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Players like Emerson Hyndman or Junior Flores
Posted on 7/2/14 at 8:41 am
Posted on 7/2/14 at 8:41 am
Being that these guys are playing and practicing for reserves of top level teams, do you agree at worse case these guys could be starter for a MLS team since they are at this level so early in their career?
Also, players like these young guys practicing for reserve teams like this almost always find first team action for at least lower level teams?
I have been looking at the list of players that we have coming up in the next 1-4 years and it seems we will have tons of players playing in euro leagues. I just want to know what percentage of these reserve/academy players normally make it for top flight teams.
Also, was this the case 4 years ago having so many young americans in academies overseas?
Also, players like these young guys practicing for reserve teams like this almost always find first team action for at least lower level teams?
I have been looking at the list of players that we have coming up in the next 1-4 years and it seems we will have tons of players playing in euro leagues. I just want to know what percentage of these reserve/academy players normally make it for top flight teams.
Also, was this the case 4 years ago having so many young americans in academies overseas?
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Posted on 7/2/14 at 8:55 am to Shane4689
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do you agree at worse case these guys could be starter for a MLS team since they are at this level so early in their career?
I don't know a lot about Flores, but Fulham is extremely high on Hyndman. I think he could make an impact with an MLS team, especially since FC Dallas wanted to hold onto him.
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Also, was this the case 4 years ago having so many young americans in academies overseas?
European clubs are definitely starting to notice the young talent that the US produces, and we'll see more and more Americans go over there in the next couple of years. An American kid going over to Europe was almost unheard of when I was growing up playing soccer, but it may have just been the regional circumstance in Georgia and the Carolinas. Perhaps someone from the NE or Cali could shed light on if that was the case when they grew up.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 8:58 am to Shane4689
quote:Depending on what you consider "top flight" teams, I'd say a lot more don't make it than do.
I just want to know what percentage of these reserve/academy players normally make it for top flight teams.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 9:04 am to Shane4689
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I just want to know what percentage of these reserve/academy players normally make it for top flight teams.
This is a relatively new phenomenon for American players. You can't have a good estimate of the success rate because there is a low number of cases at the moment.
Ask again in four years.
Posted on 7/2/14 at 9:05 am to Bluefin
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but Fulham is extremely high on Hyndman.
Yes, and he is developing in tandem with another 18-year-old American midfielder, de la Torre.
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