Olympic Qualifying U24 Tournament - Guadalajara Mexico - March 18 to 30 2021

[Shway]

Let's not cause any confusion, this is not the official roster!

It's a keep sake I was making/ the team I hope(d) for.

Edited March 10, 2021 by Shway

[toontownman]

What we get:

St. Clair, Pantemis, Nogueira

Sturring, Yao, Romeo, Montgomery

Bassong, Godinho, Chung

Dias, Shome, Norman, Tabla, Raposo, Metcalfe

Brym, Buchanan, Corbeanu, Bair

EDIT: Also not official. Somewhere in between both would be reasonable lol

Edited March 10, 2021 by toontownman

[Shway]

1 minute ago, toontownman said:

What we get:

St. Clair, Pantemis, Nogueira

Sturring, Yao, Romeo, Montgomery

Bassong, Godinho, Chung

Dias, Shome, Norman, Tabla, Raposo, Metcalfe

Brym, Buchanan, Corbeanu, Bair

 

damn...that seems very realistic/probable. 
Still not as bad a previous years, will be the silver lining?

I'm just interested in hearing Biello talk....for a change.

[toontownman]

There is no reason our forward line can't still be very exciting, its CB and CM that is the big question mark with what they have managed to assemble. Hopefully Cornelius isn't drafted up.

[Nate3322]

2 minutes ago, toontownman said:

What we get:

St. Clair, Pantemis, Nogueira

Sturring, Yao, Romeo, Montgomery

Bassong, Godinho, Chung

Dias, Shome, Norman, Tabla, Raposo, Metcalfe

Brym, Buchanan, Corbeanu, Bair

 

If this is the roster we get I'd be so disappointed but I can definitely see our roster looking like this sadly

[Alex]

March 10th 2020:

I can’t wait for the Olympic roster to come out. 
 

March 10th 2021:

I can’t wait for the Olympic roster to come out. 

[JamesF]

abzi is at the airport on his instagram story

[Shway]

Interesting....maybe no Bassong, Guti or both?

Hopefully this team will have unexpected 2012 performances, but even then...I believe we had all our options available for that tournament. 

[TFC2017]

31 minutes ago, toontownman said:

What we get:

St. Clair, Pantemis, Nogueira

Sturring, Yao, Romeo, Montgomery

Bassong, Godinho, Chung

Dias, Shome, Norman, Tabla, Raposo, Metcalfe

Brym, Buchanan, Corbeanu, Bair

EDIT: Also not official. Somewhere in between both would be reasonable lol

I don't want to see Godinho, or Shome. I'm fine with the rest. 

 

[N1ckbr0wn]

50 minutes ago, Shway said:

Well here's the what I hoped for:

 

 

..... if this isn’t real.. at that point you’re just messing with us..

[Shway]

1 minute ago, N1ckbr0wn said:

..... if this isn’t real.. at that point you’re just messing with us..

Messing with us! I'm messing my damn self up😢!!

[narduch]

Love the Insta sleuthing 

[dyslexic nam]

50 minutes ago, Shway said:

Let's not cause any confusion, this is not the official roster!

It's a keep sake I was making/ the team I hope(d) for.

That just hurts.  

[El Hombre]

12 minutes ago, TFC2017 said:

I don't want to see Godinho, or Shome. I'm fine with the rest. 

 

Why not?  At this point in their careers they've got more professional, high level experience than most of the rest of the players on the provisional roster.

Our goal is to win now with the best players available to us.  "Promise" and "potential" don't mean much in a short tournament like this.

[TFC2017]

1 minute ago, El Hombre said:

Why not?  At this point in their careers they've got more professional, high level experience than most of the rest of the players on the provisional roster.

Our goal is to win now with the best players available to us.  "Promise" and "potential" don't mean much in a short tournament like this.

I really don't think either are that good though ... Maybe just me, maybe I can be proved wrong, if he proves me wrong I'll more than happily eat crow because that means he's succeeding which is good for our program.. With that said though, I just don't see any quality in him. 

[toontownman]

Big for Abzi. Wasn't expecting that. Means not Bassong (weird as he confirmed himself) or Guti (big shame)

[Obinna]

5 minutes ago, El Hombre said:

Why not?  At this point in their careers they've got more professional, high level experience than most of the rest of the players on the provisional roster.

Our goal is to win now with the best players available to us.  "Promise" and "potential" don't mean much in a short tournament like this.

I've been more than harsh on Godinho since the Gold Cup, but you're right. If Godinho is available he should be competing for a spot on this squad, considering his experience and club level. All players make mistakes and his were almost 2 years ago now, in a much more difficult tournament than this will be.

I will not complain if we call upon him. It would be a good opportunity for him to come back into the national team picture and gain some confidence. 

[trc2014]

It’s a funny sequence, if Cornelius is not on this list next step is to starting worrying about the WCQ squad. Haha 

[narduch]

Looks like El Salvador is bringing extra players for training. 

 

[Dominic94]

There’s 2 ways to look at this:

a young known big name isn’t going and it sucks

a player who wouldn’t have gotten a chance to shine and emerge is now going to.

we all know that we were always going to leave some good players home, well that’s happening but maybe not how we wanted I did say we are deep but time to put our depth to the test.

[Dicdan]

abzi were also on mtl airport.... 👀

[Shway]

Oh they got money, money eh....

[toontownman]

That

14 minutes ago, narduch said:

Looks like El Salvador is bringing extra players for training. 

 

This could be Abzi. Makes sense to take a few extra players. Oh wait. CSA got not time or money for that, fools. 

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

Realistically you need extra players in case your first 20 get injured before the first match day or arrive with the 'rona.

[JasonDias]

Instead of anxiously waiting for a roster drop, let's just all be excited (win or lose) that in a few more sleeps we will actually have an opportunity to comment on a competition based men's national team game since November 15 2019, a whole 481 days ago haha 😅