Youth Yanks Abroad 04/05 Edition

Xavier Otero is an 87 according to region I's ODP website
http://www.region1.com/BoysODP/PlayerPools/1987.htm

Kevin Thorne is either an 85 or 86 according to region I's ODP website
http://www.region1.com/BoysODP/PlayerPools/1986.htm

 

Thats a helluva post. well done.

 

Great post!

I know about and have seen Jonathon Spector, Jemal Johnson, Jay Denny and Brian Mascerenhas play. I would love to know more about;

Andrew Britton, Tom Parrot, Jon-Paul Pittman, Darren Randolph, Giuseppe Rossi & Sebastian Hines.

Thanks.

P.S. I thought that Masceranhas had left Tottenham and gone back to the U.S.?

 

There must be a background story for a lot of these players. Gianni Moccia in Italy? Stefan Durr in Germany? Octavio Pino in Argentina?

We're talking sort of, kind of American, aren't we? Not, this kid was born in U.S.A. or this kid came here at a young age, but more like this kid flew over the States a couple of times.

Do all these guys speak English?

 

I see lots of "Mexico" in the first post....not that there is anything wrong with that....but makes you wonder where their loyalties, was there a US NT opportunity, would lie if there is also a chance to play for Mexico... I'm not trying to pick on these kids as others have with respect to, say, Rossi.....These kids are all certainly Yanks and deserve to be mentioned and followed......Just wondering whether Mexican clubs have sort of become wiser and want to get our youngsters at earlier and earlier ages, and in numbers they have not done in the past.... much like Euro clubs have, but with the added quirk some of these kids would also qualify to play for "El Tri"...hmmm

 

http://www.spurs.co.uk/article.asp?hlid=239426

Unless he left in the past 10 days he is still with Tottenham. On November 22nd he came on as a sub in 75th minute for the hotspurs u18's

 

Well, yeah, but so were Tom Dooley and David Regis, and the bottom line was that the played World Cup for us because we were crummy enough to give them a job. Kinda like playing David Cup tennis for Ireland.

There are guys like that and guys like Freddie Adu or Chris Armas or Pablo Mastroeni, who were born elsewhere but are 100% red, white, & blue in their outlook. I would much prefer that we only play the latter group. We should have more pride than to be somebody's back-up country.

 

Thats intresting i never knew that Mastroeni and Armas were born elsewhere. Not to change the subject of the thread but where were they born?

 

Hopefully we're past those days when anyone who played in Europe and had US citzenship was deemed automatically good enough to play for the USMNT. The talent pool has expanded quite a bit since those days. Kind of reminds me of the Reggae Boyz when Jamaician coaches were running around the UK asking black players about their parents. Or the Greek wormen's olympic softball team... Geesh I hope those days are over.

 

Mastroeni-Argentina
Armas- Puerto Rico

 

Right. I believe that they both came over quite young, say age 4 or so.

 

Wrong.

Armas was born in New York and he's never lived outside of the US.

 

ASC NEUENHIEM = American Soccer Club Neuenhiem, basically the Heidelberg Tornados soccer club joining the local german village club. American kids whose parents are stationed in the Army in Heidelberg. Probably a couple hundred American kids playing at some level at the local village/town teams throughout Germany...Ramstien...Darmstadt...Mannheim.. Hanau..etc...

 

Brian Mascarenhas will be playing for the Region III (Southeast) team at the 1986 birth year Interregional in Chula Vista the first week in January.

Dave - add Garrett Gunther, a 16 year old from Orange County, to the list. He is with the RC Genk U17s in Belgium. He's not EU eligible so only there with the youth academy, but from the sounds of it doing pretty well.

 

Is he that kid whose mom posted on here??

Does she still post??
If so what forum??

 

Maybee your thinking of Tom Parrat('86 - Born in Scotland grew up in the US) a defender from Birmingham City that usually features in their reserve fixtures on a weekley basis. There has not been much intrest in him recently because he has represented Scottland's youth teams in the past year. His mother used to post openly i think her name was Polly22 or something like that.

 

Vincenzo Signoriello is now at SS Sambenedettese in Serie C1b. I'm not sure if he's American though or just lived here a few years. Apparently, he was born in Italy.

http://www.sambenedettesecalcio.it/SAMB_CARDS/SIGNORIELLO.asp

Marco Vidal is still in the youth system at Tigres, he's now #37.

http://www.tigres.com.mx/fuerzasb/nacjuv.asp

 

Two more former So. Cal Regional ODP players in Mexico. Both were on the National Champion state ODP team in 2002 (?).

F/AM Briant Mejia (late 87)-- He's supposed to be at Necaxa although I haven't been able to prove that yet. Necaxa's website doesn't even contain the rosters of their reserve teams. Made Regional ODP pool in 2001.

MF Rodrigo Lopez (5/10/87 or 10/10/87; 5-7 135)- Listed in the newly updated USSF U-18 pool as playing for CD Chivas. There is a Rodrigo Lopez Alvarez listed on Chivas website with a slightly different birthdate. Lopez played for So Cal United on the National Championship team with Diego Barrera (Colombian born MF at LMU that did well at '86 ODP event in Jan) and Greg Folk (UCLA). He previosuly played for FC Santa Barbara where he was a Regional ODP pool player in '02.

17.- RODRIGO LOPEZ ALVAREZ 10/10/87
http://www.chivasdecorazon.com.mx/nueva/fuerzasbasicas.php

Lopez, Rodrigo M 5'7" 135 05/10/87 Santa Barbara, Calif. CD Chivas

http://www.ussoccer.com/teams/teamhome_custom.sps?iType=269&mtype=8220

 

4 new US. born players that have recently registered with unknown Mexican clubs.

Christian Carrillo (Diaz) 1/10/86 Van Nuys
Enrique Higuera (Vargas) 12/23/85 West Covina
Luis Miguel Rodriquez (Pineda) West Covina 1/18/86
Daniel Godinez Rodriguez 10/3/86 San Diego


http://femexfut.org.mx/PrimeraDivision/Jugadores.php?id=66370
http://femexfut.org.mx/PrimeraDivision/Jugadores.php?id=66787
http://femexfut.org.mx/PrimeraDivision/Jugadores.php?id=66531
http://femexfut.org.mx/PrimeraDivision/Jugadores.php?id=66413

 

Octavio Pino, who is listed by Dave in his first post, is listed on the 2005 Clausura roster for Argentine club Almagro.

http://www.portalfutebol.net/ligasi...asp?id=330&comp=argentina&epoca=Clausura 2005

A midfielder born June 4 (or April 6) 1985, Pino was called into a US U20 camp last year and played in three games, starting two – none of them against other U20 teams – and got one assist.

http://www.ussoccer.com/teams/teamhome_custom.sps?iType=268&icustompageid=9463 (scroll down to his name)

 

davide, when you say unknown, I assume you mean we don't know which club, specifically, they've signed with not that they you haven't heard of the team with which they've signed. Correct?