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Message: [QUOTE="Greedo, post: 4888656, member: 9992"] MLS also has academies here, and they have tried to replicate the European model. The majority of kids from those academies still go and play in college. It's a minority that are good enough to matriculate into the senior team. Soccer is also different because the players are almost more like commodities than in other sports in the U.S. If NBA teams had academies and they realized a 17 year old isn't going to be good enough to make it in the NBA, they're not going to "sell" that player to some team in Greece. The kid would just leave and play in college. [/QUOTE]