| 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.
