Episode 42: A U17 Player Pool Review ahead of the Nike Friendlies

Belz, Joey Anthone and Matt Hartman take a deep dive into the
pool of players born in 2002 or later and therefore eligible for
the U17 World Cup next year. We talk about how this age group
stacks up against past cycles, discuss more than 50 individual
players and try to answer a bunch of very good Twitter questions.
This is a long one. Listen at 1.5 speed. Use the show notes. If
you get bored with the discussion of one position, skip to the
next. We start with the top prospects, generally, and move our
way down at each spot on the field.


0:30 Is this U17 cycle as good as the last one?

8:45 Goalkeepers: Damian Las, Chituru Odunze, Gavin Krenecki,
Seth Wilson, Aaron Cervantes, Vicente Reyes

19:00 Centerbacks: Mason Judge, Axel Alejandre, Michael
Barragan, Antino Lopez, Casey Walls, Owen Guske, Kenneth Nielsen,
Ethan Bayer

32:50 Fullbacks: George Bello, Joe Scally, Kobe Hernandez,
Mauricio Cuevas, Adam Armour, John Michael Tolkin, Jacob Greene,
Anton Sorenson, Amir Daley

48:25 Holding and box-to-box midfielders: Tayvon Gray, Joshua
Atencio, Danny Robles, Peter Stroud, Gilbert Fuentes, Edwin
Villareal, Maximilian Göggel, Javier Casas, Adam Saldana, Will
Reilly, Danny Flores, David Rodriguez

1:13:45 Attacking midfielders: Gianluca Busio, Giovanni Reyna
(more of a winger, really), James Dunning, Moses Nyeman, Jack
Imperato

1:32:10 Wingers: Andres Jasson, Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez (more
of a striker, really), Cade Cowell, Joshua Pynadath, Patrick
Bohui, Andre Luis Queiroz Costa, Dante Sealy, Selmir Miscic, Sam
Sarver, Julian Gaines, Ray Serrano

1:49:53 Strikers: Griffin Yow, Ricardo Pepi, Sagir Arce,
Tyler Freeman, Diego Lopez, Dantouma Toure

2:10:05 Starting XIs and Twitter questions (a lot of good
ones!)



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