Current status of each teams Youth Program – 1 year later

Hed7181 · Feb 29, 2008

MAJOR UPDATE for New England Revolution:

This is just in from the New England Revolution COO, Brian Bilello, off of the official Revs Blog...

Mr. Bilello said:

Q: Can you please describe what progress has been made regarding the Revs youth/academy program? What are the upcoming milestones to measure that progress?

A: We’ve certainly employed a very measured and careful approach starting our Revolution Youth Academy. We believe that the Youth Academy will be an important component to our future success and want to ensure we are building the most effective program. While there is certainly some downside risk to initializing the program one year later than some teams, there is much more downside risk in the future if our program is not effective from its outset.

That being said, we will have the first of our youth teams in place later this year. Given the seasonality of youth soccer in our region, our plan is to conduct tryouts in the June/July window. There will be more announcements between now and then as to the structure and organization of the program itself, but we confident that our current plans will put us in position to develop strong players going forward.
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http://revolutionsoccer.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/from-the-desk-of-the-coo/#more-52

Stan Collins · Feb 29, 2008

I still think that's kind of a lame excuse in the case of youth teams (unlike DPs, where I buy it), but glad to see the butt is finally in gear.