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@ScoutedFtbl Kwang Song Han, 18, becomes the first North Korean to play and score in Serie A after heading past Joe Hart for Cagliari. History maker.
Swansea City's U-23 coach is here at RFK Stadium ahead of the NYCFC and D.C. United match. #Swans cc: @scoutsattending
Mundo Deportivo - Barcelona will activate a buy-back clause in Gerard Deulofeu's Everton contract. Fee believed to be around €12 million.
Breaking: Premier League clubs spent £174m on agents fees in last two transfer windows. Man City spent most: £26m; Chelsea £25m; Man U £19m.
 
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PSG currently in 3rd but are about to play soon. they lose this and Monaco might get the league locked down with Nice behind them. crazy
 

Very interesting video. It isn't just Mexican-Americans either, I personally know families that moved back to Argentina to chase the footy dream for their kids.

The fact that young American talents have to cross borders to seek better development and opportunities shows that this country is very much lacking in its academies.
 
I was hoping benfica would lose today and porto finally take that 1st place spot but it didn't happen. With no more head to heads it's gonna be tough
 
trey ohh five said:
 The fact that young American talents have to cross borders to seek better development and opportunities shows that this country is very much lacking in its academies.
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That's really what the video shows at all. It shows some Americans have the means and desire to pursue development in Mexico, that's really it.  All of the professional players in that video where developed by American academies. 

Omar Gonzalez was developed by Dallas Texans which is a top non-MLS academy. 

Paul Arriola was developed by Arsenal FC which is a top non-MLS academy.

Alejandro Zendejas was developed by FC Dallas, which is the best academy in the entire country (U19's beat Everton U19's 5 - 0 this morning)

What the video really shows is that MLS player compensation is lacking. Every player featured in the video left for Mexico because Liga MX is obscenely wealthy and pays very handsome contracts.  What it tell us about American academies is that they're beginning to develop talent that Liga MX clubs actually value.  

Mexico actually has a horrendous record developing Mexican-American youth. Hundreds of young players have left for Mexico in their developmental years yet no Mexican developed American player has ever really progressed from a Mexican academy to Liga MX. 

What's far more useful and meaningful in showing where our academies are currently at is information like head-to-head results when American academies play international competition. More important than the results if you can watch the matches, is direct comparison between the individual technical and tactical abilities of the players being produced here vs. those being produced in other parts of the world. 

The 2017 Dallas Cup Supergroup (U19) and Generation Adidas Cup (U17) are excellent opportunities to evaluate what our academies producing at the developmental age vs. clubs from Europe and the rest of the Americas. 

I believe MLS academies went 3 - 1 vs. Liga MX academies today.  

Galaxy are actually playing Flamengo live right now and its being streamed on youtube. Ironically, Mexico's best U17 prospect, CAM Efrain Alvarez, is playing and is a Galaxy product. He'll probably go down as the first Mexican National team player ever to be produced by an American academy. 

 
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always interesting to be reminded how something can be interpreted or viewed so wildly different based on view point

I guess this is true in pretty much all aspects of life tho
 
Arsenal consider permanent deal for Chilean youngster Marcelo Allende following trial

Arsenal could offer a permanent deal to Chilean midfielder Marcelo Allende after he turned 18 on Friday.

Allende has had two trials at Arsenal so far this year but FIFA rules meant they were unable to offer him a deal until his birthday.

The young midfielder is currently playing for Deportes Santa Cruz in Chile, but the Gunners look set to bring him over during the summer.

Allende, who can play on either wing or behind the striker, began his career at Cobreola's academy, which has produced some of the country's biggest players.

Charles Aranguiz (Bayer Leverkusen) and Eduardo Vargas (former Hoffenheim, Napoli, Valencia and QPR) both started at the Santiago academy while Arsenal's own Alexis Sanchez played for Cobreola before his move to Udinese in 2006.

His performances for Cobreola's 's youth sides saw him named captain of Chile's squad for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in 2015. He scored twice in four games before Chile were knocked out by a Nigeria side featuring Arsenal youngster Kelechi Nwakali.

Allende was hoping to break into Cobreola's first team in 2015/16 but the club were forced to sell him due to ongoing financial problems.

Segunda Division (third tier) side Santa Cruz snapped him up last year and added him to their first team squad.
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northoaklandfc northoaklandfc Where do you rank the Red Bulls academy in comparison to other MLS academies and non-MLS academies?

Trey Bantz Trey Bantz This video is from last month. It's interesting what Garber has to say about the youth, especially since it was not a part of the original plan. I'm assuming which was basically build a brand, get exposure, and etc. Clubs are still going with this model. I laughed when he said pay players well...yeah right.
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Billionaire Usmanov Blames Arsenal’s U.S. Owner Kroenke For Team’s Woes
by Yuliya Fedorinova and Tariq Panja
April 10, 2017, 4:27 AM EDT April 10, 2017, 11:05 AM EDT

Arsenal’s tepid season on the soccer pitch has exposed again the animosity between the Russian and American owners off it.

Alisher Usmanov, who owns more than 30 percent of the London club, voiced his opposition to Stan Kroenke, the biggest shareholder, saying he’s also responsible for the team’s performance in the English Premier League. Embattled coach Arsene Wenger, whose future is under scrutiny, should have a say in picking his own successor, Usmanov said.

"I don’t think the coach alone is to be blamed for what’s happening," Usmanov said in an interview last week at his office in Moscow. The board -- from which the Russian billionaire is excluded -- and main investor “bear huge responsibility,” he said.

Arsenal is currently outside the qualification places for Europe’s elite Champions League, a competition it played in every season for the past two decades and which brings in millions of pounds. Wenger, who has led the club since 1996, has faced more calls to quit from fans as the team failed to challenge for the domestic league title it last won in 2004.

Usmanov also called for an overhaul of Arsenal’s commercial operations. While Arsenal’s full-year revenue of about 350 million pounds ($434 million) is the third-highest in the Premier League, it’s about 30 percent less than rival Manchester United, which generates more commercial income from jersey-sponsorship rights and its branding.

Critical Owner

The Russian, whose assets include miner Metalloinvest Holding Co. and Russian telecommunications operator MegaFon PJSC, has long been critical of Arsenal’s management, saying as long ago as 2012 that a lack of investment was holding the club back from competing for top honors.

He offered to underwrite a rights issue he said would have provided Wenger with the money to try and buy the very best players in the sport. Shareholders instead opted to sell their majority stake to American sports team owner Kroenke. A spokesman for Arsenal contacted on Monday declined to comment on the issues raised by Usmanov.

It’s been a clash of styles, to say the least. Usmanov is a soccer fan and a regular attendee at games. Kroenke believes in his hands-off approach.

“If you want to win championships then you would never get involved,” he told the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston last year. “I think the best owners in sports are the guys that sort of watch both sides a bit. If you don’t have a good business then you can’t really afford to go out and get the best players.”

Divisive Club

Fans, meanwhile, are also split over the future direction. During a game last month, rival groups chartered planes to fly banners expressing support for Wenger and calling for the Frenchman’s departure. He has a contract until the end of the season.

The Arsenal Supporters Trust has long called for an overhaul of the team’s board. A majority of its members wants Wenger to go, said spokesman Tim Payton.

"We believe that as a significant shareholder of Arsenal he should have a seat on the board as part of complete boardroom shakeup," said Payton. "Our own analysis has shown commercial revenues are flat and well behind other major clubs."

Arsenal Chairman Chips Keswick told reporters in March the decision over Wenger’s future would be “mutual,” without elaborating. Wenger is now English soccer’s longest-serving coach, after Alex Ferguson retired from rival Manchester United in 2013. Ferguson’s chosen successor, David Moyes, was fired after less than a year.

“Some continuity is needed,” said Usmanov. “This includes the need to prepare a successor for Wenger, but in a very respectful way. I can suggest that Wenger himself can prepare a successor."

As well as Wenger’s future, media reports in the U.K. have suggested Arsenal is readying to offload several members of its squad and that star player Alexis Sanchez may quit.

"I personally, unfortunately, am fully isolated from decision making in the club," Usmanov said, adding that Keswick is the only board member that he speaks to. "All the responsibility for the fate of the club rests with the main shareholder."
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PSG currently in 3rd but are about to play soon. they lose this and Monaco might get the league locked down with Nice behind them. crazy
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good. i hope they lose so verratti can come to the camp nou this summer. 
 
Chadleroy said:
That's weak. I don't wanna hear no excuses from barca. What exactly did he get booked for?
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meh... madrid finally might win a la liga title for the FIRST TIME IN 6 YEARS and mans got they chest out. 

FOH

neymar got 2 yellows...one for tying his shoe and another for a late foul.  
 
Mastamind89 said:
@NorthOaklandFC Where do you rank the Red Bulls academy in comparison to other MLS academies and non-MLS academies?
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Definitely one of the league's best. They have a very strong track record integrating academy players into the first team and further developing them into first XI players for the club, and they also have a track record of developing players who have transitioned seamlessly to European clubs.  

Matt Miazga is the shining example. Developed him, successfully integrated him into the first team at 18, and then netted the club a 5$M transfer from Chelsea.  Ever since winning the starting job at Vitesse over the winter, it seems like every other week he's in the Eredivisie team of the week at 21yo. 

Last summer Matthew Olosunde left NYRB academy when he turned 18 and signed with Manchester United. Walked right into a starting role with Manchester United U23's. Things like that are good indicators. We want to be capable of producing talent from ages 12 - 18 than can immediately compete with their European peers at big time development clubs. 
 
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