re: Young Players Tracker and Americans Abroad Thread

Not cap tied but yeah he prefers Israel.

He's had a change of heart in the last few months then. These quotes are from December 2015

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“I knew from someone that the United States was scouting me,” Saief, 21, told American Soccer Now from Belgium, where he will lead Gent to the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League next year. “If I get a call from the United States, I think I would probably play for them. Which team is better at football? I think the United States is better. They play almost every four years in the World Cup. As a footballer they are better, I think.”

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“At the end it's my decision,” Saief told American Soccer Now. “If I would say that the best for me would be to go to the United States, for sure I would decide to go to the United States. I respect everything from my father and I loved him. Maybe he had his own plans for the future to be on the Israeli national team, but maybe I feel that I really can do it and be a national team player for the United States.”

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In other news, I'm told Cameron Carter-Vickers and Nabil Bentaleb are injured for the rest of the season.

Sounds like a back injury. Should be ready in time for preseason.

U.S. Roster by Position:
GOALKEEPERS (3): Cody Cropper (Milton Keynes Dons), Ethan Horvath (Molde KJ), Zach Steffen (SC Freiburg)
DEFENDERS (8): Kellyn Acosta (FC Dallas), Matt Miazga (Chelsea FC), Eric Miller (Colorado Rapids), Tim Parker (Vancouver Whitecaps FC), Desevio Payne (FC Groningen), Shane O’Neill (Cambridge United), Brandon Vincent (Chicago Fire), Walker Zimmerman (FC Dallas)
MIDFIELDERS (9): Fatai Alashe (San Jose Earthquakes), Paul Arriola (Club Tijuana), Luis Gil (Queretaro), Julian Green (Bayern Munich), Emerson Hyndman (Fulham FC), Jerome Kiesewetter (VfB Stuttgart), Matt Polster (Chicago Fire), Dillon Serna (Colorado Rapids), Wil Trapp (Columbus Crew SC)
FORWARDS (3): Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders FC), Mario Rodriguez (Borussia Monchengladbach), Khiry Shelton (New York City FC)

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Peña Athletic Calif. ?@AthleticClubCA 5h5 hours ago
Congrats/#Zorionak to Boise's @egiluz20, 1st @AthleticClub player from ???? to be called up to the #USMNT U-19 team!

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ETA: This is also big as he qualifies for Spain as well.

Fabs apparently has an abductor strain in his right thigh. Out until further notice :(....

Added a bunch of player highlight videos to the first page. If there's a better highlight video of anyone, let me know.

Also, I would like one of the reserved posts to be for team highlights from recent games and some of our historic games, so if you have any of those to add, have at it. Maybe highlights of past players as well.

Lynden Gooch injured/out for remainder of season.

He wasn't playing much recently with the roller coaster rovers, but injury is an injury.

Bring back Arenas. Juergen doesn't know what he's doing.. He's shown that based on his shortcomings in recent tournaments. We have so much talent and potential here, yet he fails year after to take us to the level that Arenas and even Bob Bradley took us. It's sad how many fake soccer players think they know what's best for the USMNT. It's disgusting.