England is organized very differently than we are. They have a very small academy program...DA and level 1 equivalent and that's pretty much it...no B, C D or E team...this is reserved for boys that want to go pro and not kids that aspire to getting into college. Then there's a small middle ban of pay to play development clubs for kids hoping to break into the academies...
In Poland (the only European system I have experience with) there are only the pro academy side and "play in the park with friends" side. I talked to an academy coach about this and he said that if the kid is talented enough, he'll learn the game well enough by playing everyday with friends rather than in some structured un-fun system. Talent will sort itself out and then it's up to the academies to turn the talented kids into pros. One interesting thing about a country where everyone knows soccer so well is that there are fewer illusions about a kid's potential. If you know soccer, and you know your kid, you know pretty early on whether they're a special talent. In Poland, parents of regular kids don't kid themselves into believing that their kid will ever play pro (and college soccer isn't a thing) so they focus on other things - like school.
This is starting to change as Poland's economy grows. There are now summer camps associated with Bayern and Barcelona and other name clubs that are happy to take kids money based on a dream, but the pro academies pay them no attention. They really are only interested in top talent.