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The IMG Soccer Academy is part of the IMG Academies located in Bradenton, Florida. It is U.S. Soccer's full-time residency program for the United States U-17 men's national team. Started in 1999, it has become integral in developing the United States' top youth soccer prospects. The residency program gives elite players the opportunity to train in a professional environment as MLS does not currently have a substantial youth academy system in place (although D.C. United, Chicago Fire, New York Red Bulls, and Real Salt Lake have created youth academies since Bradenton's inception). The Bradenton Academy has grown from an initial 20 players to 30 in 2002 and then to 40 in 2003. The program is now split into a U-16 squad and a U-17 squad. A typical day for the student-athlete at Bradenton consists of academic classes in the morning followed by sports training in the afternoon. Students at the academy take accelerated courses and graduate high school a year early, making the players who do not turn pro immediately some of the most heavily recruited prospects in college soccer. The academy can trace its roots back to Project 2010 which highlighted ways U.S. Soccer could make the senior men's national team a legitimate threat to win the World Cup by the end of the decade. Two programs that were born from Project 2010 were Generation Adidas (previously called Project-40) and the Bradenton academy. The academy was started in January 1999 with backing of IMG and Nike.
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[edit] List of classes[edit] Spring 1999
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