2016 Olympic Qualifying Team

As recently as December, he seemed to be struggling for minutes with their U20s.

 

Still wouldn't mind seeing Guido loaned and get some consistent run at Dorados for the remainder of the Clausura. If Tijuana gets eliminated from playoff contention with a couple games in hand, he could see some starts then too. He's been injured quite a bit over the past year as well.

 

I think Guido is still playing for both Dorados and Tijuana

 

He was hurt the majority of last year. Wasn't fully healthy until December IIRC.

 

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Liviu Bird ‏@liviubird 3h
Good to see UW goalkeeper Spencer Richey out training with Sounders today, recovering well from broken leg. Jordan Morris is out here, too.

Just keeping an eye out for Jordan Morris......................the 94 who almost made our previous U20 team. Training with the Sounders. Hmmm.

 

Morris is probably home on Spring Break, so why not get a look at him. He'll probably play with the Sounders PDL team, then maybe after this next college season he gets offered a HG deal.

 

Brian Sciaretta ‏@BrianSciaretta 2h
The Green switch bodes extremely well for the 2016 US Olympic team: Arriola, Gil, Green, Packwood, Brooks, Yedlin, O'Neil, Holmes, Cropper

 

Liviu Bird ‏@liviubird 6h
Jordan Morris played very well in Sounders training this morning. They had him on the wing, in the middle, and at forward at times.

 

Liviu Bird ‏@liviubird 4h
Sounders product and Stanford forward Jordan Morris is off to Everton for a week with the youth team. Not a bad way to spend spring break.

 

Vacation spot for YNT players

 

Birmingham City FC ‏@BcfcDotCom 5h
BREAKING NEWS: @WPackwood named @Football_League Young Player of the Month for February: http://bit.ly/1phpC58 #BCFC pic.twitter.com/X5xOjfVFfJ

 

A poster over on Yanks Abroad (@holz17 ) is saying that Stanko will be on the bench for Freiburg's match against Werder Bremen today.

Our pool of U23 central midfielders with actually professional accomplishments is pretty thin. Wil Trapp looks increasingly like a lock, but who will his partner be? Nobody has staked a claim yet. Hopefully the positive buzz around Stanko that has periodically come out of Freiburg translates into progress on the field.

 

Yup. Unlike most cycle, the "holding midfielder" group looks fairly thin this cycle.

Would love to see Marlon Hairston get some playing time with Colorado........................

 

I don't think Hairston is any good at defending. He looked very poor defensively in preseason.

 

My best guess on what the team for qualifying could look like this early.

Arriola-----Salgado/Okoli-----Serna
----------Guido--------Gil--------------
------------------Trapp--------------
Acosta-O'Neill-Dean--Yedlin
---------------Steffen------------

Bench: Miazga, Cochrane, Ocegueda, Miller, Joya, Lopez, Thompson, J. Allen, Pfeffer, Castano, McBean, Garcia..others.

Compared to 2012 I think it looks much better quality/depth wise.

 

I don't know what we actually know about most of those bench players, to be honest. Of course, we'll have a much better idea after the MLS season.

To me, the attacking portion of midfield seems like the iffiest part of the qualifying team. There's a real opportunity for Joya here and maybe also Hernandez to compete with Guido and Gil and others.

Also, can't help noticing that you didn't even put the one guy whose U21 callup has actually been reported on your bench!

 

Lol I forgot about Ocegueda will fix. Well the good thing is they have a lot time to develop. This and next seasons. Most of those bench guys will be getting more time either in USL/Copa MX/MLS etc. Without the Euro players I think it looks pretty promising

 

Article today from the bbc about Will "The Thrill" Packwood:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/26671531

 

Because MLS preseason for a rookie is exactly how he should be judged

 

You sure don't learn how good a player is from watching them play against college players.

 

And you're the one who has consistently said Yedlin is awful defensively and referred to Alonso Hernandez as a special talent, so your opinion is a bit laughable.

 

Well laugh all you want

 

As reported by Dave in a Yanks-Abroad thread.............Kendall McIntosh on trial in Germany:

Kendall McIntosh ‏@McIntoshKendall 8h
First session down I'm Germany. Went well, more to come. #Believeinyourselfie http://instagram.com/p/lzs4MaCmxK/

Kendall McIntosh ‏@McIntoshKendall 7h
@CSTANKO21 vfl osnabrueck they're in the 3rd bundesliga