How Fc Dallas And Their Homegrown Model Could Revolutionize Us Soccer
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interesting read, though alot of things have to go right to get schools to help in terms of logisitcs for their students to train and go to school. The only problem with this is our academy will have to grow into the first team, meaning right now its 13/14 so well have to wait a few years to even get a player to even make the first team roster.
That being said alot of investment has to go to the academy every year to see if they are serious about doing this or not. so dont know if they plan to take kids from their youth affiliates every year as new youth teams are formed.
That being said alot of investment has to go to the academy every year to see if they are serious about doing this or not. so dont know if they plan to take kids from their youth affiliates every year as new youth teams are formed.
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how long do kids sign for to attend youth academies? who pays for it? the team or the student / player / family?
is it renewed every year? or do they sign a multi-year contract?
and I'm assuming if they don't keep up their grades (or don't keep up their soccer skills) they'll get dropped at the end of the school year?
if I had kids, i'd be cautious about sending my kids off to some soccer academy without assurances that they'd at least be getting their high school diploma (so they have a chance of going to college).
at least with basketball and (american) football, college provide scholarships to attend the school in addition to having to maintain grades in order to play.
is it renewed every year? or do they sign a multi-year contract?
and I'm assuming if they don't keep up their grades (or don't keep up their soccer skills) they'll get dropped at the end of the school year?
if I had kids, i'd be cautious about sending my kids off to some soccer academy without assurances that they'd at least be getting their high school diploma (so they have a chance of going to college).
at least with basketball and (american) football, college provide scholarships to attend the school in addition to having to maintain grades in order to play.
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You should read the article
.Academy players cannot sign contracts and remain in the academy because it violates amateurism rules. Amateurs cannot play on the same team as players that sign a professional contract.
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I'm not so sure this is the plan for NYCFC. I think they prefer the Galaxy path at best.
Well, I understand that NYCFC is going to use the DP slots for superstars like Galaxy -- whereas that article said that some at Dallas hope (privately) that they can win a title with 11 starters from their academy -- but LA also has a strong academy, no?
I don't know that much about it but my understanding is that Galaxy are moving from their academy being a kind of "finishing school" to one that works with kids earlier on. Perhaps comparable to the arrangement that Dallas worked out with the school district, Galaxy have opened an academy high school. Their technical director also said the goal is to have 8 to 10 starting players from the academy, with superstars sprinkled in
I don't know that much about it but my understanding is that Galaxy are moving from their academy being a kind of "finishing school" to one that works with kids earlier on. Perhaps comparable to the arrangement that Dallas worked out with the school district, Galaxy have opened an academy high school. Their technical director also said the goal is to have 8 to 10 starting players from the academy, with superstars sprinkled in
I think it's a tired and false dichotomy. There are plenty of clubs that can't afford the "chase expensive old players" route so they only have one choice. The ones who can, can afford to build impressive academies too, as far as I'm aware. If we were talking about clubs that could only afford one of these options then it would be a dichotomy worth the replay value it gets in the media, but I'm not sure we are and therefore I'm not sure it is anything other than poor critical thinking on the part of journalists or an attempt to pander towards poor critical thinking on the part of readers.
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