Youth Yanks Abroad, ‘05-‘08 YOBs (and Younger): 2022-23 Thread

Carl Biboum is a Virginia-born striker with the U17s of Kaiserslautern. Academy teammate is USYNT winger Montrell Culbreath. Their first team is pushing for promotion to the Bundesliga led by Terrence Boyd.

Thanks to @marinonachison for spottinghttps://t.co/MN5xoWRfOA

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 9, 2022

Now there are two US U15-eligibles in the academy of Serie A club Lazio.

Along with DC-born Tito Segni is New York-born Michael Makinwa. Michael is the son of former Nigeria and Lazio striker Stephen Makinwa.

Thanks to a BigSoccer source for spotting https://t.co/iuhGg2pfj9 https://t.co/AYEwaBpwjT

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 9, 2022

 

My favorite BigSoccer posts are the ones that use Twitter posts to tell us about stuff that was on BigSoccer months ago.

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/carl-biboum-at-kaiserslautern.2119579/

(In this case, not a brag on my part. Just a reminder: YA is still the best place to learn about new Americans overseas, which is not to say there isn't great stuff that turns up on Twitter, and elsewhere, first. Visit! Contribute!)

 

True, I was only following up on the @ChuckMe92 tweet.

He uses big soccer, as do I. I could've checked how long Biboum's had a thread, but at the same time, I am still banned (I don't know why) in that section, so I'd have to log out to do so, and I suspected Biboum was a newly discovered guy in the last week or two, given his tweet. My mistake. I'm not trying to take away your credit for doing the work finding out about him.

 

I'm just being a smartass and you should ignore me. But I can't help but wonder what one has to do to get banned from YA! They let all kind of weirdos post there.

 

They also apparently ban you if you call out people for lying about Nick Taitague's stats, so I'd advise against that.

 

Well, I can't speak to that, but probably everybody who posted in the Akale thread should be permanently banned, including me.

 

Very nice goal scored recently by Jack Mize ('08) of BVB U-15's. pic.twitter.com/VGfmx6zy6q

— USMNTProspects (@ProspectsUsmnt) December 11, 2022

 

🇪🇸 Primera RFEF

🧐 16 yr old 🇺🇸YNT goalkeeper Diego Kochen makes a 3rd consecutive bench for Barca B https://t.co/TQ1JwihqpO

— 🇺🇸 ⚽ east (@eastdeflection) December 11, 2022

 

I was able to confirm that Benji Ashtar, an '05 at Aalborg, has U.S. citizenship.

https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/benji-ashtar-at-aalborg-denmark.2116146/

 

Somehow I just missed Biboum when it was first posted, so your update was the first time I'd heard of him.

 

#CanMNT 🇨🇦U20 player Mataeo Bunbury of Birmingham Legion in the USL, has been invited to train/trial with Benfica

Good luck to him!#canadasoccer #canm20

Mataeo is also eligible to represent the 🇺🇸#USMNT pic.twitter.com/mz0i4Ikyio

— InControl (@InControlPod) December 14, 2022

 

It really is all good! I'm just trying to sell more people on YA. It only works, to the degree it works at all, because people contribute so much to identifying and following players. It takes a village and stuff.

 

North Carolina-born Manu Romero was one of five Real Madrid academy players of his age to participate up an age group in friendly action yesterday.

Son of a former Uruguayan international, so like Ronaldo Jr, he's unlikely to ever play for the US. https://t.co/TVZe5YbMRg

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 15, 2022

 

The word from someone who tends to have a good pulse on what is going on in Spain is that Villarreal are very interested in him. I am sure there are others. https://t.co/gVSBJbiulP

— Marcus Chairez (@chai_asc) December 17, 2022

 

'06. @Dave Marino-Nachison, I apologize in advance if he's already been discovered.

New American abroad! Isaiah Thompson is a 16 year old 🇩🇴🇺🇸 dual-nat, currently playing for SV Darmstadt's U17. He has been a regular, with 11 appearances already on the season. He only joined this year from Stuttgarter Kickers.

— micah w (@micahw1718) December 20, 2022

 

Not that I'm aware of, at least on BigSoccer. Since I'm not in touch with Micah I really have no idea how much verification he does on these; I can see Thompson is listed as Dominican-American on T'Markt. Darmstadt's site doesn't seem to add much. The DFB says he's German. All that might lead to something like born in Germany with Dominican and American parents, who knows...

 

It will be my mission to try to get Micah to join big soccer.

 

USYNT striker Rodrigo Neri with Alvaro Morata and Atletico Madrid's senior team ahead of their Copa del Rey match. Great to see him get this early training experience.

Eligible for the U20s next cycle, but also a dark horse for the upcoming U20 World Cup in Indonesia. pic.twitter.com/Nl0uojGL8o

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 20, 2022

 

Great to have dual nationals at @LigaBBVAMX academies and not just shine the spotlight on @MLSNEXT. By the way there is also an 🇺🇸 playing for LigaMX @fcjuarezoficial U18 (Ian Orozco-2005).@USYNT @MLS @onamazi @MLSNEXTPRO @alevega1212 @eplocomotivefchttps://t.co/YfewrEiifu

— Omar (@Omaroz2005) December 20, 2022

 

Future American abroad! Kamran Wimberly is a 2007 headed to Germany next year. Previously with SKC and MNUFC, He will be a training with SG Unterrath U17/19 while completing trials at multiple Bundesliga academies.

— micah w (@micahw1718) December 23, 2022

 

Diego Kochen will play the second half of a friendly for Barca B/Barca Atletic. https://t.co/NmA1OPuxL5

— Daniel (@DanielSmith1022) December 29, 2022

 

Everton U18 midfielder Shae Cahill, son of the Australian international legend, is US-eligible according to his new profile on Everton's website.

Thanks to @amcalabrese12 for finding. Also spotted in Football Manager by a BigSoccer poster.https://t.co/AZ14mNvAqi. https://t.co/H4tsNcGjS3

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 31, 2022

 

‘05.

Everton U18 midfielder Shae Cahill, son of the Australian international legend, is US-eligible according to his new profile on Everton's website.

Thanks to @amcalabrese12 for finding. Also spotted in Football Manager by a BigSoccer poster.https://t.co/AZ14mNvAqi. https://t.co/H4tsNcGjS3

— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) December 31, 2022

 

I remember seeing someone point out the Cahill thing in YA a while back. It seems logical that a club like Everton would be correct about the nationality of the child of a player like Cahill but it wasn't obvious to me how this one would work, not that something needs to be obvious to me in order to be true. Anyone know how the kid would be American? There's no crystal clear reason Tim would've been in the U.S. in 2005 and it seems like his wife is Australian. Presumably there's more to the story.