Dave on Sportsnet: Silva a smart pickup for TFC
Earlier this week I got the chance to chat with Toronto FC's 4th overall pick in this years SuperDraft, Luis Silva. Based on the comments that he made to me about bringing his game to the professional level my piece this week on Sportsnet looks at how he was a smart choice for Toronto despite the Generation Adidas options that were still on the board.
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“….playing college soccer is a process and unless you get offered (a Generation adidas contract), you have to finish the full four years in college to get the opportunity to play professional,” Silva stated.
really? If you go into ncaa, you don’t have the option of dropping out and going to a pro club? or is it just the mls draft you can’t leave early for?
either way, seems a strange and slightly punitive rule.
Managing editor of SBNation's Toronto FC blog,Waking the Red .
by Duncan Fletcher on Jan 18, 2012 6:56 PM EST reply actions
Well not quite sure how it works with MLS but for any other sport you can leave school whenever you want. But I think for soccer this actually is the case. The only way to get into the draft as an underclassman is on a GA deal the other option is leave school early and head to Europe.
Seems a strange rule but we are talking MLS and they are very pro staying in school
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“Seems a strange rule but we are talking MLS”
You could have just stopped there Dave.
It’s all very nice promoting ‘stay in school’ and for the vast majority of them, it probably would be the wisest advice, but it really doesn’t seem like the attitude of a league that’s trying to develop the best football players it can for it’s national team(s).
For such a capitalistic, live free or die, individual rights, survival of the fittest kind of country, the states really does have some wierd rules about it’s sports.
Managing editor of SBNation's Toronto FC blog,Waking the Red .
by Duncan Fletcher on Jan 18, 2012 10:48 PM EST up reply actions
Guess they figure all the best ones will get GA contracts and the others are fine staying in school. It will have to change soon though so that the route that someone like Stinson took, one year in school, will become the norm for players that need a bit more time to develop.
For me going pro at 23 is just too late unless you are absolutely ready to contribute from day one
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by Dave Rowaan on Jan 18, 2012 10:55 PM EST up reply actions
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