re: Young Players Tracker and Americans Abroad Thread

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I really wish he had gone to Germany.

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I hope he gets loaned out there or the Netherlands.

frick.

article on Nicholas Gioacchini that I translated.
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As soon as he arrived last October on the SM Caen bench, Pascal Dupraz just had to watch Nicholas Gioacchini with the reserves. The Italian-American striker quickly integrated into training with the professionals.

Four months later, the young 19-year-old player who arrived in the summer of 2018 at Caen has become one of the starters at the Stade Malherbe.

"When I make my team," explains Pascal Dupraz, "Nicholas Gioacchini's name is one of the first that I put down because he shows me that he has the level (necessary to play with the first team). And I did well to hang around the training center grounds. It's also my job. I don't get any glory from it. "

Lining up until then in the National 3 league with the reserves, Nicholas Gioacchini has already played thirteen matches in Ligue 2, eleven of which he started at striker prior to coming to the right side of SM Caen's attack.

Manhandled at first in aerial duels, the attacker knew to learn quickly.

"When you play against defenders who do not have the same technical, physical and mental level as those you meet in the reserve team, in National 3, you quickly learn to adapt.

Even if I am not 100% comfortable in this area, over time it will happen. The hardest part is physically and technically."

Pascal Dupraz is not fooled and knows that the young player who signed his first professional contract last December (lasting until 2023) will be in high demand at the next off-season.

"He already has a good level. In my opinion, he's a great young player that we will all be watching at the end of the season. It would surprise me very much if this boy was not in high demand.

So of course we all hope that he will stay, but hey, it's not just me who saw that he has a little talent. We must continue. He is very young. He has a lot to improve but he already has an interesting foundation.

Next year, in Ligue 2, this boy must set himself to scoring at least ten goals. And when he has more than ten goals, it will be high time for the club, with its business model, to sell him. It's like that."

Probably because he's busy starting in a European league and that's better for his development anyway.

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??? Which regular starters for their teams got released for youth team call ups mid season?

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I'm not talking about bullshite friendlies, more like youth World Cups. And it appears Gioacchini just made his pro debut last October, so I'm just wondering why we weren't getting an American forward into youth camps when he was obviously excelling in France for Caen's reserve squad.

He was going to get called up to some of our teams before COVID shut everything down. He didn't get a senior team cap until this year, so he did go under the radar a little bit since he was in the youth set up of France's 2nd division.

Also easier to get noticed in the US than in France. We just have so few players over there, and he's been there since 2015.

If you just need something to read, here's a new article by Sciaretta after interviewing Jose Gallegos. Many people consider him to be one of, if not the most, talented teenager playing in USL.

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