Wooten with another goal to bring Kaiserslautern level in the closing minutes. Kaiserslautern II 1-1 SC Wiedenbrück 2000 Do I have to save the team's butt everytime?
Message board rumor has it that Wooten will sign for Eintracht Braunschweig next season. So far nothing sourced, but it doesn't seem unlikely, since there's quite the connection (both Eintracht Braunschweig's coach Lieberknecht and assistant coach Rische are former Kaiserslautern players, while Kaiserslautern II's assistant coach is a former Eintracht player, and all three are former team mates). Still, treat it as speculation as of now.
No official news on Wooten so far. In itself, this wouldn't mean anything at this point - however, Wooten was actually on a trial in Saarbrücken (3. Liga) in the meantime (according to press reports Saarbrücken wasn't impressed by him). This makes the Eintracht rumor more unlikely, considering that he probably wouldn't be trialing elsewhere if he was close to signing here.
would be alright to say he has a decent chance to see some time witht eh 1st team next season. Though, it is unlikely he would play for us.
I think it's more unlikely that Germany would be looking to call up a 22-year old who hasn't cracked the first team for a second division side. Is there a third national team for which he's eligible?
Coach is quoted in the article that if it was not for Wooten scoring goals at crucial moments (i.e. late goals) there are 6 games they would have lost.
By the way, Wooten has 14 goals in 27 games, tied for 2nd in his league. And he has 14 out of the 48 (29%) goals scored by Kaiserslautern II.
Wooten has a chance to pick up the golden boot for the Regionaliga West. With Kaiserslautern II hosting Preußen Münster, who have already clinched the title, for the last game of the season. Wooten is in a three way tie for 1st with 15 goals.
Wooten did not play in Kaiserslautern II's 3-0 win over league champions Preußen Münster. Robert Mainka at SC Wiedenbrück 2000 had a hat trick to capture the Regionalliga West golden Boot with 18 goals. Wooten finished with 15 and tied for second.
Training camp opened for Kaiserslautern's U-23. The first team has been there for two weeks. Article and Friendly Schedule There also seems to be a new American, 19 year old Dzenan Catic.
Yet another player from suddenly fertile Michigan. (New state motto: Our economy sucks, but not our soccer!) Catic was the state HS player of the year as a senior and had verballed to Michigan State. But as Indiana (Josh Gatt) and the U of Michigan (Sean Cunningham and Caleb Stanko, not to mention Soony Saad), have learned, a verbal from a Michigan HS kid doesn't mean what it once did these days.
Here is an article from goal.com about Catic from April about wanting to go pro. Played with Derby County Wolves http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1614...route-american-teenager-dzenan-catic-pursuing
So looks like he is not First Team quality yet? one would think he would be with the first team at least getting a shot this summer...
You should see the quality of striker the team brought in. They essentially lost all all of their strikers to transfers (Lakic), returning on loan (Hoffer, Morávek), and injury (Nemec broke his back falling out of a cherry tree the day before camp). They had to bring in proven goal scorers. He may get some chances if their are some injuries. This is his competition: Dorge Kouemaha (7 goals for Brugge including 2 Europa) Richard Sukuta-Pasu (German Youth Int'l, 2 goals St Pauli) Julian-Maurice Derstroff (German Youth Int'l, was on U-19 Team scored 12 goals) Ilian Micanski (1 goal for Kaiserslautern) Itay Shechter (Israeli Int'l, scored 33 goals for Hapoel Tel Aviv the last two years, including 2 Champions League goals) Steven Zellner, just moved up from reserves, is listed as a striker, but he has been rotating in as a left back in testspiels. Derstroff will probably spend most of his time with U-23s. Probably the same for Sukuta-Pasu.
Last year, Kaiserslautern also sometimes used a lone striker formation with an offensive midfielder playing behind. That had more to do with a lack of healthy strikers who were capable of scoring.