Originally posted by Unregistered
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There's also the Farfan example, where he signed a professional contract before leaving HS, but it had a college education wrapped into the deal. Sure, it's not Stanford, but he's at least focusing on school as well as his professional career. His path won't be typical though.
As for Foster, as another poster said, that has pretty much nothing to do with TA. Just like Jordan Morris is a "Sounders homegrown" his actual training was done in a pay-to-play club. MLS academies take a few top kids from clubs and stamp them as homegrown just in case. It's good business for the MLS team, but doesn't help develop players or identify talent at young ages. The US has a long way to go to catch up to everyone else.
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