YNT-eligible ('93 and later) players in U.S. lower divisions

http://www.soccerbyives.net/2014/04/usl-pro-week-look-back.html#more-74082

Most of these results have already been mentioned, but it is a good review of the weekend.

 

http://uslpro.uslsoccer.com/home/803730.html

Top named the USL Pro player of the week.

 

It was just for this game. FCD did the same thing the previous weekend with Cobi Span. I don't necessarily think its a bad sign that the club wants to ocassionally recall players from loan to use them in reserve games. Keeps them in the thoughts of the coaching staff. It's not like he missed a game with Phoenix to be with FCD for this one. The more games the better..................

FCD's write-up of the 3-2 loss versus Orlando.

http://www.fcdallas.com/news/2014/0...ffer-first-loss-2014-usl-pros-orlando-city-sc

FC Dallas – Raul Fernandez, Ryan Hollingshead, Nicholas Walker (Aaron Meyer 46), Walker Zimmerman, Zach Loyd (Kris Reeves 78), Victor Ulloa, Adam Moffat (Shaquelle Moore 76), Andrew Jacobson, Tesho Akindele, David Texeira (Diego De La Tejera 46), Jonathan Top (Santiago Agudelo 80).

A couple things to note there:

1) Shaq Moore apparently still at the FCD Academy.
2) Walker Zimmerman went 90. Good sign. Seems like he's fully recovered from his injury. Scored a goal..........
3) And in the "relatives" of pro players category they brought on academy forwards Santiago Agudelo and Diego de la Tejera as subs.

4) Yes, FCD is using the Peruvian national team keeper with the reserves, thus keeping the two academy players Sanchez and Gonzalez rooted to the bench. Gotta figure something out there. Should probably deal Fernandez at this point if Seitz has really won the job. Sanchez has to be getting the reserve team games. Or hell, deal Sanchez to Tigres (who own his economic rights anyway). He's at a critical stage here, and needs to be playing. At least Gonzalez was playing with the academy team at the Dallas Cup.

5) No Danny Garcia. Why not? Couldn't tell you. Perhaps this is a good sign for their upcoming MLS game?

 

Garcia is in camp with the U-21s.

 

(Dave M-N transitioning from YA guru to obscure Yanks at home guru?)

 

Seems like a more worthwhile effort than when I decided to follow Yanks in the Blue Square Premier League and below......................

 

Then we should hope for more situations like Ben Spencer's, which are in the intersection of the two?

 

USOC schedule released:

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2014/04/24/us-soccer-releases-details-2014-us-open-cup

U-23 teams from Orlando City (PDL), Portland Timbers (PDL) and New York Red Bulls (NPSL) will enter in the first two rounds. The New York U-23s will host the Vermont Voltage at the Red Bulls' training facility in Whippany, N.J., on May 7. One week later, in the second round on May 14, the Timbers U-23s will host USL PRO club Arizona United at Providence Park and the Orlando City U-23s will host NPSL club Jacksonville United in Sanford, Fla.

LA Galaxy II, meanwhile, will also enter in the second round and will host Open Cup legend Cal FC, which reached the fourth round in 2012 following an upset of the Portland Timbers.

1st and 2nd round pairings here:

http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/04/24/09/27/140424-usoc-2014-tournament-announcement

Some other games of interest:

May 14

CD Aguiluchos (NPSL) at Sacramento Republic (USL)

Richmond Kickers (USL) at RVA FC (Richmond Virginia FC) (NPSL)

Ocala Stampede (PDL) at Orlando City (USL)

Oklahoma City Energy FC (USL) at Tulsa Athletics (NPSL)

 

Scuffle past midfield and Meara runs all the way from his goal to go shove a guy. Around 1:51:00



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Gallego has been switched to Arizona United.

http://www.stumptownfooty.com/2014/..._medium=nextclicks&utm_campaign=articlebottom

 

Watched the replay of Orlando City against FCD reserves. Zimmerman looked quick, but the FCD backline had a difficult time playing together and dealing with Orlando City's very impressive speed. Turner wasn't all that involved, but didn't look out of place.

 

A couple of games last night:

LA2 vs. Arizona

Oscar Sorto went 90 and assisted on LA's goal, which was scored by non-Yank Mendiola
Sir Bradford Jamieson, Fourth of His Name played 63 minutes
McBean came off the bench for 23 minutes.

For Arizona, Bryan Gallego made his debut and went 90
Jonathan Top also started and went 58
Charles Renken and Jacole Turner were unused substitutes

Chicago Reserves vs. Charlotte

I haven't seen a box score / lineup, but from the beginning of the video it looks like Victor Pineda started. Chicago fielded a very strong lineup since they have the weekend off. Based on Charlotte's twitter, Joya may have played the second half.

 

Recap and video:

http://www.chicago-fire.com/news/2014/04/reserves-fire-defeat-charlotte-eagles-3-2-friday-night

LINEUPS:

Chicago Fire: Kyle Reynish; Lovel Palmer, Patrick Ianni, Bakary Soumare (Jhon Kennedy Hurtado 46'), Gonzalo Segares (Steven Kinney 46'); Harry Shipp (Marco Franco 85'), Matt Watson (Benji Joya 46'), Logan Pause, Victor Pineda (Chris Ritter 67'); Juan Luis Anangono, Quincy Amarikwa

Charlotte Eagles: Doug Herrick; Matt Gold (Tolani Ibikunle 69'_, Richard Dixon, Bilal Duckett, Ben Newnam; Drew Yates (Gui Brandao 77'), Fred Sekyere (Wells Thompson 69'), Juan Guzman (Darren Toby 74'); Zak Boggs (Tyrone Hall 77'), Jorge Herrera, Giuseppe Gentile

 

Salgado is starting in the USL

 

I am really interested to see if a young player who is having success at the USL/NASL level will be picked off by an MLS team. Not a lot of examples of this happening in the past but it would seem like more youngsters are getting minutes.

 

Definitely. I hope that is what our system is building towards over the next decade. Hopefully as the lower leagues become more and more stable more teams are able to create youth teams also. My dream is that in 5-10 years the DA emcompasses all the MLS, NASL, and USL PRO youth teams and all the top performing/producing youth clubs around the country.

 

There are more examples than you might think. Successful ones include Brian Ching, Jimmy Conrad, Kerry Zavagnin, Edson Buddle, Herculez Gomez, Joe Cannon, Pat Onstad, Sebastion Le Toux, Oswaldo Alonso, I think Tim Howard (can't remember for sure), Johnny Steele, and Luke Mulholland.

To the limited extent that there have been good young players in our lower divisions, they've gotten their chance.

 

Saturday's games:

Jaime Frias started and played 90 for Indy
Ben Spencer made his debut for Indy Eleven, playing the last 30 minutes
Mitchell Lopez was an unused substitute for Fort Lauderdale

Tyler Turner played 90 for Orlando
Jon Kempin played 90 for OKC
Omar Salgado played 57 minutes for Charleston
Jalen Robinson made his pro debut in Richmond, playing 15 minutes.
Jimmy McLaughlin played 10 minutes for Harrisburg
David Leichty played 8 minutes for OKC
Mikey Lopez played 5 minutes for Orlando
Bryan Salazar was an unused sub for Pittsburgh
No sign of Mawolo Gissie or Collin Martin. Martin must have had a knock or been temporarily recalled.


Philly should really either loan Pfeffer to Harrisburg or start playing him.