Matthew Hoppe’s club situation still developing. Likes Mallorca but wants/needs minutes for World Cup roster consideration. He might take part in the club’s preseason tour in Austria before a possible move is decided. #usmnt— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) June 29, 2022
Kancepolsky is confirmed as American-born: https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/el-yam-kancepolsky-in-israel.2121529/
Josh Pynadath (remember him?) signs a 2-year deal with AZ Alkmaar and will start with Jong AZ. AZ just announced that Joshua has signed a two-year deal with them and will initially play with Jong AZ.https://t.co/5upGQfcDdT https://t.co/wWkbJDmVFA— Kris Heneage (@KHeneage) June 30, 2022
Josh Pynadath must lead the all-time competition of most posts about a player without him ever playing a 1st team professional game.
Apparently AZ believes he worth $450K salary. We have plenty of players that aren't making a quarter of that with longer threads. Besides his dribbling is so good that it deserves hundreds posts by itself.
He's not making an NON-EU salary, counts as domestic. Was in England because a parent apparently moved there however I assume FIFA wasn't satisfied with the rationale.
US youth intl F Tyler Wolff (Atlanta United) close to a loan move to Beveren in Belgium's second flight, I'm told. Wolff, 19, is with U-20s at Concacaf tournament in Honduras. He's made 17 first-team appearances since 2020 for ATL. #MLS #USYNT— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) July 1, 2022
Jorge Ruvalcaba maintains his spot in Pumas' lineup for their opener. The '01 California native is one of the top young attackers of Liga MX and is U23-eligible for only the USA.Would be a good idea to get him in camp at some point. '02 Ruben Hernandez is on Xolos' bench. https://t.co/WaR4qPu19o— ChuckMe92 Soccer (@ChuckMe92Soccer) July 3, 2022
Matthew Leal 🇺🇸 🇵🇹 with the Academy Player of the Year at @casapiaac !@MatthewLeal_ pic.twitter.com/rczsZKONwI— Lisa Ganley-Leal (@LisaGPhD) July 3, 2022
📰 | D.C. United have agreed terms with Belgian club KVC Westerlo for the permanent transfer of Homegrown midfielder Griffin Yow.— D.C. United (@dcunited) July 4, 2022
🚨 Maxi Dietz 🇺🇸🇩🇪 has moved from Freiburg 🇩🇪 to Greuther Furth 🇩🇪Dietz will play with Greuther Furth II in the German fourth tier 🤝#USMNT pic.twitter.com/JbwMbRLO0F— USMNT burner (@burnerusmnt) July 5, 2022
meant to mention this in the tweet but: he will be joined by fellow American, Ty Walker 🇺🇸 who recently moved from Kaiserslautern U19s to Furth II 🆕They could both potentially be joined by Javon Hendricks 🇺🇸🇩🇪 who has been with Furth’s first team during preseason 🤝#USMNT https://t.co/ND4cLbFZ7Y— USMNT burner (@burnerusmnt) July 5, 2022
according to @TMusa_news Jack de Vries 🇺🇸🇳🇱 has signed his permanent deal with Venezia 🇮🇹de Vries scored 1️⃣4️⃣ goals and provided 6️⃣ assists in the Italian Primavera 2a while on loan. He also made one appearance with the first team 🤝(still no official word on this) #USMNT https://t.co/98wSrNFwd2 pic.twitter.com/omZ7vnX3md— USMNT burner (@burnerusmnt) July 5, 2022
🧐🇺🇸 Vaughn Covil signs with Hull City! https://t.co/WeVV6lMSaw— 🇺🇸 ⚽ east (@eastdeflection) July 6, 2022
I really like that move for Griffin Yow, and will like it for Tyler Wolff too. These are the types of prospects that aren't going to be able to start in MLS. [Just my opinion.] Go to a league like Belgium and see if you can use it as a stepping stone. Our development programs aren't just going to produce stars. We should be happy they're producing young players going to these types of clubs too.
Agree. Yow had 3 starts and <300 minutes through half a season with DC likely trending for less minutes in the second half of the season when DC strengthen their squad. It seems like the right level for him. A step above USL, but a step below MLS. It could be used as a step-up the European ladder, but also could just be a stepping stone like Durkin back to DC and into the starting line-up in MLS. Wolff in the 2nd Tier in Belgium doesn't seem quite like as great of a move but it gets you to Europe, but that seems like USL or below type of level.
Profile of '03 striker Dylan Saltos. He recently made his Ecuadorian first-team debut. Quoted in the article as saying he's never been contacted by the USSF. http://americansoccernow.com/articles/dylan-saltos-of-ecuador-s-9-de-octubre-harbors-american-dreams
I always think about how it’s really not to late for the trajectory of these kids to completely change in these new environments either.
Kevin Paredes got an assist for Wolfsburg today. pic.twitter.com/4wW3wVuKvU— Daniel (@DanielSmith1022) July 9, 2022
You don’t often see that many young Americans playing in LigaMX, but there are a few right now. One of them is Mauricio Isais (‘01). He’s starter the first two games of the season for Pachuca. He plays LB.— USMNTProspects (@ProspectsUsmnt) July 10, 2022 More young Americans making an impact in LigaMX. Jorge Ruvalcaba (‘01) with an assist. https://t.co/xpWhXCk0lf— USMNTProspects (@ProspectsUsmnt) July 10, 2022
It’s also worth remembering it’s so much easier to move up the ladder if you are on the same continent as much of the ladder. How many mid level Euro teams are scouting USL or MLS. Much easier to be seen in Belgium than in Birmingham. Now the tough part is it’s a less forgiving more competitive environment. If you don’t find success you can get buried pretty easily. If I am Yow, I need 1-2 productive seasons before moving to a better team/league. That is more likely to happen in Belgium than DC
And yet three kids from Birmingham have played in Europe recently and two are signed to somewhat big contracts there. The oddest thing is I think they are the only three kids to ever turn pro from Birmingham and they're all close to he same age.
I agree for the most part but things are changing real quick here. The US is being scouted as never before. These kids aren‘t the tactically incompetent, technically limited product we used to produce. I think the Yow move shows that. He is no standout. He has MLS minutes and there are clearly scouting reports on him. That‘s why a team like this has come for him. Does anyone think anything other than mid table D1 Belgium is in Griffin‘s future? Nothing wrong with that, but I think his level has already been understood for the most part. His moving up the ladder isn‘t going to be that far IMO. He isn‘t some unpolished stone of hidden gem that is gonna transform and be a Big 5 player. Of course that has been the US fan fantasy for so long I think it is engrained to some extent. I think the US becoming a real footballing nation, along with the world starting to pay attention and understand the landscape and levels here, along with all of the scouting means a player is going to be fleshed out real quick. The go to Europe and you will be seen and move up mantra is going to get old real quick IMO. There won‘t be many surprises anymore. There were never that many anyway but there was a lot of misguided hope.