It appears Josh Perez got his Salvadoran passport: 🇸🇻l @Joshua_Perez26procedente de @ibizaud recibió su pasaporte y esta listo para ponerse la #AzulYBlanco#SelectaPreOlimpica #ElSalvador pic.twitter.com/f1fvTjGJjv— La Selecta (@LaSelecta_SLV) March 1, 2021
GK in Utah says he wants to represent Zambia: USA 🇺🇸"I would love to represent the Country I grew up in for four years and learnt how to play soccer"-Words of 17 year old American goalkeeper Jason Smith who is now on the books of pro college side Utah Valley Wolverines. pic.twitter.com/BgdvmZWArZ— ChipolopoloDieHards (@chipolopolodh) March 2, 2021 "pro college side" is a new one to me.
Puerto Rico squad annoucement for 1st round of WCQ. 📋 Presentamos la convocatoria oficial de #NuestraSelePR 🇵🇷 rumbo a la primera clasificatoria de @Concacaf al @FIFAWorldCup Catar 2022.📰 https://t.co/qqJ8w6IjCZ pic.twitter.com/uWRZWlCE2I— Selecciones Nacionales de Puerto Rico (@HuracanAzulPR) March 2, 2021 Highlights are '01 Alec Diaz, '03 Colby Quinones,'98 Devin Vega, '00 Isaac Angking, and '03 Wilfredo Rivera.
I'm sorry, but I hate to see something like that. Such predatory call up. Quinones, Diaz, Rivera are good prospects with a chance to be USMNT or high-level USYNT players with continued development. Puerto Rico is irrelevant in soccer. They won't ever make a World Cup. They probably won't make a Gold Cup in the careers of these players. Vega, I understand. There's not a realistic development path where he's a USMNT player, and his YNT career is over. Angking would likely be similar, although he's more talented and I don't think it's out of the question he could eventually develop into a really good player in the next five years. However, calling up what are in effect complete prospects who've not even played a game of first team football is going to be very damaging to our player pool. These small Island nations like Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, T&T are going to start doing big damage to our player pool. I don't think we are yet good enough to chop off ~5% of our player pool of players with real talent.
It's annoying, but I wouldn't call it a predatory call up. I don't think PR is capping someone like Diaz just to cap-tie them — he's already good enough for their team. Like you, I don't see a lot of upside to committing to PR at this early juncture, but maybe they just want to. I certainly hope they are fully aware of the stakes of playing in WCQ for PR. Sometimes kids aren't.
Hopefully, he doesn’t play. That’s a 28 man roster; USSF should be on the phone making sure he’s sure.
Isn't Sarachan the PR coach now? His natural tendency will be to recruit every player in MLS, YNT, and USL with Puerto Rican roots. Probably the reason why they hired him in the first place.
Also, he's presumably not putting a gun to their heads. These kids are accepting the callups to Puerto Rico. To be honest, Puerto Rico should be a lot better than they are. I expect them to get Servania too......................... FYI, pre-pandemic FC Dallas ran two affiliate clubs in Puerto Rico. I don't know what happened in 2020.
Jacob Montes (Portland Timbers academy and Georgetown U) has spoken to Nicaraguan national team about possible call-up for 2022 World Cup qualifiers this month. Floridian is currently playing senior season for #Hoyas. #rctid #mls #concacaf— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) March 6, 2021
Kik Pierie on the preliminary list for the Dutch U21s: Er zitten 36 spelers in de voorselectie voor het EK van #JongOranje: https://t.co/wh3vKbQ8GS.#U21EURO pic.twitter.com/vZ2GMJkEMu— OnsOranje (@OnsOranje) March 7, 2021
El Salvador's Olympic qualifying team: 📋🇸🇻| Los 2️⃣0️⃣ convocados por @hugoperez_07 para la #SelecciónPreOlimpica que buscará el boleto a #Tokio2020 #ElSalvador #SelectaSub23 pic.twitter.com/czmXOeRkN9— La Selecta (@LaSelecta_SLV) March 8, 2021 Josh Perez, Eric Calvillo, Tomas Romero, and Edgar Damian Alguera have been named to El Salvador's Olympic qualifying team. Alguera, an '04 who recently played at U17 DA level, may be the youngest player at the tournament. https://t.co/oc7UvSad7E— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) March 8, 2021
Seems hard to believe we won't see a few more Yanks on the rosters for this tournament. Meantime, Dutch names are just terrific and I sometimes wish I had one. How is it possible that there's a guy named Cody who isn't American? But there is...
Francois Dulysse named to the Haitian final Olympic qualifying squad: Haiti’s Olympic roster pic.twitter.com/i4GP2U4QoZ— ConcacafOnly (@ConcacafO) March 10, 2021
Santiago Munoz on the final roster for the Mexican Olympic qualifying squad: #PreOlympic | This is the roster that will fight for the 🎟 to Tokyo in the @Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying!!!⚽️🇲🇽💪🏽Let's conquer Guadalajara boys!!🔥😎😬 #PasiónyOrgullo | #FMFporNuestroFútbol pic.twitter.com/R7D435ZZTO— Mexican National Team (@miseleccionmxEN) March 11, 2021
The remainder of the Olympic Qualifying rosters: Dominican Republic EDISON AZCONA El Salvador ERIC CALVILLO JOSHUA PEREZ TOMAS ROMERO GERBER CHAVEZ Honduras JUAN CARLOS OBREGO https://www.concacaf.com/en/olympic...-s-olympic-qualifying-final-rosters-confirmed
Damian Alguera (‘04) for El Salvador. Youngest kid at the tournament. They poached him right out of the US set-up and offered him a U-23 spot.
Just a guess, but he might be there as the #3. They have Romero as well as Gonzalez, a '97 who has experience in the Salvadoran first division and long ties to their YNTs. Of course they may have a strong pitch to offer him, but he may not be cap-tied at the end of this competition.
http://www.fedefutbolpr.com/huracan-azul-completo-primer-entrenamiento-con-sarachan/ Quiñones is no longer listed on the roster, Diaz, and Rivera still are.
https://www.tudn.mx/aqui-esta-el-tri/efrain-alvarez-convocado-fecha-fifa-seleccion-mexicana Looks like we might have lost Efra. Honestly it’s probably better for his international career if he chooses Mexico. It is no doubt a loss for us but Efra has a better chance of making a Mexico roster in 2026 and 2030 than he does usa. USA has a lot more competition for his position in our youth pool than Mexico does so it really shouldn’t have been a hard decision. Wish him the best