Jonathan Gonzalez, the 18-year old player for Liga MX team Monterrey, has filed a FIFA one-time switch from US Soccer to the Mexican National Team. Gonzalez had been in the US Soccer youth setup, but with USMNT out of the 2018 World Cup, Gonzalez has been wooed to go play for El Tri.
Obviously, the sky is falling for US Soccer fans and it doesn’t seem to be letting up. And I wish I could be a fly on the wall at USSF.
I thought I would share my thoughts on Jonathan’s switch and discuss whether it is that big of a deal or not.
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To be fair, he has already been playing with a mexican soccer team since he was around 15-16
Not only his dad is mexican, both of his parents are
Very informative. Looking forward to seeing him on the pitch this world cup!
Really? The problem of US Soccer is that they want to be like the Premier League, that model does not serve to grow in football, MLS and the NASL, each season is the same, there is no competition, as there is no lower league as a second division, if the LIGA MX is fairly competitive the US Soccer leagues have the resources to be the best in the world but they will not be but invest in local players (americans).
Love the unbiased persperctive of your video, kudos
This is business and the kid wants to go big
Consider the fact that this boy was scouted By Monterrey’s scouts in a Hispanic Tournament (copa alianza) that regularly looks for Mexican American talent and talent in general. What does this day about both leagues? That the Mexican league, a league that is miles ahead of mls, believes there is so much talent of Mexican descent across the border that they have a cooperative agreement with these tournaments as an event where MOST MEXICAN TEAMS SEND AT LEAST ONE SCOUT. I have been to this tournament here in Denver back in my youth and I know it is hosted across the nation. I never heard of any MLS set up like this scouting for this talent. Instead you get a pay to play system that heavily favors a class of citizens that can afford the 1000 dollar+ “tuition” for each season. Meanwhile Mexican teams come and swoop up talent and take em to Mexico like a regular academy does in any sensible footballing nation, not trying to capitalize on the hopes and dreams of kids through a Pay to play system. I think it’s a question of how different of a culture America has in terms of exploitation of youth athletics, just look at college Basketball and football.
the day USA gets rid of hyphenated Americans will be the day that the us national team will see real progress. I can go more in depth with this but I'm sure some of you will understand.
MX League is better than MLS plain and simple
One thing you have to understand about Mexico is that they want to be the best in the continent but they've always been mediocre or average at best when playing in CONMEBOL competitions or against CONMEBOL top teams, particularly before the 1970s, so since the 1970s thye've invested A LOT into perfecting themselves and among other things Mexico has a history of playing nationalized stars.
The earlier experimients go as far back as the 1930s with Spanish players (similar to what the US had done with British players the decades prior) and in the 1940s with Argentinian phenomenom Antonio Battaglia from Boca Juniors but for the most part this is a thing that began in the 1970s.
The first weave of foreign arrivals were coaches like the late great Uruguayan coach Jose Ricardo De Leon from Defensor back in the 70s but in the 1980s they started to bring tons of superstars like Brazilian Zizinho (Geraldo Francisco Dos Santos) from Sao Paulo, Argentinian Daniel Brailovsky from Independiente and Uruguayan Jose Luis Zalazar from Penarol.
As far as I know this first generation of players only played at club level in Mexico but back in the 1990s they began incorporating nationalized players into the main Mexico NT roster.
Starting with Brazilian Leandro Augusto in 1995, it came on full force after the year 2000, with players like Uruguayan Nery Castillo, Argentinian Guillermo Franco, and Brazilian Giovani Dos Santos (son of Zizinho).
It wasn't until recently when Jonathan Dos Santos (brother of Giovani and younger son of Zizinho) controversy due to demands by the player and his father to stay in Barcelona and avoid international competition at the request of the Catalan club that the prblem with Nationalized players began to throw light at the issue as a whole and put everything to a halt. This was in 2013 but now they are back it at full force.
What I'm trying to say is don't blame the player for something that Mexico is famous for doing, send your U20 players abroad as they get capped for the senior squad and do not worry about this kid, he probably won't get very far due to the fact that there's huge cultural differences between the Mexican American mentality and the Mexican mentality, I reckon its going to be something like the Alexi Lalas in Europe thing.
Funny thing is this isint even about the wc its actually a lot mlre than that. Mexican american players are completely over looked in the states. I played club since i was a kid i can tell you first hand, i was over looed even thoe i spun kids all over the place. I was always over looked im not saying i was pro worthy but i danm sure outshined all. Now the problem with us soccer is this, us soccer dont wanna recognize and accept the fact that alot of the talent will be in mexican americans, this a good example of thay. Us needs to realize that
Since when you care about Mexican Americans?
Obviously he's doing it for exposure in the world cup. Players that do decent in the world Cup can make it to big clubs.
He picked the better team. Simple enough. He also picked the team that qualified to the world cup. Now actual playing time would be at the usmnt bc I see him on the bench for Mexico.
All it took for USA to win Jonathon was for the USA to call Jona against Portugal. In November. When Jona was scouted to Mexico one of the teams closest to signing him was Chivas (all Mexican team) but they told Jona he couldn’t play for USA if he played for Chivas, so Jona signed with Monterrey. That showed that he still hoped for the USMNT to call him up. USA takes a L against Mexico smh Jona will be in Europe soon
Seriously, I don't understand how USA doesn't excel. It has money left and right but cant recruit from the southwest where there are Americans of Mexican ethnicity? Do these kids not get attention because they are of Mexican ethnicity? Mexico repeatedly is in the top 16 teams worldwide so it has a soccer culture that can't be denied. We the US can take advantage of that.
And like I said u17 world cup champions are mexican u15 we got plenty of talent
But then again mexican league made him better. MLS is a joke
Great decision by Jonathan Gonzalez, he is voted Liga MX top 11 players last season. Additionally, he is a 18 year old kid playing in perhaps the best team, based on players and value, in Liga MX.He's being "followed" by Borussia Dortmund and other European teams. Playing for Mexico will really help improve his game, consequently he will be a start, hopefully, in the coming years.
Racism pay for play and nepotism… is killing us soccer at the youth and mnt levels
This happens to Canada lots
Does USA even play football? ?
dumb kid thinks the mexican teams wants him, he will be bench at the most, arrogant kid
mexican background and mls didnt even care about him
Hey man I have more quality Info about this
He chose Mexico because there is nothing attractive about the US setup or any ambition. The US federation has not came out with any plans to improve US development, they haven't done anything at all since not qualifying. It's so pathetic that they have not came out with any sort of plans, so much needs to be done before the next world cup.
The reason why he wasn't called up is because they only want the white boys to play
I really think it's a bad decision for Jonathan Gonzales, because, in Mexico, he would have
major competition in her position, like Hector Herrera or Jonathan Dos Santos (Herrera plays
in Europe) and both are good. But Dos Santos decreased her quality since he left Villarreal C.F (Spain)
and came to play to MLS. I don't know, hope Gonzales can get an opportunity. Need to remember that Mexico
is so much better than USA. Also, greetings from Ohio.
As a Mexican fan I'm glad he's going to el tri. If the USA really wanted him they should have done everything they could to lee him like offer him to play in an mls team or call him up when they were in the qualifiers. Bruce arena is a bit at fault he refused to get players from outside mls teams. The only exceptions were Omar Gonzales but he played for his mls team and pulisic BVB but that's it if he gave Gonzales a call then Mexico would have dealt a blow
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