NYCFC Academy - General Discussion


James Sands will also join NYCFC on a daily basis as the club reported earlier so he can train with the first team before the U17 World Cup in India in October.
I haven't paid a whole ton of attention to the academy players, but the Oswusu and Jasson names seem new to me. I've obviously heard of Sands and Petkovic and Citron are familiar names as I believe they've been high performers.

Anyone know anything on the other two?
 
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Wait, Sands has a twin brother in the academy? I presume everyone realized this but me. Or maybe not, because it seems odd I never notice it being remarked upon. Do we need to make Will an offer to convince James to sign? Is Will any good? Have there been any stupid twin jokes I missed?

ETA: Apparently remarked upon in a short series of posts in February. Yes, there were dumb twin memes, of which I approve.
 
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Will is a prospect in his own right. Will play professionally one day.
 
Wait, Sands has a twin brother in the academy? I presume everyone realized this but me. Or maybe not, because it seems odd I never notice it being remarked upon. Do we need to make Will an offer to convince James to sign? Is Will any good? Have there been any stupid twin jokes I missed?

ETA: Apparently remarked upon in a short series of posts in February. Yes, there were dumb twin memes, of which I approve.
Well done to cure your own problem here.

But yeah, everyone but you knew this.

And I am not sure K Kjbert is right in his assessment of Sands the lesser.
 
Well done to cure your own problem here.

But yeah, everyone but you knew this.

And I am not sure K Kjbert is right in his assessment of Sands the lesser.
It took a short while because searching for "Sands" and "Will" is useless because the latter is a short, common word. Then I realized "twin" should work, which won't catch any discussion of Will on his own, but did catch the only discussion of the twins as twins.
And I'm still surprised that was the only one. We're moderately obsessed with one of them, twins are inherently odd and funny, and we have managed so far not to beat this to death.
 
twins are inherently odd and funny
Not since Danny and Arnie ran it into the ground.

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Wait, Sands has a twin brother in the academy? I presume everyone realized this but me. Or maybe not, because it seems odd I never notice it being remarked upon. Do we need to make Will an offer to convince James to sign? Is Will any good? Have there been any stupid twin jokes I missed?

ETA: Apparently remarked upon in a short series of posts in February. Yes, there were dumb twin memes, of which I approve.
Will Sands has scored for the US Youth National Team.
 
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Apparently, our u16s lost 0-1 to Crew academy in the DA playoffs. Based on this highlight package, we were dominant. Gio had a first half PK saved.

 
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