He seems slimmer than in the past couple years. He doesn't need any bulk to buttress his strength. He does need speed and endurance. I really have a hard time reconciling this Jozy (TFC) with the one I see trotting around with a crappy defensive work rate (USMNT). Can someone reconcile the two somehow? What am I missing?
I think his build is fine, physicality, strength, power is some of his best traits. Lukaku, drogba , benteke all share those traits. They all are muscular. Jozy still has deceptive speed
Pulisic + Kljestan is what JK should have played in the quals, with a backline with Fabian, JAB, Yedlin, and someone taking Cameron's place. Alas, he didn't. As for Jozy having Euro suitors, I doubt any club that could match his TFC salary would go for him. The big clubs see MLS the same way our Eurosnobs do. There's a reason why Giovinco is still here.
Her has only been in MLS for two seasons and I am sure the huge wage demands and transfer fee put him out of the range of all but a few teams in the world.
Don't know, but he just scored back to back goals in WCQ matches in September against St. V&G and T&T. So, like 3 competitive games ago for the USMNT. He was excellent in the T&T match. He also had an assist in our loss to Mexico. Also, he has 37 goals in 99 caps, which is the second best strike rate in USMNT history (behind a guy named Clint Dempsey).
Jozy Altidore was named U.S. Soccer Male Player of the Year for 2016: http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/201...isic-earn-us-soccer-player-of-the-year-awards In this year where there were no good choices, my pick would have been Geoff Cameron since Altidore missed the Copa America due to injury.
Jozy's 2016 WCQ goals were: (Home)_Guatemala_elo rank 83 (Away)_St. Vincent_elo rank 178 (Home)_Trinidad_elo rank 68
Assisted on Wood's goal against Mexico to. I guess that won't impress some though as goals and assists at home are garbage.