The coming boom in multi-eligible player recruitment

Henry Codron is their agent.

 

As an agent, advising you players to play for Mexico (assuming that they are good enough to play for Mexico) is sound advice because Liga MX will vastly overpay for Mexican National Team players and the marketing deals are better because the Mexican National Team is way more popular than the US MNT.

This is likely more important for fringe players than stars.

Stars that don't need Liga MX to leverage for more money and just want to get to Europe it is far less important. Pepi is getting paid regardless and their is likely a bigger benefit in Europe to have a US Star versus a Mexican Star...Ochoa might be able to get 3x more by moving to Liga MX.

 

Is AMO Talent his agency? There’s basically nothing on the internet on either Codron or AMO.

Whereas when Reggie Cannon signed with a new agent, you could go to their website and see everyone they repped https://sport.ymugroup.com/us/sport

 

Always a good sign to sign with an agency that doesn't even have a website.

The only thing you can find on Codron is that he was an intern at Wasserman, which is where he probably met these guys.

 

I feel like they don’t all necessarily list out all their players but they at least have some sort of website or social media presence. And I feel like a big part of it is so you can advertise yourself to try and get more clients. Wassermann has a pretty extensive website itself but if you look at Richard Morzkin’s social media (who represents a huge number of our players) it’s basically him congratulating his clients every time one does something notable https://twitter.com/RichardMotzkin?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

 

I imagine they are almost all approved unless someone thinks they are eligible to change when they actually aren’t. I’d be curious what the ongoing changes are as I can’t imagine it’s too difficult to make a determination either way.

 

I don't believe the reports at all. The initial one out of ESPN MX is from the same person that reported Pepi would play for Mexico only for that to be proven false later that same night. That being said other articles I've seen are from the AP so there's obviously more credibility there.

 

Math does not check out​

 

the timeline here still makes me think we could get some juicy details down the road

 

This is such a personal choice that I don't believe many in this forum (if any) can begin to comprehend how these kids arrived at their decisions.

 

How do you mean

 

i cant believe he wasnt trying to leverage his filing of the switch into receiving a callup wherever his heart was on the matter

 

Honestly reading his interview on the Athletic it really didn't seem like that. Seems like he really took his time to think it through and this is where he landed.

But it also really does seem like Mexico isn't really happy with their options at right back.

This is from a recent article about the first window https://www.espn.com/soccer/mexico-...p-how-does-el-tri-look-after-undefeated-start

Mexico's struggles at right-back have been so apparent that Julio Cesar Dominguez, a 33-year-old center-back, was given the start at the position last Sunday against Costa Rica. Jorge Sanchez and Luis Rodriguez have platooned on the right side of the defense for months now, but neither looks to be a long-term solution for Martino as the road to Qatar continues.

A cartoonish mistake from Sanchez created the only goal for Jamaica, while Rodriguez's follies at the position are enough for a low-light reel. Look for Martino to call in anyone carrying a good run of form in October to bolster the position.

 

As far as I know, yes.

 

I agree that it’s likely a difficult decision for some, and I think some kids growing up struggle with who to root for. However, many of these kids make their decision for reasons other than their personal feelings towards the two countries and National Teams. It is often a family decision or a business decision.

I don’t know any of these kids (Alvarez, Araujo, Pepi, Ochoa, Gomez, Leone) that have to make these decisions, but for a lot of them I’ve heard that there are other factors that come into play.

Some of this is my own speculation and some is what I’ve heard. With Alvarez, I think he was pushed into it by his father. He might’ve chose Mexico anyway, but I don’t know that he made any decision. With Ochoa, I believe that he probably preferred Mexico, he didn’t like some of his treatment with the USA or how he felt within the set-up, and the agent helped Mexico. Araujo was considering his spot on the depth charts and there are also some questions about how he fit into one of the two set-ups culturally (maybe two). I think this is another situation where the agent helped Mexico. Among the considerations for Pepi were the call-ups he got from the two federations at youth level and another factor I won’t get into, but is public (if you dig for it) and I believe helped the USA. Gomez, I don’t want to preempt the decision, but I’ve heard of a few different factors. I still believe we are the favorites, but not enough that it likely won’t be a close decision.

That isn’t to blame these kids for not making it purely a personal decision, but it’s not purely personal for most of them. There is too much to factor in for most of them for it to be purely personal IMO.

 

When I say personal, it includes their inner circle. So agreed.
But how about the ones that genuinely simply love both, want to represent both? I bet that is the majority.

 

If only they could have been sold a year or two earlier. Before family members braiwashed them into fullfiling their own childhood dreams.