Wiki says a fellow named Carlos Munoz at a Guatemalan club called Deportivo Mixco is a Yank. That's all I know at the moment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportivo_Mixco Some club info: http://www.ligaprimeradivision.com.gt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&Itemid=22
Soccer-Talents says German-born '95 Miles Mueller, of Schalke, is a Yank. http://www.soccer-talents.com/Miles_M__ller-3_7-54576-12.html http://www.transfermarkt.com/en/miles-mueller/leistungsdaten/spieler_156697.html Team profile: http://knappenschmiede.schalke04.de...miles-müller/page/339-154-8--.html?h=NW/16646
Transfermarkt lists a fellow named Sabri Abdulgasem as a Yank playing for a club called FK Igman Konjic in BIH. Evidently he once played for the Real Colorado Foxes. http://www.rcfoxes.com/component/joomsport/player/2/27?Itemid=202 http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/sabri-abdulgasem/profil/spieler_289905.html
It's tough to identify anyone because it's such a common name and the only birth date information is the year 1991. I tried searching for college players named Michael Smith and found a bunch. But I'm guessing that, if the guy at BI/Bolungarvik is American, he's the Michael Smith who played for NC State from 2009 through 2011 and UNC Pembroke in 2012. The 1991 birth year listed on the club website matches that class, and the NC State and UNC Pembroke player is the only one of the recent Michael Smiths in college soccer to be listed as a midfielder. And over the last decade or so I've known of a number of players from various North Carolina colleges who played a year or two in Iceland before moving on to non-soccer careers (mostly women, but a few men too).
Wiki has a Salvadoran-American named Steve Benitez at UES in El Salvador. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.D._Universidad_de_El_Salvador
Brother born in Denver in 1991: http://www.denverpioneers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=18600&ATCLID=205498633 Lists Aurora as his hometown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sabri.abdulgasem Graduated HS in 2008 in Aurora, CO: http://www.classmates.com/people/sabri-abdulgasem/8734132140 Google Translate: Sabri Abdulgasem signed for Igman Konjic Thursday, 05 September 2013 23:25 Talented midfielder Sabri Abdulgasem, originally from Libya, which, except in Libya played in America signed an allegiance with Igman Konjic for one year. http://bhfudbal.ba/bih-vijesti/1-li...-abdulgasem-potpisao-za-igman-iz-konjica.html I guess there's a chance he's the Diego Fagundez of Libya, but I'm going with YA on this one. Google Translate: "Roberto Iraheta, managing director of UES, confirmed this afternoon that the team signed three players for this tournament.... This is the Colombian Cristian Gil Mosquera, Ronald national Ascencio and Lionzio Salvadoran-American Steven Benitez." http://www.elgrafico.com/Mobile/el-universidad--con-tres-nuevas-caras-para-el-apertura I'm going with 2 for 2 for DMN.
Possibly American '92 Gary Hillen at SV Bergstedt in Germany: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/gary-hillen/profil/spieler_219666.html
He probably has some American connection. That was the website where I found the kid with an American connection at Inter Milan. No where else was there any hint that the kid was American, but evidently he is eligible for the USA. I bet thats the case with this kid.
You are of course entitled to think whatever you want, but the entire point of this thread (as pretty clearly stated in the first post) is to not assume that the database web sites are correct. In more than a decade of poking around the web looking for YAs, I've found enough cases where they are wrong -- sometimes for fairly basic reasons -- that I started this thread to help unwind that and actually be certain before starting threads on guys. As pertains to Mueller -- I recently realized we had a thread on him already that contained a bit more information. (In fact, that thread might have been the one that led to this one.) https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/miles-muller-at-schalke.1969673/ And a post with some information: Miles Muller at Schalke?
Elias McCalip is an American '96 at Kapylan in Finland, according to Soccer Talents: http://www.soccer-talents.com/Elias_McCalip-3_7-150222-12.html Roster page (which he is on): http://kapylanpallo.fi/joukkue-15
Soccer Talents says an '88 named Jordan Abraham at a Belgian lower-division team called RA Leuze-Lignette is American. http://www.soccer-talents.com/Jordan_Abraham-3_7-180032-12.html The club says he's Belgian. http://www.larall.be/index.php/les-equipes.html?func=showPlayer&p=11&pid=18 My guess is this one is wrong. ST is linking to the Facebook page of a guy who looks too young to be 25, and lives in California. A site called Zamante says he's American, but it's unclear how they would know this. http://www.zamante.com/us/profile/soccer-player/jordanabraham
Soccer Talents says an '88 named Christian Adams at Viktoria Rosport in Luxembourg is German-American. http://www.soccer-talents.com/Christian_Adams-3_7-130928-12.html Transfermarkt says German. http://www.transfermarkt.com/en/christian-adams/leistungsdaten-vereindetail/spieler_48117.html He is at the club, but they don't elaborate. http://www.fcvictoriarosport.lu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=79&Itemid=196
Former NYRB HG Giorgi Chirgadze is now with Metallurgist Rustavi in his native Georgia, according to Transfermarkt. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/giorgi-chirgadze/profil/spieler_157988.html He's not listed on their first team roster page: http://fcm.ge/?page_id=2195 Also not sure he's a Yank, but he may be. From 2011: Born in the European nation of Georgia, the left winger is a cultured player who currently holds a green card. “I’ve had it for six years, I hope next year to have my citizenship,” Chirgadze said. “I’d like to play for the national team here, play for the Red Bulls.” http://www.newyorkredbulls.com/news/2011/09/chirgadze-trying-work-way-back-mix
Transfermarkt says an American '89 named Samuel "Sammy" Gehman, who I think is from New Jersey, is in Poland with KSZO Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. That club's supposed official web site is incomprehensible to me. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/samuel-gehman/profil/spieler_271547.html http://www.uslsoccer.com/teams/13381239/8986441-13381307/15546067.html
From the club website, with that last name and mixed race he could have an American father. I will do some digging. Benjamin Arnold | Mittelfeld Geburtsdatum25.09.1995 GeburtsortKaiserslautern NationalitätDeutscher Größe (cm)175 Gewicht (kg)68 beim FCK seit07/2009
I saw on another website, a fairly reliable one, that he was German-American. I don't have 100% certainty though so if you could do some digging that would be great.
I saw that, the same guy who did the story on Christian Albelo is the one who posted that on the same website but he had not supporting information. His Facebook is in both English and German, but that really does not mean very much. The club lists him as German, but they did the same for Wooten until he got the call up for the US U-23 team. He was born in Kaiserslautern, but went to High school in Landstuhl which still has the Army base. If only there was an American on Kaiserslautern's U-19 team that could confirm it... I will contact my club sources and see what I can come up with.
Transfermarkt says a '94 named Denis Payer, who is currently with Hastings United in England's lower divisions (7th or 8th, not sure)... http://www.hastingsunitedfc.co.uk/club-info/team-information/ ... is Swiss-American. http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/denis-peyer/profil/spieler_247216.html Not sure where that info comes from. He was previously at FC Dürrenast. Here's a lengthy interview (in German): Have e-mailed the club for more info.
Interview in Swiss German, that is. I could follow along but missed many details due to the dialect. They mainly talked about his unconventional path in/through professional soccer: England, the level he is playing, what's next and where he sees himself in 5 years->playing in the PL, hopefully for his favorite team Chelsea. I didn't catch anything about his family background, though.
There's a college defender named Harrison Delbridge trialing with swedish Superettan club Jönköpings Södra. The manager refers to him as american but a quick google seems to suggest that he's Australian but has lived in the US for quite some time.