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New York City FC Confirms Traveling Preseason Roster & Additional Preseason Friendly

New York City FC Confirms Traveling Preseason Roster & Additional Preseason Friendly Click the link to find out all you need and more.

New York City FC today announced its preseason roster ahead of the 2024 season.   The Club arrived in Tampa, Florida earlier this week for training camp.    29 players make this season’s preseason roster in Tampa. One Academy player, two New York City FC II players, and one trialist will join the First Team this year. MLS SuperDraft selections Malachi Jones and Taylor Calheira have traveled…

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Fredua Koranteng “Freddy” Adu (June 2, 1989) is a former soccer player who played primarily as an attacking midfielder, but as a winger or forward. Before the time of his signing with DC United at the age of 14, he was spoken of and treated as the future of US soccer; even being referred to as “the next Pelé”. He failed to live up to the expectations and, after leaving DC United, he became a journeyman, playing for fourteen teams in eight countries: the US, Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Serbia, and Finland.

At DC United, he broke several records. He became the youngest athlete ever to sign a professional contract in the US after he was selected by the team in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft on January 16, 2004. Three months later, on April 3, 2004, he became the youngest player to appear in an MLS game when he came on as a substitute in a game against the San Jose Earthquakes, and on April 17, he became the youngest scorer in MLS history, scoring a goal in a 3–2 loss to the MetroStars. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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LAFC’s Frankie Amaya ‘happy to be back in MLS and closer to home’

As Frankie Amaya’s story goes, soccer opportunities tend to come quickly for the Santa Ana native. On Wednesday, Amaya was loaned from Toluca FC to the Los Angeles Football Club. On Friday, the 24-year-old midfielder addressed the media. On Sunday, the former No. 1 pick in the MLS SuperDraft could debut at BMO Stadium when LAFC hosts St. Louis City. “It’s a little bit of a different system, but I…

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I'm so excited after seeing the boys yesterday. They look like they're having fun and I love all the new additions.

Edi Tagseth seems to fit perfectly with our boys and is just as exciting/fun as the hype said he was.

The superdraft boy we got, Cochran I think, even looked promising as a deputy cb?

A hat trick from Sam really got me believing that we finally have a midfield that can properly serve him

Tyler Boyd was finally walking around and I think we might see him in March?

~I'm allowing myself one month of overhyped joy where I truly think we can legit compete for the MLS cup this year.~

[theultimatefan]

Westchester Soccer Club Adds Three More Players For Their Inaugural Season in USL League One

Westchester Soccer Club today added three more players to their roster for their inaugural season in USL League One. The three, midfielders Bryan Vazquez and Andrew Jean-Baptiste and defender Joel Johnson, join a growing mix of veterans and young, athletic talent as WSC readies to officially open their first season on March 8 in Greenville, SC against Greenville Triumph SC with their home opener at The Stadium at Memorial Park against Rhode Island SC on April 27. All three contracts are subject to approval by the league.

‘One of the key elements of our club will be making sure we have both depth and experience, and our latest three signees continue to add to both areas for us,’ said Simon Baines, Sporting Director of WSC. “All three will fit well into the structure we are creating.”

The three newest players include:

Andrew Jean-Baptiste (Brooklyn, NY) joins Westchester SC with over a decade of professional and international experience, most recently as center-back for Valour FC. Baptiste starred at the University of Connecticut, earning 2011 Big East Conference Defensive Player of the Year before being selected 8th overall by the Portland Timbers in the first round of the 2012 MLS SuperDraft. He played in MLS for Portland, Chivas USA, and the New York Red Bulls from 2012-2015, before heading abroad to join Swedish side Ettan Nyköpings BIS in 2016. In February 2019, Jean-Baptiste continued his European career until 2020, when he joined Canadian Premier League side Valour FC, where has played the past three seasons. Andrew has played internationally for both the Haitian National and US National teams in his career as well.

Joel Johnson Alajarín (Torrent, Valencia) is a right-back who spent the last eight seasons in USL League One, most recently for Charlotte Independence last season. Prior to his USL time, Johnson played on virtually every level of professional soccer in Spain, coming up through the club system of Valencia FC before joining Real Madrid C and then with Real Jaénand CD Buñol. He has also played internationally as a member of the Liberian National team since 2016.

Bryan Vazquez officially joins the professional ranks with the club having previously made one appearance as an amateur signing for FC Cincinnati 2 of MLS NEXT Pro during the 2024 season. The 18-year-old midfielder has previously made two appearances for the El Salvador U-20 Men’s National Team at the 2024 Concacaf U-20 Championship.

These are the newest additions to a roster that already include a strong group of Americans with USL experience, including: wing back Kemar Lawrence, fullback Samory Powder, midfielder Conor McGlynn and defender Stephen Payne and a trio of Dutch natives in midfielders Daniel Bouman, Dean Diego Guezen and striker Koen Blommestijn

The club will be announcing several more signings in the coming weeks, as they ready for their initial season this coming April. The full schedule is at https://www.westchestersc.com/

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Not Wanting to Win

There are quite a few owners in sports that fit this category however I'm only going to focus on one for now. The Philadelphia Union started playing in back in 2010 and I attended my first match in 2015. I purchased ticket plans starting in 2016 and was full season from 2019-2023. I had opted out of the 2024 season for reasons not actually related to the team or MLS. Since I opted out, I still follow the team and I keep getting reminders that I made the right decision constantly.

Going into the season, expectations were high, as in 2022 they played for the MLS (lost in penalty kicks) and previously had earned their second consecutive CONCACAF Champions League appearance for this past season. Some of the issues with the team go back to the 2023 season. This is when the club started showing a lack of heart and that Jim Curtin has become too comfortable. They were eliminated in the 1st round of the playoffs. This past season losing winnable matches or matches ending in ties showed their lack of heart and effort. The organization kept making one bad decision after another and the one I do agree with is having fired Jim Curtin at the end of the season. Other poor decisions have been made since within the front office since firing Curtin. Most recently, the team traded Superdraft picks for 3 years for GAM (General Allocation Money.) When a team rebuilds they usually want draft picks, especially when they don't spend money on big name players. Here's the problem with the general allocation money. The team isn't necessarily going to spend it. Mind you the season starts in a couple of months and they haven't even hired a manager/coach. The one obvious choice to be coach to light a fire under the team would be the Captain himself, Alejandro Bedoya, who I know is a competitor. I have a feeling he might not want it. I know Curtin is a good coach and will find another job however I think there's a possibility that he might have been burned out. Usually a team will tank for 2-3 years before showing progress and being compeitive however the Union seem like they're tanking for the long haul.

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باجراكتاروفيتش وميلر في قائمة MLS للنجوم الشابة

في موسم محبط لفريق ريفوليوشن، ظهرت لحظات من الأمل بتسمية إسمير باجراكتاروفيتش وبيتون ميلر في فريق 22 تحت 22 في الدوري الأمريكي لكرة القدم. يعتبر باجراكتاروفيتش، ذو التسعة عشر عامًا، وبيتون ميلر، البالغ من العمر 16 عامًا، من اللاعبين الشبان المميزين في القائمة. حقق باجراكتاروفيتش المركز العاشر بينما جاء ميلر في المركز الثاني والعشرين. يحتل دييغو غوميز من إنتر ميامي المركز الأول. باجراكتاروفيتش هو أول خريج من برنامج الإقامة في أكاديمية ريفوليوشن ينضم للفريق، مثّل الفريق في 44 مباراة وسجل 4 أهداف مع 7 تمريرات حاسمة في جميع البطولات خلال 2024. أما ميلر فقد ظهر في 10 مباريات وحقق تمريرة حاسمة واحدة. أعلنت MLS عن سلسلة من الأحداث منها مشروع التوسعة يوم 11 ديسمبر والـ SuperDraft في 20 ديسمبر. الفريق يلعب مباراته القادمة ضد كولومبوس. #mls #الشابة #باجراكتاروفيتش #قائمة #للنجوم #وميلر https://ift.tt/1gf6SMT

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MLS abroad: Top exports to watch in Europe this season | MLSSoccer.com - Journal Global Web https://www.merchant-business.com/mls-abroad-top-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season-mlssoccer-com/?feed_id=173918&_unique_id=66c68ec4e7b2f #GLOBAL - BLOGGER BLOGGER Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies.Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to list here. But here’s our take on some of the most engaging at the moment, arranged in the familiar format of a starting XI and reserves bench.MLS club: Chicago Fire FCThe Chicago Fire product remains a soldier in the “Chelsea loan army,” and his next assignment is a starting role in the English third tier with Barnsley, the same club that put Daryl Dike on the European map in 2021. With promotion very much the goal for the Tykes, it’s the right kind of challenge for Slonina, who only turned 20 a few months ago and felt the sting of relegation in his previous loan stint at Belgian club KAS Eupen. Can he blossom into the next great US ‘keeper?“I think the most important thing for me right now is how much game time I’ve been able to get in my first real season in Europe,” Slonina recently told ESPN. “Because I think just breaking into the European scene, it’s not so easy as a player, and even more so as a goalkeeper.”MLS club: LA GalaxyThe summer brought a highly promising move for the ex-LA Galaxy fullback: From the periphery of FC Barcelona’s squad under new manager Hansi Flick to one of the English Premier League’s most impressive overachievers. The fact that the Cherries reportedly paid a fee approaching $11 million (a good chunk of which flows back to the Galaxy thanks to a sell-on clause) reflects a big come-up for both the player and the South Coast club, whose fans, not so long ago, sold raffle tickets to help it stay afloat in the lower reaches of the professional pyramid.Araujo, who just turned 23, has a lot to prove but also much to gain. The Mexican-American defender won 64% of his duels in 25 matches on loan at Las Palmas last season, the fourth-best success rate in the whole of LaLiga, as he helped the Canary Islanders avoid relegation on their return to the top flight. Now he’ll test himself against the world’s best week in, week out.MLS club: FC DallasIt’s a big year ahead for the FC Dallas academy alum, as he looks to build on last year’s breakthrough campaign with another step forward in the harshly unforgiving environs of the EPL. Richards, 24, showed he’s capable of being an everyday starter at that level in the final months of Roy Hodgson’s Palace tenure, often as a makeshift holding midfielder, then earned a regular role as a central defender when Oliver Glasner took the helm in February. Richards also started all three matches in the US men’s national team’s ill-fated Copa América run.CPFC prospered under Glasner in the spring, taking 19 points from 21 in their final seven league matches while averaging three goals scored per game, and Richards seems to be one of the Austrian manager’s first-choice center backs for ’24-’25. But the Alabama native struggled in Palace’s season-opening loss to Brentford last weekend, and with his teammate Marc Guéhi a transfer target for several Prem giants, the club are reportedly ready to bring in reinforcements at his position. Life at the top is a daily dogfight.MLS club: Colorado RapidsFrom MLS SuperDraft pick to a Europa League club in 20 months? That’s the positively Cinderella-esque trajectory the Canadian center back is on, with Nice reportedly having just splashed out north of $7 million to acquire him from the Colorado Rapids.Many of Bombito’s numbers jump off the page: He completed 87% of his passes and led his team in clearances during Canada’s unexpected run to fourth place at Copa América, and reached a velocity of 23.

16 miles per hour in a Rapids match back in April, making him the fastest man in MLS thus far in 2024.Now the 24-year-old from the Montréal suburb of Saint-Laurent will try to extend his amazing story by settling in quickly and competing for regular minutes in France, while Jesse Marsch will surely utilize him as a foundational piece of the CanMNT back line.MLS club: Vancouver Whitecaps FCWith Champions League and Club World Cup trophies, five Bundesliga titles and a myriad of individual honors already under his belt at the still-tender age of 23, “Phonzie” probably ranks as the single-most successful export of MLS’s academy era. The Liberian kid born in the Buduburam refugee camp and raised in snowy Edmonton is now a bona fide global star, a buccaneering left back for Germany’s biggest club and a Real Madrid transfer target for what’s seemed like years at this point.So what’s next for the Vancouver Whitecaps product? He’s entering the final year of his Bayern contract as the Bavarian giants look for revenge after Bayer Leverkusen ended their lengthy streak of league championships, and the 2026 World Cup on home soil looms ever nearer. Whatever new chapter awaits in his already-amazing career, we’ll be watching closely.MLS club: New York Red BullsA USMNT talisman when healthy, the youngest captain at the 2022 World Cup, it’s all gone horribly wrong for the New York Red Bulls homegrown product since the tournament in Qatar. Adams played a mere 138 minutes for AFCB last season thanks to persistent injury woes, and after Copa América we learned that his 180 minutes in that event may have led to him being shelved for the first few months of the EPL calendar.“He finished the season with an injury in his back,” manager Andoni Iraola said during Bournemouth’s preseason. “He wanted to play Copa América because it was very important for him, but he had restrictions and was still in pain, so two days after they were knocked out, he had surgery.”The tenacious defensive midfielder has to get fit, stay fit and play matches regularly this year. Anything short of that might well be career-threatening.MLS club: CF MontréalYet another young Canadian is on the rise. Koné’s displays for Watford combined with all-round engine-room excellence for Les Rouges at Copa América earned him a reported $13 million-plus move to one of France’s biggest clubs, who are optimistic of challenging Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 hegemony with a slew of summer reinforcements under the guidance of new boss Roberto De Zerbi, one of the world’s top young managers.The 22-year-old has developed at a rapid clip since breaking through at CF Montréal during Wilfried Nancy’s tenure, showcasing technique, pace, intelligence and no small amount of bravery from box to box, and his French fluency will help ease this latest transition. OM’s legions of passionate fans are notoriously demanding, but should embrace him when they see his skill and commitment.MLS club: D.C. United“I think this tournament could be a breaking point for Kevin.”Those were the words of US men’s Olympic coach Marko Mitrović after Paredes lit up the program’s long-awaited Summer Games return, his two goals and one assist instigating clutch wins over New Zealand (4-1) and Guinea (3-0) to book a place in the knockout stage. Even the humbling quarterfinal loss to Morocco underlined the D.C. United product’s talent, as the victors fouled him a game-high six times to knock him off his stride, a telling show of respect.Now, the livewire winger/wingback will aim to consolidate his summer exploits into a Bundesliga breakthrough. Ralph Hasenhüttl arrived late last winter to steer the Wolves away from relegation danger, eventually finishing in 12th place, and Paredes, who’s still only 21, possesses the guile, energy and versatility to become a trusted member of the squad. As crowded as the USMNT’s wings depth chart may be, it’s not hard to imagine incoming coach Mauricio Pochettino finding a use for him as well.MLS club:

Atlanta UnitedThose of us who marveled at his effervescent playmaking in Atlanta United’s explosive introduction to MLS may find it hard to believe that the Paraguayan is now 30, a Magpies mainstay with more than 200 NUFC appearances under his belt, including Champions League heroics last season. This summer ATLUTD faithful found it even more shocking to countenance the idea that he could join their upstart Southern counterparts in Charlotte, a bold gambit by The Crown that fell apart in the final days of the transfer window.So where does Miggy go from here? Is he sliding out of favor at Newcastle, perhaps even headed for the exit? (MLS suitors may call again in the winter window if he’s not sold elsewhere this month.) Or will he rise again to make himself essential for the ambitious project led by Eddie Howe?MLS club: Philadelphia UnionAaronson’s career rode a steep upward trajectory from the Philadelphia Union to RB Salzburg, only to hit vicious headwinds when he made his record move to Leeds in 2022. A bruising EPL relegation experience followed by a yearlong loan at Union Berlin fueled speculation that he’d leave West Yorkshire for good this summer – but instead he declared his resolve to stay, and win over the skeptics by helping the proud club return to their promised land.The hard-running attacker has already scored his first goal of the new campaign, an injury-time equalizer vs. Portsmouth, though it underlined the challenge in front of him that a missed chance in that same game drew a disproportionate burst of negativity from the Whites. Mark this down, though: “The Medford Messi” will give everything he has and more to prove he belongs at Elland Road.What does the lanky Texan have to do to convince his coach, Peter Bosz, that he’s a starting-caliber striker? That’s the $10,000 question for the FC Dallas success story in ’24-’25. Even working primarily as a supersub, Pepi contributed a steady stream of goals last season as the Boeren marched to the Eredivisie title, but his veteran competitor Luuk de Jong stayed a nose ahead of him with his own impressively prolific campaign.“Pepi knows what he started when he came here, that is completely clear to him, but I can well imagine his frustration every now and then,” said Bosz after the 21-year-old scored a hat trick during preseason. “I understand it, but he has someone in front of him who has been able to take the ball home very often by scoring well.”Pepi knows how to keep his head down and grind. We’ll see, though, if he’s forced to seek a move elsewhere for more minutes come January.Matt TurnerTurner is way down the pecking order at Nottingham Forest and probably needs to get out of there to play regularly and keep pole position on the USMNT’s starting GK spot.Alistair JohnstonThe Canadian international has made 65 all-competition appearances for Scottish powerhouse Celtic FC since his transfer from CF Montréal, scoring two goals and dishing out nine assists. Johnston and his Celtic mates remain dominant domestically, making their Champions League hopes that much more pivotal when that competition kicks off in mid-September.Caleb WileyIt bodes well for Wiley that he stepped right into the starting XI at the outset of his season-long loan at Ligue 1 club Strasbourg, even if it’s only the first step in what figures to be a long road as another member of the Chelsea loan army.Joe ScallyScally just keeps defying expectations at Borussia Mönchengladbach: He logged a full 90 at right back in their season opener, a DFB Pokal win over lower-division side Erzgebirge Aue, and we expect him to remain the USMNT’s starter there in the Yanks’ autumn slate of matches.Tajon BuchananBuchanan faces a long road back from the broken tibia he suffered with Canada over the summer, but will be hungry to earn his place at Inter Milan when recovered.Aidan MorrisMorris has already made a strong first impression at Middlesbrough following his $4 million move from Columbus, with high hopes of powering a promotion push.

Tanner TessmannTessmann is in limbo now that multiple transfers out of Venezia have fallen through – at least if the many reports to that effect are valid – but the FC Dallas academy grad and US Olympic team captain is just playing too well at the moment to be kept off the pitch for long.Andrés GómezGómez’s big move from Real Salt Lake to Stade Rennais was a surprise summer head-turner; the young Colombian needs time to adapt, but his attacking toolkit gives him a bright future.Taty CastellanosCastellanos just got an Argentina call-up after a decent first season at Lazio, which underlines the rising expectations for him as an elite spearhead in Serie A.Jhon DuránThe Aston Villa striker who on the Premier League’s opening weekend made light of a rumbling transfer saga involving West Ham to score the winner for his current club against the club he apparently wants to join – another entertainingly dramatic plotline swirling around the 20-year-old Chicago Fire ex.“Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their…”Source Link: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-abroad-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/g8c2fb2e1f0f827ce44d81556f9ca5a8988f999140c61d233eed74da675769ccc852d58a2c59347178c1bb909c0558bff77d.jpeg Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to … Read More

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MLS abroad: Top exports to watch in Europe this season | MLSSoccer.com - Journal Global Web - #GLOBAL https://www.merchant-business.com/mls-abroad-top-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season-mlssoccer-com/?feed_id=173917&_unique_id=66c68ec3f26be Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies.Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to list here. But here’s our take on some of the most engaging at the moment, arranged in the familiar format of a starting XI and reserves bench.MLS club: Chicago Fire FCThe Chicago Fire product remains a soldier in the “Chelsea loan army,” and his next assignment is a starting role in the English third tier with Barnsley, the same club that put Daryl Dike on the European map in 2021. With promotion very much the goal for the Tykes, it’s the right kind of challenge for Slonina, who only turned 20 a few months ago and felt the sting of relegation in his previous loan stint at Belgian club KAS Eupen. Can he blossom into the next great US ‘keeper?“I think the most important thing for me right now is how much game time I’ve been able to get in my first real season in Europe,” Slonina recently told ESPN. “Because I think just breaking into the European scene, it’s not so easy as a player, and even more so as a goalkeeper.”MLS club: LA GalaxyThe summer brought a highly promising move for the ex-LA Galaxy fullback: From the periphery of FC Barcelona’s squad under new manager Hansi Flick to one of the English Premier League’s most impressive overachievers. The fact that the Cherries reportedly paid a fee approaching $11 million (a good chunk of which flows back to the Galaxy thanks to a sell-on clause) reflects a big come-up for both the player and the South Coast club, whose fans, not so long ago, sold raffle tickets to help it stay afloat in the lower reaches of the professional pyramid.Araujo, who just turned 23, has a lot to prove but also much to gain. The Mexican-American defender won 64% of his duels in 25 matches on loan at Las Palmas last season, the fourth-best success rate in the whole of LaLiga, as he helped the Canary Islanders avoid relegation on their return to the top flight. Now he’ll test himself against the world’s best week in, week out.MLS club: FC DallasIt’s a big year ahead for the FC Dallas academy alum, as he looks to build on last year’s breakthrough campaign with another step forward in the harshly unforgiving environs of the EPL. Richards, 24, showed he’s capable of being an everyday starter at that level in the final months of Roy Hodgson’s Palace tenure, often as a makeshift holding midfielder, then earned a regular role as a central defender when Oliver Glasner took the helm in February. Richards also started all three matches in the US men’s national team’s ill-fated Copa América run.CPFC prospered under Glasner in the spring, taking 19 points from 21 in their final seven league matches while averaging three goals scored per game, and Richards seems to be one of the Austrian manager’s first-choice center backs for ’24-’25. But the Alabama native struggled in Palace’s season-opening loss to Brentford last weekend, and with his teammate Marc Guéhi a transfer target for several Prem giants, the club are reportedly ready to bring in reinforcements at his position. Life at the top is a daily dogfight.MLS club: Colorado RapidsFrom MLS SuperDraft pick to a Europa League club in 20 months? That’s the positively Cinderella-esque trajectory the Canadian center back is on, with Nice reportedly having just splashed out north of $7 million to acquire him from the Colorado Rapids.Many of Bombito’s numbers jump off the page: He completed 87% of his passes and led his team in clearances during Canada’s unexpected run to fourth place at Copa América, and reached a velocity of 23.

16 miles per hour in a Rapids match back in April, making him the fastest man in MLS thus far in 2024.Now the 24-year-old from the Montréal suburb of Saint-Laurent will try to extend his amazing story by settling in quickly and competing for regular minutes in France, while Jesse Marsch will surely utilize him as a foundational piece of the CanMNT back line.MLS club: Vancouver Whitecaps FCWith Champions League and Club World Cup trophies, five Bundesliga titles and a myriad of individual honors already under his belt at the still-tender age of 23, “Phonzie” probably ranks as the single-most successful export of MLS’s academy era. The Liberian kid born in the Buduburam refugee camp and raised in snowy Edmonton is now a bona fide global star, a buccaneering left back for Germany’s biggest club and a Real Madrid transfer target for what’s seemed like years at this point.So what’s next for the Vancouver Whitecaps product? He’s entering the final year of his Bayern contract as the Bavarian giants look for revenge after Bayer Leverkusen ended their lengthy streak of league championships, and the 2026 World Cup on home soil looms ever nearer. Whatever new chapter awaits in his already-amazing career, we’ll be watching closely.MLS club: New York Red BullsA USMNT talisman when healthy, the youngest captain at the 2022 World Cup, it’s all gone horribly wrong for the New York Red Bulls homegrown product since the tournament in Qatar. Adams played a mere 138 minutes for AFCB last season thanks to persistent injury woes, and after Copa América we learned that his 180 minutes in that event may have led to him being shelved for the first few months of the EPL calendar.“He finished the season with an injury in his back,” manager Andoni Iraola said during Bournemouth’s preseason. “He wanted to play Copa América because it was very important for him, but he had restrictions and was still in pain, so two days after they were knocked out, he had surgery.”The tenacious defensive midfielder has to get fit, stay fit and play matches regularly this year. Anything short of that might well be career-threatening.MLS club: CF MontréalYet another young Canadian is on the rise. Koné’s displays for Watford combined with all-round engine-room excellence for Les Rouges at Copa América earned him a reported $13 million-plus move to one of France’s biggest clubs, who are optimistic of challenging Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 hegemony with a slew of summer reinforcements under the guidance of new boss Roberto De Zerbi, one of the world’s top young managers.The 22-year-old has developed at a rapid clip since breaking through at CF Montréal during Wilfried Nancy’s tenure, showcasing technique, pace, intelligence and no small amount of bravery from box to box, and his French fluency will help ease this latest transition. OM’s legions of passionate fans are notoriously demanding, but should embrace him when they see his skill and commitment.MLS club: D.C. United“I think this tournament could be a breaking point for Kevin.”Those were the words of US men’s Olympic coach Marko Mitrović after Paredes lit up the program’s long-awaited Summer Games return, his two goals and one assist instigating clutch wins over New Zealand (4-1) and Guinea (3-0) to book a place in the knockout stage. Even the humbling quarterfinal loss to Morocco underlined the D.C. United product’s talent, as the victors fouled him a game-high six times to knock him off his stride, a telling show of respect.Now, the livewire winger/wingback will aim to consolidate his summer exploits into a Bundesliga breakthrough. Ralph Hasenhüttl arrived late last winter to steer the Wolves away from relegation danger, eventually finishing in 12th place, and Paredes, who’s still only 21, possesses the guile, energy and versatility to become a trusted member of the squad. As crowded as the USMNT’s wings depth chart may be, it’s not hard to imagine incoming coach Mauricio Pochettino finding a use for him as well.MLS club:

Atlanta UnitedThose of us who marveled at his effervescent playmaking in Atlanta United’s explosive introduction to MLS may find it hard to believe that the Paraguayan is now 30, a Magpies mainstay with more than 200 NUFC appearances under his belt, including Champions League heroics last season. This summer ATLUTD faithful found it even more shocking to countenance the idea that he could join their upstart Southern counterparts in Charlotte, a bold gambit by The Crown that fell apart in the final days of the transfer window.So where does Miggy go from here? Is he sliding out of favor at Newcastle, perhaps even headed for the exit? (MLS suitors may call again in the winter window if he’s not sold elsewhere this month.) Or will he rise again to make himself essential for the ambitious project led by Eddie Howe?MLS club: Philadelphia UnionAaronson’s career rode a steep upward trajectory from the Philadelphia Union to RB Salzburg, only to hit vicious headwinds when he made his record move to Leeds in 2022. A bruising EPL relegation experience followed by a yearlong loan at Union Berlin fueled speculation that he’d leave West Yorkshire for good this summer – but instead he declared his resolve to stay, and win over the skeptics by helping the proud club return to their promised land.The hard-running attacker has already scored his first goal of the new campaign, an injury-time equalizer vs. Portsmouth, though it underlined the challenge in front of him that a missed chance in that same game drew a disproportionate burst of negativity from the Whites. Mark this down, though: “The Medford Messi” will give everything he has and more to prove he belongs at Elland Road.What does the lanky Texan have to do to convince his coach, Peter Bosz, that he’s a starting-caliber striker? That’s the $10,000 question for the FC Dallas success story in ’24-’25. Even working primarily as a supersub, Pepi contributed a steady stream of goals last season as the Boeren marched to the Eredivisie title, but his veteran competitor Luuk de Jong stayed a nose ahead of him with his own impressively prolific campaign.“Pepi knows what he started when he came here, that is completely clear to him, but I can well imagine his frustration every now and then,” said Bosz after the 21-year-old scored a hat trick during preseason. “I understand it, but he has someone in front of him who has been able to take the ball home very often by scoring well.”Pepi knows how to keep his head down and grind. We’ll see, though, if he’s forced to seek a move elsewhere for more minutes come January.Matt TurnerTurner is way down the pecking order at Nottingham Forest and probably needs to get out of there to play regularly and keep pole position on the USMNT’s starting GK spot.Alistair JohnstonThe Canadian international has made 65 all-competition appearances for Scottish powerhouse Celtic FC since his transfer from CF Montréal, scoring two goals and dishing out nine assists. Johnston and his Celtic mates remain dominant domestically, making their Champions League hopes that much more pivotal when that competition kicks off in mid-September.Caleb WileyIt bodes well for Wiley that he stepped right into the starting XI at the outset of his season-long loan at Ligue 1 club Strasbourg, even if it’s only the first step in what figures to be a long road as another member of the Chelsea loan army.Joe ScallyScally just keeps defying expectations at Borussia Mönchengladbach: He logged a full 90 at right back in their season opener, a DFB Pokal win over lower-division side Erzgebirge Aue, and we expect him to remain the USMNT’s starter there in the Yanks’ autumn slate of matches.Tajon BuchananBuchanan faces a long road back from the broken tibia he suffered with Canada over the summer, but will be hungry to earn his place at Inter Milan when recovered.Aidan MorrisMorris has already made a strong first impression at Middlesbrough following his $4 million move from Columbus, with high hopes of powering a promotion push.

Tanner TessmannTessmann is in limbo now that multiple transfers out of Venezia have fallen through – at least if the many reports to that effect are valid – but the FC Dallas academy grad and US Olympic team captain is just playing too well at the moment to be kept off the pitch for long.Andrés GómezGómez’s big move from Real Salt Lake to Stade Rennais was a surprise summer head-turner; the young Colombian needs time to adapt, but his attacking toolkit gives him a bright future.Taty CastellanosCastellanos just got an Argentina call-up after a decent first season at Lazio, which underlines the rising expectations for him as an elite spearhead in Serie A.Jhon DuránThe Aston Villa striker who on the Premier League’s opening weekend made light of a rumbling transfer saga involving West Ham to score the winner for his current club against the club he apparently wants to join – another entertainingly dramatic plotline swirling around the 20-year-old Chicago Fire ex.“Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their…”Source Link: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-abroad-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/g8c2fb2e1f0f827ce44d81556f9ca5a8988f999140c61d233eed74da675769ccc852d58a2c59347178c1bb909c0558bff77d.jpeg BLOGGER - #GLOBAL

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MLS abroad: Top exports to watch in Europe this season | MLSSoccer.com - Journal Global Web - BLOGGER https://www.merchant-business.com/mls-abroad-top-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season-mlssoccer-com/?feed_id=173915&_unique_id=66c68ec178d86 Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies.Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to list here. But here’s our take on some of the most engaging at the moment, arranged in the familiar format of a starting XI and reserves bench.MLS club: Chicago Fire FCThe Chicago Fire product remains a soldier in the “Chelsea loan army,” and his next assignment is a starting role in the English third tier with Barnsley, the same club that put Daryl Dike on the European map in 2021. With promotion very much the goal for the Tykes, it’s the right kind of challenge for Slonina, who only turned 20 a few months ago and felt the sting of relegation in his previous loan stint at Belgian club KAS Eupen. Can he blossom into the next great US ‘keeper?“I think the most important thing for me right now is how much game time I’ve been able to get in my first real season in Europe,” Slonina recently told ESPN. “Because I think just breaking into the European scene, it’s not so easy as a player, and even more so as a goalkeeper.”MLS club: LA GalaxyThe summer brought a highly promising move for the ex-LA Galaxy fullback: From the periphery of FC Barcelona’s squad under new manager Hansi Flick to one of the English Premier League’s most impressive overachievers. The fact that the Cherries reportedly paid a fee approaching $11 million (a good chunk of which flows back to the Galaxy thanks to a sell-on clause) reflects a big come-up for both the player and the South Coast club, whose fans, not so long ago, sold raffle tickets to help it stay afloat in the lower reaches of the professional pyramid.Araujo, who just turned 23, has a lot to prove but also much to gain. The Mexican-American defender won 64% of his duels in 25 matches on loan at Las Palmas last season, the fourth-best success rate in the whole of LaLiga, as he helped the Canary Islanders avoid relegation on their return to the top flight. Now he’ll test himself against the world’s best week in, week out.MLS club: FC DallasIt’s a big year ahead for the FC Dallas academy alum, as he looks to build on last year’s breakthrough campaign with another step forward in the harshly unforgiving environs of the EPL. Richards, 24, showed he’s capable of being an everyday starter at that level in the final months of Roy Hodgson’s Palace tenure, often as a makeshift holding midfielder, then earned a regular role as a central defender when Oliver Glasner took the helm in February. Richards also started all three matches in the US men’s national team’s ill-fated Copa América run.CPFC prospered under Glasner in the spring, taking 19 points from 21 in their final seven league matches while averaging three goals scored per game, and Richards seems to be one of the Austrian manager’s first-choice center backs for ’24-’25. But the Alabama native struggled in Palace’s season-opening loss to Brentford last weekend, and with his teammate Marc Guéhi a transfer target for several Prem giants, the club are reportedly ready to bring in reinforcements at his position. Life at the top is a daily dogfight.MLS club: Colorado RapidsFrom MLS SuperDraft pick to a Europa League club in 20 months? That’s the positively Cinderella-esque trajectory the Canadian center back is on, with Nice reportedly having just splashed out north of $7 million to acquire him from the Colorado Rapids.Many of Bombito’s numbers jump off the page: He completed 87% of his passes and led his team in clearances during Canada’s unexpected run to fourth place at Copa América, and reached a velocity of 23.

16 miles per hour in a Rapids match back in April, making him the fastest man in MLS thus far in 2024.Now the 24-year-old from the Montréal suburb of Saint-Laurent will try to extend his amazing story by settling in quickly and competing for regular minutes in France, while Jesse Marsch will surely utilize him as a foundational piece of the CanMNT back line.MLS club: Vancouver Whitecaps FCWith Champions League and Club World Cup trophies, five Bundesliga titles and a myriad of individual honors already under his belt at the still-tender age of 23, “Phonzie” probably ranks as the single-most successful export of MLS’s academy era. The Liberian kid born in the Buduburam refugee camp and raised in snowy Edmonton is now a bona fide global star, a buccaneering left back for Germany’s biggest club and a Real Madrid transfer target for what’s seemed like years at this point.So what’s next for the Vancouver Whitecaps product? He’s entering the final year of his Bayern contract as the Bavarian giants look for revenge after Bayer Leverkusen ended their lengthy streak of league championships, and the 2026 World Cup on home soil looms ever nearer. Whatever new chapter awaits in his already-amazing career, we’ll be watching closely.MLS club: New York Red BullsA USMNT talisman when healthy, the youngest captain at the 2022 World Cup, it’s all gone horribly wrong for the New York Red Bulls homegrown product since the tournament in Qatar. Adams played a mere 138 minutes for AFCB last season thanks to persistent injury woes, and after Copa América we learned that his 180 minutes in that event may have led to him being shelved for the first few months of the EPL calendar.“He finished the season with an injury in his back,” manager Andoni Iraola said during Bournemouth’s preseason. “He wanted to play Copa América because it was very important for him, but he had restrictions and was still in pain, so two days after they were knocked out, he had surgery.”The tenacious defensive midfielder has to get fit, stay fit and play matches regularly this year. Anything short of that might well be career-threatening.MLS club: CF MontréalYet another young Canadian is on the rise. Koné’s displays for Watford combined with all-round engine-room excellence for Les Rouges at Copa América earned him a reported $13 million-plus move to one of France’s biggest clubs, who are optimistic of challenging Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 hegemony with a slew of summer reinforcements under the guidance of new boss Roberto De Zerbi, one of the world’s top young managers.The 22-year-old has developed at a rapid clip since breaking through at CF Montréal during Wilfried Nancy’s tenure, showcasing technique, pace, intelligence and no small amount of bravery from box to box, and his French fluency will help ease this latest transition. OM’s legions of passionate fans are notoriously demanding, but should embrace him when they see his skill and commitment.MLS club: D.C. United“I think this tournament could be a breaking point for Kevin.”Those were the words of US men’s Olympic coach Marko Mitrović after Paredes lit up the program’s long-awaited Summer Games return, his two goals and one assist instigating clutch wins over New Zealand (4-1) and Guinea (3-0) to book a place in the knockout stage. Even the humbling quarterfinal loss to Morocco underlined the D.C. United product’s talent, as the victors fouled him a game-high six times to knock him off his stride, a telling show of respect.Now, the livewire winger/wingback will aim to consolidate his summer exploits into a Bundesliga breakthrough. Ralph Hasenhüttl arrived late last winter to steer the Wolves away from relegation danger, eventually finishing in 12th place, and Paredes, who’s still only 21, possesses the guile, energy and versatility to become a trusted member of the squad. As crowded as the USMNT’s wings depth chart may be, it’s not hard to imagine incoming coach Mauricio Pochettino finding a use for him as well.MLS club:

Atlanta UnitedThose of us who marveled at his effervescent playmaking in Atlanta United’s explosive introduction to MLS may find it hard to believe that the Paraguayan is now 30, a Magpies mainstay with more than 200 NUFC appearances under his belt, including Champions League heroics last season. This summer ATLUTD faithful found it even more shocking to countenance the idea that he could join their upstart Southern counterparts in Charlotte, a bold gambit by The Crown that fell apart in the final days of the transfer window.So where does Miggy go from here? Is he sliding out of favor at Newcastle, perhaps even headed for the exit? (MLS suitors may call again in the winter window if he’s not sold elsewhere this month.) Or will he rise again to make himself essential for the ambitious project led by Eddie Howe?MLS club: Philadelphia UnionAaronson’s career rode a steep upward trajectory from the Philadelphia Union to RB Salzburg, only to hit vicious headwinds when he made his record move to Leeds in 2022. A bruising EPL relegation experience followed by a yearlong loan at Union Berlin fueled speculation that he’d leave West Yorkshire for good this summer – but instead he declared his resolve to stay, and win over the skeptics by helping the proud club return to their promised land.The hard-running attacker has already scored his first goal of the new campaign, an injury-time equalizer vs. Portsmouth, though it underlined the challenge in front of him that a missed chance in that same game drew a disproportionate burst of negativity from the Whites. Mark this down, though: “The Medford Messi” will give everything he has and more to prove he belongs at Elland Road.What does the lanky Texan have to do to convince his coach, Peter Bosz, that he’s a starting-caliber striker? That’s the $10,000 question for the FC Dallas success story in ’24-’25. Even working primarily as a supersub, Pepi contributed a steady stream of goals last season as the Boeren marched to the Eredivisie title, but his veteran competitor Luuk de Jong stayed a nose ahead of him with his own impressively prolific campaign.“Pepi knows what he started when he came here, that is completely clear to him, but I can well imagine his frustration every now and then,” said Bosz after the 21-year-old scored a hat trick during preseason. “I understand it, but he has someone in front of him who has been able to take the ball home very often by scoring well.”Pepi knows how to keep his head down and grind. We’ll see, though, if he’s forced to seek a move elsewhere for more minutes come January.Matt TurnerTurner is way down the pecking order at Nottingham Forest and probably needs to get out of there to play regularly and keep pole position on the USMNT’s starting GK spot.Alistair JohnstonThe Canadian international has made 65 all-competition appearances for Scottish powerhouse Celtic FC since his transfer from CF Montréal, scoring two goals and dishing out nine assists. Johnston and his Celtic mates remain dominant domestically, making their Champions League hopes that much more pivotal when that competition kicks off in mid-September.Caleb WileyIt bodes well for Wiley that he stepped right into the starting XI at the outset of his season-long loan at Ligue 1 club Strasbourg, even if it’s only the first step in what figures to be a long road as another member of the Chelsea loan army.Joe ScallyScally just keeps defying expectations at Borussia Mönchengladbach: He logged a full 90 at right back in their season opener, a DFB Pokal win over lower-division side Erzgebirge Aue, and we expect him to remain the USMNT’s starter there in the Yanks’ autumn slate of matches.Tajon BuchananBuchanan faces a long road back from the broken tibia he suffered with Canada over the summer, but will be hungry to earn his place at Inter Milan when recovered.Aidan MorrisMorris has already made a strong first impression at Middlesbrough following his $4 million move from Columbus, with high hopes of powering a promotion push.

Tanner TessmannTessmann is in limbo now that multiple transfers out of Venezia have fallen through – at least if the many reports to that effect are valid – but the FC Dallas academy grad and US Olympic team captain is just playing too well at the moment to be kept off the pitch for long.Andrés GómezGómez’s big move from Real Salt Lake to Stade Rennais was a surprise summer head-turner; the young Colombian needs time to adapt, but his attacking toolkit gives him a bright future.Taty CastellanosCastellanos just got an Argentina call-up after a decent first season at Lazio, which underlines the rising expectations for him as an elite spearhead in Serie A.Jhon DuránThe Aston Villa striker who on the Premier League’s opening weekend made light of a rumbling transfer saga involving West Ham to score the winner for his current club against the club he apparently wants to join – another entertainingly dramatic plotline swirling around the 20-year-old Chicago Fire ex.“Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their…”Source Link: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-abroad-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/g8c2fb2e1f0f827ce44d81556f9ca5a8988f999140c61d233eed74da675769ccc852d58a2c59347178c1bb909c0558bff77d.jpeg BLOGGER - #GLOBAL Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to … Read More

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MLS abroad: Top exports to watch in Europe this season | MLSSoccer.com - Journal Global Web https://www.merchant-business.com/mls-abroad-top-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season-mlssoccer-com/?feed_id=173914&_unique_id=66c68da776490 Across Europe, the world’s top leag... BLOGGER - #GLOBAL Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies.Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to list here. But here’s our take on some of the most engaging at the moment, arranged in the familiar format of a starting XI and reserves bench.MLS club: Chicago Fire FCThe Chicago Fire product remains a soldier in the “Chelsea loan army,” and his next assignment is a starting role in the English third tier with Barnsley, the same club that put Daryl Dike on the European map in 2021. With promotion very much the goal for the Tykes, it’s the right kind of challenge for Slonina, who only turned 20 a few months ago and felt the sting of relegation in his previous loan stint at Belgian club KAS Eupen. Can he blossom into the next great US ‘keeper?“I think the most important thing for me right now is how much game time I’ve been able to get in my first real season in Europe,” Slonina recently told ESPN. “Because I think just breaking into the European scene, it’s not so easy as a player, and even more so as a goalkeeper.”MLS club: LA GalaxyThe summer brought a highly promising move for the ex-LA Galaxy fullback: From the periphery of FC Barcelona’s squad under new manager Hansi Flick to one of the English Premier League’s most impressive overachievers. The fact that the Cherries reportedly paid a fee approaching $11 million (a good chunk of which flows back to the Galaxy thanks to a sell-on clause) reflects a big come-up for both the player and the South Coast club, whose fans, not so long ago, sold raffle tickets to help it stay afloat in the lower reaches of the professional pyramid.Araujo, who just turned 23, has a lot to prove but also much to gain. The Mexican-American defender won 64% of his duels in 25 matches on loan at Las Palmas last season, the fourth-best success rate in the whole of LaLiga, as he helped the Canary Islanders avoid relegation on their return to the top flight. Now he’ll test himself against the world’s best week in, week out.MLS club: FC DallasIt’s a big year ahead for the FC Dallas academy alum, as he looks to build on last year’s breakthrough campaign with another step forward in the harshly unforgiving environs of the EPL. Richards, 24, showed he’s capable of being an everyday starter at that level in the final months of Roy Hodgson’s Palace tenure, often as a makeshift holding midfielder, then earned a regular role as a central defender when Oliver Glasner took the helm in February. Richards also started all three matches in the US men’s national team’s ill-fated Copa América run.CPFC prospered under Glasner in the spring, taking 19 points from 21 in their final seven league matches while averaging three goals scored per game, and Richards seems to be one of the Austrian manager’s first-choice center backs for ’24-’25. But the Alabama native struggled in Palace’s season-opening loss to Brentford last weekend, and with his teammate Marc Guéhi a transfer target for several Prem giants, the club are reportedly ready to bring in reinforcements at his position. Life at the top is a daily dogfight.MLS club: Colorado RapidsFrom MLS SuperDraft pick to a Europa League club in 20 months? That’s the positively Cinderella-esque trajectory the Canadian center back is on, with Nice reportedly having just splashed out north of $7 million to acquire him from the Colorado Rapids.Many of Bombito’s numbers jump off the page: He completed 87% of his passes and led his team in clearances during Canada’s unexpected run to fourth place at Copa América, and reached a velocity of 23.

16 miles per hour in a Rapids match back in April, making him the fastest man in MLS thus far in 2024.Now the 24-year-old from the Montréal suburb of Saint-Laurent will try to extend his amazing story by settling in quickly and competing for regular minutes in France, while Jesse Marsch will surely utilize him as a foundational piece of the CanMNT back line.MLS club: Vancouver Whitecaps FCWith Champions League and Club World Cup trophies, five Bundesliga titles and a myriad of individual honors already under his belt at the still-tender age of 23, “Phonzie” probably ranks as the single-most successful export of MLS’s academy era. The Liberian kid born in the Buduburam refugee camp and raised in snowy Edmonton is now a bona fide global star, a buccaneering left back for Germany’s biggest club and a Real Madrid transfer target for what’s seemed like years at this point.So what’s next for the Vancouver Whitecaps product? He’s entering the final year of his Bayern contract as the Bavarian giants look for revenge after Bayer Leverkusen ended their lengthy streak of league championships, and the 2026 World Cup on home soil looms ever nearer. Whatever new chapter awaits in his already-amazing career, we’ll be watching closely.MLS club: New York Red BullsA USMNT talisman when healthy, the youngest captain at the 2022 World Cup, it’s all gone horribly wrong for the New York Red Bulls homegrown product since the tournament in Qatar. Adams played a mere 138 minutes for AFCB last season thanks to persistent injury woes, and after Copa América we learned that his 180 minutes in that event may have led to him being shelved for the first few months of the EPL calendar.“He finished the season with an injury in his back,” manager Andoni Iraola said during Bournemouth’s preseason. “He wanted to play Copa América because it was very important for him, but he had restrictions and was still in pain, so two days after they were knocked out, he had surgery.”The tenacious defensive midfielder has to get fit, stay fit and play matches regularly this year. Anything short of that might well be career-threatening.MLS club: CF MontréalYet another young Canadian is on the rise. Koné’s displays for Watford combined with all-round engine-room excellence for Les Rouges at Copa América earned him a reported $13 million-plus move to one of France’s biggest clubs, who are optimistic of challenging Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 hegemony with a slew of summer reinforcements under the guidance of new boss Roberto De Zerbi, one of the world’s top young managers.The 22-year-old has developed at a rapid clip since breaking through at CF Montréal during Wilfried Nancy’s tenure, showcasing technique, pace, intelligence and no small amount of bravery from box to box, and his French fluency will help ease this latest transition. OM’s legions of passionate fans are notoriously demanding, but should embrace him when they see his skill and commitment.MLS club: D.C. United“I think this tournament could be a breaking point for Kevin.”Those were the words of US men’s Olympic coach Marko Mitrović after Paredes lit up the program’s long-awaited Summer Games return, his two goals and one assist instigating clutch wins over New Zealand (4-1) and Guinea (3-0) to book a place in the knockout stage. Even the humbling quarterfinal loss to Morocco underlined the D.C. United product’s talent, as the victors fouled him a game-high six times to knock him off his stride, a telling show of respect.Now, the livewire winger/wingback will aim to consolidate his summer exploits into a Bundesliga breakthrough. Ralph Hasenhüttl arrived late last winter to steer the Wolves away from relegation danger, eventually finishing in 12th place, and Paredes, who’s still only 21, possesses the guile, energy and versatility to become a trusted member of the squad. As crowded as the USMNT’s wings depth chart may be, it’s not hard to imagine incoming coach Mauricio Pochettino finding a use for him as well.MLS club:

Atlanta UnitedThose of us who marveled at his effervescent playmaking in Atlanta United’s explosive introduction to MLS may find it hard to believe that the Paraguayan is now 30, a Magpies mainstay with more than 200 NUFC appearances under his belt, including Champions League heroics last season. This summer ATLUTD faithful found it even more shocking to countenance the idea that he could join their upstart Southern counterparts in Charlotte, a bold gambit by The Crown that fell apart in the final days of the transfer window.So where does Miggy go from here? Is he sliding out of favor at Newcastle, perhaps even headed for the exit? (MLS suitors may call again in the winter window if he’s not sold elsewhere this month.) Or will he rise again to make himself essential for the ambitious project led by Eddie Howe?MLS club: Philadelphia UnionAaronson’s career rode a steep upward trajectory from the Philadelphia Union to RB Salzburg, only to hit vicious headwinds when he made his record move to Leeds in 2022. A bruising EPL relegation experience followed by a yearlong loan at Union Berlin fueled speculation that he’d leave West Yorkshire for good this summer – but instead he declared his resolve to stay, and win over the skeptics by helping the proud club return to their promised land.The hard-running attacker has already scored his first goal of the new campaign, an injury-time equalizer vs. Portsmouth, though it underlined the challenge in front of him that a missed chance in that same game drew a disproportionate burst of negativity from the Whites. Mark this down, though: “The Medford Messi” will give everything he has and more to prove he belongs at Elland Road.What does the lanky Texan have to do to convince his coach, Peter Bosz, that he’s a starting-caliber striker? That’s the $10,000 question for the FC Dallas success story in ’24-’25. Even working primarily as a supersub, Pepi contributed a steady stream of goals last season as the Boeren marched to the Eredivisie title, but his veteran competitor Luuk de Jong stayed a nose ahead of him with his own impressively prolific campaign.“Pepi knows what he started when he came here, that is completely clear to him, but I can well imagine his frustration every now and then,” said Bosz after the 21-year-old scored a hat trick during preseason. “I understand it, but he has someone in front of him who has been able to take the ball home very often by scoring well.”Pepi knows how to keep his head down and grind. We’ll see, though, if he’s forced to seek a move elsewhere for more minutes come January.Matt TurnerTurner is way down the pecking order at Nottingham Forest and probably needs to get out of there to play regularly and keep pole position on the USMNT’s starting GK spot.Alistair JohnstonThe Canadian international has made 65 all-competition appearances for Scottish powerhouse Celtic FC since his transfer from CF Montréal, scoring two goals and dishing out nine assists. Johnston and his Celtic mates remain dominant domestically, making their Champions League hopes that much more pivotal when that competition kicks off in mid-September.Caleb WileyIt bodes well for Wiley that he stepped right into the starting XI at the outset of his season-long loan at Ligue 1 club Strasbourg, even if it’s only the first step in what figures to be a long road as another member of the Chelsea loan army.Joe ScallyScally just keeps defying expectations at Borussia Mönchengladbach: He logged a full 90 at right back in their season opener, a DFB Pokal win over lower-division side Erzgebirge Aue, and we expect him to remain the USMNT’s starter there in the Yanks’ autumn slate of matches.Tajon BuchananBuchanan faces a long road back from the broken tibia he suffered with Canada over the summer, but will be hungry to earn his place at Inter Milan when recovered.Aidan MorrisMorris has already made a strong first impression at Middlesbrough following his $4 million move from Columbus, with high hopes of powering a promotion push.

Tanner TessmannTessmann is in limbo now that multiple transfers out of Venezia have fallen through – at least if the many reports to that effect are valid – but the FC Dallas academy grad and US Olympic team captain is just playing too well at the moment to be kept off the pitch for long.Andrés GómezGómez’s big move from Real Salt Lake to Stade Rennais was a surprise summer head-turner; the young Colombian needs time to adapt, but his attacking toolkit gives him a bright future.Taty CastellanosCastellanos just got an Argentina call-up after a decent first season at Lazio, which underlines the rising expectations for him as an elite spearhead in Serie A.Jhon DuránThe Aston Villa striker who on the Premier League’s opening weekend made light of a rumbling transfer saga involving West Ham to score the winner for his current club against the club he apparently wants to join – another entertainingly dramatic plotline swirling around the 20-year-old Chicago Fire ex.“Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their…”Source Link: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-abroad-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/g8c2fb2e1f0f827ce44d81556f9ca5a8988f999140c61d233eed74da675769ccc852d58a2c59347178c1bb909c0558bff77d.jpeg #GLOBAL - BLOGGER Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to … Read More

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MLS abroad: Top exports to watch in Europe this season | MLSSoccer.com - Journal Global Web - #GLOBAL https://www.merchant-business.com/mls-abroad-top-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season-mlssoccer-com/?feed_id=173911&_unique_id=66c68da426536 Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies.Their quest to prove themselves among the planet’s best and brightest provides us with so many fascinating stories to keep track of – too many to list here. But here’s our take on some of the most engaging at the moment, arranged in the familiar format of a starting XI and reserves bench.MLS club: Chicago Fire FCThe Chicago Fire product remains a soldier in the “Chelsea loan army,” and his next assignment is a starting role in the English third tier with Barnsley, the same club that put Daryl Dike on the European map in 2021. With promotion very much the goal for the Tykes, it’s the right kind of challenge for Slonina, who only turned 20 a few months ago and felt the sting of relegation in his previous loan stint at Belgian club KAS Eupen. Can he blossom into the next great US ‘keeper?“I think the most important thing for me right now is how much game time I’ve been able to get in my first real season in Europe,” Slonina recently told ESPN. “Because I think just breaking into the European scene, it’s not so easy as a player, and even more so as a goalkeeper.”MLS club: LA GalaxyThe summer brought a highly promising move for the ex-LA Galaxy fullback: From the periphery of FC Barcelona’s squad under new manager Hansi Flick to one of the English Premier League’s most impressive overachievers. The fact that the Cherries reportedly paid a fee approaching $11 million (a good chunk of which flows back to the Galaxy thanks to a sell-on clause) reflects a big come-up for both the player and the South Coast club, whose fans, not so long ago, sold raffle tickets to help it stay afloat in the lower reaches of the professional pyramid.Araujo, who just turned 23, has a lot to prove but also much to gain. The Mexican-American defender won 64% of his duels in 25 matches on loan at Las Palmas last season, the fourth-best success rate in the whole of LaLiga, as he helped the Canary Islanders avoid relegation on their return to the top flight. Now he’ll test himself against the world’s best week in, week out.MLS club: FC DallasIt’s a big year ahead for the FC Dallas academy alum, as he looks to build on last year’s breakthrough campaign with another step forward in the harshly unforgiving environs of the EPL. Richards, 24, showed he’s capable of being an everyday starter at that level in the final months of Roy Hodgson’s Palace tenure, often as a makeshift holding midfielder, then earned a regular role as a central defender when Oliver Glasner took the helm in February. Richards also started all three matches in the US men’s national team’s ill-fated Copa América run.CPFC prospered under Glasner in the spring, taking 19 points from 21 in their final seven league matches while averaging three goals scored per game, and Richards seems to be one of the Austrian manager’s first-choice center backs for ’24-’25. But the Alabama native struggled in Palace’s season-opening loss to Brentford last weekend, and with his teammate Marc Guéhi a transfer target for several Prem giants, the club are reportedly ready to bring in reinforcements at his position. Life at the top is a daily dogfight.MLS club: Colorado RapidsFrom MLS SuperDraft pick to a Europa League club in 20 months? That’s the positively Cinderella-esque trajectory the Canadian center back is on, with Nice reportedly having just splashed out north of $7 million to acquire him from the Colorado Rapids.Many of Bombito’s numbers jump off the page: He completed 87% of his passes and led his team in clearances during Canada’s unexpected run to fourth place at Copa América, and reached a velocity of 23.

16 miles per hour in a Rapids match back in April, making him the fastest man in MLS thus far in 2024.Now the 24-year-old from the Montréal suburb of Saint-Laurent will try to extend his amazing story by settling in quickly and competing for regular minutes in France, while Jesse Marsch will surely utilize him as a foundational piece of the CanMNT back line.MLS club: Vancouver Whitecaps FCWith Champions League and Club World Cup trophies, five Bundesliga titles and a myriad of individual honors already under his belt at the still-tender age of 23, “Phonzie” probably ranks as the single-most successful export of MLS’s academy era. The Liberian kid born in the Buduburam refugee camp and raised in snowy Edmonton is now a bona fide global star, a buccaneering left back for Germany’s biggest club and a Real Madrid transfer target for what’s seemed like years at this point.So what’s next for the Vancouver Whitecaps product? He’s entering the final year of his Bayern contract as the Bavarian giants look for revenge after Bayer Leverkusen ended their lengthy streak of league championships, and the 2026 World Cup on home soil looms ever nearer. Whatever new chapter awaits in his already-amazing career, we’ll be watching closely.MLS club: New York Red BullsA USMNT talisman when healthy, the youngest captain at the 2022 World Cup, it’s all gone horribly wrong for the New York Red Bulls homegrown product since the tournament in Qatar. Adams played a mere 138 minutes for AFCB last season thanks to persistent injury woes, and after Copa América we learned that his 180 minutes in that event may have led to him being shelved for the first few months of the EPL calendar.“He finished the season with an injury in his back,” manager Andoni Iraola said during Bournemouth’s preseason. “He wanted to play Copa América because it was very important for him, but he had restrictions and was still in pain, so two days after they were knocked out, he had surgery.”The tenacious defensive midfielder has to get fit, stay fit and play matches regularly this year. Anything short of that might well be career-threatening.MLS club: CF MontréalYet another young Canadian is on the rise. Koné’s displays for Watford combined with all-round engine-room excellence for Les Rouges at Copa América earned him a reported $13 million-plus move to one of France’s biggest clubs, who are optimistic of challenging Paris Saint-Germain’s Ligue 1 hegemony with a slew of summer reinforcements under the guidance of new boss Roberto De Zerbi, one of the world’s top young managers.The 22-year-old has developed at a rapid clip since breaking through at CF Montréal during Wilfried Nancy’s tenure, showcasing technique, pace, intelligence and no small amount of bravery from box to box, and his French fluency will help ease this latest transition. OM’s legions of passionate fans are notoriously demanding, but should embrace him when they see his skill and commitment.MLS club: D.C. United“I think this tournament could be a breaking point for Kevin.”Those were the words of US men’s Olympic coach Marko Mitrović after Paredes lit up the program’s long-awaited Summer Games return, his two goals and one assist instigating clutch wins over New Zealand (4-1) and Guinea (3-0) to book a place in the knockout stage. Even the humbling quarterfinal loss to Morocco underlined the D.C. United product’s talent, as the victors fouled him a game-high six times to knock him off his stride, a telling show of respect.Now, the livewire winger/wingback will aim to consolidate his summer exploits into a Bundesliga breakthrough. Ralph Hasenhüttl arrived late last winter to steer the Wolves away from relegation danger, eventually finishing in 12th place, and Paredes, who’s still only 21, possesses the guile, energy and versatility to become a trusted member of the squad. As crowded as the USMNT’s wings depth chart may be, it’s not hard to imagine incoming coach Mauricio Pochettino finding a use for him as well.MLS club:

Atlanta UnitedThose of us who marveled at his effervescent playmaking in Atlanta United’s explosive introduction to MLS may find it hard to believe that the Paraguayan is now 30, a Magpies mainstay with more than 200 NUFC appearances under his belt, including Champions League heroics last season. This summer ATLUTD faithful found it even more shocking to countenance the idea that he could join their upstart Southern counterparts in Charlotte, a bold gambit by The Crown that fell apart in the final days of the transfer window.So where does Miggy go from here? Is he sliding out of favor at Newcastle, perhaps even headed for the exit? (MLS suitors may call again in the winter window if he’s not sold elsewhere this month.) Or will he rise again to make himself essential for the ambitious project led by Eddie Howe?MLS club: Philadelphia UnionAaronson’s career rode a steep upward trajectory from the Philadelphia Union to RB Salzburg, only to hit vicious headwinds when he made his record move to Leeds in 2022. A bruising EPL relegation experience followed by a yearlong loan at Union Berlin fueled speculation that he’d leave West Yorkshire for good this summer – but instead he declared his resolve to stay, and win over the skeptics by helping the proud club return to their promised land.The hard-running attacker has already scored his first goal of the new campaign, an injury-time equalizer vs. Portsmouth, though it underlined the challenge in front of him that a missed chance in that same game drew a disproportionate burst of negativity from the Whites. Mark this down, though: “The Medford Messi” will give everything he has and more to prove he belongs at Elland Road.What does the lanky Texan have to do to convince his coach, Peter Bosz, that he’s a starting-caliber striker? That’s the $10,000 question for the FC Dallas success story in ’24-’25. Even working primarily as a supersub, Pepi contributed a steady stream of goals last season as the Boeren marched to the Eredivisie title, but his veteran competitor Luuk de Jong stayed a nose ahead of him with his own impressively prolific campaign.“Pepi knows what he started when he came here, that is completely clear to him, but I can well imagine his frustration every now and then,” said Bosz after the 21-year-old scored a hat trick during preseason. “I understand it, but he has someone in front of him who has been able to take the ball home very often by scoring well.”Pepi knows how to keep his head down and grind. We’ll see, though, if he’s forced to seek a move elsewhere for more minutes come January.Matt TurnerTurner is way down the pecking order at Nottingham Forest and probably needs to get out of there to play regularly and keep pole position on the USMNT’s starting GK spot.Alistair JohnstonThe Canadian international has made 65 all-competition appearances for Scottish powerhouse Celtic FC since his transfer from CF Montréal, scoring two goals and dishing out nine assists. Johnston and his Celtic mates remain dominant domestically, making their Champions League hopes that much more pivotal when that competition kicks off in mid-September.Caleb WileyIt bodes well for Wiley that he stepped right into the starting XI at the outset of his season-long loan at Ligue 1 club Strasbourg, even if it’s only the first step in what figures to be a long road as another member of the Chelsea loan army.Joe ScallyScally just keeps defying expectations at Borussia Mönchengladbach: He logged a full 90 at right back in their season opener, a DFB Pokal win over lower-division side Erzgebirge Aue, and we expect him to remain the USMNT’s starter there in the Yanks’ autumn slate of matches.Tajon BuchananBuchanan faces a long road back from the broken tibia he suffered with Canada over the summer, but will be hungry to earn his place at Inter Milan when recovered.Aidan MorrisMorris has already made a strong first impression at Middlesbrough following his $4 million move from Columbus, with high hopes of powering a promotion push.

Tanner TessmannTessmann is in limbo now that multiple transfers out of Venezia have fallen through – at least if the many reports to that effect are valid – but the FC Dallas academy grad and US Olympic team captain is just playing too well at the moment to be kept off the pitch for long.Andrés GómezGómez’s big move from Real Salt Lake to Stade Rennais was a surprise summer head-turner; the young Colombian needs time to adapt, but his attacking toolkit gives him a bright future.Taty CastellanosCastellanos just got an Argentina call-up after a decent first season at Lazio, which underlines the rising expectations for him as an elite spearhead in Serie A.Jhon DuránThe Aston Villa striker who on the Premier League’s opening weekend made light of a rumbling transfer saga involving West Ham to score the winner for his current club against the club he apparently wants to join – another entertainingly dramatic plotline swirling around the 20-year-old Chicago Fire ex.“Across Europe, the world’s top leagues are beginning their marathon fall-to-spring seasons, and now more than ever, that involves dozens of former MLS players and products of MLS academies. Their…”Source Link: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-abroad-exports-to-watch-in-europe-this-season http://109.70.148.72/~merchant29/6network/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/g8c2fb2e1f0f827ce44d81556f9ca5a8988f999140c61d233eed74da675769ccc852d58a2c59347178c1bb909c0558bff77d.jpeg BLOGGER - #GLOBAL

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Fredua Koranteng “Freddy” Adu (born June 2, 1989) is a former soccer player who played primarily as an attacking midfielder, but as a winger or forward. Before the time of his signing with DC United at the age of 14, he was spoken of and treated as the future of US soccer; even being referred to as “the next Pelé”. He failed to live up to the expectations and, after leaving DC United, he became a journeyman, playing for fourteen teams in eight countries: the US, Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Serbia, and Finland.

At DC United, he broke several records. He became the youngest athlete ever to sign a professional contract in the US after he was selected by the team in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft on January 16, 2004. Three months later, on April 3, 2004, he became the youngest player to appear in an MLS game when he came on as a substitute in a game against the San Jose Earthquakes, and on April 17, he became the youngest scorer in MLS history, scoring a goal in a 3–2 loss to the MetroStars. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Inter Miami CF Signs MLS SuperDraft Pick Yannick Bright [ Inter Miami CF ]

Inter Miami CF Signs MLS SuperDraft Pick Yannick Bright [Highlights] Inter Miami CF announced today it has signed its 2024 MLS SuperDraft first-round selection midfielder Yannick Bright to a contract running… TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Signing Inter Miami CF have signed midfielder Yannick Bright through the 2024 MLS season with options spanning… Inter Miami CF is making bold moves to bolster its…

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New York City FC Confirms Traveling Preseason Roster & Additional Preseason Friendly

New York City FC Confirms Traveling Preseason Roster & Additional Preseason Friendly Click the link to find out all you need and more.

New York City FC today announced its preseason roster ahead of the 2024 season.   The Club arrived in Tampa, Florida earlier this week for training camp.    29 players make this season’s preseason roster in Tampa. One Academy player, two New York City FC II players, and one trialist will join the First Team this year. MLS SuperDraft selections Malachi Jones and Taylor Calheira have traveled…