This tweet suggests that Jamaica 1) is having a camp now or at some point presumably not far from now and 2) also maybe submitted a 60-man provisional roster. I haven't seen a camp roster. Their MNT has a game tomorrow. 🇯🇲 #ReadingFC’s Coniah Boyce-Clarke and Jahmari Clarke both recieved invitations to join the Jamaica U20 Camp and were part of 8 players that were in the 60 man pool submitted to CONCACAF. pic.twitter.com/ohaA0qMrOs— RFC Latest (@RFCLatest) May 24, 2022
This tournament has a strange format. The four lowest-ranked qualifiers are placed straight into the knockout rounds, while the top 16 play a group stage with three teams from each group advancing to the knockouts. Is there a reason for this or just CONCACAF being CONCACAF?
🔵⚪️ 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗷𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼 foi chamado pela Seleção Sub-20 dos 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐬 para o estágio de preparação para Campeonato de Sub-20 da Concacaf, prova que apura para o Mundial da categoria.Felicidades!#FCVizela #AlmaRomana #AlejandroAlvarado pic.twitter.com/LVOjA1fuQW— fcvizela (@FCVizelaOficial) May 25, 2022 A new face at the “pre camp” for this tournament. Must be having trouble with club releases if we are seeing new faces this close to the start of the tournament?
It seemed like in the latest interview with @bshredder Varas implied that releases were gonna be an issue to some degree. With that said, it's been a short cycle and he probably hasn't been able to get everyone into camp that he might want anyhow. And you'd expect the pre-tournament camp to have some competition and cover for injuries, etc.
Releases are tougher than expected for the Euro-based guys even though the whole point of having the tournament in the summer was to have everyone available. But CONCACAF being CONCACAF didn't schedule this tournament during the two-week window in June (the scheduled it after). Now, Euro clubs want these young players for preseason.
I thought this might become an issue. For a player like Gomez the pre-season is crucial to his bid for a place in the squad or even starting lineup. Even if his club was willing to release him for the tournament, I'm not sure it is in his interest to pass up part of pre-season. Ditto for Che, Paredes, Sealy and Pukstas. Look at the choice Luca de la Torre made last summer with the senior team. It is the same thing.
Frustrating that CONCACAF wouldn't have scheduled this tournament during the actual international window.
I sort of think they just didn't realize European preseasons were going to get moved up this year with the World Cup throwing off schedules there and causing the season to start sooner.
I don’t think concacaf would really have a reason to care about European preseason for a u20 event. Realistically, we are the only team that’s actually affected by this and the other 15 teams are not. Even if we lose 5 or 6 players from this group we’re still the most professionally experienced team by far and should still be expected to win every match handily and qualify, just like the last 4 u20 cycles did
We probably have to beat a good team (likely Canada) in the quarters to qualify for the U20 tournament and an even better team in the semis to make the Olympics. It does bother me our squad could be missing some of its best players.
I think there are going to be more players missing than most would think. I don’t even know if it’ll be a B team. There are a lot of injuries, and then a bunch who weren’t released. We should still absolutely qualify, but it’s a bummer when we can’t even come close to fielding our best players. This idea that we were going to be able to field the A team this summer isn’t coming close to materializing.
Concacaf didn’t say European-based releases in their press release announcing the tournament, but they implied it it’s a complete backfire. Euro-based players would have a better chance of getting released midseason as opposed to preseason. Not all but most 18-year-olds play and train far more with the 1st team in preseason than in the regular season
Camp starts June 8 and the tournament starts June 18? Why are we the last always to start late and then proceed to not qualify and blame it on not having enough time? As for the Euro releases, Mexico isn't having any problems with their Euro players so there shouldn't be any problems with ours unless they really want to stick to that excuse.
I don’t think Mexico has named a roster so we don’t know they aren’t having issues. How many European based U20s does Mexico even have? We actually rarely fail to qualify at the U20 level. Since 97, 2011 was the only time.
Honduras is in camp: ➡️ Arranca sesión de entrenamiento de #LaHU20 en 📍San Pedro Sula. ⚽️ Concentración y eficiencia, elementos que se fortalecen en cada cita en la cancha 🏟.#LaHsomostodos #LaHesEterna #FENAFUTH #HONDURAS pic.twitter.com/wCQ97DjRwt— Selección Nacional de Honduras (@FenafuthOrg) May 25, 2022
I am more concerned w/ the possibility of important domestic players not getting released by their clubs. It seems like a lot of the issues could have been easily resolved by starting this camp/window one week earlier. It isn't rocket science. Just schedule the camp/games during the 3 week Intl Window. EDIT... After looking at the dates it looks like the camp would have needed to start before this Intl Window and then the games could have been played during it. It might have made it easier to get YAs involved but I am not sure it solves the domestic issue.
📄 | NOTA | #Sub20 ¡Con todo! 💪🏻 🇲🇽Aquí la convocatoria del Profesor @LuchoPerez_8 para trabajar de cara al Premundial de Concacaf. ⚽️Más info. 👉🏻 https://t.co/xGorUoSvs3#HechoDeLosMexicanos | #FMFporNuestroFútbol pic.twitter.com/OqhPKyBZSq— Selección Nacional (@miseleccionmx) May 26, 2022
Well once Gomez plays for Mexico in this tournament he’ll have to file a switch to be able to play for the US.
6 players formed in the US. I know the only one that will be talked about is JoGo but damn, MLS is doing an excellent job and I still see Mexican fans (and even US fans who are anti-MLS) say MLS is an amateur retirement league. Not bad for a league with 26 years of existence.
You see, Mexico has no problem when it comes to calling in their Euro players. Some were speculating that JoGo wouldn't be released if we called him up yet Mexico called him and they didn't have any problems. They also called in Santiago Muñoz to their U21 team and didn't have a problem there either. And they also don't have a problem either with calling in MLS players as they get released too. But when it comes to us the excuses are always that players aren't being released so we have to settle for other players.