Well, here's the ultimate confirmation. Johan Gomez says goodbye to FCD It'll be interesting to see where he ends up. We know he trained at Augsburg.
He turned 18 in July, so he can sign in Europe before the end of the transfer window. There was no room for him at FC Dallas with Ferreira and Pepi ahead of him on the depth chart. This shows player production in the USA is starting to improve a lot when MLS teams have good prospects who can’t even get into the first team because there is too much homegrown talent ahead of them and they have to go elsewhere.
Interesting it is. New Signing 🚨: Congrats to @USYNT U20 player @JohanG73 on signing his first pro contract with @FCPorto ! #OctagonFamily #USYNT #FCPorto #Futureisbright pic.twitter.com/oJYGdsdJSq— Octagon Soccer (@octagonsoccer) August 31, 2019
So what's the deal with Palomino? I thought he had Euro offers waiting for him after turning down a Dynamo HG deal. He turned 18 in May, so that's no longer an obstacle.
Updated the list of pros to include Gomez -- and Sousa, based on his tweet. 1140716729888231424 is not a valid tweet id Any other pros in this list? Bonilla Jose Kevin De la Fuente Konrad Harper Cameron Harriel Nathan Hawkins Jalen Hoffmann Ian Palomino Marcelo Ritchie Stuart Rittacio Matteo Sepulveda Leonardo Tessmann Tanner Vassilev Indiana
I think he came to Bethlehem on a amateur contract in an attempt to earn a pro contract but I don’t think he has gotten one yet.
I'll hold off on Harriel until I see confirmation -- I think I saw the same reports suggesting that he might only be an academy player right now. He was committed to Clemson before joining Philly's setup but clearly isn't there now. The other two college guys have somewhat interesting pathways to pro soccer, which certainly matters in the context of making a hypothetical 2021 U20 team, since amateurs have long odds. Schulte was with St. Louis FC. He's on campus now, but of course he could leave after the season (or whenever, I guess) if he chose to. MLS St. Louis is years away, so that doesn't seem to help much. His college bio says he trained with Feyenoord. Boateng was with Sacramento's academy. I could see them trying to sign him. Maybe GA gets interested, or he looks abroad.
Penn State probably declined Shakes' release..but not sure why Fowler, Las or even Rando wasn't called up..
Fowler is an '00. It makes no sense to take Las away from the U-17 NT during the last camp of the cycle before the U-17 WC. I don't think Shulte is a bad option for the back up spot, although Rando isn't a bad option either.
Not sure what the Zagreb Football Federation is exactly. Croatia’s version of Catalonia? In Slovenia, the U-20 #USMNT defeated the Zagreb Football Federation 2-1, replacing original opponent Croatia on the USA's schedule. Cole Bassett and Cameron Harper netted for the 🇺🇸— U.S. Soccer YNT (@USYNT) September 5, 2019
When I read that tweet it made so little sense that I thought the tweet writer was trying to make a silly joke that nobody understood. Options I considered: 1) The Croatian team was so dominated by Dinamo Zagreb that he joked the Croatian team was replaced by the Zagreb football federation. Which as far as I know, isn't a thing...……………… 2) The Croatian team didn't show up, but was replaced by a Dinamo Zagreb youth team. Hence he jokingly called them the Zagreb Football federation.
Celtic's Cameron Harper scored yesterday for the U.S. U-20 team in a 2-1 win. I recently spoke to the winger about his development, Celtic, and his decision to turndown an invite for Scotland's U-19 team. https://t.co/f0Zb8lQOTN— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) September 6, 2019
Tessman is a bigger dude than many realize. Thomas Robers is listed at 5'11". So Tessman must be 6'2" or so. #FCDallas young men at US u20 camp. From left to right: Tanner Tessmann, Thomas Roberts, Johan Gomez (now FC Porto), and Kevin Bonilla. pic.twitter.com/J8v8WQgbgu— 3rd Degree (@3rdDegreeNet) September 7, 2019
A text from a friend on this match against Zagreb. I’ve never seen anything like this “Said they literally walked into the field, Tab included thinking they were playing Croatia. Admin from Slovenia tried to convince him it was Croatia. Unreal”
Hopefully this will teach other federations not to try to sneak "fake" teams past us if they don't want those teams to lose by a goal.