Through all of these recent signings of foreign players from this or that lower-middle level of foreign country professional soccer, I have to wonder what is the point of Revs Academy, Revs2, college soccer, even USL soccer, when they aren’t a pipeline to anything for any of them besides one or two obvious future stars.
Is the notion that MLS was going to nurture homegrown talent just a joke now completely abandoned?
I mean, I get what you’re saying but also that’s a hard stance to argue when we have Peyton Miller, Noel Buck, and Esmir on our team actively within the past year and a half. Especially with us having Spaulding and Panayotou (and I think others) playing for USLC teams last season while a part of our roster. They don’t all work out (like Jacob Jackson from Revs 2), but even in that case we traded him to the Earthquakes last year so he still got some MLS time.
Obviously it’d be nice to see more come through, but calling the pipeline abandoned is definitely not true.
I'll grant it's a larger issue than just one comment can touch on. A few names, from all the players that have gone through the academy or played on Revs or ever been called up, is not a significant number at all. Buck may never play for the Revs again, and that leaves just Esmir and Peyton as possible Revs players - that's it?
MLS has the majority of its players be foreign-born (56%). I'm not a nativist by any stretch, but it does seem a poor performance by US Soccer when all that money and time that goes into youth soccer produces so few players for US pro teams.
"tallied four goals along with 26 yellow cards"
That seems wild to read. Is he gonna give Polster a run for the money?
Through all of these recent signings of foreign players from this or that lower-middle level of foreign country professional soccer, I have to wonder what is the point of Revs Academy, Revs2, college soccer, even USL soccer, when they aren’t a pipeline to anything for any of them besides one or two obvious future stars.
Is the notion that MLS was going to nurture homegrown talent just a joke now completely abandoned?
I mean, I get what you’re saying but also that’s a hard stance to argue when we have Peyton Miller, Noel Buck, and Esmir on our team actively within the past year and a half. Especially with us having Spaulding and Panayotou (and I think others) playing for USLC teams last season while a part of our roster. They don’t all work out (like Jacob Jackson from Revs 2), but even in that case we traded him to the Earthquakes last year so he still got some MLS time.
Obviously it’d be nice to see more come through, but calling the pipeline abandoned is definitely not true.
I'll grant it's a larger issue than just one comment can touch on. A few names, from all the players that have gone through the academy or played on Revs or ever been called up, is not a significant number at all. Buck may never play for the Revs again, and that leaves just Esmir and Peyton as possible Revs players - that's it?
MLS has the majority of its players be foreign-born (56%). I'm not a nativist by any stretch, but it does seem a poor performance by US Soccer when all that money and time that goes into youth soccer produces so few players for US pro teams.