One of the more intriguing stories of the upcoming MLS season will be the debut of Tab Ramos as coach of the Houston Dynamo. The Hall of Famer earned his MLS head coachingjob after eight years as boss of the U.S. U-20 men’s national team, which he led to the quarterfinals of the last three […]
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1. Alex Mendez (Ajax) and Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund) are among seven Americans named to the rosters of the 32 teams competing in theUEFA Champions League group stage, which begins Sept. 17. The others are Mendez’s Ajax teammate, Sergino Dest, plus Tyler Adams (RB Leipzig), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea), Tim Weah (Lille) and EthanHorvath (Club Brugge). Dest, […]
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Tab Ramos begins fifth cycle with U.S. under-20 men's national team
Tab Ramos will begin his fifth cycle as U.S. under-20 men’s national team coach with two matches in Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia. Ramos, who has led the USA to thequarterfinals at the last three U-20 World Cups, has called in 22 players, including keeper David Ochoa and winger Konrad de la Fuente, who started for the […]
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U.S. U-20 World Cup team: Where are they now in Europe?
Konrad De La Fuente Barcelona Juvenil A/ESP (finished 2018-19 season on same team) Sergino Dest Ajax/NED (promoted from Jong Ajax) CJ Dos Santos Benfica Sub-23/POR (finished 2018-19 season onsame team) Chris Gloster Jong PSV/NED D2 (transferred from Hannover 96/GER) Richard Ledezma Jong PSV/NED D2 (promoted from PSV O19) Ulysses Llanez Wolfsburg U19/GER (first seasonregistered) Alex Mendez Jong Ajax/NED […]
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Five U.S. U-20 World Cup stars get shots on first teams in Europe
Making it abroad — whether it is in Europe or Mexico– has never been easy, even players who had high visibility representing the USA at the Under-20 World Cup. Of the 33 players who went to the 2013, 2015 and 2017 U-20 World Cups and haveplayed abroad, just a handful are first-team regulars on first-division […]
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Interview: Tab Ramos on his young team that dictated play at the U-20 World Cup
The USA is the only nation that has reached the quarterfinals of the last three U-20 World Cups. At the recently completed U-20 World Cup in Poland, the Tab Ramos-coached USA fieldedthe fourth youngest team among the 24 participants, after Senegal, Tahiti, Mali. It also had the lowest median age of a U.S. team at […]
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Adam Belz on the young generation that provides the USA with more 'lottery tickets' than ever
Adam Belz is the agriculture reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune by day and the mastermind behind the Podcast and Twitter account Scuffed by night. A lifelong player and student of the game — and a journalist since college — Belz began his youth national team coverage after Christian Pulisic burst onto the scene in early […]
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USA-Ecuador: U-20 Men's World Cup Player Ratings
USA-ECUADOR U-20 EXPRESS:June 8 in Gydnia, PolandUSA 1 Ecuador 2. Goals: Weah 36; Cifuentes 30,Espinoza 43.Att.: 6,389 The U-20 World Cup ended for the USA with a 2-1 quarterfinal loss to Ecuador, which arrived to the tournament as South American champion. The USAhad the entire second half to close the one-goal deficit, attacked persistently, but […]
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Bob Gansler's past-to-present U-20 World Cup connections
Thirty years ago, Bob Gansler coached the USA to a historic fourth-place finish at the 1989 U-20 World Cup. Gansler has enjoyed watching this U-20World Cup from his home in Milwaukee, especially because he has connections with the USA’s head coach, Tab Ramos, and his three assistant coaches: Brian Bliss,Curt Onalfo and Dave van den […]
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USA-France: U-20 Men's World Cup Player Ratings
USA-FRANCE U-20 EXPRESS:June 4 in Bydgoszcz, PolandUSA 3 France 2. Goals: Soto 25, 74, Rennicks83; Gouiri 41, Alioui 55.Att.: 8,469. In what will go down as one of the biggest U.S. wins ever at a men’s world championship, the USA beat France, 3-2, to reach thequarterfinals of the U-20 World Cup. Facing the next generation […]