRSC, DC United, and SAI.

SAI is for players who have hopes of going pro, as a way to have flexible schooling with soccer training mixed in as part of their school day. The players enrolled in SAI will play for DC United youth team or others, they will not be playing on VRSC teams!

the kids who have a chance to go pro will be in Philadelphia playing for Unions academy. The ones a tier below them will be playing for united directly. Unless SAI can guarantee team placement, it's a laughable money grab

Anonymous wrote:Someone would pay this much money to play in NCSL/EDP/USYS and go to a D3 school? Unless Christian, Marvin, and Jack can pull something off I don't understand the direction of VRSC, DC United, and SAI.

SAI is for players who have hopes of going pro, as a way to have flexible schooling with soccer training mixed in as part of their school day. The players enrolled in SAI will play for DC United youth team or others, they will not be playing on VRSC teams!

Someone would pay this much money to play in NCSL/EDP/USYS and go to a D3 school? Unless Christian, Marvin, and Jack can pull something off I don't understand the direction of VRSC, DC United, and SAI.

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Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that it is for girls and boys who will go through a screening/tryout as part of the "acceptance" process. They are looking for high level players regardless of club affiliation. Looks like the coaches are all A license.

Sounds like they're trying to position themselves of some kind of non-residential version of IMG Academy or the Barca residency program in Arizona, but without the residency. And no matter what the screening process is, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they'll accept most anyone willing to pay. I assume any parent willing to sign up for this already knows their child is at least good at soccer. But, seems like you'd be gambling with your child's future by basically skipping high school; the academics and the social aspects.

This. I think IMG charges about 90k per year for full time boarding. Not sure of the rates here, but like IMG, if you have the money you can sign up! Also, like any institution that provides an environment that dominates one focus area (like soccer) and prioritizes soccer development over all else, is potentially fraught with risk to individual welfare. There are lots of cases where players do not make it into college or the pros (Europe too...) and then falls through the cracks with no discernible skills to have a good profession later in life. The Atlantic has published a few articles on these cases. Don't get me wrong, the rich kids will be fine, but the delusional-struggling family that is forking over the cash could possibly be taken for a ride.

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Anonymous wrote:My understanding is that it is for girls and boys who will go through a screening/tryout as part of the "acceptance" process. They are looking for high level players regardless of club affiliation. Looks like the coaches are all A license.

Sounds like they're trying to position themselves of some kind of non-residential version of IMG Academy or the Barca residency program in Arizona, but without the residency. And no matter what the screening process is, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they'll accept most anyone willing to pay. I assume any parent willing to sign up for this already knows their child is at least good at soccer. But, seems like you'd be gambling with your child's future by basically skipping high school; the academics and the social aspects.

And note that kids scouted and selected by DCU are getting this exact same thing for free.