TopDrawerSoccer.com ranked all of the MLS Academies heading into the 2017 season. TopDrawerSoccer.com is a website dedicated to covering pre-professional soccer. Just 3 years into the current structure that includes YSC Academy, the Union Academy is receiving high praise.
8. Philadelphia Union Philadelphia’s YSC Academy opened in 2013, but it didn’t seem to make much of a dent until technical director Earnie Stewart arrived in late 2015. YSC is a distinctly European model (sans the monetary cost absent a scholarship) combining school and academy soccer into one, and Philly’s players raved about its convenience and promoted its benefits ceaselessly.
Top product: D Auston Trusty
Top current player: D Rayshaun McGann