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

Some names that are new to me appearing in FM24 database as American.

Neal Gibs LB with 5 appearances in 3.Liga back in '21 and a regular starter in the Regionalliga since now with SGV Freiberg.

Diego Mastrangelo young CB getting starts in the Argentinean second division.

 

Makes sense. Entered Landstuhl place of birth on transfermarkt and see that Owen Gibs is also with FCK and his profile list them as brothers. Have to assume they are both American if either is. Currently playing for the U19s after being promoted from the U17s.

 

The club finally put out a senior men's roster:

https://athlonetownafc.ie/senior-mens-team-2024/

Fuentes listed as Salvadoran, though they mention his college experience.
Ibrahim is Irish and no connection to the US.
Padilla is listed as American and has a BS page already.
Oakley is a Yank.
Torre is listed as Italian, but spent from 2021 to 2024 in the US in school. CBU lists his hometown as Turin.
Rubenstein, Leal, Campion-Hinds are all with the squad. That makes 4 Yanks for sure, though they only list one citizenship per player.

 

Sebastian Ramirez Maya, an '06 at Colombian first tier club Fortaleza CEIF, is listed as American by various sites like here.

A callup listing for a Bogota selection team says he was born in Florida, though I see there are places in Colombia that can also be referred to as Florida, so I imagine the details there will be confirmed at some point.

He made his first team debut in a cup match last week, looks like he was playing CB (was also listed as a midfielder by some sites)

0’ ¡Comienza!

DEBUTA MI CHINO MI PELAO MI RETOÑO!!! EL DE LA CASA!!!
SEBASTIÁN RAMÍREZ 🔥#SaludenAlReyFortaXOnce 0️⃣-0️⃣ pic.twitter.com/f4XamDbqdT

— Fortaleza CEIF (@FortalezaCEIF) April 9, 2024

Nacidos en el 2004, 2005, 2006!

papi LA CANTERA DEL PAÍS 🚸🇨🇴 pic.twitter.com/dw1eEJNrEm

— Fortaleza CEIF (@FortalezaCEIF) April 9, 2024

Another one is that here's an IG of a player whose bio says "Youth Player of FC Utrecht" with USA and Jamaica flags. Based on the username @micktiel, his name might be Mick Tiel, unless that's a truncation or not reflective of his full name lol.

Didn't see rosters for their academy teams, so not sure on squad/age or those details, but from his profile picture looks like he's a GK.

 

This tweet from August links a Leicester move to Salem Sharif, at one point with Houston Dynamo.

🇺🇸🇳🇱🇱🇾El juvenil Salem Sharif se incorpora a la academia del #LCFC donde ingresa al equipo U15.
El chico llega desde ma axademia de #HoldItDown Salem fue parte de un grupo de chicos americanos que visitó Seagrave y de momento, es el primero en unirse al club🦊💎 pic.twitter.com/4hRohkLnPw

— Joaco Alvarez💙🦊 (@Joaco_lestah) August 3, 2023

He played high school soccer in Houston earlier this year, so not sure if he was training there or something else. Of course, other factors for a move like that would be age/passport/etc.

Other links:
https://sportsrecruits.com/athlete/salem_sharif
https://www.hudl.com/profile/11866787/Salem-Sharif

 

So yeah, of course there are multiple variables in things like this... in any case, with him being a Premier League player with buzz, I'd imagine his exact place of birth would get publicly sorted in pretty short order. Looks like the article quotes his father on other things, so it would appear that info is being directly sourced from him as well?

Anyway, had an inkling that there might be info if doing searches in Ukrainian, and there are actually a decent amount of even recent interviews with his father Emmanuel Okoduwa.

Didn't see confirmation of Wesley's birthplace, but there were various details which may or may not be interesting to certain kinds of people, so might as well drop them here after doing the searches (just did searches of his name/keywords in Ukrainian with Google Translate).

Might be more out there, and again, have to think there naturally will be public confirmation of some sort in fairly short order...

Regarding Emmanuel Okoduwa, he'd been living in Ukraine following his pro career before moving to Berlin. Didn't see any relevant mention of the US, but he did say he considered Nigeria, London, and Ukraine his homes. At times, there was mention of a wife and children but not with too much detail.

Onto the quotes, all Google Translated:

Quote, 2006:

Quotes, 2015:

Quotes, 2018:

Quote, 2023:

Additionally, there is an article from February by a Ukrainian outlet - the one who interviewed him in 2023 - regarding Wesley's eligibility that stated they would ask Emmanuel about his son's birthplace. Didn't see a follow-up article on that for whatever reason though, maybe it was followed up and is floating around.

 

England U16 defender Keehan Underwood (Keehan Barrett-Underwood) is English-American per his Instagram bio and per Transfermarkt. He seems to be a right back -- thus age group competition with Okoduwa -- and has captained his Liverpool age group

https://www.instagram.com/keeulfc

 

This article from August says that Roman Geiler, an '07 from California, joined PSG. The article says he has an American father and Costa Rican mother.

Transfermarkt also lists him as a CF with the PSG U17s:
https://www.transfermarkt.com/roman-geiler/profil/spieler/1256422

Dropping it in here because just after a quick look I didn't immediately see him listed at this page on PSG's site, though of course there may be many reasons for that, but as more info may or may not reveal itself in time, it figured to put in this thread for now.

Here's a couple excerpts from the article, Google Translated from Spanish:

So according to that info, he joined PSG in September.

He looks to have previously played high school soccer in California per this MaxPreps page.

 

Aidan Dausch(2006) replaced Haji Wright today to make his first team debut for Coventry. I was alerted that he follows the USMNT, USYNT, Pulisic, and Balogun on instagram and liked a post from "USMNTONLY" a while back on twitter. Other then this no where else shows that he has any American links and I suppose its possible he just likes our national team because of his teammate Haji. However still thought it was worth posting here

 

Yeah... I'll just say I wouldn't be shocked if these are his parents. If so, he'd have familial connections to Virginia and New York per that info. At the time of that NY Times article in 2005, it said this potential mother was 28.

And there's also evidence of someone of that potential mother's name listed as French American by a UK government thing and born in 1976. So yeah, that age would add up of course.

All might be coincidental, which goes without saying, but there's the info.

 

As we walk that fine line between fandom and stalking

 

Well I mean, a very simple Google search of “Dausch London” gave those links within the first few results, took just a minute and that’s all it was lol.

And those links are very public including a NY Times article, evidently in part due to their careers being pretty public. Would be hesitant to use the term soccer sleuth for that, let alone anything beyond it. Pretty surface level stuff.


As for the original spot, someone noticed a Coventry player liking a post from a USMNT account, not too crazy lol.

Sure, absolutely want to have awareness about what info is shared/how much it’s even looked into, again think this one was pretty surface level though connecting the dots between a liked post and an article, etc.

Also turns out @EXALIFTIN indeed spotted a very real connection there as well, including seeing how his Twitter bio has (or now has) English/USA flags.

https://twitter.com/aidan_dausch

So hopefully it's helped him with positive exposure as he pursues whatever he wants to!

 

Just saying, there was an Andrew Dausch who played football and lacrosse at UVA in the early/mid '90s. That's the same name/age as the UVA grad mentioned in this NY Times article who was working in London.

Of course, that timeline would also overlap at UVA with those such as Claudio Reyna, etc.

 

Read my post with a wink emoji at the end

 

Scored a brace this weekend for the U17s:

Big weekend for the 🇩🇪🇺🇸 players on Eintracht Frankfurt U17

'07 AM Marvin Dills: 2 goals
'08 CF Alexander Staff: 1 goal, 1 assist

The first clip is Dills, second is Staff, and the third is Dills (assisted by Staff)

Impressive goals from Dills and great play from Staff pic.twitter.com/yciz6KVbPU

— USA Ballers Abroad ⚽️ (@USBallersAbroad) May 1, 2024

 

Some from various places:

Transfermarkt:

• '05 FW Mattais Rabbini at Cremonese - Says he was born in the US and there are traces of him playing HS soccer and at clubs in Florida. Looks likely it's accurate that he's American. Listed with the U19s. Highlights
  
  
• '07 GK Paul Kley at Montrouge - Says he was born in Hartford, CT. Listed with the U19s and looks like the club plays in the top group for that age, having played against clubs like PSG, Lille, etc. He made his U19 debut on 4/28 according to Tmarkt
  
  
• '09 Mark Dolgorukov at FC Tallinn - Has debuted with the U17 team at the club. Looks like a midfielder based on this lineup. That site also gives match reports on his profile
  

Soccer Talents (not necessarily known for definitive accuracy):

• '08 DF Tyrone Romano "Ty" Jarrett at Hoffenheim - Says Germany/USA with a Germany U15 callup. His DFB profile has a Nigerian flag (though their database doesn't always list all nationalities). Profile on Hoffenheim's site
  
  
• '09 CB Joseph Hou at Lyon? - Says Hong Kong/USA at Lyon Football Academy. Didn't immediately see anything else on him, so I guess not 100% sure it's referring to the French Lyon or maybe another? Could be, could be not, not sure.
  
  
• '09 FW Ricky Bredvig Addison at Brøndby - Says Denmark/USA. There are rosters and lineups floating around of him at Brøndby
  
  
• '08 Tyler Jaskelewicz, '08 Kyle Blades, and '09 Gavin Peters at Erzgebirge Aue

IG:

• Quevilly-Rouen academy player - IG bio says Tyler and has an American flag. A TikTok with the same username has American and Congolese flags in his bio
  
  
• '08 DF Davi Prince at São Caetano - Has Brazilian and American flags in his bio. Looks like he has profiles on a few sites including this one. That site says he's played with the U17s at the Brazilian club

 

Some more:

• '05 CB Nicolas Ramos at Nacional (Uruguay) - Uruguay U20 CB said to be born in Miami by various places, including Transfermarkt. Played with Uruguay U20 in March. Currently on loan to Rentistas. Full name is Nicolas Ramos Invernizzi
  
  
• '06? GK Cameron Anderson at Brentford - Playmakerstats lists him as American and as an '05. Transfermarkt profile lists him as an '06
  
  
• '06 Andrew Ron at 9 de Octubre (Ecuador) - Playmakerstats lists him as American. This might be his college recruiting profile and if it is, he played HS soccer in Miami
  
  
• '10 Jayden Arthur Veggerby Eldridge at Brøndby - Soccer Talents lists him as American. Shown in the same lineup as the aforementioned possible American Ricky Bredvig Addison here
  
  
• '10 Emmanuel Brown at 1860 Munich - Soccer Talents lists him as American. On the team's U15 roster here