Nate Weiss: Youth Development at VfB-Stuttgart

Thanks, that's an interesting one. He's a 1987 defender from Florida who transfered to Stetson and was listed as junior for the 2007 season. But he played two years at N.C. State, so maybe he's out of eligibility.

Stetson bio:
http://www.gohatters.com/ViewArticl...&DB_OEM_ID=14600&ATCLID=1179694&Q_SEASON=2007

 

If he was playing college ball in the fall and has recently gone overseas, I'm sure he's one of many guys who have gone abroad to lower divisions we don't (yet, I hope) know about. And if he was playing in the Spanish third division, there's even more reason to have not yet found out what's up.

By the way, nobody named Weiss was listed as having appeared in the 2/8/08 Rovers/Kildare game according to the club's match report -- though this may imply that he was unnamed as a trialist:

1 Karl Coleman
2 Ger O'Brien
3 Pat Flynn
4 Daragh Maguire
5 Barry Ferguson
6 Danny O'Connor
7 Eric McGill
8 Stephen Rice
9 Eoin Doyle
10 Dessie Baker
11 Sean O'Connor


Substitutes Used:

13
14
15
16 Keith O'Neill
17 Dave Tyrell
18 Robbie Creevy
19 Chris Mulhall
20 Ross Moran
21 John Martin ​

No mention of a broken nose either.

Link:
http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/reports/2008_08_Feb_vKildare.php

Looking for more.

 

Nate's team in Spain is UD Arenal, where it looks like he'll be finishing out the season.

 

Weiss' club Arenal is actually in the Fifth Division which is called the Regional Preferente. His club was in the playoffs for promotion to the Fourth Division (known as the Tercera), but lost in the playoffs.
Based on the fact that there are (120 teams in the First 3 divisions and 384 teams in the Tercera) it is safe to say that Arenal does not pay its players, so that is why he would be ELATED to go to Ireland..

 

I personally know two guys that left UNC at played a season in the Oberliga without a word of mention on Yanks-Abroad.com or this board. This type of thing is much more common than you think.

FYI both of them are back in the states and have taken up real jobs after earning in the 15k range for their first and only pro season.

 

Nate and UD Arenal won promotion this past season, but it looks like he may be moving on. Seems he's currently on trial with Irish second division team Monaghan United.

 

Ends up at Longford United, as per YA:

http://www.yanks-abroad.com/get.php?mode=content&id=3932

 

http://www.dif.se/sidor/nyheter/nyheter.asp?action=view&id=9691&typ=1

Nate Weiss is currently on a trial at Djurgårdens IF, from the Swedish Allsvenska.

 

An English version

 

Update on Weiss from Y-A.com.

Apparently a move to Serbia fell through and he went back to Sweden and signed with a "third division club". Unfortunately, he's referring to the Swedish Division Three, which is the fifth level of Swedish football. It sounds like he's hoping to hook on with a bigger club in Sweden.

 

I really hope the kid makes it. I was a coaching in the NC area when he played for NC state, and he works harder than any kid I've ever seen.
I remember hearing from the coaching staff at State that he was in Turkey doing preseason with a Serbian club, and that he was signed already...

 

http://sophialaktaren.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/en-provspelande-amerikan/


I just googled to see how he was doing...does anyone who speaks swedish know what this says? THANKS

 

I believe "provspelande" means trialist so my guess is that this refers to his time at Djurgardens.

 

I know Nate Weiss from his time in Florida and I still keep in touch every so often. He did ok in Ireland with Longford Town and used that to get a trial in Sweden with DIF who loved him. They were in the middle of the season and couldn't get him approved by their board to get him a visa in time for the season so I think he just played with Orebro because he was running low on funds. Visa issues have been a big problem in breaking in with Europe but it hasn't an issue in Israel which is why he is there again.

Things seem to be progressing well in Israel as his current trial has been extended because the team is seriously interested in signing him. As another poster mentioned, he's one of the most dedicated and intense guys I know and he has made himself into a serious player by sheer force of will (I used to be faster and stronger than him back in the day!) so I hope something works out for him. Somebody keep this updated if they hear anything about him getting signed.

 

Perhaps he should try Fiji

 

Just spoke to Nate Weiss and he signed a contract in the highest Latvian league with FK Jelgava (www.fkjelgava.lv). He told me that there were some second-division Israeli teams interested but that they were not ready to sign him and he got a guarenteed offer from a Latvian team that scouted him when he was in Sweden. I can't tell you too much else as google translator doesn't do the best job with Latvian to Englsih.

Nate seemed pretty pleased to be playing on a European club and to be playing regularly again. I hope he brought his long underwear as we natives of Florida think it is cold when it is less than 10 degrees celsius. I haven't been to Latvia, but if it is the same as Sweden then he's probably neck deep in snow and freezing his balls off!

Good luck Nate!

 

http://www.fkjelgava.lv/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=1

Jelgava were just promoted to the Latvian top flight for this season.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK_Jelgava