I have noticed that a number of the players in our extended pool are the sons of former professionals overseas (Arce, Fagundez, Bedoya, Sonora, even Potts) and that a number of talented players have married American women or moved to the US and had children. Here's a place to capture those prospects in one thread and make fun of our tendency to place a high value on those too early in their development. And since being the first to ask appears to be the standard for players picking national teams, I figured we would stake our claims now. American Wives: Asmir Begovic Andriy Shevchenko (3 sons - '04, '06, '12) Nigel Reo-Coker Jurgen Klinsmann (we know the story here) Yura Movisisyan American Born Kids: David Beckham (his daughter was born in the US, so England will probably still need more help than USWNT) Ronaldo Shaka Hislop Any other kids whose soccer careers we can place firmly under the microscope?
Nothing definite, but I do have a suggestion: With all the club and national team friendlies played in the US, as well as the All-Star games lately, we get some savvy Bigsoccer locals to start checking birth records in these cities over the last few years. Timbers fans, get someone on the Bayern situation ASAP, may get more than just a soccer game out of this deal.
How about we start sending the USWNT to the team hotel every time a Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Manchester United, or similar club decides to play in America? You know...like a welcome wagon. I mean...it'd be for the good of 'Murica, right?
There's a joke here about that not helping the odds of conception so much, but I'll just leave it alone.
Odds are pretty high that Pele or Chinaglia had a kid somewhere in the United States playing in the NASL.
Mentioned in another thread, but Kevin-Prince Boateng and his American fiancee, Melissa Satta, had a son in April 2014. She, like many of her predecessors, is a TV presenter and model (in her case, primarily in Italy, the land of her parents).
WTF is this thread about? Just because world class players have kids doesn't mean they're going to turn into top class players themselves, or even players at all. "Nothing here, move along."
Apropos of the thread title: my newborn son is eligible to play for the US, Peru (my wife) and Haiti (my parents). Convincing him to go with the only World Cup regular among the three shouldn't be too hard; but from a football development perspective, you think I should bring him back Stateside or have him learn the game here in Peru à la Andrew Farrell?
There's a thread on his son who's about 18 (born 10/10/1995). USSDA says he is a US citizen (and English & Bolivian as well). http://academy.demosphere.com/teams/37416866/37417999-37416960/40206324.html http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/jaime-moreno-jr-yes-that-jaime-morenos-son.2005514/ A quick look at his kids makes it look like he has 4 daughters as well.
Watch out for David Ferreira's son, Jesus Ferreira. Supposedly a fantastic prospect. Couldn't stop scoring for FCD's U13/14s DA team. He was at FCD in April for the Dallas Cup despite his father leaving. Don't know if he's still there.
RSL's Sebastian Jaime managed to get started raising American kids right away... One month here and he has a set of twins.