True, first three places almost every year since beginning of Academy program: PDA, Albertson, FCW (not necessarily in that order each year) are not necessarily free.

How do you define success? MLS picks, Men's National Team Selections, Olympic selections, D1 scholarships, European signings, residency players, national team players, MLS Youth Cups, EPL Youth Championships, or DA W/Ls a third of the way through a season for a few age groups. Just wondering?

Congratulations to Brentwood, NY native Andrew Jean-Baptiste on his first MLS start, his first MLS goal and an overall quality 90 minutes for Portland last night. LI should be proud of one of our own!

He was awesome .Great game quality performance.

He scored twice didn't he ;), I only saw the second half but I would travel 3,000 miles to sit with the Timber Army, that looked like fun!

They overturned the own goal....good for him!!! You don't have to travel that far either...they play RBNY in August.

"Hey BWG hater. You are getting tired and without credibility. They have 60 years of history and plenty of success. Go away or tell us something better"


Nobody is a BWG-Cosmo hater, you just need to stop drinking the koolaid! Cosmos U15/16 & U17/18 have played a total of 14 games total and 3 were won? The U17/18 are supposed to be the next stepping stone for the Cosmos pro team? haha They have played 7 games and won 0.Now if you throw Met Oval in the mix between U15/16 & U17/18 Cosmos and Met oval 28 games played...4 were won between both clubs! OUCH

It's developmental. You shouldn't be looking at the w/L column........LOL

If it's developmental why bother keeping score?Why bother traveling all over the world??

To the person who said they dont keep track of scores ...its developmental? hahahaha Dont think so. Scores are kept,evaluations are done, top 8 teams go to Academy tournament.The only teams that score is not taken serious are 96s (u15) and under, those are considered Pre-Academy development teams.... ..all Academy is win/loss.