Timothy Mason at VFL Wolfsburg

Nice find. More of a case for the detective work thread.

http://www.transfermarkt.com/timothy-mason/profil/spieler/251332

 

https://www.facebook.com/timmy.mason.16?fref=ts

his Facebook states he was born in Kenya

 

Any chance he's a Kenyan-German-American? Maybe some sort of connection to Sampson-era U.S. international (and German-American) Michael Mason?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mason_(soccer)

 

He's hanging with John Brooks in Spain

 

https://instagram.com/p/4NAZtmAamy/

Link to his Instagram. He hangs with John Brooks often and they might be cousins? So he may be a Yank

 

He captions that he is cousins with John on one of his pictures. Looks like Jerome Kiesewetter is there too.

 

Sign him up!

 

FYP

 

I know one of the Wolfsburg youth coaches. He plays at the U17 level atm?

 

How is he JAB's cousin and he's not in our pool already?

 

And George Weah's son for that matter

 

Not sure if they are actually cousins. A lot of friends call each other cousin nowadays. It could also be something to do with being black in Germany as there are not exactly many blacks there.

He has played for the YNTs

 

At the chance of sounding like a weirdo, I asked him if he was going to play for the US like Brooks

 

Their mother's could be German sisters. That would make them cousins. Their fathers could be American and Kenyan. That would still make them cousins but only one could play for the U.S.

 

Well just from following Brooks on instagram, Jerome Kieswetter is there, too. Sooooo, no idea if Mason and Brooks actually have any relation, but if he is with two German-Americans, decent chance he may be as well.

 

We've had other German-American Mason YAs, too.

 

Their U19 roster, which lists a number of dual nationalities, doesn't list one for Mason.

https://www.vfl-wolfsburg.de/de/info/nachwuchs/mannschaften/a-junioren-u19/kader.html

However, it also doesn't list one for (U17) Lyonel Hyer, when it has done so before. So, who knows...

 

Both Mason and Hyer are listed as 'German' on their respective teams. Maybe Wolfsburg is in CYA mode when it comes to the young yanks? I just know Transfermarkt says differently as far a nationality statuses go..

 

Academy?

 

@bungadiri

 

Mason is with Wolfsburg's U23s.

https://www.vfl-wolfsburg.de/de/info/akademie/mannschaften/u23/kader.html

https://datencenter.dfb.de/profil/336537

He's a '98, so still age-eligible for a potential Olympic qualifying group.

 

Did anyone find out if he's American? I don't know this player.