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Stanford Messi is turning pro
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:38 pm
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Junior forward Jordan Morris announced Tuesday that he will forgo his senior season at Stanford and embark on a professional career.
Morris was on campus to celebrate with his teammates at the Stanford’s season-ending banquet on Monday night. He will be in St. Louis for the MAC Hermann Trophy ceremony on Friday before departing to join Werder Bremen for a training stint at that team’s camp in southern Turkey. A Sounders FC Academy product, Morris’ MLS rights are owned by Seattle.
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Posted on 1/5/16 at 3:32 pm to jackwoods4
Finally. Wish him the best. I would love to see him in the Bund.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 5:41 pm to jackwoods4
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A Sounders FC Academy product
The process is in full swing. MLS academies will be the future of the vast majority of USMNT players.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 6:10 pm to John Keating
This isn't really a good example of an academy product. The guy did play college soccer...
Posted on 1/5/16 at 7:37 pm to TN Bhoy
You realize most academy products these days do both, right? Wait, no you didn't.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 8:07 pm to TN Bhoy
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This isn't really a good example of an academy product. The guy did play college soccer...
So do you consider World Cup squad member DeAndre Yedlin a valid product?
Posted on 1/5/16 at 8:11 pm to WarSlamEagle
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So do you consider World Cup squad member DeAndre Yedlin a valid product?
That scrub? Pssh.
Posted on 1/6/16 at 12:57 am to cwil177
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You realize most academy products these days do both, right?
Not a real academy
Posted on 1/6/16 at 1:07 am to cwil177
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You realize most academy products these days do both, right? Wait, no you didn't.
The ones who don't progress pass the U-18 stage and become pro's pretty much all get full rides to play college ball.
Posted on 1/6/16 at 1:12 am to John Keating
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The process is in full swing. MLS academies will be the future of the vast majority of USMNT players.
He was only in the academy for one year. He wasn't brought through since he was 12 or something like that.
EPB would be the best example of coming through the ranks.
Still have a long way to go. Probably another 10 years or maybe longer before we see the real fruit of them.
Still rather these kids go to Europe at 18 if given the chance or before they if they can some how pull the strings to go at 16 or younger. But the MLS can give them a great foundation before hand.
This post was edited on 1/6/16 at 1:15 am
Posted on 1/6/16 at 4:14 pm to StraightCashHomey21
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Still have a long way to go.
Of course.
US is still in a transitional phase right now but the seeds are more than sown, they are now sprouting. The academy status is night and day in difference from what it was just five years ago; I expect it to be even more so five years from now. The structure, development, money, and overall investment being placed into academy infrastructure by MLS is off and running.
Regarding Europe, I'm all for young American players coming if they have the right opportunity. However, not everyone will have nor do they need that opportunity to become a good player. Thankfully, there will be more opportunities available to all those future players due to the prevalence of the MLS academy structure.
I am of the opinion that more opportunities equals more production. The US cannot develop as a soccer nation just by sending its future players to Europe; it needs its own productive structure and it looks like it will have it. There is a lot to be optimistic for right now. I believe the future USMNT will be littered with good players that were groomed in Europe and the US.
Posted on 1/6/16 at 10:53 pm to John Keating
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Regarding Europe, I'm all for young American players coming if they have the right opportunity. However, not everyone will have nor do they need that opportunity to become a good player. Thankfully, there will be more opportunities available to all those future players due to the prevalence of the MLS academy structure. I am of the opinion that more opportunities equals more production. The US cannot develop as a soccer nation just by sending its future players to Europe; it needs its own productive structure and it looks like it will have it. There is a lot to be optimistic for right now. I believe the future USMNT will be littered with good players that were groomed in Europe and the US
The way rules are structured they can't even go to Europe until they are 18 anyway. So they will have to be top notch to force themselves in a u-21 side or press for the first team. So that will actually help MLS academies.
Now clubs will be more willing to take risk on kids from 12 to 16 from the US so they can train them better. But the thing is they need some kind of relative from the EU or have to be living there already. Parents working there, military etc.
This post was edited on 1/6/16 at 10:54 pm
Posted on 1/7/16 at 6:30 am to TN Bhoy
FC Dallas graduated a ton of Academy players this past season. It's definitely the future.
Posted on 1/7/16 at 4:18 pm to hendersonshands
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FC Dallas graduated a ton of Academy players this past season.
They had five homegrown players in the starting XI this season.
Posted on 1/7/16 at 8:01 pm to cwil177
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You realize most academy products these days do both, right? Wait, no you didn't.
Yeah, unless you grew up in a real footballing nation with legitimate Academies starting from age 9
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