Nick Taitague at Schalke

Discussion in 'Yanks Abroad Academy' started by Dave Marino-Nachison, Sep 24, 2013.

  1. Dave Marino-Nachison

    Jun 9, 1999
  2. Cashmikey

    Cashmikey Member

    Jul 16, 2013
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Wow, this could be big! Good find
     
  3. MUFC1

    MUFC1 Member

    Apr 17, 2013
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Saw the interview he had and he seems like a down to earth kid. Good luck to him.
     
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  4. hokeydokey

    hokeydokey Member

    Oct 21, 2015
    #4 hokeydokey, May 5, 2016
    Last edited: May 5, 2016
    http://www.wralsportsfan.com/railhawks-provide-next-step-for-taitague-s-promising-future/15684803/

    U18 forward Nick Taitague('99), who signed a short term deal with NASL side Carolina in April keeping him there through June, will head to Germany and Spain this summer for trials according to the above interview.

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    "Taitague is slated to remain with the RailHawks through the end of its NASL spring season in June. He’ll then commence a series of trials and training in Germany and possibly Spain as a prelude to beginning his professional playing career when he turns 18 in February 2017. But he and the RailHawks are already discussing ways for him to possibly return to the club throughout the remainder of the 2016 regular season.

    “He has some other obligations with a team in Germany that he’s been over there and worked with,” Clarke said. “But they can’t do anything until he turns 18. Hopefully we’ll be able to work it out where he spends more time here than there during the fall season.”"



    He's already made his pro debut with the RailHawks and is one of the top players in the '99 pool
     
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  5. SUDano

    SUDano Member+

    Jan 18, 2003
    Rochester, NY
    NASL has a spring season?
     
  6. Gacm32

    Gacm32 Member+

    Chelsea
    Switzerland
    Nov 28, 2010
    Geneva
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    Switzerland
    Anybody have any info on the German club he's been working with?
     
  7. Balerion

    Balerion Member+

    Aug 5, 2006
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  8. SUDano

    SUDano Member+

    Jan 18, 2003
    Rochester, NY
  9. justinpaul10

    justinpaul10 Member+

    Sep 2, 2013
    Yup
     
  10. Rahbiefowlah

    Rahbiefowlah Member+

    Oct 22, 2001
    Las Vegas
    Rep to whomever tells me how to pronounce his Guamanian surname...
     
  11. CaptainD

    CaptainD Member

    Oct 20, 2014
    I cannot say that this is anywhere near correct, but announcers at games here have been saying
    TATT-i-gway
     
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  12. hokeydokey

    hokeydokey Member

    Oct 21, 2015
    That doesn't seem to make sense seeing as it's "Tait" not "Tati".
     
  13. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    I don't know. I looked on a couple of ancestry cites, and it is indeed a Guamanian surname. 53% of folks with that surname are in the US mainland, 38% in Guam according to Ancestry.com. Very few people scattered around in the rest of the world with that name.

    I presumably have been pronouncing it incorrectly in my head for years.
     
  14. Rahbiefowlah

    Rahbiefowlah Member+

    Oct 22, 2001
    Las Vegas
    So I asked my Guamanian friend, my only one (cute girl. Super chill, I love her she's great). She said "lol, that's my cousins last name, it's like 'Tie Tag Wee'"

    So there you go.
     
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  15. Dave Marino-Nachison

    Jun 9, 1999
    Dude. Don't tell us how you feel. Tell HER.
     
  16. SUDano

    SUDano Member+

    Jan 18, 2003
    Rochester, NY
    Tie? That certainly is a tongue twister with my verbal skills. I'm still going with Ta-Tag-Wee. If I say it really fast no one will ever know. In reality I don't think I will be ever publically talking about a 17 yr old academy player at Schalke.
     
  17. butters59

    butters59 Member+

    Feb 22, 2013
    Guamanian? Cap him now!
     
  18. deejay

    deejay Member+

    Feb 14, 2000
    Tarpon Springs, FL
    Club:
    Jorge Wilstermann
    Nat'l Team:
    Bolivia
    I looked up Chamorro and it has a six vowel phonemes - FYI English dialects have 11 or more - so pronunciation is pretty close to what was posted above.

    Should be tie-TAH-gweh.

    It might be tie-TAH-ghe if they follow the Spanish pronunciation rules which is plausible since they were a Spanish port and then colony for about 400 years.
     
  19. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood Member+

    Dec 23, 2003
    Somerville, MA
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Acutally, his would probably be one of the few Guamanian names on the Guam national team.

    Ryan Guy, who I thought was Irish, plays for Guam.
     
  20. kba4life

    kba4life Member

    Jun 4, 2009
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  21. Rahbiefowlah

    Rahbiefowlah Member+

    Oct 22, 2001
    Las Vegas
    [​IMG]
     
  22. BostonRed

    BostonRed Member+

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    Club:
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  23. bshredder

    bshredder BigSoccer Supporter

    Feb 23, 1999
    Club:
    Millwall FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He's already there in Germany
     
  24. justinpaul10

    justinpaul10 Member+

    Sep 2, 2013
    not clear on the FIFA rules, is this allowed?
     

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