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Even if he hadn't he is nowhere near good enough to make the US side.
maybe, just maybe, the US have contacted Boyd and said they are following his progress... hence Boyd's possible reluctance to commit to the AWs....
Maybe, but I really doubt he would get even close to consideration. He's 22 and couldn't get a sniff in to first team football in a middling Euro league this season. Hardly a bright prospect by US standards
Reckon he could quite easily get a call up if he has a few first team apperances. The US team are good, but a lot of their players play at a middling level.
If he was playing regularly in the first team in the Portuguese top flight then I could see how he might be a long shot for a call up, although not a favourite. But he didn't play at all for the first team this year and only two games off the bench last year. At his age you wouldn't expect massive improvement anymore so if he's not good enough to force his way even into the fringes of the first team now I can't see that changing
I was going to point out Julian Green, being a similar age to Boyd, having probably less first team experience (15 appearances all up, 10 in the 2nd Bundesliga) - but he has been picked on promise which may never eventuate.
Green's was also at one of the biggest clubs in world football - Bayern Munich. You don't get picked up by Bayern unless you have some real talent. Green has also had a loan spell at Hamburg (played about 5 Bundesliga games) and is now at Stuttgart. But yes to date has played most of his career in lower German leagues, with club 2nd sides.
Looks like he's also made 5 appearances for US national team to date.
Call me ignorant but I'd never heard of Vitoria, until they signed Boyd. So don't think comparing Boyd to Green is really relevant.