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    New Red Bulls RDS Regional teams for 2007/2008s

    Anyone have an opinion on the new Red Bulls RDS Regional teams. These are not the old RDS classes but new full year teams playing in EDP. 3 Regions - NJ, Westchester (North) and LI/NYC (South). Idea is you have 2 local practices and 1 in NJ, whereas older red Bulls teams have all practices in NJ. Seems like these are drawing away some real players from the academy clubs' younger ages (beachside, FCW, MO etc). Any thoughts?

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    No one on this website has thoughts of their own

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      Anyone have an opinion on the new Red Bulls RDS Regional teams. These are not the old RDS classes but new full year teams playing in EDP. 3 Regions - NJ, Westchester (North) and LI/NYC (South). Idea is you have 2 local practices and 1 in NJ, whereas older red Bulls teams have all practices in NJ. Seems like these are drawing away some real players from the academy clubs' younger ages (beachside, FCW, MO etc). Any thoughts?
      I think it is good.

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        #4
        Pay to play?

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          #5
          for 2007 and 2008 yes - its not free. cheaper than Beachside or other academy clubs youth teams though (its about 2k versus 3k+)

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            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
            Anyone have an opinion on the new Red Bulls RDS Regional teams. These are not the old RDS classes but new full year teams playing in EDP. 3 Regions - NJ, Westchester (North) and LI/NYC (South). Idea is you have 2 local practices and 1 in NJ, whereas older red Bulls teams have all practices in NJ. Seems like these are drawing away some real players from the academy clubs' younger ages (beachside, FCW, MO etc). Any thoughts?
            Great. A chance to drive 2 hrs for a u9 game.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              Great. A chance to drive 2 hrs for a u9 game.
              And get the best training money can buy

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                And get the best training money can buy
                This is EXACTLY why the USMNT will never be great at the game. The future prospects of a kid are determined by where he happens to live. A kid living anywhere in the US will find decent basketball, baseball, or American football coaching. A kid living anywhere in UK, France, Brazil, Argentina, etc., will find good coaching. Of course there may be some better teams or better coaching, in one town over another but generally it won't change the destiny of a kid.

                In the US, if you are too far from a top club and your parents aren't willing/able to drive 2+ hours, 2+ times/week, you continue on your dad-coached town team and start thinking about your Plan B sport.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  And get the best training money can buy
                  Then go. You need to go to get best training possible

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                    #10
                    Red Bulls youth pay-to-play is a money grab. If it were real it would be free. They pack in 3 teams and being 'in' buys you nothing except a tryout for older teams--which is the same everyone else gets.

                    They will take the best players regardless of where they come from or whether they "got in" early.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Red Bulls youth pay-to-play is a money grab. If it were real it would be free. They pack in 3 teams and being 'in' buys you nothing except a tryout for older teams--which is the same everyone else gets.

                      They will take the best players regardless of where they come from or whether they "got in" early.
                      Their DA program is entirely free. They use all their other programs to pay for DA. No, you don't need to do RB or other to get onto a RB DA squad - you need talent. You can argue if RB are taking advantage of parents being naïve, but I didn't find that to be the case. We were just looking for good supplemental training and RB provided that. No expectations.

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                        #12
                        Its not free at these younger levels but its actually cheaper than yout teams of academy clubs this will compete with (FCW, Beachside etc). so whatever. and training should be better. OP was not suggesting it was an automatic academy ticket, just like being on the younger academy affiliated teams at ages 8-11 doesnt guarantee one an academy spot. These teams should shake up the landscape some no doubt.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Its not free at these younger levels but its actually cheaper than yout teams of academy clubs this will compete with (FCW, Beachside etc). so whatever. and training should be better. OP was not suggesting it was an automatic academy ticket, just like being on the younger academy affiliated teams at ages 8-11 doesnt guarantee one an academy spot. These teams should shake up the landscape some no doubt.
                          It's great to give some other local teams good competition as well. Same with Barca making a move into the area - if it's good training, decent value, good teams, shake up the crap premier clubs out there to get their act together? All good. If they're just using it as an ATM? then we already have enough of those clubs

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                            #14
                            #10 is larry posting I am pretty sure. weak. at ages 2007-2008 EVERY club is pay to play - the MLS teams (redBulsl and NYCFC) dont go that young. These new RedBulls RDS teams will be excellent - Larry shutting don any post about it on botn

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