RS Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 22 hours ago, Ansem said: https://www.mnufc.com/news/minnesota-united-set-to-host-a-combine-style-tryout-for-mnufc2-and-mnufc-academy https://www.lagalaxy.com/2/club/tryouts They are all cash grabs, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ftduck Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 (edited) 23 hours ago, Ansem said: https://www.mnufc.com/news/minnesota-united-set-to-host-a-combine-style-tryout-for-mnufc2-and-mnufc-academy https://www.lagalaxy.com/2/club/tryouts Wonder if the fee also roots out the serious from the blindly hopeful. Edited February 2 by Ftduck Kingston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Anyone who has a legit shot at it is almost certainly going to already be on the radar screen in scouting terms. It's just a way to bilk a few Walter Mitty types out of some cash regardless of what league the club that is doing it is from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bison44 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Didnt Mitrovic come out of one of the open CPL tryouts?? A year later he was in serbian superleague?? And certain posters slammed the CPL for not picking up on him?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aird25 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 33 minutes ago, Bison44 said: Didnt Mitrovic come out of one of the open CPL tryouts?? A year later he was in serbian superleague?? And certain posters slammed the CPL for not picking up on him?? Yes, and he's not the only one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdheid Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 41 minutes ago, Bison44 said: Didnt Mitrovic come out of one of the open CPL tryouts?? A year later he was in serbian superleague?? And certain posters slammed the CPL for not picking up on him?? You have to wonder how he was missed. Just had his worst day ever at trials, or coaches didn't take open trials seriously and weren't paying close attention...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 3 hours ago, jdheid said: You have to wonder how he was missed. Just had his worst day ever at trials, or coaches didn't take open trials seriously and weren't paying close attention...? Having a difficult parent would turn off a lot of clubs. Not saying he reared his ugly head, but just maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red card Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 4 hours ago, jdheid said: You have to wonder how he was missed. Just had his worst day ever at trials, or coaches didn't take open trials seriously and weren't paying close attention...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Given Stefan Mitrovic was a young Hamilton player who had spent time with TFC Academy he should have been on their radar in scouting terms and wasn't a player who should have needed to pay $100 for an open trial to be noticed. Playing for Hamilton City in the unsanctioned CSL likely didn't do him any favours where getting selected for national youth teams was concerned. The way into the Forge was very much through Sigma and L1O rather than the Hamilton club in the latter day outlaw incarnation of the CSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nolando Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 5 hours ago, red card said: What was this? A link to our forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 (edited) It's a tweet that appears to have been deleted, but somebody appears to have responded before Ivan did so: Maybe the son is now finally old enough to be able to tell his father when to wind his neck in a bit. Some of Ivan's other tweets provide context for why the Forge shouldn't have needed a paid open tryout to become aware of Stefan Mitrovic: Not just the Forge obviously that need to have a long hard look at why this guy just wound up with Hellas Verona in Serie A after being deemed surplus to requirements by TFC and wound up with a Serbian rather than a Canadian flag in the announcement tweet. Edited February 3 by Ozzie_the_parrot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccMan Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 So just to be clear Stefan Mitrovic in terms of his international status can only play for Serbia ? Or does he still have the option of doing a one time switch to Canada if he wanted to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I still think Ivan pushed his son to Serbia and everything else is just scapegoating. And of course the usual suspects eat it up because it's a lazy way to continue their narratives about soccer in Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 (edited) 50 minutes ago, SoccMan said: So just to be clear Stefan Mitrovic in terms of his international status can only play for Serbia ? Or does he still have the option of doing a one time switch to Canada if he wanted to? Think not due to his second cap for Serbia last year happening after he had turned 21. Edited February 3 by Ozzie_the_parrot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccMan Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 32 minutes ago, narduch said: I still think Ivan pushed his son to Serbia and everything else is just scapegoating. And of course the usual suspects eat it up because it's a lazy way to continue their narratives about soccer in Canada I get it but I think it this instance both TFC and the CPL to an extent missed on this one , probably more TFC here because they had him in their academy and let him go from what I understand . However, it does look like somehow the CPL or Forge overlooked him too unfortunately. The only thing that might have also come into play from the looks of it is a player with an overbearing parent that maybe TFC and the CPL and Forge just didn’t want to deal with anymore for TFC and maybe Forge and the CPL just didn’t want to even get involved with so they just didn’t bother with him . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I believe he was only 16 at those CPL trials. To mark that as a negative against Forge and the league is sort of ludicrous and real revisionist history. Remember too Canada did eventually invite him. He decided to stick with Serbia. Ivan, Metro, Pottsy3 and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoccMan Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 1 minute ago, narduch said: I believe he was only 16 at those CPL trials. To mark that as a negative against Forge and the league is sort of ludicrous and real revisionist history. Remember too Canada did eventually invite him. He decided to stick with Serbia. But not too long after the kid was getting regular minutes in Serbia’s top division . Like I said it’s more of a TFC miss here because they had him in their academy, but when you then go out to a tryout or combine and getting overlooked by the CPL and Forge that to me is still a bit of a miss too, not as big as TFC who had him in their system though . But like I said maybe there were other reasons like I mentioned before for both TFC and the CPL not keeping him . narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Just now, SoccMan said: But not too long after the kid was getting regular minutes in Serbia’s top division . Like I said it’s more of a TFC miss here because they had him in their academy, but when you then go out to a tryout or combine and getting overlooked by the CPL and Forge that to me is still a bit of a miss too, not as big as TFC who had him in their system though . But like I said maybe there were other reasons like I mentioned before for both TFC and the CPL not keeping him . But we are only getting one side of the story. For all we know teams in Canada did want him but they said no to what was offered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtlMario Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 5 hours ago, narduch said: I still think Ivan pushed his son to Serbia and everything else is just scapegoating. And of course the usual suspects eat it up because it's a lazy way to continue their narratives about soccer in Canada Did his father move out of Canada too? narduch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 4 minutes ago, MtlMario said: Did his father move out of Canada too? Doubtful. MtlMario 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 17 hours ago, MtlMario said: Did his father move out of Canada too? Do you really not understand that being upset with the CSA and others within Canada's pro soccer fraternity is not the same thing as being upset with Canada as a country? The fact Ivan Mitrovic was so upset is a pretty strong indication of what the Mitrovic family's first choice was in terms of national team representation. MtlMario 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 6 minutes ago, Ozzie_the_parrot said: Do you really not understand that being upset with the CSA and others within Canada's pro soccer fraternity is not the same thing as being upset with Canada as a country? The fact Ivan Mitrovic was so upset is a pretty strong indication of what the Mitrovic family's first choice was in terms of national team representation. Or he was always interested in Serbia first and is blowing up this 'snub' so that internet losers can use this for their Canada is bad narrative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 ^^^incomprehensible gibberish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
narduch Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Just now, Ozzie_the_parrot said: ^^^incomprehensible gibberish. Sure bud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie_the_parrot Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 ^^^I normally just ignore this small minded bigot but just occasionally a response is necessary. How dare anyone on here suggest that I am pushing a Canada is bad narrative. I made a positive decision in life to move to Canada and become a citizen because I think Canada is pretty much the best country in the world. Being of the belief that CanPL should have launched with a different economic model from what it did doesn't mean I dislike Canada (why would it that's completely nonsensical?), and definitely doesn't mean I dislike Canadian soccer, it just means that I would love to see pro soccer in Canada succeed to its full potential and have an opinion as to how that should unfold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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