Tyler Adams on TikTok reacting to this tackle from 16-year-old American Adrian Simon Gill at Barcelona 👀🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/AsJZgPfUF3— USMNT Only (@usmntonly) April 3, 2022
This interview answers the question about his parents: “My parents moved my family to Spain for work when I was ten years old,” https://www.transfermarkt.us/gill-b...o-play-at-the-2026-world-cup/view/news/402473 Step-by-step, Gill, who admits that he has not had much interaction with the first team yet, hopes to make his way up to the first team. “My ambition is to break into the first team at Barça and play for the United States at the 2026 World Cup,” Gill said. That tournament is, of course, hosted by the United States together with Canada and Mexico. Gill knows that he will have to put in the work and is fully committed to playing with the US youth men’s teams, and his short-term goal is to make the U17 World Cup squad and break into the Barça B squad.”
The Forbes article cited in the above piece: Meet Adrian Gill: FC Barcelona’s American ‘Pearl’ Compared To Andres Iniesta
Adrian Simon has played in multiple positions this season, midfielder, right-back and today he is playing at left-back and he is doing very well there.— ArsenKveFCB (@ArsenKveFCB) April 9, 2022
Gill went the distance yesterday with Barça's Cadete A team (U-16) as they won the MIC Football trophy: El Barça logra el triplete en el MIC Football
Gill started the game at right back and took one of the PKs. You can watch the entire match here, including the shootout (25-minute halves):
16-year-old Adrian Simon-Gill made his Juvenil A debut today for Barcelona 🌟 pic.twitter.com/G9pPbhiO5Z— USMNT Only (@usmntonly) May 15, 2022
No expert here just have been following thread. Always hard to call at this age. Get the impression he’s a real, verified professional soccer player prospect. What I mean is it seems like people believe he will play in a top division. Will it be at Barcelona? That I haven’t got impression that people are super bullish but I’m also not hawking juvenil whatever games.
The vast majority of Barca juvenil players never play in a top division. Hopefully he is one of the exceptions but the odds are against him.
Exactly. It's also quite possible that, in his time there, Lederman was looking comparable to an academy-aged Sergio Busquets. Until he no longer did. There's just no telling how youth players will turn out.
True. But then once he obtained a Polish passport Barça invited him back again to their academy. However, he only lasted one year before they released him.
Yup, these kids can move along through the youth ranks and be very good, and they eventually most run up against their limit, which is no failing on their part nor the scouts or coaches. And when that happens, you can be found out quickly, but hard to know that before hitting whatever level is the limit for them
For sure, but we don’t know to what extent this gap in training/playing affected his development. Hopefully, Adrian does not have to deal with this and makes it the full way, beyond what Konrad de la Fuente even did.
Japanese national team player Takefusa Kubo was one of those kids, but he has faired quite a bit better than Lederman as he now plays at Mallorca. Barcelona fans were quite upset that when he was able to return to Spain he signed with Real Madrid, but since then he has been out on loan to several La Liga teams where he has been used mostly as a substitute and is unlikely to ever feature for Madrid.
Started: Cadet A XI vs Girona 1 Diego Kochen 2 Adrian Gill3 Alexis Olmedo 4 Hector Fort5 Adam Aznou 6 Pau Prim7 Lamine Yamal8 Wesley 9 Ianis Tarba10 Brian Farinas 11 Arnau Pradas🏆 Copa de Catalunya Semi Final pic.twitter.com/h6xK5B6W8B— FCB Canteranos (@fcbcanteranos) June 5, 2022
🗣 Cadet A midfielder Adrian Simon Gill in an interview with @Transfermarkt “My ambition is to break into the first team at Barça and play for the United States at the 2026 World Cup. I’ll stay with Cadet A before being promoted full time to the Juvenil B side next season.” pic.twitter.com/zfptyw8r2S— FCB Canteranos (@fcbcanteranos) April 6, 2022
Named to UEFA Youth League squad: Me confirman que además de Kochen el estadounidense 🇺🇸 Adrian Simon Gil (2006) también ha sido inscrito en el equipo del FC Barcelona que jugará UEFA Youth League. Mediocampista de 16 años, ha formado parte de varios campamentos juveniles del #USMNT (Sub-17). #FCBlive #UYL https://t.co/L6TucoYcgX pic.twitter.com/ANfC1Opo61— Jaime Ojeda (@jaimeor96) September 2, 2022