U20s May-June trip to South America [R]

We may as well start a thread about this.

The US U-20s will be heading to South America at the end of May for three games against opponents to be determined.

Ramos said he wants this to be the top team. My question is really what is the top team?

If Ramos can get all the players, these are some players (certainly not all) I think will be on the team.

Cody Cropper
Tomas Gomez

John Anthony Brooks
Will Packwood
Juan Ocegueda
Adam Henley (a long shot but I figured I'd include him since Ramos said he was "hopeful")
Sean Cunningham (tough since he is a starter in Norway)

Marc Pelosi (depending on health)
Fabian Hurzeler (I do think he will play for the US 20s this cycle but I'm not sure when. All reports out of Germany suggest he is not German quality)
Luis Gil
Caleb Stanko

Omar Salgado
Villyan Bijev
Jonathan Top
Jerome Kiesewetter


Anyone else have thoughts on this roster? We can use this thread also once the roster is released and cover the whole trip.

Whats the latest on Pelosi? Its been a while since we've heard anything about his injury status

GK:
Cropper
Kempin

D:
Anthony Brooks
Ocegueda
Packwood
Cunningham
Okwuouno
Nicolas Russo

M:
Gil
Hurzeler
Pelosi
Danny Garcia
Guido
Matthew Dunn

F:
Salgado
Bijev
Esteban Rodriguez
Jose Villareal


----------------------Cropper-------------------
--Russo--Cunningham--Brooks---Ocegueda--
----------------------Packwood----------------
---------------------Gil-----Hurzeler-------------
--------Bijev--------------------------------Pelosi---
------------------------Salgado-----------------------

GK:
Cropper
Kempin

D:
Anthony Brooks
Ocegueda
Packwood
Cunningham
Okwuouno
Nicolas Russo

M:
Gil
Hurzeler
Pelosi
Danny Garcia
Alejandro Guido
Benji Joya
Victor Pineda
Matt Dunn
Esteban Rodriguez
Caleb Stanko

F:
Salgado
Bijev
Jonathan Top
Jose Villareal

Is Renken still in the mix?

If Renken's healthy, I think he deserves a shot. But I have no info on his knee.

When are they gonna announce the roster for this trip?

If Gomez is better than any of the eligible GKs in MLS, it makes you wonder why the league signed so many of them. Kempen, Marscheider, Fernandez, and Sanchez are all under contract already.

Wonder if there will be any positional changes in this group. From what little I've seen of these guys, the only one I'd envision as a career forward is Salgado, and that's obviously not where he's playing at the moment. Pity we seem to have lost Luna to Mexico.

We've got Jonathan Top. Most people may not have high expectations for him but I do.

BTW..
Cropper and Gomez are the two keepers on this trip

Assuming you mean Richard Sanchez, he's not eligible for the US. He's provisionally cap-tied to Mexico through the U17 WC. And he's not switching. He is better than Gomez though.

I agree with you................but he is still eligible for a one-time switch to the USMNT.

A player can play in a youth World Cup for one nation, and still switch to another. (see Subotic, Neven.)

There's no reason to expect him to switch, though. He's at a U20 camp with Mexico as we speak.

He isn't currently eligible for the team without filing the switch. But that's not the point. The poster was questioning why Bshredder had Gomez ahead of certain keepers, one of them Sanchez, for this specific trip. I was just saying that he would have to file a one time switch to play for us and therefore isn't eligible for this trip, not saying he'd never be eligible for us(although he probably won't).

Actually, I was questioning the value of MLS signing so many teenage keepers, one of them Sanchez.

He's finally back. He's on the roster for today's Liverpool reserve game against Limerick

Oh. Okay. Well, I think FC Dallas signed him so they might get to see him once before he moves to a much bigger club.
Edit: also, so they get the transfer fee for that transfer(or half of it or whatever MLS does)

Is the schedule for this trip available somewhere?

I have no idea how he stacks up to all the MLS guys but I do have an idea how Gomez made the roster. Ramos (or whoever) didn't like the GKs they had in the January camp. Apparently one of the Georgetown coaches was there and recommended they take a look at Tomas. Over the next two camps, he showed enough of something that he made a pretty good impression.

Any news on this?

Website is quiet..

http://www.ussoccer.com/Teams/Youth/US-Under20-Men.aspx

Camp starts next week in Texas then off to S America. That's all I got.

http://www.ussoccer.com/News/U-20-M...-MNT-Roster-for-Training-Camp-in-Houston.aspx

GOALKEEPERS (2): Cody Cropper (Unattached; Athens, Ga.), Tomas Gomez (Georgetown; Webster Groves, Mo.)
DEFENDERS (6): AJ Cochran (Wisconsin; St. Louis, Mo.), Christian Dean (California Berkeley; East Palo Alto, Calif.), Jordan McCrary (North Carolina; Marietta, Ga.), Eric Miller (Creighton; Woodbury, Minn.), Juan Pablo Ocegueda (UANL Tigres; Riverside, Calif.), Boyd Okwuonu (North Carolina; Edmund, Okla.)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Luis Gil (Real Salt Lake; Garden Grove, Calif.), Benji Joya (Santos Laguna; San Jose, Calif.), Mikey Lopez (North Carolina; Mission, Texas), William Packwood (Birmingham City; Concord, Mass.), Caleb Stanko (SC Freiburg; Holly, Mich.), Wil Trapp (Akron; Gahanna, Ohio)
FORWARDS (6): Villyan Bijev (Fortuna Düsseldorf; Fresno, Calif.), Daniel Cuevas (Santos Laguna; Sacramento, Calif.), Daniel Garcia (FC Dallas Academy; Dallas, Texas), Victor Pineda (Chicago Fire; Bolingbrook, Ill.), James Rogers (New Mexico; Salt Lake City, Utah), Jonathan Top (FC Dallas; Fort Worth, Texas)

Pelosi still injured?

No Salgado?