YNT-eligible MLS players: 2019/2020 Offseason thread

Man, if we start losing players to frikkin' Luxembourg...

 

am i wrong to think that the coordinated treatment approach between fcd and us soccer re: pomykal is a promising sign?

 

I'd be shocked if he and Servania are not available for Olympic qualifying.

 

It's fine if we do. We have Damian Las, Chiruru Odunze, Gabe Slonina, Jeff Dewsnup and more. The 2002 and 2004 GK depth is ridiculous. For the 2004's Emmings is probably the third string GK.

 

He’s not good enough to get into the US set-up, IMO.

 

Chris Brady is also better, as could another 3-4 keepers. I prefer him to Slonina among the two Chicago keepers.

 

Yeah, I was joking.

I am happy to admit I know next-to-nothing about the player pool of 2004 goalkeepers.

 

Seattle played a friendly against Peñarol and lost 1-0 today.

Goals:

• PEN - Urretaviscaya - 36'

Seattle starting XI (4-2-3-1, right to left): Frei; Leerdam, Svensson, O’Neill, Jones; Delem, Leyva; Hopeau, Shipp, Bwana; Ocampo-Chavez

Seattle 30th minute (4-2-3-1, right to left): Muse; A. Roldan, Rogers, Lopez, Serna; Atencio, Hegardt; Serrano, Robles, Dobbelaere; Dhillon

Seattle 60th minute (4-2-3-1, right to left): Marceta; Avila-Good, Rogers, Lopez, Reynolds; Atencio, Hegardt; Gonzalez, Vargas, Villanueva; Dhillon

7’ Peñarol launch a quick counter but Leyva races back and breaks up the chance.

Sounders get possession and he earns a dangerous free kick at the other end 👍

SEA 0 | PEÑ 0

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

12’ Hopeau whips in a pair of dangerous crosses, but both shots from inside the box are blocked 😤

SEA 0 | PEÑ 0

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

29’ Hopeau dribbles through four defenders and earns a dangerous free kick.

SEA 0 | PEÑ 0

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

35’ Almost! Excellent spell of possession as Dobbelaere finds Serrano inside the box, but his shot is blocked 😩

SEA 0 | PEÑ 0

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

43’ Not too much action to report on, but the kids can play.

Peñarol kept on a lot of starters and the asoinders look really good in possession 👍

SEA 0 | PEÑ 1

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

 

55’ Big Sam Rogers breaks up a 2v1 breakaway with a picturesque sliding challenge.

That was both art and poetry.

SEA 0 | PEÑ 1

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

71’ Gonzalez, Vargas and Dhillon with some sauce in the final third 🔥

Sounders have had the better play in the last few minutes.

SEA 0 | PEÑ 1

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

75’ Hegardt has hit two inch-perfect diagonal passes for runners in behind in the last two minutes.

Couple of good half chances for Seattle 🙌

SEA 0 | PEÑ 1

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

82’ Vargas picks out Villanueva with a cross-field pass. The Academy winger then brutally megs a Peñarol player.

You absolutely love to see it.

SEA 0 | PEÑ 1

— Sounders Matchday (@LIVESounders) January 22, 2020

 

I'm really curious to see what happens with Ocampo-Chavez this season. Seattle hasn't gone out and back-filled at forward this off-season.

Is he 3rd string after Ruidaz and Morris? And won't those two be gone a lot on international duty? The only other forward competition is broken down Will Bruin and depth player Justin Dhillon.

So I'm cautiously optimistic regarding playing time for OC.
Of course, Seattle could go out and sign somebody tomorrow and dash my hopes.

 

AOC will probably get around 1000 minutes this season and Danny Leyva will as well. Seattle is very keen on giving their youth a shot and the lack of new additions emphasizes this. They've said in multiple interviews that those two as well as maybe a couple others will get good sounders mintues this year

 

I don't think it's anything new. Lucci discussed talking with Berhalter last year about FCD players and the differences in how they train and play. Sounded more similar than not but not identical. 3rd Degree had a practice report yesterday that said Pomykal was doing some things but running on the side during others. Mostly scar tissue pain to fight through it sounded like.

 

When we talk about the challenges for young domestic players in the United States, this is now a big one. A green card process that used to take 5+ years for foreign players is now taking months. So basically any MLS club with good lawyers can sign as many foreign players as they want.

Inter Miami CF midfielder Matías Pellegrini and forward Julián Carranza have received their green cards, opening up two more international roster slots for the clubhttps://t.co/EwduFtrWSv

— Khobi Price (@khobi_price) January 23, 2020

 

Beckham has been adamant on how they want to produce homegrown talent but for clubs not like his, FC Dallas, RSL, SKC, and Philly it is very concerning.

 

Atlanta 2 NYRB 1

NYRB recap

Goals:

• ATL - Josef Martinez
• RBNY - Florian Valot
• ATL - Ezequiel Barco

Lineups:
New York starting XI (4-4-2): Ryan Meara – Rece Buckmaster, Sean Nealis, Tim Parker, Patrick Seagrist – Florian Valot, Sean Davis, Chris Lema, Daniel Royer – Brian White, Niko Petridis

Atlanta starting XI (4-2-3-1): Brad Guzan – Edgar Castillo, Fernando Meza, Miles Robinson, Franco Escobar – Eric Remedi, Mo Adams – Brooks Lennon, Ezequiel Barco, Gonzalo Martinez – Josef Martinez

New York 30th minute (4-2-3-1): Wallis Lapsley – Rece Buckmaster (John Tolkin), Sean Nealis (Amro Tarek), Tim Parker (Roy Boateng), Patrick Seagrist (Kyle Duncan) – Sean Davis (Kyle Zajec), Marc Rzatkowski – Cherif Dieye, Alex Muyl, Deri Corfe – Brian White (Tom Barlow)

New York 60th minute (4-2-3-1): Kendall McIntosh – John Tolkin, Amro Tarek, Roy Boateng, Kyle Duncan – Barry Sharifi, Kyle Zajec – Jared Stroud, Ben Mines, Stavros Zarokostas – Tom Barlow

#ATLUTD loans Andrew Carleton to Indy Eleven.

📝 https://t.co/2pIgZStb49 pic.twitter.com/fUU4jXcAJQ

— Atlanta United FC (@ATLUTD) January 24, 2020

 

Does anyone have any real thoughts about Brooks Lennon at ATL? I’m interested in what he can do for Josef, but I’m not sure he’s a rwb that will end up starting caliber for them. This year will either be huge or awful for him.

 

Columbus Crew opened preseason with a 5-1 win over USL League Two side Ventura County Fusion.

Goals

• CLB - Derrick Etienne Jr.
• CLB - Pedro Santos
• CLB - Miguel Berry
• CLB - J.J. Williams
• CLB - Danny Griffin
• VCF - Unknown

Lineups
Columbus Crew SC starting XI (4-2-3-1): Eloy Room - Harrison Afful, Jonathan Mensah, Vito Wormgoor, Milton Valenzuela - Darlington Nagbe, Artur - Luis Diaz, Lucas Zelarayan, Pedro Santos - Jordan Hamilton

 

Portland signed Blake Bodily (1998, midfielder) to a home grown contract.

Phillip Ejimadu (1999, goalkeeper) is in camp with LAFC. His loan with LAFC from his Brazilian club expired at the end of last season so he is presumably a trialist at the moment.

h/t @ChuckMe92 in the Yanks Abroad Academy forum.

Buzz Carrick's practice observation from Tuesday:

Practice Observations: Jan 21, 2020 – #FCDallas is back https://t.co/zSkBWLQHEl Boom! #DTID

From yesterday's double session.

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) January 22, 2020

North Texas SC players Brecc Evans (1999 defender), Arturo Rodriguez (1998 midfielder), Imanol Almaguer (2000 midfielder), and Carlos Avilez (1999 goalkeeper) are in camp with the first team.

There are first impressions of the draft picks in the report. Aiden Megally, FCD’s last pick, 92nd overall was not present.

He participated 100% full speed in training.

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) January 22, 2020

Reynolds talks Bayern Training and the “European Way” https://t.co/t5trsOfZh8 via #FCDallas #DTID

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) January 23, 2020

Jennings excited to find his place https://t.co/EIB1TmKd1D #fcdallas #dtid

— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) January 22, 2020

 

Like what I’m hearing about Nelson

 

Interesting that one of the few LAFC academy players training with the first team in preseason wasn't in the DA a few months ago. '03 F Mauricio Gutierrez, formerly of Beach FC in ECNL. He was one of the only non-DA players in US U16 camp in September 2019. Quite the rise.

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) January 25, 2020

 

This article has a full list of LAFC academy players that had been training for two weeks with the first team in preseason and discusses their time with the first team. They have recently been sent back to the academy.

The players were: Armando Avila (2004 defender), Erik Dueñas (2004 field player), Diego Rosales (2005 field player), Mauricio Gutierrez (2003 forward), Tony Leone (2004 defender), and Christian Torres (2004 forward).

.@NYCFCYouth gaining valuable experience on Preseason 2020.

📽️ BOYS ON TOUR ⬇️ #NYCFC pic.twitter.com/dn5lVL2SOF

— New York City FC (@newyorkcityfc) January 24, 2020

 

LAFC signed 18-year-old midfielder Bryce Duke (2001 midfielder) to a Homegrown Player contract. LAFC initially acquired Duke’s Homegrown rights from Real Salt Lake in exchange for $50,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money (GAM).

 

Anyone know what kind of a midfielder Duke is?

 

Duke is a very talented kid. I’ve seen him play in person a number of times and I have little doubt that Bob Bradley can turn him into an excellent advanced number eight with LAFC (in a year or two). https://t.co/uIwpe0zzxT

— Joseph Lowery (@joeclowery) January 26, 2020