When it comes to developing soccer players, Baltimore, Md. has been something of a sleeper in helping produce some of the best and brightest.
But one youth club has stoked soccer in that region ? the Baltimore Bays.
Best known for the youth club of D.C. United?s Santino Quaranta, the club has reached new heights and is currently one of the 74 teams competing in the USSF Development Academy at the U-16 and U-18 level.
Source: http://www.dcunited.com/news/2011/02/youth-movement-continues-for-baltimore-bays
That was horrible journalism and fact checking. Santino Quaranta only played for the Bays for a few months when he was a late teen on a superstart team they put together when they first formed as a combination of two clubs who previously competed against one another. The Bays organization had nothing to do with his development. He never even mentions them when talking about his youth days, because he was developed by some coaches and teams who stopped coaching club soccer before the Bays even formed.
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