What passing in America, you have to be kidding kick the ball long run on to it and hope you have speedy guys up front. To be honest after watch way to many games this year. The team are getting better at passing what seems to me that is lacking is when pressure is applied what are the other players doing around them to help the pressure. It will come
Remember in that tournament Coach Richie used multiple line ups with varying mixes of players depending on the game. In the Semi final game against Catholica that line up was very different than the one we fielded in the finals. By the way Catholica had just beat Mexico about 2 months earlier. Playing with any continuity in that tournament based on the varying line ups would have been tough. I agree with you for the most part but at this moment for this group it's about fielding the best players available. Coach will settle on his core group and that will be the team we compete with. Those other players will continue to be in the US Soccer mix. I was looking at this current semester players that was part of the first camp as u14 and continued on through today and I found that only 5 players made it this far. Baird, Adonis, Roquelo, Elijah, and Rubio. Rubio and Roquelo has been perennial starters with the 17's , Baird starts from time to time and Adonis and Elijah has been in the reserve roles. Although, I suspect Elijah will be one of the players to help fill the void in the mid field along with Baird and Shaquille. Elijah who plays Rt. back started in the mid field in the semi finals game against Catholica. Obviously he opened Coach Richie's eyes because he played him in the middle against the PDL team and he had a good game. Those of us that seen the game saw the the 1st half was shoddy at best. Second half elijah and omar settled the team down and helped hold possession 70% compared to 20% in the 1st half. It looks like coach stacked certain positions Forwards and Defense knowing he is going to use some of those players in multiple spots.
There are six '97 born players in residency. How many of them have been there from the start? Yeah I am lazy and not a good researcher.
Nevermind. I was able to google the first ID camp for the '97s and 5 of the 6 in residency were there: Akale, Jones, Redding, Schropp & Swanson. 4 of them were at the first U14 Thanksgiving camp.
I too liked him. Read at TDS Cameron Lindsey chose to stay home. Probably the slight knee injury and possible overuse. He's going to the U15 camp this week. Looks like the U17 tournament team will be open to all who's available.
He's been with the U17s a good deal but looking at the articles September-November there's not a ton of camps. He was last called in to a US camp in May and is still ranked 21st in the 2014 class by Top Drawer. I believe this is his team but I'm not positive as there's no roster given. First game is on the 22nd so check back then and I'm sure they'll have a roster put up. In general, Top Drawer is a good site to run around and @BrianSciaretta on Twitter is always keeping up with US youngsters.
If you judge Cameron based on the Top Drawer articles and others you would think he was one of the top players at residency. Fortunately I had a chance to watch him in multiple training session and scrimmage games and I'm not surprised he's not part of this group this semester. He struggled with his 1v1 defense and was consistenly out of position to help his team. He was too busy playing the me me me game instead of a team game. I'm more surprised that Aaron Myers was not invited back. The kid has a tremendous amount of skill on the ball. If someone said he declined I would believe that before I would that cameron declined. By the way his twitter page stated that he had picked up an injury and hoped to get reevaluated by the u17 staff and be invited for the next semester. On a side note, Tommy is still injured and was invited back to residency. He missed the entire training camp in L.A.
I just find it strange that DeAndre isn't back. He looked like he was tearing up Brazil and France, and I had him up there with Wesley Wade as the second best player that tournament, after the showcase Junior Flores put on. He seemed like the type of player that you would build an attack with his speed and Wade's physicality (with Flores tucked in behind them as a 10), but in seeing they substitution pattern, they usually subbed for each other. I would love some informed feedback on this case, to see if ABMOD didn't rate him or if he decided to not go back.
Each coach rates players differently. That may be the only reasoning behind Ritchie's decision to leave him at home because based on the new forwards that were invited i would rate him higher than almost all of them. I'm sure their will be a lot of changes to the starting line up in comparison to Wilmur's during this domestic camp. That is why players at all levels must not let a coach kill their dream.
Age wise hasn't Cameron and one other fellow been playing up 2 years. Clearly a lot of qualified coaches see something in him.
Age wise Cameron is a 97 and most of the U17 team are 96's. Clearly they do, that is why he was invited to the most recent U15 camp and will continue to be in the US Soccer mix. But in this amateurs opinion their were other players that were clearly better than him at this stage. It really came down to him or Ben Swanson and Ben clearly took advantage of his opportunity at the last u17 camp to make a lasting impression on coach Ritchie and staff. Too bad Cameron was injured it would have been nice to compare apples to apples.
My understanding is that Cam chose to stay home for personal reasons. Not only is he a 97, but he was an 8th grader last year. No doubt his injury played a role in his decision, but he was a starter in last semester's team.
From what I can recall he was the only 8th grader and for some reason I thought they switched him from AM to D-Mid.
Coach Ritchie must be dealing with a lot of injuries because looking at the roster i noticed a few players that were left back in Florida. Roqello, Baird, Paul and Tommy.
Here's what you're referring to: http://www.ussoccer.com/News/U-17-M...Roster-for-Matches-Against-Academy-Sides.aspx U-17 MNT Roster by Position: GOALKEEPERS (2): Jeff Caldwell (NC Fusion; Todd, N.C.), Evan Louro (New York Red Bulls; South River, N.J.) DEFENDERS (7): Adonis Amaya (Chivas USA; Westminster, Calif.), Bryce Cregan (PA Classics; Dallastown, Pa.), Conor Donovan (NC Alliance; Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Elijah Martin (Cal Odyssey; Fresno, Calif.), Jorge Miranda (LA Galaxy; Van Nuys, Calif.), Peter Schropp (Omaha FC; Omaha, Neb.), Tyler Turner (South Central Premier; West Haven, Conn.) MIDFIELDERS (6): Junior Flores (McLean Youth Soccer; Manassas Park, Va.), Angel Heredia (San Jose Earthquakes; San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Lema (New York Red Bulls; Ridgefield, N.J.), Shaquell Moore (Cobb FC; Powder Springs, Ga.), Rolando Muñoz (LA Galaxy; Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Ben Swanson (Crew Soccer Academy; Grove City, Ohio) FORWARDS (5): Bradford Jamieson (Chivas USA; Los Angeles, Calif.), Rubio Rubin (Portland Timbers; Beaverton, Ore.), Ahinga Selemani (CSA Wolves; Ann Arbor, Mich.), Wesley Wade (New York Red Bulls; South Orange, N.J.), Alan Winn (Solar Chelsea FC; Garland, Texas)
Shaquell Moore is now one of our midfielders? To say the least, this doesn't reduce my concern about the number of quality ballhandlers in residency.
SLSG goals by Austin Panchot and Jason Hackett. Rubio Rubin had a goal and an assist and Ahinga Selemani also scored. Don't know who scored the other for the US. SLSG was up 2-0 then the US came back to win it 3-2. http://www.stltoday.com/sports/club...cle_30f12b82-faf7-11e1-9b32-001a4bcf6878.html
Crew beat U17 MNT 2-1: http://www.thecrew.com/news/2012/09/csa-u-18s-down-us-u-17s-2-1 STARTING LINEUPS Crew Soccer Academy U-18: Carter Richardson, Alex Bumpus, Tyler Kidwell, Alex Crognale (George Braima), Charlie Reymann (Noah Hutchins); Brady Blackwell (Nicholas Parianos), Sam Brown (Aiden Bean), John Schuman (Blake Townes) ; Nathan Kohl (Thomas Harr), Andrew McKelvey (William Bayemi), Rylee Woods. Subs not used: Nicholas Ciraldo, Carter Grimm, Daniel Allen United States U-17: Jeff Caldwell, Bryce Cregan, Peter Schropp, Conor Donovan (Wesley Wade), Tyler Turner, Ben Swanson, Rubio Rubin, Rolando Munoz (Junior Flores), Ahinga Selemani, Christopher Lema, Alan Winn (Bradford Jamieson). Subs not used: Evan Louro, Adonis Amaya, Jorge Miranda, Elijah Martin SCORING SUMMARY 18' Crew Soccer Academy- Rylee Woods (Unassisted) 61' Crew Soccer Academy- Alex Bumpus (Noah Hutchins) 77' US U17- Ahinga Selemani (Unassisted) DISCIPLINE 29' Crew Soccer Academy- Charlie Reymann 36' Crew Soccer Academy- Nathan Kohl 58' US U-17- Alan Winn 85' Crew Soccer Academy- George Braima 87' US U-17- Bryce Cregan
Not a good result, this kids should be out playing any Academy team regardless affiliation. The time is near for Bradenton.
I would have to have seen the game to draw any conclusions. Particularly sweeping conclusion of closing a residency academy of any sort. We need more professionally run academies no matter what results are not less. 6 subs to 3? Interesting aspect of the game.