A Dozen P-40's - MLSnet

Wow.

I would have liked to see Ned Grabavoy on that list, but I'm not sure MLS extended him an offer.

Impressive list though, congrats MLS!

 

Plus Development Squads increase to six players

 

Brian Carroll went to my old high school West Springfield. Pretty cool, makes me wonder how I would have done if MLS was around when I was playing soccer

 

Is there a limit to the number of P-40's that can be on one team?

 

regarding Gray, Buddle, Carrieri, etc...

Is there a milestone one reaches that makes a player no longer P-40 eligible?

 

I don't think there is a limit, but after 6, they'll start counting as full roster players.

There used to be some benchmarks floating around on the MLS website about P-40 graduations...if you play a certain number of minutes or games, then you graduate.

I'll look it up.

-edit-

Ok, looks like it is league discretion, at least since 1999 (and P40 isn't much older than that):

http://www.mlsnet.com/content/00/p400106grads.html

 

12! Wow.

Surely this is the biggest p-40 class ever.

Is this Mike Magee the one that was scoring all the goals for the U-17s last year, or was that Amos Magee?

 

Twas Mike.

 

Then who is Amos Magee?

 

Amos Mcgee

Amos is not related Mike.

He is from the twin cities and I beleive he played for the A-League Thunder last year.

BNAILD1

 

Re: Amos Mcgee

Amos is a graduate of Wesleyan University (my alma mater - thank you, thank you very much-a), class of 1993. He was a darned fine player on a darned fine (if D-3) team back in college. I've never seen him play professionally, but he has logged minutes with Tampa (RIP) and Chicago. As he's probably 30 or 31 by now, if he is Mike's older brother, he sure is a lot older (though it's certainly still a biological possibility).

 

Amos "Chesty" Magee is not related to Mike "The Missing Link" Magee.

 

Re: Re: Amos Mcgee

Possible, but not the case.

Just a coincidence of names.

 

THANKS BRUCE!!!!

You gotta believe that Arena's plugging of MLS and the success that the WC team just helped make soccer stronger in the US....what a case of success begetting success! No so many youngsters heading to Europe anymore, eh?!! And some of the big names (albeit old ones) coming back! Boys and girls I think we are witnessing a sea change in the state of US soccer!

 

Do you remember when P40 players were assigned to teams rather than drafted? Does anyone remember what the process behind that assignment was?

 

Re: THANKS BRUCE!!!!

To be honest, this is just a drop in the bucket of what MLS needs to do re player development in the U.S.

Having 24 on the roster, including six, developmental, is worth something, but given the number of prospective pros out there from ages 17-23, you need to have much, much more and especially reserve teams. The roster spots ensure a good training environment for these guys, but coaches won't feel obligated to play them, and that could leave you with guys never getting games for one, two or more years. They need the games (and remember, no agreement with the A League yet.

Some of this comes with expansion, but the rosters will someday need to be expanded even more, with reserve teams added.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they've signed these players, but most of them are just a year or two from leaving school anyway, and they need to do much more in the future.

AS far as Europe goes, funny how almost all of these kids still talk about hoping to go to Europe someday, and there will still be players going over every year. Part of that must be the Euro clubs cutting back on spending (presumably that affects their developmental budgets as well).