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Augen on 02 October 2014
outlawauron said:

Not anymore. MLS is going to do a ton of damage. Shame the timing of this tournament respective to the timeline of the MLS season.


I still think we're a few years off.  Big thing is next year could see a big bump in how much MLS sides are able to spend and the academies are really starting to bear fruit as well.



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outlawauron on 02 October 2014
Augen said:
outlawauron said:

Not anymore. MLS is going to do a ton of damage. Shame the timing of this tournament respective to the timeline of the MLS season.

I still think we're a few years off.  Big thing is next year could see a big bump in how much MLS sides are able to spend and the academies are really starting to bear fruit as well.

3 of the 4 teams are at the top of their groups, so you'll have nearly half of the next round. Liga MX is not a much better league than MLS (it's held up by a few strong depths and has no depth).



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Augen on 02 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:

Acadamies? I thought it was done as a draft in the MLS, similar to other US sports leagues?

The draft is for players from Universities. Academies are for developing young players within the club.

It use to just be the draft, but many clubs started building academies as felt it was a better model.

You'll find MLS is a mix of American sporting and International Football traditions.

For example, my club DC United has drafted several solid players. Chris Pontius (sadly hurt by injuries), Perry Kitchen (looks to be our captain), and Steve Birnbaum (great young CD).  We also have academy products, such as Andy Najar (who we sold to Anderlecht), Bill Hamid (an amazing GK who looks to be challenging Tim Howard in the next cycle for the US) and Colin Martin (so young and so much promise).



Augen on 02 October 2014
outlawauron said:

3 of the 4 teams are at the top of their groups, so you'll have nearly half of the next round. Liga MX is not a much better league than MLS (it's held up by a few strong depths and has no depth).

I will say MLS has made strides that our B Teams can often take care of non Mexican sides.  The issue is when the knock out stages happen MX clubs have that bit of quality and depth struggle to answer.  There is also the issue some managers don't view the CL as main priority because the concept is a bit foriegn to them.  I think there is a very good chance either Portland, Kansas City, DC United or Montreal will make the final. Winning it though is the last major hurdle.



Augen on 02 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:

Oh that's good to know. Good for the sport as well, I think clubs developing their own players is very good for sport. It's also good for the players, they actually get to choose to play for their local team and not get randomly picked.

I think it will add much needed depth to our player pool.  Also, how valuable that some of these kids will have played together for 4-7 years before first team action.

The league also started allowing affliate clubs with USL (the third tier of the sport in the US, sort of similar to League 1 in England) clubs.  It is a mix between baseball's minor league system and able to loan players out to lower levels to get minutes like in other countries.  Really helped our back up GK Willis shine.

I think MLS has come a long long way from 1996 and learned a lot. Future also looks really bright.