http://sbisoccer.com/2016/08/report-1860-munich-latest-team-interested-in-matt-miazga Report: 1860 Munich latest team linked with Matt Miazga
Miagza joins Dutch club Vitesse on loan By Jack Hazzard by JACK HAZZARD The speculation is over. Chelsea FC has officially announced that United States International Matt Miazga will join Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem on loan until the end of the season….
And how does this help his development? And for the more literal-minded, how does this help him become a Chelsea first-teamer?
IF he wins the starting job he gets minutes in a decent league. That's good for development. Not a great league mind you. Not a crap one either. I don't care if he's ever a Chelsea player. At this point I want him to develop his full potential for the USMNT and/or for a return trip back to RBNY.
Fair enough. I just know that Vitesse are decent team doing well with an established backline. He's got his work cut out for him.
benched this weekend...sigh http://www.onceametro.com/2016/11/2...still-not-winning-heerenveen-1-1-chelsea-loan
Yesterday 12:19 pm Soccer career of NJ's Matt Miazga still trending upward http://www.metro.us/new-york/soccer...still-trending-upward/zsJplB---U76CIqD72IozY/
Feel for Matt. I think he left too early and is now stalling his career. If he would've stayed, he will probably be an MLS All Star and be on the National Team by now. Instead he's fighting for minutes on Vitesse. I'd say if he doesn't get minutes next year you have to look into coming back to MLS otherwise he's just going to rot.
I don't think he left too soon, but he definitely left for the wrong opportunity. If he would have signed with a team like Vitesse or another team at that level initially then it would have turned out better. They would have seen him as their investment and worked far harder to integrate him into the squad. Every single person I talked with at the time of his departure agreed that going to Chelsea was about the worst possible option for him in terms of development. An EPL team in the bottom half or a Championship team would have been far better bets if he was dead set on going to England.
Yeah, that's the thing. When you're going over as a young player, and agents should be counseling them with this information, you need a club that has the opportunities to move up. That's what makes the Low Countries such a great starting point, young players can get this opportunities early. For example, Miazga would pick a Dutch club that needs depth in central defense, maybe one that is the Europa League, giving him rotational opportunities. The trouble with Vitesse is they had an established CB pairing and no Europe. Then after a year, maybe he gets picked up by a Feyenoord or some mid-table German club and he's on his way. I don't get the England/Chelsea obsession. With his Polish passport he could have literally gone anywhere there was a good opportunity and played right away. It's tragic. He should fire his agent, because he was given some really bad advice. I said it back then, and I'll repeat it now. Going for the big money quick is a bad choice if he's back in MLS within 2-3 years with his tail tucked between his legs. [Sigh]
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/dec/14/chelsea-watford-face-questions-over-agent-links The transfer market is a gross, gross world.
That's so much worse than I thought, hearkening back to a bygone era when talent of all kinds was signed without representation for music, movies and sports.
http://www.socceramerica.com/articl...ts-winner-wood-strikes-gol.html?edition=16895 Matt Miazga started for Vitesse in a 2-1 win at Sparta Rotterdam that moved it into the final of the Dutch Cup on April 30 against the AZ-Cambuur winner.
NETHERLANDS, Eredivisie Matt Miazga (Vitesse) 90 minutes 2-1 vs. NEC https://www.socceramerica.com/article/72874/us-abroad-diskerud-makes-debut-in-sweden.html
http://www.onceametro.com/2017/4/16...esse-1-0-loss-to-excelsior-chelsea-loan-usmnt Matt Miazga limps out of Vitesse's 1-0 loss to Excelsior An inconvenient injury for both Miazga and his team. Apr 16, 2017, 3:48am EDT
went the distance in defense as Vitesse won the first major trophy in their 125-year history with a 2-0 KNVB Cup final win over AZ Alkmaar on Sunday. The former NYRB center back became the fifth American to raise the Dutch Cup, joining John O'Brien, DaMarcus Beasley, Jozy Altidore and Aron Johannsson.
The Dutch Cup winner starts in the Europa League Group Stage, so if Miazga stays he'll get to play in an international competition.
http://www.fifa.com/news/y=2017/m=5/news=an-old-rabbit-and-a-monster-from-madeira-2882539.html says: "125 years is what it took Vitesse – the Netherlands’ second-oldest existing club behind Sparta – to win their first major trophy after a Ricky van Wolfswinkel-inspired defeat of AZ in the KNVB Cup final."