The Revolution Academy needs to make some changes.

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Oh stop. There are no NT players on Revs. Period.

US Soccer needs to cultivate players with passion. The flat performance that saw the men's team bomb out of the World Cup just now reminded me of so many colorless DA games. Where is the rage to win? Encourage the crazy parents, turn up the volume on the coaches, inject some irrational exuberance into the game. Let the boys train overseas in the summer to widen their exposure to real soccer cultures. The comfortable status quo is not an option.

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US Soccer needs to cultivate players with passion. The flat performance that saw the men's team bomb out of the World Cup just now reminded me of so many colorless DA games. Where is the rage to win? Encourage the crazy parents, turn up the volume on the coaches, inject some irrational exuberance into the game. Let the boys train overseas in the summer to widen their exposure to real soccer cultures. The comfortable status quo is not an option.

The Pay to Play rich white kid concept is not working, DAP not producing and NCAA soccer and all its restrictions is a bust too. Time to blow it all up!!!

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The Pay to Play rich white kid concept is not working, DAP not producing and NCAA soccer and all its restrictions is a bust too. Time to blow it all up!!!

Ganz and Wynalda will be the candidates for the next US Soccer Presidency. Ganz already has been quoted as saying that the USSF will entirely fund the DAP (MLS affiliated or not). He wants the NCAA to have their soccer teams train all year long and remove restrictions for players to play both high school and academy soccer. Sunil Gulati never played the game, doesn't know the game, and has been affiliated with gangsters throughout his tenure. Nobody ever questioned his close friendship with Chuck Blazer over the years. Gulati is a thug. Send him back to India where he belongs.

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Ganz and Wynalda will be the candidates for the next US Soccer Presidency. Ganz already has been quoted as saying that the USSF will entirely fund the DAP (MLS affiliated or not). He wants the NCAA to have their soccer teams train all year long and remove restrictions for players to play both high school and academy soccer. Sunil Gulati never played the game, doesn't know the game, and has been affiliated with gangsters throughout his tenure. Nobody ever questioned his close friendship with Chuck Blazer over the years. Gulati is a thug. Send him back to India where he belongs.

He screwed the USWNT over the years too. Total buffoon of a human being.

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He screwed the USWNT over the years too. Total buffoon of a human being.

He'll go back to the Revs. Can't be much worse than those idiots running the show in Foxboro.

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This. The only player with potential left for Portugal.

The only bright spot last night was a player who learned his soccer overseas.

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Ganz and Wynalda will be the candidates for the next US Soccer Presidency. Ganz already has been quoted as saying that the USSF will entirely fund the DAP (MLS affiliated or not). He wants the NCAA to have their soccer teams train all year long and remove restrictions for players to play both high school and academy soccer. Sunil Gulati never played the game, doesn't know the game, and has been affiliated with gangsters throughout his tenure. Nobody ever questioned his close friendship with Chuck Blazer over the years. Gulati is a thug. Send him back to India where he belongs.

Fund all of DA? Would be great but won't happen. Too costly and there isn't the funding for it. MLS clubs are our best hope for now, then maybe in the future it can expand. At a minimum they can at least give clubs more funds for either out right scholarships or $$$ to lower the costs to all players.

NCAA all year? Won't happen. Schools will fight it because of higher costs and if they allow it for one sport they have to allow it for all. Better coaching at the college level would help - make it like basketball and football where college has top coaches. But if pro clubs would guarantee scholarship dollars for top players while they give playing professionally a go, then more would move into the pros at 18 when continued development is crucial. College is HS on steroids but if you're offered a full ride that's difficult to pass up.

Soccer culture, passion, creativity? Mostly absent in the US. The costly club environment doesn't help. The HS ban doesn't help. There's no reason HS soccer can't become a town supported passion like football. Building a soccer culture, making it more popular, means more kids want to play, idolize the stars and will stick with it instead of picking more popular sports to play. That will take time, years if not decades. Not having a NT to get behind doesn't help. I wonder if US viewership of WC next year will be lower because we're not in it

Management? No doubt it has to go. It's not wonder JK bailed so quickly. He saw trying to change with the current management teams was fruitless.

I'll also add another suggestion mentioned above - let kids train abroad whenever they are given the opportunity to do so. The Revs are a classic example of how to screw that up. Until our coaching, training and competition is as good as overseas we should take advantage of any way to improve we can get.

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The Pay to Play rich white kid concept is not working, DAP not producing and NCAA soccer and all its restrictions is a bust too. Time to blow it all up!!!

What if it was Pay to Play rich black kid?

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What if it was Pay to Play rich black kid?

They're spending their $ on basketball. Soccer is 4th at best in popularity. Last night's loss doesn't help. No team to get behind and build enthusiasm among non-soccer fans or give young players something to aspire to.

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Suddenly, moving to Portugal is looking pretty smart.

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JK did not bailed out. He was asked to help develop a US Soccer identity and he basically said our best players need to move to Europe in order to develop and compete with the best.. MLS did not like the message and US Soccer did not support him.

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JK did not bailed out. He was asked to help develop a US Soccer identity and he basically said our best players need to move to Europe in order to develop and compete with the best.. MLS did not like the message and US Soccer did not support him.

1. He's right
2. He never stood a chance at changing things because at its core USSF, MLS, pat to play clubs don't want things to change

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Suddenly, moving to Portugal is looking pretty smart.

Suddenly, the scouts have all turned their heads east.

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Soccer culture, passion, creativity? Mostly absent in the US.

As far as creativity goes, most of the kids in the DA program quickly lose any creativity they had when they entered, as it's simply not allowed. There are multiple posts about the Revs players being taught very robotic play. My kid is in U12 DA at a different club, and even at that young age, the major emphasis is on moving the ball from player to player as quickly as possible. Almost every practice has been focused on this.

Players who dribble are seen as "slowing down the play". If they are never allowed to practice using the foot skills they spent their u-little years developing once they hit DA, they'll be gone by the time they reach NT level, and there goes a lot of the creativity. If you watch videos of Pulisic playing when he was younger, he was encouraged to dribble and use his creativity, not benched for it. Yes, kids will lose the ball on the dribble when younger before they've mastered it (parents love complaining about this), this happens to pros as well. Everyone marvels at Messi when he tears through 4 or 5 players, but I'm sure he lost the ball a few times when he was 10-11 years old. We're all lucky he was allowed to keep trying.

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Come watch all the older Revs teams play NYCFC at Gillette this Saturday starting at 1:00.