The official "Some site says this guy is a Yank" detective work thread

A group of American-based players went to SG Guldenbachtal in Germany's 6th tier for tryouts late last year:

Louisville Colorado’s own Shane F. Wheeler, joins 4 players from Boulder County’s Peak Eleven FC to be the first of many to arrive at SG Guldenbachtal in the BEZIRKSLIGA (VERBAND). Joining Shane will be midfielder Lorenzo Hernandez, centerback Keegan Lape, goalkeeper Jason Curry, forward Bobby Edet and forward Tim Brackett.

The Americans hope to sign and gain promotion with Guldenbachtal taking them to the next levels of the Landesliga, Verbandsliga Sudwest, and the ultimate goal of Oberliga play.

https://www.harmonsportsgroup.com/n...7-guldental-await-addition-of-colorado-talent

Seems at least 3 of them latched on with the club according to the team's roster page:

TIMOTHY ANDREW BRACKETT

BOBBY EDET

LORENZO ARTURO HERNANDEZ II


https://www.sg-meisenheim.de/Mannschaft/10129/Die-Erste

New American abroad! 18 year old midfielder Lorenzo Hernandez is currently with SG Meisenheim, who are in 10th place of the Verbandsliga Südwest in the 6th tier of German football. He has made 3 appearances for the club since joining in January.

— micah w (@micahw1718) April 26, 2022

No real info on the team's pages.

 

Football manager claims 2004 Ken Aboh of Norwich’s city academy has American roots. No other place online shows this, so it could just be a case of a video game being wrong, still thought it was interesting enough to post

 

T'markt says '07 John Dumitra was born in LA. I couldn't find too much besides a Romania u15 call-up.
https://www.transfermarkt.com/john-dumitra/profil/spieler/992845

 

T'markt and Soccerway say that '04 GK David Sebastián Silva of CA Cerro in Uruguay was born in the USA. CA Cerro play in the 2nd division of Uruguay.

 

He has moved to Botafogo in Brazil as of April. I did notice that he has a US flag on his Instagram account.

This article is saying he is a dual Yank (and now a teammate of Niko Hämäläinen).

https://thegoaspotlight.com/2022/04...-day-joffre-bolivian-from-the-crystal-palace/

His club profile only mentions Bolivia:

https://www.botafogo.com.br/futebol/elenco-interna.php?atleta=340000089

It's a little more promising, but it'd be nice to have something more official.

 

I can't easily find much information on this gentlemen that would confirm US citizenship.

FC Barcelona plan to sign '07 German-American & Borussia Dortmund CB Tyler Meiser.

Meiser has been with Dortmund U15 & U16s in 21/22 and has already been capped with the Germany U15s.

One to watch. pic.twitter.com/mc9O8ODjcs

— Joey (@USAprospects) May 27, 2022

Tyler Meiser from the U15 team of Borussia Dortmund

 

I spent some time trying to run that down. You got more than me. Her name is Isabell Meiser, btw. Spelled as such

 

The thing I wonder about Meiser is this - you would assume that, even beyond the player level, there are certainly some connections between Dortmund and US Soccer at the administrative level?

So whether or not Reyna, Maloney, or even youth players who trained there (Fletcher) knew about him, or just didn’t make it known if he was US eligible, which of course isn’t their responsibility to do or know about at all… there are still staffers on Dortmund who would almost certainly know about his eligibility, and some of those same staffers may be the same contact points for US Soccer. And on top of that, Dortmund’s youth gets plenty of eyes from both the media and kind of people like on this very forum.

There will always be players who go under the radar, but a highly rated youth player, captain at his age level, at a big club with US connections only having his potential eligibility come to light when he’s linked to Barcelona?

Of course it’s always possible that US Soccer knew about him internally and he is still young, but regardless the optics of the whole situation seem a bit strange especially as the Insta flag method usually doesn’t lie:

He doesn’t even have German flag on his Insta pic.twitter.com/hHwF6EY3fk

— Scott Goldstein (@workcomplawyers) May 28, 2022

Just a bit of a strange one for it to surface this way… maybe has something to do with what is apparently his agency (YOUNited Management which has Dortmund connections).

 

Seems to have played at Elversberg.
https://sv07elversberg.de/spieler/tyler-meiser/

 

Not quite sure if these players are simply spending the summer in Germany or something else, but these Yanks & Canadians are playing with Verl's youth squad for a bit:

Um für Deutschlands A-Jugend-Eliteliga gerüstet zu sein, hat sich das Team von Trainer Daniel Fröhlich mit fünf nordamerikanischen Spielern aus den USA und Kanada verstärkt.

Jamie, Christian, X, Tidiane and Keiquon - welcome in Verl!#scverl #scverlnachwuchs #direktVERLiebt pic.twitter.com/HpKp2jCFgJ

— Sportclub Verl (@SCVerl) June 1, 2022

In order to be prepared for Germany's A youth elite league, coach Daniel Fröhlich's team has been strengthened with five North American players from the USA and Canada.

Jamie, Christian, X, Tidiane and Keiquon - welcome to Verl!