Youth Soccer Development. If you want to talk about youth soccer development, you start with FC Barcelona. Beside that little event in Zurich, the talk of this week was Barca dismantling of Real in El Clasico. 8 of the starting 11 for FC Barcelona were products of their La Masiayouth development academy. It is the envy of every club and nation. It's a copy cat world and every soccer pundit this week opine the need to build their own version of La Masia.
How to create your own Golden Generation? Every MLS team is looking for their own Andy Najar's or Juan Agudelo's in their backyard. Don Garber is talking up the MLS development academies and the new U23 Reserve league. And the new kids on the block, RealSaltLakeAZ, SeattleSounderAcademy and Philadelphia Union are all trying to drive their program into uncharted territories. In the 4th year of the U.S. Soccer Development Academy era, the talents are shifting from the independent regional power clubs to the subsidize MLS academies.
New York Red Bulls have been the leader of youth development in the MLS. If the new era of home grown player where in place three years ago, you would have seen All-American Matt Kassel, Johnny Exantus and a steady pipeline of NJ/NY talent playing alongside Juan Agudelo. For $100K a year, you can either field one 18-man youth team a year or million dollar plus, you can sign a Designated Player in the twilight of their career. The paradigm shift of the MLS encourages and rewards MLS teams in developing home grown players. The next step of U.S. soccer evolution is in progress
The vision of building an U.S. version of La Masia is also in progress at FC Dallas. No MLS team has signed more home grown players than FC Dallas. Out of the 18-man U16 FC Dallas 2009 Juniors’ team, There are 5 professional players. Four with FC Dallas and one with FC Koln of Germany. There are currently three U18 US Mens National Team players from the FC Dallas Academy team. The current U18 FC Dallas Academy starting GK is the also the starting U17 Mexican National Team. And this weekend at the 2010 Nike Friendlies, we see the coming out party of a FC Dallas Academy player and starting RB for the U17 Mens National Team. With the Frisco ISD approval, FC Dallas will soon join Whitecaps FC and Real Salt Lake as the third MLS team with a residency program
Este blog nace con una misión, la de informar de los acontecimientos futboleros locales, nacionales e internacionales del mundo amateur y profesional. Como tal creemos que es importante dar a conocer las ambiciones de jugadores que desde la etapa infantil sueñan en convertirse en grandes estrellas. Asimismo, conocerán los albures de los futbolistas que ya han alcanzado la cima profesional.
Nuestro principio es el respeto a la persona y al profesional, venga de donde venga, sea quien fuera. Ser justos e imparciales es nuestro lema y siempre divulgaremos los hechos expuestos por sus propios protagonistas. Todos sabemos que hay un solo ser perfecto y ese no lo somos nosotros, pero aqui no hay lugar a inventos ni creaciones con fines de dañar la imagen de las personas, sin embargo siempre divulgaremos lo bueno, lo malo y lo feo de lo que acontezca dentro del mundo del fútbol.
Youth Soccer Development. If you want to talk about youth soccer development, you start with FC Barcelona. Beside that little event in 
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