Seems like a lot have headed over in the last few years, plenty from Ole/WeeNix alone. There must be a good number coming through the system.
While it is not the greatest pathway to a professional career (it takes someone special like Joe Bell to really make it work) there are a few players worth keeping an eye on.
Connor Probert is one other 2019 senior who has a bit of potential, but he didn’t really kick on during the season just gone as much as he would have hoped after a breakout year in 2018. He has been training/trialling with MLS teams.
Goalkeeper Marcel Kampman joined Bell, Noah Billingsley, Alex Greive, and Sebastian Schacht in making a United Soccer Coaches’ all-region team in 2019, and deserves a mention as well.
Looking at 2020 seniors, there’sunder-23/20/17 international centre back Hunter Ashworth, who might even be looking at his future options right now, as he tries to secure a place in the OlyWhites for Tokyo, and Probert’s team-mate, Greive, an attacking midfielder who made United Soccer Coaches’ all-north region third team in 2019. Greive has also been training/trialling with MLS teams.
Schacht, also an AM, is the one 2021 senior I have on my radar – he made United Soccer Coaches’ all-west region second team in 2019.
As for 2022 seniors, players who have only just finish their first college season, AM Seth Clark, CB Boyd Curry, AM Willem Ebbinge, and AM Kieran Richards would be four to keep an eye on. Clark is an under-23 international; Curry and Ebbinge are both under-20/17 internationals already and are likely to be involved in the 2021 Fifa Under-20 World Cup campaign; Richards was an under-17 international in 2017.
Under-17 international forward Jesse Randall is one of two 2002-born players to have received regular playing time in the current national league season (for Tasman United) and is set to join North Kentucky University (where Probert and Greive are; the coach is former under-23 international Stu Riddle) in early 2021, making him a 2024 senior.