Youth Yanks Abroad (1997s or later)

Nick Taitague scores twice for Schalke u19 in a friendly today.

#Testspielsieg: Die #U19 gewinnt gegen den FC #Tokio mit 3:1. Tore: @NTaitague (2), #Krüger. #schmiede #s04

— Knappenschmiede (@knappenschmiede) March 28, 2018

 

'02 forward. He played in the "B" team for his FC Dallas age group.

FC Dallas is losing another one. Source tells me 16-year-old USYNT forward Jamie Dunning is moving to Feyenoord after a successful trial. Hugely promising No. 9 prospect escapes abroad.

— Will Parchman (@WillParchman) March 30, 2018

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Good. FCD wouldn't develop him as an ACM. He'd rot on the bench behind foreign DPs and TAMers and GAMers.

Parchman is right. FCD can at least identify but they're incredibly overrated when it comes to everything else. I honestly don't know where all the ridiculous hype came from.

The guys they played and sold like Shea, who flopped in the Prem and C'Ship, and Castillo, who flopped in Turkey are sad stories. McKennie highlights the need to escape.

They have an overrated coach, lots of empty seats and penny pinching owners.

 

FC Dallas has had some hiccups but the money they made off Shea, Zendejas, and Sanchez was brilliant business.

I think it's wrong to assume Dunning is only going to Europe because of the way Dallas has played Pomykal. RSL is one of the best at playing teens and are still losing Taylor Booth.

Kids with EU passports will join Euro clubs a majority of the time. This isn't some new revelation.

 

Shrug. Shea came to Dallas when he was 16. Castillo came to Dallas as an unknown, unheralded 18 year old from nowhere Colombia.

These are actually examples of players FCD obtained as teens, developed, and sold for big bucks to Europe. The opposite of what you're suggesting.

If you had asked me yesterday to rank my top 15 most likely FCD homegrown signings this spring/summer..................Jamie Dunning wouldn't have been on it. He's a 16 year old that doesn't play for FCD U17s. FCD has a 16 year old that's starting for them at the U19 Dallas Cup. In the game against Arsenal, I'd argue that he was their player of the game (Thomas Roberts). If you had told me yesterday that a forward/attacking midfielder had left the FCD academy for Europe, I would have guessed USYNTer Beni Redzic. He's one of the stars of their U17 team, and has scored 14 goals in his last 12 games.

We can all criticize FCD for their shortcomings. But that's letting 20 MLS teams (not named RSL and NYRB) off the hook, because they all lag behind FCD.

 

Back to club-level soccer & #USMNT attacker Tim Weah is in PSG’s squad for Saturday’s French Cup finale https://t.co/x6xCn1eu8z

— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) March 30, 2018

 

Do you think that's how FC Dallas looks at it? "Well, we lost Weston McKennie, but at least we're not Colorado," or something?

Seems to me that the most useful conversation we could have about this would be to 1) try to understand what the goal of each club's strategy for its academy is now, and if/how it's evolving, and 2) how it's doing against that goal. (Of course, we could also debate whether we agree with those goals.)

What do you think FCD's goal is? And how is it doing?

 

We can use this thread to discuss actual youth Yanks actually playing abroad?

 

I'm very curious to see where Weah falls when the full team is healthy. I can't help but feel that the next pre-season will be enormous for him.

 

No. I think McKennie is really the one loss to Europe that they're disappointed by. The led to the signing of a whole bunch of youngsters like Ferreira, Reynolds, and Pax. Of course they did that without a USL team and without an opening in the first team for those players.

Having anti-FCD tantrums because a player left that nobody had heard of prior to Will Parchman's tweet......................doesn't make much sense to me. That's what I was getting at. This happens all the time.

By the way, I think Dunning moved to the FCD academy from Georgia. I wonder if FCD found out that they aren't able to sign him to a homegrown contract anyway. Maybe that's why he hasn't been playing with their U17 academy team. I'd have a hard time believing that a player good enough to be recruited by Feyenoord can't make their DA team.

 

What’s the deal with Financial Fair play and PSG? I’ve seen some reports that they’re somewhat in the clear after selling Moura and probable sale of Draxler this summer. Other reports I’ve seen say they’re still in trouble.

If they can’t buy anyone new, that certainly helps Weah’s cause for next year

 

And there's the whole Neymar saga this summer as well.

 

Sargent scores in a U-19 friendly -

Bei U19-Champions-Trophy in Düsseldorf unterliegt die #WerderU19 im ersten Spiel RB Salzburg mit 1:2. Torschütze @joshsargent. Das zweite Match endet gegen Standard Lüttich torlos.

— Werder Bremen Frauenfußball (@werderfrauen) March 31, 2018

 

Sargent scored again in a 2-0 win over Everton. You can watch the archived stream here, its the 4th video in the sidebar, skip to 12:45 for the goal - http://www.u19-cup.com/en/livestream

Game against Salzburg is also there, skip to 11:10 if you want to watch that.

Next match is tomorrow against Gladbach

 

What time is the game?

The goal against Everton was great. Wins a long ball and flicks it to the left for a teammate to move on to, makes the run and bangs in the shot. Played as a ST in a 4-2-3-1 but dropped back a little bit early in buildups (just past the center circle). They had him stay high on a corner. They use him as an outlet.

The goal against Salzburg was easier. Salzburg's LCB got a short GK and played it long. Werder won the second ball. Chipped it forward back, just wide of where it came from. A Bremen player made a run to the top of the box and got it played inside to him. Sargent had peeled off to the weakside, his third man run was rewarded and he finished back against his run to his right, first time with his left.

Also there's a short game against a Japanese Highschool where Josh got a secondary assist (I think). He came back in midfield took control, quickly sidestepped a market, and laid off to a teammate in space on the left wing who in think then got it to LW to go 1v1 and score. I think it was him earlier with a good chance on the right side of the box where his (typical) well hit, high, near post shot was palmed out for a corner.

 

@zlebmada maybe a little GIF action?

 

Wow...............that's a cracker of a first career goal.

.@_esabbi23’s first professional goal pic.twitter.com/otl5NjTXnJ

— J.R. Eskilson (@JREskilson) April 1, 2018

 

He is one of the more natural finishers we have had come through the ranks in the last 5 years. He had a poor run with the US U-20s due to a complete lack of training opportunity/ environment. If he is at a club that cares about his development we could see him bloom into quite the player.

 

New (to me, anyway) Texas-born '01 at St. Pauli:

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/leon-flach-at-st-pauli.2082357/

 

Highlights from the game vs. AGF Aarhus ... an excellent goal by Sabbi:

 

German-American '99 CB and Germany youth international Lennard Maloney made his 2. Bundesliga debut yesterday for Union Berlin.

77. | Nächster Wechsel: Marcel #Hartel kommt für Lennard #Maloney. #fcunion #sgffcu #mh7 #lm33

— 1. FC Union Berlin (@fcunion) April 1, 2018