Last modified: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:29 AM EDT Local pair selected for U-16 developmental team BY PETER GOBIS SUN CHRONICLE STAFF FOXBORO - Foxboro's Dan Adair and North Attleboro's Devon Devoy, two of the region's premier youth soccer players, have been selected to train and participate with the New England Revolution's under-16 developmental team. Adair, a central midfielder and defender, will be an incoming freshman to Foxboro High School. Devoy, a striker (and sister of Bishop Feehan High soccer star Siobhan Devoy), will be an incoming freshman to Bishop Feehan. Adair and Devoy were selected to the Under-16 team from an initial pool of nearly 300 candidates for the team in early June during a one-day tryout at Gillette Stadium. Twenty two of the players chosen are from the Commonwealth. Players from throughout New England are represented on the under-16 team, sponsored by the MLS franchise. The Revolution will also sponsor an under-18 team and both teams will formally begin national competition this fall in the prestigious U.S. Soccer Development Academy. The Revolution's groundbreaking youth program - which is completely free of cost to all chosen participants - allows the region's top youth players to train under the guidance of the Revolution's coaching staff and Developmental Team Director Mario Prata. The program, under MLS' initiative, allows all participants to retain their NCAA eligibility. A Revolution Under-17 team, comprised of members of both the Under-16 and Under-18 teams, will make the club's youth competition debut in early July when they compete in the second-annual SUM Cup in Colorado. Adair is a member of the recent state championship under-14 Expo team out of New Bedford, beating Devoy's Boston Bulls club at Citizens Bank Field in Lancaster. Adair is also a member of the Commonwealth's under-15 Olympic Development Program. Adair and the Expos also won the Division 1 title in MAPLE (the Mass. Premier League) during the spring with an undefeated season after winning the New England Futsal (indoor soccer) championship in March. The F.C. Expo will be competing in the Region 1 (New England) championship tournament in Maine this weekend as well as the National Futsal Championship tournament in Baltimore next month. Devoy had attended the Foxboro Charter School before deciding upon joining his sister as a Shamrock. "He has all the tools, his technical ability is phenomenal," said Bishop Feehan High girls' coach Paul Pontes, who coached Devoy as a member of the Eastern Mass. F.C. Devoy moved to the Boston Bulls program in 2007 and is the lone individual from the Commonwealth to be a member of the U.S. Soccer Federation's under-14 national team. Devoy was recommended for the Revolution Developmental Team by Prata, who coached him with the U.S. National Team.