Xavier. Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Aidan Morris (Nov. 16, 2001) - Currently playing for Columbus Crew - Center Midfield Eligible for the USA. Played for USMNT during their recent domestic camp against Mexico and Serbia. There was a lot of questions about his eligibility to Canada. He is on the preliminary list for the upcoming Nations League games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlantic Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Don’t want to falsely assume they have the same parents but his brother Jake should also be eligible for us. He’s made the bench for Crew quite a bit and has played MLSNP. 24 y/o LB. narduch and NVsoccer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinceA Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 This thread will probably get quickly moved to World Soccer lol. I expect to him get cap tied to the US this summer narduch, toontownman, Corazon and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadaFan123 Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Can’t seem him committing to us so I’m thinking this is a bit of gamesmanship on our part. Force a bubble player into their squad who wouldn’t otherwise be called and sow some discontent in their squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trc2014 Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 14 minutes ago, Xavier. said: Aidan Morris (Nov. 16, 2001) - Currently playing for Columbus Crew - Center Midfield Eligible for the USA. Played for USMNT during their recent domestic camp against Mexico and Serbia. There was a lot of questions about his eligibility to Canada. He is on the preliminary list for the upcoming Nations League games. Anyone know how he played in the USMNT camp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinceA Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 11 minutes ago, trc2014 said: Anyone know how he played in the USMNT camp? Decently. The main thing is he's very well regarded and the hope is he's Tyler Adam's long term backup. trc2014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InglewoodJack Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 What is his connection to Canada, parents? Seems he’s spent his whole life in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack1997 Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 This could mean nothing or a lot, maybe there’s a chance he thought there was no realistic way for him to be a regular USA player behind, Mckennie,Musah,Adams,De la torre,Booth and Tillman even though Adams is the only true DM there whereas with Canada there’s only Eustaquio and Koné who would be clear cut ahead of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 His inclusion on the list is weird unless there is some real smoke here. He is on the USMNT list too by the way johnyb, toontownman, The Real Marc and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stryker911 Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Columbus is significantly more Canadian than the Whitecaps. sose, Metro, Strait Red and 16 others 6 1 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigandy Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 55 minutes ago, CanadaFan123 said: Can’t seem him committing to us so I’m thinking this is a bit of gamesmanship on our part. Force a bubble player into their squad who wouldn’t otherwise be called and sow some discontent in their squad. This makes no sense. Why would there be discontent on calling up a youngster whos on the bubble? This isnt the WC squad so calling in a new player as your 23rd guy isnt going to cause problems for the team. Who would be upset at that. The other competitors who are at the 23rd spot and wouldnt be called up and therefore cant be around to cause issues? If hes not good enough on the bubble then the USA could call our bluff and then we either don't call him up and nothing happens or we call him up and then have discontent within our squad(using your logic). This would have to be some weird 4d chess with many things aligning for it to actually have any impact on the USA squad. Free kick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 It is a waste of a space unless there is encouragement from his camp. Priso could have been on there instead or Farsi, Cambridge. He has 2 caps for the states according to Wiki? Doesn't that make him ineligible for us for three years anyway? Or were they friendlies that don't count? Most likely his agents gave the CSA encouragement to force the US Camps hand. We shall see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phresh Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 1 minute ago, toontownman said: He has 2 caps for the states according to Wiki? Doesn't that make him ineligible for us for three years anyway? Or were they friendlies that don't count? Both were friendlies (Serbia and Mexico) toontownman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 johnyb, Corazon, canuckgbp and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obinna Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Weird development. I don't see him playing for us, but we could use the midfield depth.... toontownman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One American Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 He played meh against Serbia and helped turn the game off the bench against Mexico. In MLS, Who scored has him as a top 5 overall MLS player. He probably feels confident about his USMNT prospects at this point. Although it's still a tight numbers game. johnyb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigandy Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Where is morris in our depth charts. I no virtually nothing about him but it sounds like hes a CDM. Staq is currently our cdm but he plays as more of an 8. So a midfield of staq, kone and a true CDM would be a good system. At CDM I would imagine it goes. 1. piette 2. Morris 3. Loturi At CDM/CM hybrid 1. staq 2. Piette 3. Morris 4. MAK 5. Loturi (maybe choinirre has boosted himself into 4,5,6 spot) Can anyone else weigh in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinceA Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 31 minutes ago, Bigandy said: Where is morris in our depth charts. I no virtually nothing about him but it sounds like hes a CDM. Staq is currently our cdm but he plays as more of an 8. So a midfield of staq, kone and a true CDM would be a good system. At CDM I would imagine it goes. 1. piette 2. Morris 3. Loturi At CDM/CM hybrid 1. staq 2. Piette 3. Morris 4. MAK 5. Loturi (maybe choinirre has boosted himself into 4,5,6 spot) Can anyone else weigh in? I believe he's a CDM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinceA Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Also since Balogun said all the flag emojis and comments about repping the US from fans helped his decision, time to spam his IG with Canadian flags and like i dunno, loon and beaver emojis or something Ruffian, sose, Corazon and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreddyCanuck Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 45 minutes ago, Bigandy said: Where is morris in our depth charts. I no virtually nothing about him but it sounds like hes a CDM. Staq is currently our cdm but he plays as more of an 8. So a midfield of staq, kone and a true CDM would be a good system. At CDM I would imagine it goes. 1. piette 2. Morris 3. Loturi At CDM/CM hybrid 1. staq 2. Piette 3. Morris 4. MAK 5. Loturi (maybe choinirre has boosted himself into 4,5,6 spot) Can anyone else weigh in? On current form and potential, I put Choiniere above MAK but he doesn't have the pedigree/experience which Herdman clearly values. That's why someone like Piette would still be above Choiniere and Morris, even though they have certain qualities that Piette doesn't have (plus more potential). Bigandy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic94 Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 To be honest: I would imagine he has interest as we left out some guys to name him. he is well regarded by the US, and they seen him as having a future there. This would be a big coup for us, don’t kid yourselves. however, there are top players ahead of him and big prospects behind him, the US team is going to get crowded and very good fast. He might not have that ceiling. From what I know the kid can play and would be one of our better midfielders and a go to off the bench. could be wrong but he’d be be above Piette imo. Jack1997, GasPed, Bigandy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Chuck Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 His brother used to have a Canadian emoji on his Instagram bio. Probably how they found out. One key factor here is he is U23/Olympic-eligible for the USA. Given the core four central midfielders of Adams, McKennie, Musah, and de La Torre for the US senior team, he is more realistically for their U23s than an A-senior team. So it might be more of a US U23s vs Canadian senior team question. Unless the US tries to permanently cap-tie him this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinceA Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 Should them be noted that his brother Jake Morris is a LB and also them Canada eligible. Granted he's older and has only played for the Crew in the Open Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigandy Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 33 minutes ago, Dominic94 said: To be honest: I would imagine he has interest as we left out some guys to name him. he is well regarded by the US, and they seen him as having a future there. This would be a big coup for us, don’t kid yourselves. however, there are top players ahead of him and big prospects behind him, the US team is going to get crowded and very good fast. He might not have that ceiling. From what I know the kid can play and would be one of our better midfielders and a go to off the bench. could be wrong but he’d be be above Piette imo. We didnt leave any guys out for morris. We have 7 spots open. sose, Approve My Account Pls and Addona 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Approve My Account Pls Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Bigandy said: We didnt leave any guys out for morris. We have 7 spots open. Thank you for finally pointing this out... no one got left out, we didn't even name the max number of guys. Whether this is gamesmanship between federations or not, Morris still needs to accept the call to the list, so that's saying something. Also, is there anything to be read into that Koleosho is not on the American 60 man list? Bigandy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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