Dr. Richard Hurtz
SILVER
Ok ferbert.. LAUFA is great!! They’re sooo good!! Yea!! LAUFA won!! They played so good!! Did you see that play? Look at that move!! Wow!! You go LAUFA!! Congrats. You beat a giant on the block one time. I think you better look at all the scores and all the games across all the age brackets within LAFC’s academy before you start posting LAUFA beats LAFC. I would expect this from Surf who comes close, but LAUFA. Cmon really? And I’m glad LAFC recruits players because that’s what real teams do.. the best teams have the best players which attarct the best players. You think if your son is a Neymar he wants to be on LAUFA or LAFC? I’m guessing LAFC. But congrats LAUFA!! You did it!! Good luck in your league games
I agree. But I also see youth academy players with potential and should be scouted to play on our national teams. The bottom line is we r scouting the wrong players. The wrong kids being selected. The smart kids being left to play with their existing club until they grow bigger. Dumb.That’s the bottom line. Maybe a couple of players of national repute have ever been developed in So Cal. Donovan? Gyasi Zardes, (who isn’t very good)?
As for international quality, we have developed exactly zero (not counting GKs).
So we should maybe stop bragging about these local teams until any of them can show development to international standards. That should be what we are discussing.