I don't think Shawn's younger brother has a thread yet. Since he's moving up the ranks, it's time to create one. Parker is a '96 at Mainz. He was moved up from the U17 to the U19 team this March, whereupon he joined the starting lineup immediately. Parker was on Germany's U17 team for their UEFA qualifying group in late March. Over three matches, he made two substitute appearances. Germany finished second in their group after a loss to Ukraine and therefore did not qualify for the final round.
http://www.mainz05.de/mainz05/aktue...gegen-niederlande-mit-drei-u-17-mainzern.html http://www.mainz05.de/mainz05/nc/en...l/article/b-jugend-laeutet-fastnacht-ein.html http://www.dfb.de/?id=504184&no_cac...lang=E&cHash=0123e7b7f36274571b3958d44978b860 http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/devante-parker/leistungsdaten/spieler_196836.html
Assist 4/28 vs. Augsburg U-19s: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/fc-augsburg-u19-1-fsv-mainz-05-u19/index/spielbericht_2241899.html
He started and scored a goal for Mainz u-19's this past weekend: http://us.soccerway.com/matches/201...iga/sc-freiburg-u19/fsv-mainz-05-u19/1523281/
Has he been losing ground against his German peers with the U19's? I just wonder because he brother seems so committed (reasonably so) to seeing out his German prospects and it seems odd that his brother wouldn't do so as well. And, like Mr. Keller4president, I'd be interested to know your source for the info.
Willing to take your word for it......not that I didn't trust Dr. Soccer90's. I'd just like to know if there is some context to go with his statement about Devante.
Not only that, the twitter guy @usaprospects sometimes tweets about how the Parkers want to play for the USA more than people think.
went looking for the @usaprospects tweets or info on the parker talk found "OWTY has confirmed that both Kauter and Parker (Devante) have strong interest in playing for the US" So thats 2 people who do a great job of finding prospects saying hes interested in playing for the US. though dont know if thats just him saying it if germany dosent work out.
i actually knew this, and i also assumed most knew this also because @usaprospects always has a link to OWTY. the 2 people i meant were Dr. Soccer90 and the @usaprospects/OWTY guy.
I know this isn't the thread for this but, anyone know what ever happened to trophycase? He always had good inside info hasn't posted in a good while now
i always thought that trophycase was Joe Gyau's dad. lol. Trophycase always had good info on hoffenhiem.
Parker scored another goal Sunday against fellow YA Eric Lickert's Freiburg squad. That's 6 in 13 contests so far.
Devante Parker has been called up to the Germany U18 team. http://www.mainz05.de/mainz05/aktuell/news/news-detail/article/vier-mainzer-bei-u18.html
Any chance we can have Julian make a few calls to this kid? Pretty soon our starting 11 will be all Ger-mericans.
"Devante Parker [is one of our] our three top talent," says Hofmann. I guess this is referring to the Mainz U-19 squad. http://www.main-spitze.de/sport/top...tt-in-den-profifussball-schaffen_14121946.htm
Looks like Devante has started to play with the Reserves (Mainz II)...he scored on the 24th of May vs. Worms and went 30 mins vs. Neustrelitz. Wouldn't be surprised if he made the full jump to them next season. http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/sp...s-verliert-gegen-fsv-mainz-05-ii_14168838.htm