Castro played the first half and Bahr was DNP for a 6-1 loss to Japan in India for their opening match.
Malone on the bench against Iran: http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=275931/match=300394715/index.html#statistics#nosticky
In U17 WC: Honduras: Alex Bahr started, played '69 and picked up yellow card in 5-0 win over New Caledonia. Alessandro Casto DNP.
In U17 WC: Honduras: Alessandro Casto comes in at the half trailing France 2-1. Alex Bahr on the bench.
Andres Perea starts for Colombia in the U17 knockout round: Este será el once inicial para enfrentar a Alemania por la #FIFAu17WC #FCFSub17 pic.twitter.com/oIfF3QCNyO— Selección Colombia (@FCFSeleccionCol) October 16, 2017
Perea out in the 64th, trailing Germany 0-4. Maurice Malone enters the game in the 59th. Malone had made a 77th minute appearance against Iran in the group stage.
Efrain Alvarez called up for Mexico's U15s: https://miseleccion.mx/la-snm-sub-15-realizara-gira-preparacion-sonora-arizona/
Mexico called in a U16 squad: https://miseleccion.mx/la-snm-sub-16-se-concentro-car-2/ Hector Holguin (Santos) Eduardo Blancas (Galaxy). Has been called in by US U16s before: https://www.lagalaxy.com/post/2016/...16-boys-national-team-val-de-marne-tournament Rayo Gibran (FC Dallas) https://www.fcdallas.com/players/gibran-rayo Julian Hinojosa (FC Dallas)
We are missing one from each. I can't figure out who they are. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/eebSZih0fK— Joey (@USAprospects) October 17, 2017 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/wPBtklrdkn— Joey (@USAprospects) October 17, 2017
The missing ones are both from the academy of Club Atlas. Arizona-born '02 defender Michael Barragan, and Texas-born '01 midfielder Sebastian Medina. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/michael-barragan-in-mexico.2035719/ https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/sebastian-medina-in-mexico.2042473/
The Gibran callup tells us something about FMF scouting. He just got to FCD as he was with a club in North Texas called "Sporting United" last season. He's played in 4 games and scored 2 goals. And somehow the FMF scouted him, found out he was Mexico-eligible, and has already called him up.
He played at the MLS/LigaMX tourney in Mexico City a few months ago. Thats where they likely also watched Blancas. I wasn't all that impressed by any of those who they called up that played at that tournament. I'm surprised they didn't call up Nathan Toledo (maybe his heritage is not Mexican), as he was the only '01 at that tournament besides Reynolds who particularly impressed me in the FCD side, although we've called him up before, so maybe they tried to, and he didn't want to play for them. Collodi and Burns looked good players, as well, but I'm not sure NT level players.
This seems like the right place for this: Spain with De la Torre.— Eric Gomez (@EricGomez86) October 16, 2017 This is the guy that keeps saying that 8-10 players about to jump ship for Mexico. For me, he lost all credibility with this tweet. He just a fear-bringer that skimps ESPN for a living and spews anti-US bs.
Only players I'm worried about losing to Mexico are Gonzalez, Llanez, Toledo, Araujo, Lopez, Ocampo-Chavez, Sepulveda, Vazquez, Farfan. I don't even know if all of those players have Mexican heritage anyway, so maybe some of them don't even apply. They can have the Rayo's, Blancas', Hinajosa's, etc. Its possible these types could get into a few camps and maybe play some role with our YNT's, but I don't think we should be worrying about the fringe players. We want to keep all of them, but thats not possible. Concentrate on making sure the top ones stay within our program. If the fringe players turn into high level footballers, nothing we can do. You can't concentrate on keeping every player with dual-nationality in your system.
I know I'm going way back but gotta add Oscar Rincon. His dad seems really anti US but he's still in our system for now.
Too young for me to pay much attention yet lol. I'm still trying to develop an understanding of the players, strengths, weaknesses of the '02 birth year of players, and just started paying attention to the '03 birth year.
Remember that a lot of the dual national exposure at that age is driven by parents and agents. That makes some of the initial scouting easier.
Agreed. There is no way de la torre is going to play for Spain. But a reply from someone else said "he must've meant de la fuente". That would make a lot more sense and would be bad for us. Still would be bad for Gomez to confuse the two though.
I think this guy also said something to the effect of "the US will have more than one reason to be upset about Mexico's WCQ roster," with the clear implication that a) it'd be an experimental roster going up against T&T and Honduras, and thus could easily lose, and b) Jonathan Gonzalez would be on it. In the end, it was a mostly full-strength squad (yes, I know......) and Gonzalez appeared to have accepted a US U18 callup before Monterrey denied release. So instead of reporting, he was doing anti-US wishcasting. One part of that obviously ended up working out for him, just not the way he thought.
We know the FMF watches FC Dallas closely. How long do you need to watch a guy to give him a U16 callup? I'm not sure this tells us much, unless perhaps they were already eyeing him at Sporting United, which isn't clear. (At least, not to me.)
how old is de la torre? ill bet there are younger spanish players already starting in la liga. that just seems absurd.
Alexander Bahr and Alessandro Castro are both on the bench for Honduras' knockout round match against Brazil: http://www.fifa.com/u17worldcup/matches/round=275929/match=300394749/index.html#overview#nosticky