Major League Soccer’s newly formed elite youth development platform,MLS NEXT,will encompass more than 11,000 players across 113 youth soccer clubs,, including 30 professional MLS academies, 5 USL academies and 78 additional ECNL academies. The platform will feature competition across six age groups: U-13, U-14, U-15, U-16, U-17 and U-19 (U12 State academy league). Let’s take a look at the full…
Orlando City S.C. Pointing on becoming the Top Youth Development Program in the U.S.
US Soccer“We want to be the top academy in the country. We have a club commitment to develop players. We have the training facility, our academy is fully funded. We see that we have a lot of opportunities here.†Orlando City (currently consists of over 2000 players aged 4-19 years of age), wants to become the leader for homegrown player development.…
MLS academy, Homegrown players being exported
Goalkeeper AcademyEuropean clubs have just kicked off their 2020-21 seasons or are about to, and many Euro-Clubs have checked in on most of the MLS academy products and the “Homegrown Players”. As MLS Next took off a couple of weeks ago in it’s debut, what we have here is essentially all the strides that came before it the new MLS Academy…
MLS Next: Creating the New “Homegrown” Professional Soccer Players
US SoccerThe MLS NEXT academy leagues began 2 weeks ago The newly formed academy program isÂinevitably focused on the future given that some of its participants will be as young as 10 years old. Homegrown soccer players and it’s happening right now, before our eyes. Many quality soccer players are being given opportunity to enter and play in this program, and…
US Youth Soccer Claims that they will invigorate ODP through MLS partnership
Goalkeeper AcademyUS Youth Soccer CEO Skip Gilbert expressed in a recent podcast interview his high hopes for reinvigorating the US Youth Soccer Olympic Development Program (ODP) through his organization’s new partnership with Major League Soccer. Before we even start going through what Gilbert said and what he intends to do, let us say that NOTHING will change. Why? Because in the past 45 years…
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