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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 3699417, member: 153"]
You think it's only Pulisic and Reyna?

Do you know where Pulisic was ranked when he was 16? Way down around 100. He was not ticketed for the MNT. He didn't play for an MLS youth academy.

Here are all the Euro 1st division American players who developed with a DA team (i.e. non MLS academy):

Gloster, Richards, Pulisic, Durkin, Soto, Cappis, Steffen, Yedlin, Sargent, Wood, Weah, Gooch, & De La Torre. In MLS, there's Miles Robinson and Morris who were also non-MLS DA.

Then there's the fact that players like Reyna, McKennie and Adams who were MLS DA actually competed against these non-MLS DA teams and developed playing against these teams.

The new MLS system is going to be so watered down when you consider that it's the same exact clubs as the DA, except now they don't have the same support with top coaches, and also the subsidy for non-rich kids.

You act like it's only Pulisic and Reyna making waves. It's actually a bunch of young guys in the top European leagues.
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