There was no thread for this. This tournament usually has more interest than the Dallas Cup, which has a thread. Last year fields 4 and 8 were the camera fields. Games played on fields 4 and 8 involving US MLS academies. Champions Division: April 13: NYCFC vs. Lyon, RSL vs. River Plate, LA Galaxy vs. Penarol, NYRB vs. Club America, Dallas vs. West Ham April 14: Seattle vs. Valencia, NYCFC vs. River Plate, Dallas vs. Club America Premier Division: April 13: Atlanta vs. Ulsan Hyundai, San Jose vs. Midtylland April 14: Atlanta vs. Orlando, DC vs. MIdtylland, Monterrey vs. Philadelphia April 16: Xolos vs. Houston, DC vs. Ulsan Hyundai, Columbus vs. Mount Pleasant, Monterrey vs. Colorado, April 17: Chicago vs. Ulsan Hyundai, Atlanta vs. Portland, Monterrey vs. New England U-15 Division: April 17: LAFC vs. Cruz Azul April 18: Philadelphia vs. Chivas, NYRB vs. Cruz Azul, LAFC vs. Monterrey, April 19: Philadelphia vs. Leon, NYRB vs. Monterrey
Players to watch on US MLS teams: I've only seen one or two rosters released, so I don't know if all these players will play at this tournament or if the jersey numbers listed on the DA website will be accurate. Atlanta United (doesn't list jersey numbers): George Bello ('02), Diego Lopez ('02), Marzuq Puckerin ('02), Vicente Reyes ('03), Will Reilly ('02), Kobey Stoup ('03) Chicago Fire: #1 Damian Las ('02), #24 Takumi Ikeda ('02), #28 Gabriel Slonina ('04), #33 Alex Monis ('03), #41 Allan Rodriguez Lopez ('04), #42 Javier Casas ('03), #66 Justin Reynolds ('04) Columbus Crew: #18 Sam Sarver ('03), #31 Anthony Hernandez ('03), #33 JT Harms ('02), #34 Noah Hall ('03), #42 Elton Chifamba ('03) DC United: #33 Jacob Greene ('03), #44 Moses Nyeman ('03), #47, Juston Rainey ('03), Bryang Kayo ('02) #50 Griffin Yow ('02), #53, Jeremy Garay ('03) #98 Kevin Paredes ('03) New England Revolution: #1 Eliot Jones ('03), #72 Damien Rivera ('02), #89 Morris Matthews ('03) NYCFC: #3 Joe Scally ('02), #10 Andres Jasson ('02), #17 Augustus McGiff ('02), #24 Tayvon Gray ('02) NYRB: #47 John Tolkin ('02), #54 Conner Maurer ('02), #60 Hamza Shehata ('02) Orlando City: #28 JahLane Forbes ('02), #42 Luc Granitur ('03), #44 Nico Diaz ('02), #45 Brennon Neff ('02), #48 Julian Kennedy ('02), #66 Sahyd Nevado-Masso ('04) Philadelphia Union: #29 Aboubacar Camara ('02) #30 Jack de Vries ('02), #31 Julian Anderson ('02), #32 Patrick Bohui ('03), #34 Selmir Miscic ('03), #35 Dante Huckaby ('03), #55 Nicholas Pariano ('03), #59 Paxten Aaronson ('03), Colorado Rapids: #31 Abraham Rodriguez ('02), #35 Sebastian Anderson ('02), #37 Brandon Farmelo ('02) FC Dallas: #6 Diego Letayf ('02), #7 Dante Sealy ('03), #11 Beni Redzic ('02), #17 Cristian Escribano ('02), #27 David Rodriguez ('02), #32 Reece Fragle ('03), #37 Nico Carrera ('02), #39 Ricardo Pepi ('03), #40 Seth Wilson ('02), #42 Jonathan Gomez ('03), #46 Justin Che ('03), #62 Cesar Garcia ('02), Ivan Villatoro ('04) Houston Dynamo: #5 Erick Monge ('03), #9 Kaya Ignacio ('02), #19 Isaac Acevedo ('03), #47 Zephn Brockert-Kress ('02) LA Galaxy: #13 Mauricio Cuevas ('03), #16 Kobe Hernandez-Foster ('02), #20 Adam Saldana ('02), #24 Jonathan Perez ('03), #33 Cameron Dunbar ('02), #35 Carlos Zuniga ('02) #47 Nestor Molina ('02), #50 Marcus Ferkranus ('03), Victor Valdez ('04) Portland Timbers: #5 Owen Guske ('02), #10 Masango Akale ('02), #30 Kashope Oladapo ('02), Hunter Sulte ('03) Real Salt Lake: #1 Jeffrey Dewsnup ('04), #13 Zackery Farnsworth ('02), #34 Zach Booth ('04), #98 Christian Olivares ('02) San Jose Earthquakes: #24 Casey Walls ('03), #28 Cade Cowell ('03), #31 Israel Carrillo ('03), #44 Tarun Karunmanchi ('03), Gilbert Fuentes ('02) Seattle Sounders: #21 Ray Serrano ('02), #28 Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez ('02), #34 Daniel Leyva ('03), #35 Daniel Robles ('02), #38 Eric Kinzner ('03), #40 Josh Atencio ('02), #44 Sota Kitahara ('03), #45 Alex Villanueva ('02), #81 Dominic Vegaalban, #58 Angel Martinez ('05), #60 Austin Brummett ('04), #74 Takashi Sasaki ('04) Sporting Kansas City: #4 Mitchell Ferguson ('03), #5 Dylan Hooper ('03), #10 Tucker Lepley ('02), Max Trejo ('02), Gavin Krenecki ('03), Tyler Freeman ('03)
Completely Debatable Top 10 MLS GA Cup squads: 1. Sounders 2. FCD 3. LA (could also include Efra) 4. DC 5. Union 6. NYC (once included Reyna) 7. Atlanta 8. San Jose 9. Columbus 10. SKC
meant to post the reply to Lamb's top 10: Regardless of the order, your top 7 teams look solid. I would probably replace 8-10 with TFC, RBNY, and RSL. With the talent they have, shame that neither DC United nor Philadelphia qualified for champions division but that Group C qualifying division must have been brutal. Probably says a lot about the 2 teams that qualified from that group - NYCFC and RBNY.
So the big news this year is that MLS is streaming the cup on Twitch! The schedule for the games being shown is here: https://www.mlssoccer.com/generation-adidas-cup/2019/streaming-schedule
It doesn't say, but for the things I watch on twitch they have a VOD after the live showing about 90% of the time. Some games will have commentary and others are just games btw https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/04/12/2019-generation-adidas-cup-be-streamed-exclusively-twitch
That probably means that Pepi can be ready to play on Monday for the FCD U17s I'm really interested to see how he plays against this level of opposition. From what we've heard he's going to play with the U17s and not the U19s at the GenAd Cup. Sealy came on last night for NTSC as well, and he's eligible for this GA Cup team. Don't know if he'll play for the U17s or the U19s at the Dallas Cup (not Sunday's game, but maybe the rest).
From what I heard, all age eligible players at FC Dallas will play at the GA Cup, except for Diego Letayf, who is out with a groin injury.
MLS switched the DC game to the stream that isn’t working. It was initially scheduled for the stream that is working. The Atlanta-Orlando game that barely has any real prospects in it is being shown instead.
Notes from the games or bits of games that I saw from the early games today: Freeman was good against Toluca. He plays like a poor man's Gio Reyna -- similar stature and type of game based on the limited action I've seen. Bohui was not too involved against Monterrey. Didn't look too dangerous when he was on the ball... Who is #13 for DCU? I thought he impressed. Tough day for Seattle vs. Valencia. Appears that Atencio has moved to center back permanently -- or is that just because Leyva has beaten him out as the 6 and that's a way to have them both on the field? Overall, they looked a lot more frantic than we are used to seeing. Hopefully that is a good experience for them to learn from.
In that game there were no very outstanding performances, but it was interesting the goalkeeper's game of Philadelphia; he was not very good at playing with his feet, but he had some high level saves
In case you want to watch some #gacup games this week... Evan will be in action with @LAFCAcademy https://t.co/ppjN6bzV4W— Dom Rotundo (@domrotundo) April 14, 2019
Check out @LAGalaxyAcademy’s Tweet: FT | 2-1#LAGalaxy U-17s are heading to #GACup QUARTERFINALS! pic.twitter.com/diV3PDMeXq— LA Galaxy Academy (@LAGalaxyAcademy) April 15, 2019 2-1 over Penarol.