American Prospects you MUST Follow in MLS
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Today we go through 5 American Major League Soccer prospects that you must keep track!
Fidel Barajas Interview:
Jalen Neal Interview:
Obed Vargas Interview:
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Vargas scored his first MLS goal and it was quite a nice finish
And drew the penalty for Raul's second goal.
Tac, I'd love to see 'USMNT Prospects you MUST Follow Playing Abroad (or in Europe)' also. Love these updates on our young prospects, maybe you could make it a monthly or bi-monthly series?
The future is bright for our USMNT!
Some of these prospects should not write off the EFL Championship, Serie B, Austria, Scotland, 2nd Bundesliga, Portugal. The experience will be better than MLS.
im excited to see cremaschi and barajas development at mls
I really like Caleb Wiley. He's been a solid starter for Atlanta logging heavy minutes for the last two years and has looked more than comfortable playing at the professional level. If he continues to grow in his career I can see him take over the LB spot after Jedi exits his prime
Dang, most of the honorable mentions I wanted to hear more about since I've seen a lot of them play. Jalen Neal I really liked in that gold cup.
--> You watch MLS so I don't have to. Thanks, Tac!
--> Máximo Carrizo seems like an exciting prospect. I look forward to your interview with him (which I'm sure you'll get soon).
Ive seen Esmir a few times this season, style-wise he kind of reminds me of a young Jack Grealish at Aston Villa (just takes anyone on) its a good mindset to have, if he develops that skillset, hell be an asset to the US
Chris Brady should be part of this. The kid gets better every week and last week stopped two double deflected shots in amazing fashion and is the only reason the Chicago Fire aren’t giving up 8 goals per game because their defense is awful.
Obed actually came off the bench in the CCL final in the 30th minute or so when JP tore his ACL.
He started the last game. Pretty sure.
@@TacticalManager Nah man. I was in the building and am certain. Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_CONCACAF_Champions_League_final
@@TacticalManager the last game as in the championship? nah, he came in when Joao Paulo got hurt.
he definitely came off bench in CCL final
My Top 10 U-21 Players in terms of Potential:
1. Nimfasha Berchimas
2. Julian Hall
3. Máximo Carrizo
4. Obed Vargas
5. Matai Akinmboni
6. Niko Tsakiris
7. Noah Cobb
8. Chris Brady
9. Jalen Neal
10. Esmir Bajraktarevic
Also what are your guys' thought on Noah Cobb? He's an 18 year old starting Center Back for Atlanta, but not talked about much.
You have Cobb but not Wiley?
keep pumping those MLS videos. It's good for my agenda
My top 5 is
Jalen Neal
Esmir Barjarktervic
Nimfasha Berchimas
Fidel Barajas
Ben Cremaschi
Cremaschi's raw talent is not as exciting as the rest, but I'd say he has the brightest future out of them. Reason being he's at the right club, at the right time.
While i am not denying the talent of these boys, nor the fact the might stand a chance to represent their nations some time or play in top 5 league in EU coming from the USA to Eu is a lot different then for example a basketball player coming from span or germany or serbia to the US.
The american culture is very easy to integrate in if you compare to an european culture that is not english. First there is a massive language barrier in most cases, espacially in Germany, France and Italy. Second the speed of european top flight football is so much faster that most players coming over need more then a year to adapt, which is not a bad thing per se as players from brazil or argentina dont perfrom right away most of the time as well.
I am from Augsburg, Germany, the club there is FC Augsburg, the club Pepi went to. It was a huge risk for the club, financially speaking, as he was our record transfer. He arrived during midseason and had to adapt to germany obv, while Augsburg is a city with lots of americans, due to the american army beeing stationed in Augsburg until 1991. He didnt perform, he was in a bad squad and it probably was a bad choice to move to Augsburg at the time. He now had a good season in the Eredevisie in the netherlands, which looked promising. McKennie, Pulisic, Reyna (tho he dropped in performance in the last 18 months) have been great to watch and only show the potential the US has in football.
What i am tryn to say here as reason two, the risk that clubs have to take when they are bringing over a player from the US is for most of the european clubs really high.
I have been a live long supporter of Bayern and Davies was phenomenal in his 2nd season break out. But, even someone with his talent has been stagnant(?) with his abilities in the last 2 seasons. Its sad, idk why tbh but its a fact if you watch his games.
I belive speculating about under 20 players in the US beeing able to move to Europe is almost without a cause, since its more then likly, that most will stay in the USA in the end, or go to the mexican league maybe idk.
I really hope the world cup 26 will bring a massive boost to football in the US as what i always admire about US sports is the amount of talent in whatever sport they touch if that makes sense. Another great nation in football can never hurt. Also the fact its not some fckin world cup in the desert is great :D.
Anyways, love the channel, been following it for some time now and you defintly raised my awareness about US football from about none to some.^^
There's always a risk bringing in a young player, and there is usually more misses than hits. That being, because of a lot of the comments you've said, europe has been getting many of the US players at a discount compared to S. American players. Plus, most won't and shouldn't move to the top 5 leagues first, but the next step down to adapt, I would agree. Because we now have academies the next wave of players are only going to be better though. Also, many of them speak Spanish too, so LaLiga will probably have an edge picking up players. The last part I'm only speculating though.
@@michaelpeli2429 Yeah thats why i excluded Spain from my language barrier list.^^
I think you misunderstand just how much money is in the game in europe and how its devided. The big clubs can buy anyone from thew MLS without any problem, but for example i dont think another bundesliga team the size of Augsburg will take their chances with a 20 million transfer, in the near future that is, you just get better talent in smaller european leagues, which also dont count towards a non-EU squad place.
Obv there a risk in any talent, but the risk in NA seems a bit higher atm since when an 18-20 year old performs rn in the MLS doesnt mean they will do good at all in Europe....if you understand what i am asying here....the level of the MLS isnt high enough yet.
The thing about going to a smaller league like Eredevisie, Belgian pro League of Portuguese primeira League is that really only 6-8 clubs out of those leagues got the spare money to spend on NA talent, most probably dont even scout the MLS.....and if you get tranfered to a big english league club, they will loan you out, since their owners only see the player as a financial investment rather then a sportsman like the opther european leagues. Loaning is great sometimes, but most loan spells end in desaster for either side.
I dont think that europe gets a discount on american players tbh, the skill level just isnt that good to justify higher transfer values. The price of american players is actually a bit over the top because of their marketing value. Whoever gets the first big big player from the US will swim in money from marketing. Thats also the reason why every single talent with the smallest chance of becoming a star is beeing bought by europe. It would be much saver to invest less money into a EU talent, that probably has the same potential but costs way less, also much easier to integrate for him.
Also there are in fact some clubs who very rarly do a bad transfer, since scouting has become exessive in european football. Look at the last talent transfers of clubs like Dortmund, Benfica, Ajax, Porto, RB Leipig, RB Slazburg, AS Monaco, Brighton, just to name a few.
There is such a huge gap in intensity and pressure (ball pressure and mental pressure) from the MLS to most top European leagues. Pepi definitely wasn't ready and I think in the future the Eredivisie is a more gentle step up for these American players than going directly to the Bundesliga. Those players like Reyna, Pulisic, and McKennie that succeeded in that step up are rare but there will undoubtedly be more of them. I think it helps that all three spent at least part of their childhood overseas so it wasn't as much of an adjustment for them.
I also really hope that the World Cup will bring a boost to football in the US. I was a kid when we had it here in '94 and I remember seeing Baggio and Maradonna (last international game for him) at Foxboro Stadium. What a thrill it was and will be for the next generation in '26!
@oktoberfest2140 I am mostly not disagreeing you, but there are a couple things. In this case, he is specifically talking about american homegrown players, and he is stressing if they get the chance to go to Europe they should. So yeah a lot probably won't make. He's looking at it from a USMNT perspective, because almost our entire senior national team plays in Europe now. This is in contrast to what Mexico has been doing by keep most of them in their league, and look at the two directions the national teams have been going in lately. They haven't beat us in a while now. As for the MLS, many of the young players are actually S.Am. players using MLS as a stepping stone to Europe, a lot because of economic reasons in those leagues, but this could be said kind of provided a vetting process for european clubs to see how these young players respond to moving away from home. Also, you point in scouts kind of proves my point, that these clubs will not buy American players unless they see the potential. We have more and more big clubs coming over here to find prospects in the youth tournaments, and finding these acadamy players. Including a 14 yr old that Man City just bought. The players have been a trickle, but will because a stream of players soon. So, I think the scouts are probably ahead of most european fans, because you won't see these players for another 3-5 years. Which shows, because they are joining mls senior teams at a younger and younger age. Now how to keep them and make mls better is a whole other topic, but for now Europe should be the goal. Lastly, I suspect that even for smaller european clubs growing your own players is the best bet.
@@michaelpeli2429 Yeah growing your own players is always the most effective way, also by far the best viewed way by any fanbase. If City buys a 14yr old player, that doenst really mean a lot. Like City doesnt care about money so they just throw it around, sometimes without a cause, especially in the youth department. But who knows, maybe this boy is the next big thing.
I mean scouts dont watch a game randomly obv, they knwo why they are attending a specific gamne, to watch one or maybe 2 players in that match. Youth scouting is different. I know bayern is doing it big time in the US, but other than Chris Richards(now Crystal Palace) and Taylor Booth(now Utrecht/Netherlands), both came from Dallas, none has made it so far, which is a pretty bad return.
Lots of talent has been wasted becasue they were thrown to early into the professional teams. Its not possible to tell that a player is great just becasue he played a cpl games at the age of 16 or 17....i got lots of examples for this case and there are actually studies about this topic.^^
I think the MLS will never be aible to keep the absolut top talents, its like the other US leagues, every european basketball player, if he gets the chance, will want to play at least one season in the NBA.
You can keep young players by either offering them money, not a problem in the US once the leagues reaches a certain level, second by expanding the prestige of such league, maybe the club wold cup will do something for the MLS, tho in europe the view on this tournament is that some Eu club is gonna win it anyways and we dont know why we have to play this tournament in the middle of our season. Obv the reason is money but lets wait and see how it plays out.
Third, and this one only comes with time, the prestige of football within the US has to grow. Once you are a superstar in the US, you dont need to leave for europe, obv some still want to try i guess but its gonna keep a lot of talent in the league. The MLS right now is going throu stages the european football has been in maybe 2 decades ago, but its doing these steps much faster.
Damn sorry i have a lot of typos in this one, its not my mother tongue and i am to tired to correct myself rn. Hope my point is still understandable.
I envy you for seeing maradonna live :( tho i saw messi in munich play once so that was a replacment i guess haha
T-M - TV the best
The player with the highest ceiling in this list is Fidel Barajas and Carrizo
Really loving this gen for what you touched on Tac- mentality. I see today's prospects- Obed, Fidel, Esmir, Jalen- all are not only technically sound, but have good soccer minds as well as heaps of composure for their age. Far different from the 1 dimensional all athlete mold of the past. Sorry Cade Cowell. Think we're seeing the golden gen tag ain't it- we're just finally starting to develop players and we're just now only barely getting started!
Patrick Shulte from Columbus?
I like Barajas and Cremaschi
I knew you wouldn't be able to talk about Esmir without any camp cupcake slander
Ugh... MLS is frustrating to the point that I don't want to support it. I like Cremaschi, Barajas, and Luna for sure. .
USL isn’t the second division since it isn’t part of the MLS pyramid. USL is technically also a first division.
I refer to them as a 1.5 division.
Any love for Kristian Fletcher of DC United?
9:28 Maxico? Lol
Bro what about niko tsakiris
Axel Kei?
Filippo, it's the Brazilian blood coursing through your veins that make you enamored of technical skill before athleticism. And, yep, top professional players have great technique. They'd better, after playing a decade or more before they wind up in the top leagues. But let's get real here -- if you are not a top athlete, you will simply not make it to the highest levels. Why do we see fairly regularly guys do gymnastic flips when they score? EVERYBODY at that level has more fast twitch muscles than 99.99% of the population ages 18-30.
They all have great vertical leaps. Gabriel from Arsenal I swear has a 40 inch vertical leap -- he could do a reverse dunk with ease. And he's from "technique land." A few years back, when the USA played Argentina, Gooch Oneywu was matched up with Messi on a flighted ball, and guess who won the header? The shrimp out leapt the 6'3" mountain man -- my jaw couldn't have dropped further. Messi's athleticism is off the charts.
The guys in the top leagues can do shuttle cone drills at the speed you'd expect from an NFL wide receiver. Strength also matters, which is why a guy like Brendon Aaronson has trouble in challenges, even though he's just as fast or faster than a lot of guys out there. Finally, even at 18, some guys are still growing into their bodies, and certainly at 15 there is some physical maturing to do which could send their physique in ways that may be not so good. Bottom line, you need to be super fast at an all out run, really quick in short bursts, have off the charts balance and coordination, AND strength. If you don't have those athletic gifts, but a great first touch...well, enjoy your time in MLS or some 3rd division Euro league.
I completely agree.
ALL professional sports that require running, jumping, etc. (i.e. no darts here!) start and end with all-around athleticism. The in-between period is for technical/emotional/psychological/tactical development.
w video
Reed baker whiting for me tac
Yo, remember me?
No love for Konrad Laimer?
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Tactical that how it goes when it come to developing player, you have early and late bloomer and some that just never bloom, you make send a Million of dollar in a development program over a decade and you might just get only 2 player solid player out of the program and with 2 player u probably can recoup that back invest but it depend on where they go and when I said 2 player like Pulisic and Gio type, but like u said man its not easy can't u just don't know probably next year this time you some new set of young player pop up ..
11:10 It's one thing not to be able to pronounce Asmir's name, but it's lazy and disrespectful to not even write out his full name. I have no idea who he is but I want to know his last name so that I can look up info on him myself.
Edit: His name isn't even Asmir. It's *_Esmir_*_ Bajraktarevic_ which is pronounced Bay-raktar-evich.
You're in too deep. If you win the lottery, we're counting on you to keep making vids 😉
If he played in MLS I would think Cade Cowell would be on the list.
Have you watched him at chivas?? he's been found out like crazy, guy is only fast and physical but he has almost zero technical ability. He has to improve a TON next season or I honestly see him going back to MLS. Hopefully not tho I really hope he starts to better his level cause I genuinely thought he would be something special a couple years ago.
Freddy Adu
no goalies :/
I love You and MLS so much Dear Filippo, MLS is the best league in the world and USA Soccer is the best ever and ever.🥰😍🤗
Are you trolling or something?
@@Johnnybgood76i dont think he is lol
I know this is mainly a USMNT video, but if MLS wants to promote and reward player development, homegrown players should not count towards the salary cap at all. Or at least have a tiered cap rate. HGs making up to the max salary have no salary charge, TAM level pay only counts as 200k, and DP pay only counts as 400 to max salary. Also, there should be no cap on the amount of Homegrown DP level players. I know it's complicated, but some of us sickos are into this stuff too. 😂
They already don't count toward the salary cap
I like the cap hit idea, but Homegrown DPs would result in the same problem Mexico has right now. Paying an artificially raised price for early-mid 20s players prevents them from moving to the tougher European leagues since they can earn more $$$ at home in MX (sort of like the 'English player tax' in the Premier League). This has been stalling the development of top-tier players and I think is a big part of why the national teams are trending the way they are.
@@DLDepoy depends on how good MLS gets. If MLS becomes one of the best leagues in the world then overpaying for American talent doesn't matter.
“The main reason I watch MLS”
Because Orlando City are in shambles lmao
But Tac, MLS induces nausea.
kids
Sure, I will be doing that...NOT 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡💩💩💩💩
Doubt you watch them. Just get resources from others. But that’s whatever
looking great in MLS is like being the champion of the special Olympics. does it really mean anything?
Wait a minute, I saw a short video years ago about how Carrizo was the youngest player to ever receive an MLS contract. Actually, I think it was from THIS channel?!🫢
He has a contract, he hasn’t played a minute yet.
He plays for NYCFC II