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The guy is the biggest joke at nycfc. Buddies up to the trainers and tells everyone how all the colleges are after his kid but doesn’t say he pays a recruiter to reach out to schools

Bitter dad needs to relax. Its kids soccer so just let them play. The more they play the better they get. Stop whining about other kids and get your kid off the Xbox and take him outside with a ball.

Unfortunately soccer in the USA is all about $ and who you know. That’s why the national team sucks and why they ran Klinsman out.

Not bitter just honest. Every year the kid was on the worst team in the academy and they would cut everyone but that kid. And every year dad is making friends with the coaches. Worst secret in the age froup

This is totally true. I can verify this. I saw him with the coach, George Soros and Bill Gates in a pizza joint. They were talking about taking out all the other kids with space lasers. I left when Hilary Clinton showed up.

Guess we hit a nerve otherwise u would’ve posted something intelligent

Heard the daddy’s boy at nycfc is got the European scouts drooling.

Any word WHEN this MLS League will officially announce the new clubs joining for next year ?

Good games NYSC 05-04

what does this even mean?

What league ? This league is falling apart as we speak. MLS academies do not want to play non-MLS academies and the MLS is losing their shirt. Did you see the billionaire investor behind the Sacramento franchise just bailed out. He basically said I am not going to pay a $200 mln expansion franchise fee to MLS and another $200 mln to build a stadium to join a league that has no big tv contract and each franchise is losing an average of $100 mln per year. The franchises have no money for a serious youth program. Some MLS academies are so fed up they are quietly knocking on the ECNL door.

The entire MLS is predicated on a ridiculous franchise ownership idea. The first thing that needs to happen is solve the issue of solidarity payments and the inability of US born players to go to Europe at 16 instead of 18 and start making money by selling players on the market to bigger clubs. They need to accept that the only thing they can do is become a selling league. No different than Dutch, Belgian, Portuguese leagues where a player can get enough exposure to create value and clubs can make money by selling prospects to bigger clubs. The idea that ticket sales and a paltry FS1 tv contract can earn MLS clubs enough to be profitable is insane.

You can’t be a selling league when you don’t develop players. Mls is a good ok boys network when it comes to the academy. All about who you know. There are not enough good trainers. The mls clubs just get trainers from the non mls teams.

For this area - the true MLS academies make up 1-2 teams per region tops. I don't care what you call it, at the older age groups, these academy teams are a step up from any other competition they would play (outside of maybe 1 or 2 outliers) and the clubs represented are very well established so got to keep it going in some capacity.

With that said - those that are in the MLS Next league - the scheduling and information on teams, schedules, rankings is definitely minimalist at best.....

BWG and Met Oval are not MLS caliber. They are glorified travel teams that are very expensive. There are is no quality at those clubs.

everyone has an opinion - and look holistically....believe Met Oval finished first in their division at U17

Oh please. Every year MEt Oval and BWG has big goal scorers and then when they move play MLS competition they do nothing. It’s easy to look good vs NYSC and seacoast

question was non-MLS academy teams - name better competition/quality at the older age groups???? MLS teams account for 40 players in the entire NY/NJ area per age group - less as you get younger.......


EDP ????
ECNL ?????
NYCSL????

Locally it’s
MLS Next
EDP NL
ECNL
EAL
NYCSL

EDP is the only league with Promotion/Relegation all other leagues are going to have weak teams who get in because of politics

Mls is probably the best. Then the others are all the same. Just depends on how much $ you want to spend and how far you want to travel. BWG and Met Oval are for the people who want to say they play in the MLS league. They’ll spend whatever to feed their ego.

MLS Next is a total misnomer. The top few teams are basically kids cut from the proper MLS academies. (Met Oval, Bergen, PDA)

The rest are very very average teams who would struggle to compete with the better teams from EDP, ECNL etc. (BWG u17 I'm looking at you)

As stated above the only difference between MLS Next and all the other leagues is the $ and the travel. If you want to pay $5k per year to drive to New Hampshire or Baltimore knock yourself out.

T to be best thing about MLS teams is that your kid will get a scholarship. There are some schools that will only take from MLS. But most mls clubs are just as political. Just look at Nycfc. Just look at some of the players they cater to.

NYCFC u15 coach’s father that has had a hell of a racket going on for years between nyc and him has been indicted on sexual abuse charges. Turns out he’s been sexually abusing kids since the age of 13 and now at 17 the kid comes out and report him. I feel so horrible for all the parents that would take this extra training courses with the promise of their kid going to play for NYCFC. He used to be a coach at Met Oval Along with his son before his son went to be a coach at NYC FC and would constantly be sending kids and two months later they would all get dropped. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...r-over-5-years-prosecutors/2950951/?amp. Hope this kid makes it through life and let this be a wake up call to all you parents

You are an idiot and zero idea what you are talking about. The NYCFC u15 coach is Michaal Dal Pra and he has no relation to Jose Claros. Jose is close to Hugo Guzman who is the u17 coach but Jose's son is not a coach at NYCFC.