Youth Yanks Abroad, '01-'04 YOBs (and Younger): 2018/19 Thread

One thing I liked about Reyna was he's bigger than most of our mids/wingers. With he and combinations of Sargent, Weah, Soto, Pepi etc the US is adding size to the team.

 

Freeman is also very similar to Reyna.

 

That was a hell of a goal from Gio Reyna. Wow!

 

US U15 starlet '04 Evan Rotundo is in England this week with Arsenal. He will be with their academy for the upcoming Bundesliga Cup. He'll then meet up with the US U15s for the Concacaf Championship. #usynt pic.twitter.com/ycdmHKKQsy

— Joey (@USAprospects) July 16, 2019

 

Brandan Craig is currently in Manchester, Rotundo is currently in Hertfordshire, Justin Che is currently in Bremen after being spotted in Stuttgart and near Hoffenheim. Confirmed by USA Prospects that Rotundo has been training with Arsenal and Che has been training with VfB Stuttgart and Hoffenheim.

 

United or City?

 

Unknown at this time. He does have access to an English passport.

 

I really wish our prospects would stop going to "big" teams. Evan Rotundo seems incredibly skilled, but his pathway to senior team minutes with Arsenal is incredibly hard compared to a lot of other teams.

I don't think he's signed or anything, so maybe this is just training. But we've had so many players buried...

 

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Justin Che is continuing his tour of Germany, now currently in Bremen. He's already been linked to VfB Stuttgart and Hoffenheim and has been spotted in both locales.

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) July 16, 2019

 

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‘04 CDM Brandan Craig is with Liverpool for the next two weeks. Craig is a member of Philadelphia Union Academy and one of the top 2004s in the pool #usynt pic.twitter.com/YnzK0eSsFs

— Joey (@USAprospects) July 18, 2019

 

Reyna with the assist vs Liverpool! https://t.co/wQsvVE7n6q

— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) July 20, 2019

 

That is twice that my Forza app didn’t even list Gio on the squad, much less credit him with an assist. Can anyone suggest a better app? I’m not a big fan of SofaScore but I may have to give it another try.

 

I use FotMob but it didn't have lineups or credit anyone with an assist for that friendly, either.

 

Brandan Craig played 80 minutes today for Liverpool u16s game against Coventry.

 

Miljevic called up to Argentina's U-18s:

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/matko-miljevic-at-argentinos-juniors.2038655/page-4#post-37995100

 

Are we sure he's eager to play for the US?

 

I think his preferences would be Argentina, US, Croatia. His calculus will depend on how likely he sees his chances of making the Argentina Senior team vs ours. It can’t hurt to dangle something like the Olympics in front of him.

 

I’m not saying this should be expected of him because he might not want to play for the USA, but when I see a dual-nat doesn’t speak English, I consider it highly unlikely that they’ll ever play for the USA.

I suspect there are many players on that Argentine U18 team that don’t speak English, so it’s not a criticism of the kid, but if you considered the USA an option and the US-link wasn’t a flimsy one, you would probably have grown up with the language, even if it was secondary to another language.

 

I wasn’t aware he didn’t habla. @bshredder said in Matko’s thread a while back that he was learning English.
FWIW, he has said in interviews he will go with the first full national team that calls him up. But you gotta think he would much rather it be Argentina.

 

When they can’t speak it, do they say anything other than they’re learning English? I think not doing the interview in English or using a translator says it all.

 

You might be right. I have no idea concerning Miljevic specifically. But the interview preference doesn’t really say much. I know guys like Aguero speak English but much prefer to be interviewed in their native language. In my experience, a Latin American kid with parents who decide to move to Miami to ride out an economic crisis probabaly got some schooling in English some where along the way.
On the other hand, I’ve also observed that a rich Argentino is less likely to care about speaking English than a rich Latino from practically anywhere else.

 

Ingolstadt U-19's for Butler.

Justin Butler aus der U19, dessen auslaufender Vertrag nicht verlängert wurde, hat sich für zwei Jahre dem FC Ingolstadt angeschlossen. [dfbnet] pic.twitter.com/bGp1Ttaw27

— FC Bayern News (@iMiaSanMia_GER) July 18, 2019