The coming boom in multi-eligible player recruitment

I wouldn’t hold anyone back. To be clear I meant go after the top talents hard early on. The kids who show real tangible high level possibilities. Do your best with all but concentrate on those with difference making possibilities. When I mean hard, not predatory cap tie either, Just build a real trusting relationship.
Example? Someone like Musah, Dest and now Pepi. Big wins among the many, but key ones. I think the Che love is smart. Bayern wants him, he will go there, and he has German citizenship. Do we think a coach like Hansi Flick wouldn’t pick him for their Nats if he showed promise. Yo bet he would.
The Gomez move is great. Everything could always be different, but if he can truly help I don’t worry about predatory cap tying, because GB has shown he will play those guys, and give them a real shot.

 

Really, he was not even taken into account in the U17 team. For U17 he only received an invitation in the Nike Friendlies (I don't remember if in 2018) and he did not make the final list. Then he didn't get any more calls because Wicky didn't consider him good enough, and called to Armour and Tolkin.
He did play several games with the U16, but it's not an age group to consider since cannot retain players with those games.

 

I remember that Wicky was asked about Gomez by a journalist, and he suggested that he was behind Armour and Tolkin. It was ridiculous at the time. Still is now, although Tolkin is doing pretty well. USSF might really pay for that decision eventually. I think Bello vs. Tolkin is closer than Gomez against any of them.

 

I very much agree with this. The provisional cap tie can very much sometimes force a decision because you have to file a one time switch, as opposed to the player having more time/space to wait and see.

 

Yup. The only invitation Gomez got during the U17 World Cup cycle was for the 2018 Nike Friendlies. He trained there but was not on the final roster.

The three "U17" caps Gomez got were for the lone post-U17 World Cup U16 camp -- the 2019 Nike Friendlies. Some sources erroneously called the US U16s at that point as the US U17s, and the actual post-WC US U17 team at that tournament (Sagir Arce, Jack de Vries, Gilbert Fuentes, Jonathan Tomkinson, Seth Wilson, etc.) as the US U18s. Officially though, all of Gomez's caps were with the US U16s.

 

If true it wold be funny in a lot of ways.

Pefok was ignored by Cameroon and he joined us.
Ebobisse was ignored by the US and he joins them.

Boy, someone else’s mediocrity has to be better than our own mediocrity!!!!!!!!!

Human nature at work.

 

Thanks to @usmntu for this find.

Also from this article: the Polish fed intends to hold a camp in April on US soil for about 30 eligible US-developed youth players.

El Salvador has been doing the same thing which is smart to do. Mexico did one in 2019 but has not since. https://t.co/nDe8DCkDhe

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 27, 2021

Obviously not a good thing from a USYNT standpoint but it makes a lot of sense for those nations. Try to find talents from the rising US youth player pool while keeping them in a more familiar environment with less travel and language barriers. Odd why El Tri stopped doing it.

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 27, 2021

 

Yup, Slonia seems like someone Poland needs to invite to a senior national team camp if they really want to court him. Especially since I agree that the players who go to said youth camp are going to be of varying quality as I don’t feel like we’re over flowing with dual Polish American youth products.

 

Poland has much better and younger keepers than us. If all of a sudden Pomykal discovered Brazilian roots switching wouldn't be that wise. That's how much Slonina worries me. The same with ES. Nobody with chances to play for USA will go there. It's Mexico, Mexico, Mexico.

 

What he said.

I think the day will come that we will lose a player born here here to one of the giants of the game. If Che blows up it is possible. Probable? No, bt eventually it will happen. Otherwise yeah. It’s all about Mexico.

 

Bt every account I have heard/read he wants to play for England. Looks like he is more than willing to bide his time. Still, a WC in 2002, and a guaranteed one at home in 2026 are big carrots. Can’t dangle those until he proves it against men in a pretty substantial way.

 

A strong loan can put him on the radar. I’m not sure it makes him a best 23 candidate, but I can see how he is best 23 by the time the WC roster is selected. It’s then up to him to commit to play for us. It’s not as easy of a task as some of the other dual nationals.

 

I mean.......................Dike lit the Championship on fire last season and hasn't had a regular USMNT place. Hasn't played a minute of WCQers.

Doing well in the Championship hasn't been a method for USMNT involvement for quite a long time now. Ask Duane Holmes and those cats. CCV had two very good years in the Championship at Luton and Bournemouth and couldn't get a callup this past summer. The list goes on and on.

So i definitely get what you guys are saying about Balogun, and I'm sure the USMNT staff would call him up to some friendlies NOW if he wants to commit. But succeeding in the Championship doesn't mean a lot in terms of USMNT involvement. I highly doubt Berhalter would call him up to the World Cup over the guys already in his team based on a good half year at Boro.

 

The Armenian FA will hold a camp in Los Angeles to find US-based talent:

The @OfficialArmFF in conjunction with PAYFA will hold a 3-day training camp this march in Los Angeles for Armenian diaspora to showcase their skills and potentially be part of a training camp this summer with various Armenian youth national team 🇦🇲https://t.co/2yVi5ZvFBz

— 🇦🇲⚽Football Kentron (@FootballKentron) January 22, 2022

 

There are 3 million Armenians in Armenia.

There are likely about 1 million Armenian-Americans.

This makes a lot of sense.

 

A huge portion of whom live in LA and Orange County. It’s very smart of them.

 

They should hold one in Watertown, MA

 

And out of those 2 million live in LA.

 

The DFB are keeping an eye on Justin Che. Che has German citizenship but has so far only played for youth US national teams. He's eligible for the German national teams and could soon receive a call-up. But now the first thing is to settle in in the Bundesliga [@kerry_hau] pic.twitter.com/9yEcL2eeNU

— Bayern & Germany (@iMiaSanMia) January 23, 2022