The first of many.Congrats, @AndiiRiios!#VamosSJ pic.twitter.com/PvpnLoL8EI— San Jose Earthquakes (@SJEarthquakes) August 26, 2019
This looks several of the goals in his highlight real that was posted before we finalized the deal with him to be a Quakes. Forgot to mention in my game summary that it was nice assist from Eriksson.
Andy Rios? What's up with Andy? Does the guy really want to be called Andy? Is that a common name/nickname in Argentina?
I googled "Andy Argentina" . Looks like Andy in Argentina isn't uncommon. Surprised me. Makes me think of Mayberry not Buenos Aires.
You must be a casual football fan, because pretty much every ********ing body in football has their named shortened to _____y as their soccer nickname. The only people who call me Bobby are my older relatives and the soccer community...
"Why a preseason may transform Andy Rios’ game with San Jose Earthquakes" (Center Line Soccer - Friday, 1/31/20) GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
from the mls website (6/29/20)......article about where each team stands with their No. 9. Andres Rios – San Jose Earthquakes Team Commitment Level: Sporadic Expectation Level: Effort I was as shocked as anyone to see Rios, the 30-year-old journeyman Argentine attacker, start the first two games of the year for the Quakes at center forward. He was a non-entity down the stretch during last year's stunning collapse, and he doesn't have the resume of a starter at this point. It didn't make much sense. To be fair to Rios, he did score once in those two starts, and he now has two goals in 443 minutes of MLS action – a scoring rate roughly in line with his productivity at his other eight stops (including legitimately big clubs like Club America and River Plate, which happens to be where he first played for Matias Almeyda). But after the first two games of 2020, a major shake-up to San Jose's XI could await. Everybody's job is at stake (or should be), including at center forward. Other Options: Wondo's still there. I get not wanting to start a 37-year-old, but the man had 15g in 2000 minutes last year and was the only player on the team who could put the ball in the net after July. Third on the depth chart is veteran Dutchman Danny Hoesen, who always looks like he's on the verge of breaking out but has never really put it all together. He started the first two games of the season at ... left wing. Really weird.
https://quakesepicenter.com/2020/10/16/where-andy-rios-goes-the-quakes-follow/ NEW ARTICLE: One of Matías Almedya's recent changes that have worked has been changing Andy Ríos' role. Like him or not, if you enjoyed Asher Kohn's deep analysis of Magnus Eriksson, you'll enjoy this unpacking of the multi-faceted Ríos. Now for patrons! Where Andy Ríos goes, the Quakes follow - Quakes Epicenter As Andy Ríos goes, so go the Quakes? Well, in the recent resurgence of the team he's been a bigger part than most fans have been able to notice. Beyond the goals, Ríos is proving to be a key piece of... quakesepicenter.com
Thanks for sharing. I am one of those who got really frustrated with Rios as striker (and the earlier version of Magnus on the right). They didn't fit what we typically expected and were not very effective also. They both took some time to grow into the new role - behind the point of attack and performing the switch. Rios has become more active and effective in this new role just as Magnus did. This coincides with a few tweaks to the line up and strategy. Now Magnus was a Stahre's guy and he was not efficient in a role Stahre assigned him. He was repurposed by MA in the middle. Rios is MA's guy. Did he originally intend to play him as the point of attack like Wondo? Or Rios was always supposed to be the offensive switch? I want to know if this is yet another player repurposed. Yes, it is good to find a new position for a player to be efficient and the player's flexibility is appreciated. However, my question is why we always have to repurpose players? (Flo may be a bit different but he is another one) It may suggest that either our assessment of the player and our need before acquisition is not accurate , or we just get whoever is available and affordable and hope to just make it work some how?
I think this is correct. We have so many holes on the pitch that anyone that is good gets a shot, we also have a bunch of players that are not standing out in a single position so they lose that spot or move somewhere else to play since they don't really excel.
Rios has always been Rios. I don't really buy the narrative that he didn't become effective until he assumed more of a CAM role. He's always been really good with his possessions. Good decisions, doesn't lose the ball, good passes. It's just that people are now suddenly catching on to it. He didn't really score enough to be the single forward, but that doesn't mean he didn't help the team with his possessions, even as the single forward. I guess moving him back we can leverage his skill in combination / holding / switching play a bit better, and we don't have to rely on him scoring, because he's not a big scoring guy. But he's always been a reasonably effective player for the Quakes despite all of the hang-wringing about him on this forum. Not sure he's worth a TAM kind of salary, but he hasn't been grossly underperforming at that level.
I fully believe that if we had quicker forward in place of Wondo that could stretch defenses then that would open up a lot more room in front of Rios and thus lead to a lot more scoring chances for him as well.
I don't really care about him not scoring goals or being an effective possession player. What I care about is that he doesn't care and doesn't try. He is a lazy prima donna and a quitter and doesn't put in work during his minutes. I want him out of here. He is not a "bushido code" player.
My son found this site that (among other thigns) ranks players in terms of their goal contribution. Hop to the last page to see who's last on the list. https://app.americansocceranalysis.com/#!/mls/goals-added/players
Also on the last page: MLS newcomer of the year Lucas Zelarayan who just led the Crew to MLS Cup and pretty much singlehandedly won the game with 2 goals and an assist... if only Andy Rios was more like him!
I don't thin Rios is as slow and bad as some here make him out to be, nor as useful as Jazzy sees him. Just another middlin' Quakes player.
He's slow, but he's not bad. I just reject that wildly negative views of him. He's slow, he blows a lot of chances, but otherwise his quality on the ball is very good. So I guess I also come out somewhere on the middle with him, on balance.