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    NEW Mother of all Canucks Abroad (and domestic)

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    3 hours ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

    FCB Escola is not FC Barcelona, it is a pay as you go school that does not even play federated soccer, they play between themselves and do tournaments to get more games. Any decent kid can get in, as long as he is competent. It is a bad idea but parents get sucked into the name.

    I know this because my kid used to play with a proper club that is also a Barça supporter group, UBCatalonia, and they had a deal to pick up Escola kids after they finished there, which if I recall right was u-13 (maybe u-14). Yes, my boy was that level, he played with former FCBEscola kids, which is lower-mid competitive football in Barcelona. 

    Roman Tulis academy in North Van deliberately falsifies this distinction, as they are doing now with a kid named Asvin Chauhan, they are conning people about what they are able to really produce by doing this. They conned people with that player named Gianni Patino in 2008, much reported here, as they collected donations to send him to Barcelona to the FCBEscola, as I saw it a scam.

    The facilities are not even that great, they have this poor artificial field in the shadow of Camp Nou, Catalonia plays the other Barça supporter group clubs in tournaments there.

    One of the few recent players who was FCEscola, then Catalonia, then was brought back to proper Barça academy and turned pro, was Jordi Gómez, who was at Wigan and now Sunderland. But hey, the club my kid  is at now sent a player to proper FC Barcelona academy who played for Barça B and is now at Munich 1860, though on loan to Elche this year, Ilie Sánchez. This is not top level football by any means, in spite of exceptions, so better to be at a proper Bundesliga 3 club  or League 2 than there.

    Thanks for the update. I mentioned him only because I was asked to add him to the list and wanted to do more research on him.

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    6 hours ago, shermanator said:

    Well, if you're tracking assistant coaches in the Coaches Abroad, looks like Jeff Paulus is missing. Been the assistant coach and academy TD at FC Edmonton since 2012.

    Oops. Major oversight. Went ahead and added him. So we do have quite a few other coaches missing. Everyone: Does anyone else come to mind?

    1 hour ago, Lord Bob said:

    Young Nana off to Fort Lauderdale Strikers.

    http://www.strikers.com/news/2015/12/29/strikers-ink-quartet-of-experienced-nasl-players

    Thanks Ben, went ahead and added him as well.

    NEW Mother of all Canucks Abroad (and domestic)

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    4 hours ago, yomurphy1 said:

    An option for tracking youth might be to post but not add youth signings to MOACA. Fussballeh doesn't need to worry about additional work, while there is value in being able to look back in the future and see if the signings amounted to anything.

    The google document has several tabs. We can add a "Youth Abroad" and have a dedicated youth contributor with access to the doc. Anyone want to focus on this aspect?

    NEW Mother of all Canucks Abroad (and domestic)

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    Posted · Edited by Fussball_eh

    1 hour ago, DigzTFC said:

    How young do we track? 

    http://www.puretouchsoccer.com/daniel-fracassa-signs-with-benfica-youth-academy/

    https://www.puretouchsoccer.com/good-luck-with-chelsea-f-c-jeevan/

    I'm sure there's more out there.

     

    We track youth, but we don't have the ambition to be comprehensive. If we come across them, we add them. However, in this case they are way too young. Too much can happen until then. I'd say we should look at 16 and up.

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    1 hour ago, jpg75 said:

    He meant the signings grouping. Apparently SAAC kids signed at Bayern, Barca, Genk, Nice etc.

     Pretty sure Reid doesn't have a Euro passport so he can't sign until he's 18. 

    If that happened we would have heard about it. There is no way Bayern signed a Canadian and this is the first we've heard about it. But, hey, I might check this out just to be sure ;)

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    5 hours ago, DigzTFC said:

    http://www.academysoccer.ca/?link=honour

    There's a few on the list from SAAC that might need to be added.

    Merry Holidays

     

    4 hours ago, jpg75 said:

    I would take that list with a very, very large grain of salt and investigate each "signing". Based on my observations of their previous years "signings" these are almost always just training sessions.

    I don't currently include League One / PLSQ level. If someone wants to take on that project, let me know, but it's a bit too much for me and my team to handle at this point.

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    9 minutes ago, Unnamed Trialist said:

    Thanks for updating. Silly to play in 7th tier Spain when you can play higher in North American, even PDL would be better I'd say. Another thing is if you have a legit contract on a 4th tier team and are young, like Fisk.

    Yeah Ben Fisk actually had been training with the first team towards the end of the year, but I think he may have picked up an injury as well...

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    On 2015-10-04 at 1:06 PM, Unnamed Trialist said:

    Updating re Adam Appugliesi, who we heard signed with Jove Español in Spanish 3rd div (4th tier), Valencia region. I just now found match reports on this team, but he does not seem to be playing or at least no word on his Twitter account. He's a defender it seems. But here is the real story:

    He came out of an Italian academy calle Genova International, GISS, that signs players to a lot of good clubs, in Serie A and B, elsewhere. They have deals all over the world, through the owner Morris Pagniello. In Spain in the last few years they offer a club in 2B or 3rd, even 2A, a quantity of money as a "sponsorship", then the deal is that club has to take players. In the case of Cultural Leonesa in León they promised a quantity, had León set up a B team, put a GISS coach on the team and a group of young GISS players 19-21 yrs old. But shortly afterwards Cultural complained that they had been tricked and not all the money had come in. 

    Same with Hercules, they were promised when in 2A to get 200 thousand euros and had to take 40 players into their teams, mostly lower than the 1st team. When Hercules dropped to 2B, the quantity dropped to 90 thousand. The Hercules board then decided it was not a good deal for them. They also seem to have deals with Jumilla, in the same area, and with quite a few other teams---and then Jove Español where Appugliesi is. 

    I suppose players pay a lot to GISS, and the deal is then GISS gets the odd transfer fee, being the "owner" of the player, and then use the money to pay their players way into clubs at lower level so they can compete. And if someone stands out, then they get a share or all of the transfer up. They are an academy that is also a macro-agent and placement agency. 

    Just a month ago the deal was: Jove Español accepted a sponsorship and three players, all from GISS, the others Australian. But I am pretty sure that Adam has not played after 6 games and the others, I dont think have either. 

    Just to let you know he has gone back to North America and looking for a club on this side of the Atlantic. He never really played for the first team and had a few appearances for the B team.

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    10 hours ago, shermanator said:

    Looks like Gasparotto's loan with Greenock Morton is going to be extended through the rest of the year. I think that's a fantastic piece of news, especially given that he will get much more playing time against the same level of competition that he would at Rangers. Sounds like he is impressing as well, just like he impressed at Airdrieonians last year. Have to think it's only a matter of time before he makes his senior team debut.

    http://m.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/14132015.Rangers_defender_Luca_Gasparotto_set_to_extend_Morton_loan_deal_until_the_end_of_the_Championship_campaign/

    Well, he already plays for the senior team. You mean senior team of the Rangers?

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