Julian Green. Once he fills in to his body he will be a F. Johnson-level talent. Most disappointing bust: Junior Flores Wild card: Russel Canouse. I liked what i saw in qualifying and he seems to be in a good club situation.
Anyone who named Pulisic two years ago is looking like a genius. I also think Acosta is kind of underrated. His team is the best in MLS over the last three years (yes, I know regular season only) and he plays in CM where usually older players are. I think he's been hindered at the national level by being decent at left back therefore not getting a chance at CM where he excels.
Bump again. Picks that are looking good: C Pulisic, E Hyndman, CCV Not so much: Rubio Rubin, Junior Flores, Gedion Zelalem.
Yeah, I'm really not sure I'd put Hyndman in the good category yet, but that may just be me. Still plenty of time for all players though.
I did just because he's playing well at the moment and people in his thread are demanding he get called up. In other words, he still looks promising and might get a chance soon.
Anyone else have a glancing view to this thread and wonder what a Miss America thread was doing here?
At this moment the player at the highest level from the 2015 u20 squad is Kellyn Acosta. Did anyone pick him?
Or Miazga. Miazga already accomplished being one of the best players in MLS at his position, something Acosta is only now doing. And Miazga is starting regularly in a better league and for a better team than Acosta is.
Worth mentioning that the two kids "playing up" with that 2015 U20 World Cup team (EPB and CCV) may end up being better than Miazga. We probably wont' know the answer to that in another 4-5 years! Also, I'd just mention that Rubio Rubin has the most senior caps right now amongst the 2015 U20 World Cup squad. Who's second? The answer isn't Acosta or Miazga or Hyndman, etc. In second right now is Paul Arriola, who's been developing nicely down in Mexico. I wonder who amongst the 2015 U20 World Cup squad has made the most first team appearances. The answer is probably Kellyn Acosta, but Arriola must be right there. Acosta's played in 83 MLS games, and with CCL, USOC, etc. he must be nearing 100.
Actually transfermarkt implies that yesterday was Kellyn's 100th appearance for FCD. I would have thought the club would have made a bigger deal of that, though............ MLS regular season plus playoffs: 88 US Open Cup: 7 CCL: 5 My rudimentary math indicates that adds up to 100.
The same source has 90 appearances for Arriola. This is counting League, Copa, and CCL. Interestingly he seems to play more in Clausuras. http://www.transfermarkt.com/paul-arriola/leistungsdatenverein/spieler/189876
I think three people said Pulisic. McKennie is not mentioned on any of these threads. What happened to Zendegas? Flores is a massive disappointment. Hopefully, he took all the bad luck. Jordan Morris was almost 20, never mentioned.
But amazing the two posters right afterward said the coach will not play young players. Very impressive.
McKennie (and Cannon for that matter) wasn't a highly visible USYNT star. Weston didn't make the US U17 CONCACAF or World Cup rosters, so unless folks really followed the FCD youth teams...................they couldn't pick him for this type of thing in 2015. If you were going to select a kid on the younger side you'd have gone with Pulisic. That was sorta obvious. Zendejas is in the first team at Chivas, although hasn't been making appearances. He was named to their roster for the Club World Cup, though. FCD selling him for nearly a million was one hell of a deal.
So in 2019 So fan who has panned out for the NT Maizga Arriola (at least he gets called up) At least is still playing in a club and gets some looks. Steffen Carte-Vickers Palmer-Brown Kellyn Acosta What ever happened to these guys? Everyone else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_U-20_World_Cup_squads#_United_States
BTW FIFA.com used to have a list of all prior tournaments, they had the rosters and stats, does anyone have a link? I can't find it navigating the FIFA website.
Steffan is our main NT goalkeeper, he good Carter Vickers gets called up and EPB will Probably get his chance soon enough