Yanks on Foreign YNTs (1997 and later)

It got denied

Funny thing is when he made his debut for Spain, he said he never considered playing for Morocco.

 

99-Noah Verhoeven is in the Canada team for the Toulon Tournament.
https://www.canadasoccer.com/canada...or-international-tournament-p161576-preview-1

 

He can play for Canada. Its not like we need him. Its too bad for Canada that Akinola is cap-tied, otherwise I'd say he should switch. I think he'd have a very good chance of being a full international for them.

Of those TFC players on that roster, that Okello kid was excellent yesterday. He must be 6'5 or so, and he has a lot of skill for a big player. Only issue is you wonder if he's too tall to play CM. You pretty much can't be quick with anything you do at that height, and you have to be good in small spaces as a CM. I also liked how Daniels played. I thought he was very good, and he completely outplayed Wheeler-Ominu who is one of the MLS players that played yesterday for Atlanta with the USL team. Dunn wasn't good. He struggled to defend Williams.

 

Jonathan Gonzalez will be playing for Mexico U21s at the Toulon Tournament. The final roster hasn't been released yet but it's a good bet one or more additional Mex-Ams will be on it.
http://espndeportes.espn.com/futbol...que-jugara-con-el-tri-en-esperanzas-de-toulon

 

GK Abraham Romero is also on the squad:

https://miseleccion.mx/la-snm-sub-21-viajo-toulon/

 

Boston-born Kik Pierie played 2,586 minutes for Heerenveen this season. Part of the Netherlands U19 setup: https://t.co/zq1nGU0o0r

— Travis Clark (@travismclark) May 24, 2018

 

‘03 US U14 & Feyenoord U15 winger Lateef Omidiji Jr. has accepted a call into a Nigeria U15 camp. #usynt pic.twitter.com/qwNswGPzyv

— Joey (@USAprospects) May 26, 2018

 

Jonathan Gonzalez starts and Abraham Romero on the bench for Mexico U21s in Toulon:

#U21 | Here's our Starting XI for today's match 🆚🇶🇦#NadaNosDetiene pic.twitter.com/f5AG9q2cY4

— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) May 26, 2018

 

It seemed inevitable that Omidiji was going to play for Nigeria. I never got the sense he wanted to play for us.

 

Gonzalez starts & Romero on the bench again:

#U21 | #MEXvENG | This is our starting XI for our second match in @TournoiToulon 🆚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿#NadaNosDetiene pic.twitter.com/eLnIJnPxh2

— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) May 29, 2018

 

Noah Verhoeven played 14 minutes in the 0-0 draw vs Portugal yesterday in the Toulon Tournament.

 

Scored the game winner today:

Correction: Noah Verhoeven on the goal. https://t.co/U3ZXWbNF7n

— Canada Soccer (@CanadaSoccerEN) May 31, 2018

 

The goal:

This goal from #VWFC prospect Noah Verhoeven has #CanM21 at the top of their group at the Toulon Tournament. They beat Turkey 1-0 today, drew Portugal 0-0 in their opener. If they beat Japan on Sunday and they win the toughest group in the tournament. Impressive stuff. pic.twitter.com/3W1IPxy7Oa

— Mitchell Tierney (@mitchelltierney) May 31, 2018

 

Jonathan Gonzalez starts; Abraham Romero on the bench:

#U21 | Incondicionales, this is our starting XI for today's game 🆚🇨🇳.

Let's go! 👊🏻 #NadaNosDetiene pic.twitter.com/o1pSJQYowO

— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) June 1, 2018

 

Good news on the Mexican-American front: '01 FC Dallas left back Julian Hinojosa, who hasn't been with USYNTs since October 2016 and has regularly been part of Mexico YNTs for about the past two years, has joined up with the latest US U18 squad. So has '01 FC Dallas forward Gibran Rayo, who has been part of Mexico YNTs for a while and never with USYNTs. Not players who I was expecting to flip back -- gladly surprised they did. And kudos to the USSF for keeping tabs with them.

 

Paolo Belloni-Urso called in for Honduras U20 squad:

https://www.gocrimson.com/sports/msoc/2018-19/releases/20180625p45rvf

 

It seems almost like a prank, honestly. A prank that cost a lot of money, but still...

 

#U18 | Head coach, Marcos Ayala, has called his roster to Training Camp ahead of the 2018 Niigata Tournament in 🇯🇵.#NadaNosDetiene pic.twitter.com/h0dOFS93ic

— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) June 29, 2018

Three Americans on the latest Mexico U18 ('01) squad. Two of them, Hector Holguin and Sebastian Medina, are based in Mexico. The third El Tri callup is forward Julian Vazquez of Real Salt Lake, who was with the US U18s in June. Note no Hinojosa or Rayo, so they may be leaning toward the US now. And then Ochoa and Llanez are the other two '01s previously called by Mexico who clearly prefer the US as of now.

 

Was with the US U18s a month ago. He was the second-leading scorer in the U16/U17 Development Academy playoffs.

#U18 | Training Camp vibes with @julian14vazquez!! 😁#NadaNosDetiene pic.twitter.com/1P4oL07kpH

— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) July 3, 2018

 

Abraham Romero called in for the Mexico U21s:

https://miseleccion.mx/convocatoria...entroamericanos-del-caribe-barranquilla-2018/

 

'03 Tyron Leon Haake in Werder Bremen's academy, who we don't have a YAA thread for but based on our detective work is extremely likely to be a German-American, was called to the Germany U15s in January.

 

Carlos Avilez was called to the Mexico U20s at the same camp Romero was with the Mexico U21s; it was a joint camp in which they scrimmaged against each other. Notable that Edwin Lara was, again, not called to the U20s.

📃 | NOTA | #Sub20

Con esta convocatoria iniciamos concentración en el Centro de Alto Rendimiento. ⚽️
Próximo objetivo: Campeonato de Concacaf. 💪🏼

Entérate de todos los detalles: https://t.co/tbZhYFhVbS#NadaNosDetiene pic.twitter.com/IozvyIEDII

— Selección Nacional (@miseleccionmx) July 9, 2018

Edit: also, I don't think Ivan Gutierrez nor Alex Zendejas have been called to the Mexico U21s in a while.

 

Am I wrong in thinking that Avilez would not factor into the US U-20's this cycle? Is he even better than another Mexican-American whose not provisionally cap-tied Eric Lopez? Thats not to say I'd prefer he plays in the Mexican set-up because maybe he turns into a good keeper (like Gonzalez did), but how much playing time would he have gotten with the US U-20's this cycle? More than a camp or two? I would say its unlikely he'd make the qualifying team or the U-20 WC team.

Lara is provisionally cap-tied, so unless he's sure about his decision of only wanting to play for the USA from now on, it would seem dumb (for himself) to switch over now. He's not even a regular first team pro yet.