Kiwis in the USL Leagues | USA

Full game Adams in a 5-0 win for Louisville City.

Collier on at 75 mins (1-1) for Indy Eleven, in a 1-2 loss.

Linder & Herdman both full games for Vancouver II in a 2-2 draw. Timbers II win the pen shootout 3-2. Herdman missed his pen (was 1st taker). Not a good week for pen shootouts involving Kiwis.

USL
Kiwi USL derby. Adams's Louisville City host Collier's Indy Eleven.
They were team mates last season at San Diego. Collier at his 4th USL club (2nd time at Indy Eleven). Adams also at his 4th club
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/06/united-states/mls-reserve-league/louisville-city/indy-eleven/4284813/

Musa's Colorado Springs host Sacramento Republic. Musa also at his 4th USL club. All 3 Kiwis have had a bit of crack at the MLS.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/07/united-states/mls-reserve-league/colorado-springs/sacramento-republic/4284817/

Bidois's Loudon United travel nearby to Birmingham Legion
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/07/united-states/mls-reserve-league/birmingham-legion/loudoun-united/4284820/

MLS Next Pro
Herdman & Linder's Whitecaps II travel to California to play Ventura County (LA Galaxy II)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/08/united-states/mls-next-pro/la-galaxy-ii/whitecaps-fc-ii/4320463/

Adams with bragging rights as Louisville City win 5-3. Collier off the bench at 79 mins (5-2)

Musa one of 3 players dragged off by Colorado S at HT, when down 0-2. Finished a 0-2 loss.

As mentioned by YH, Bidois debuted off the bench in a 3-1 loss for Loudon.

Linder & Herdman both full games for Whitecaps II, in 2-1 loss in the MLS Next Pro.

USL

Tomorrow, Adams's Louisville City (1st, Eastern Conference) travel to Charleston Battery (4th).
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/10/united-states/mls-reserve-league/charleston-battery/louisville-city/4284821/

Louisville will lose their perfect record in the USL, with a 3-2 loss at Charleston. 
Full game Adams

USL

Bidois's Loudoun (9th in the East) host Memphis 901 (10th in the West)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/13/united-states/mls-reserve-league/loudoun-united/memphis-901/4284823/

Collier's Indy Eleven (10th in the East) host Charleston Battery (1st)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/14/united-states/mls-reserve-league/indy-eleven/charleston-battery/4284824/

ex Phoenix Rising (7th in the West) favourite, Musa returns there with his current club Colorado Springs (12th)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/14/united-states/mls-reserve-league/arizona-united/colorado-springs/4284828/

Another cameo for Bidois. Comes on at 82 mins (2-1) in a 2-1 win for Loudon.
US Open Cup starts this week for USL clubs, so Bidois may get some mins in that.
Loudon from USL Championship travel to Richmond Kickers from USL League One.

Collier an unsed sub as Indy Eleven lose 2-4.

No Musa for Colorado Springs, who lose 1-0.

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Another cameo for Bidois. Comes on at 82 mins (2-1) in a 2-1 win for Loudon.
US Open Cup starts this week for USL clubs, so Bidois may get some mins in that.
Loudon from USL Championship travel to Richmond Kickers from USL League One.

Collier on the bench for Indy Eleven.

A busy 8 minutes too for Bidois.
Won 3/5 of his duels, 1/1 in tackles and had 18 touches of the ball (despite his passing being a bit off at 6/11). The guy he replaced after about 80 minutes touched the ball 35 times the whole game. So you can't say he's not getting involved, even if he was brought on to sit in a bit deeper as Loudoun looked to protect that 2-1 lead late on.

Watching his progress closely and already can say he'll do better than Jesse Randall did at this level last season. It definitely helps that Coleman knows what he's about as a player, so it's made his introduction to life in the USA somewhat easier as well. 

No disrespect to Randall of course, but it's a physical league and Bidois is built in a much sturdier frame than that of his nippier Kiwi counterpart.

US Open Cup 3rd Round

Adams's Louisville City host Greenville Triumph from USL League One.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/17/united-states/us-open-cup/louisville-city/greenville-triumph/4347144/

Bidois's Loudon from USL Championship travel to Richmond Kickers from USL League One.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/18/united-states/us-open-cup/richmond-kickers/loudoun-united/4347139/

Collier's Indy Eleven USL Championship  travel to Chicago Fire II from MLS Next Pro.
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/18/united-states/us-open-cup/chicago-fire-premier/indy-eleven/4347146/

Adams full game for Louisville in a 3-1 win.

Richmond Kickers v Loudoun United, like the other cup matches going on this round, is being live streamed tomorrow from 11am (NZ) tomorrow morning. A handy time to watch along for those of us who won't be at work. 😎

https://www.ussoccer.com/us-open-cup/watch?matchId=496ab9a2-a2b5-44ec-a105-7998d4ce00c7

Have a sneaky suspicion that Bidois will be a starter in this one too.

Yipe Bidois his first start for Loudon. 0-0 after 35 mins in the US Open Cup at Richmond kickers

Elliott Collier also starts for Indy Eleven in their Cup tie at Chicago Fire II.
Collier of course had a few MLS seasons with the Chicago Fire first team. 

His career really has tailed off, mostly a bench player now for a USL team.
At one point when he was in the MLS (season after scoring a hat trick in a USL match), and you'd look at his physique had hoped he might be a Wood backup for the AWs, even though yes he's far more winger than striker.

Would struggle to make the famed Piney "top 50" list now. Must be due one of those ranking lists.

Collier has an English team mate at Indy Eleven (ironically on loan from Chicago Fire) called Laurence Wootton. Wonder if he's related to the Nix's Wootton?

Bidois off at 77 mins (0-0) as Loudon's US Open Cup tie goes to ET. 0-0 in NT.
Edit - no goals in ET, and Loudon ended up winning the pen shootout 5-4.

Collier a full game as Indy Eleven win 1-0.

USL
Kiwi derby I. Bidois's Loudoun (7th in the East) host Adams's Louisville City (2nd)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/20/united-states/mls-reserve-league/loudoun-united/louisville-city/4284835/

Kiwi derby II. Musa's Colorado Springs (12th/last in the West) host Collier's Indy Eleven (10th in the East)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/21/united-states/mls-reserve-league/colorado-springs/indy-eleven/4284841/

MLS Next Pro
Fin Linder's Vancouver II (9th in the West) travel across the border to play Tacoma Defiance (5th & reserve team of the Seattle Sounders)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/22/united-states/mls-next-pro/seattle-sounders-ii/whitecaps-fc-ii/4320496/

18’ | Loudoun 0-0 Louisville

Segra Substitution

ON: Bidois
OFF: Leerman#LDNvLOU | @GoSegra pic.twitter.com/KRZjwwq4pY

— Loudoun United FC (@LoudounUnitedFC) April 20, 2024

Bidois on early.

Good thing he got those minutes in the cup the other day otherwise I don't think they would have called him on so early, even with the injury to Leerman.

Game is live on YouTube if you want to tune in on a Sunday morning.

https://www.youtube.com/live/AQEvgxoIk5o?si=Ex_ypym_tzpCzI26

As it stands Bidois playing RM/RW in a 4-4-2 and Adams in a Left sided CB so they've had a few battles out there already. Louisville playing quite high, so it's been a pretty common sight to see him playing over the halfway line and in Loudoun's half.

Louisville City win 1-0. Both Bidois & Adams are there at the end.

Colorado Springs & Indy Eleven draw 1-1. No Musa for Colorado S. 
Collier off the bench at 67 mins (1-1) for Indy.

MLS Next Pro

Both Herdman (captain) & Fin Linder start for Vancouver II (9th in the West), just across the US border against Tacoma Defiance (5th & reserve team of the Seattle Sounders)
https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/22/united-states/mls-next-pro/seattle-sounders-ii/whitecaps-fc-ii/4320496/

Finishes 0-0 in Tacoma, with home team winning the gimmicky pen shootout, 4-2.

Full game Linder (not required in the shootout), Herdman off at 75 mins.
Linder playing as a left sided CB in a back 3/5.

Kyle Adams starting and Louisville cruising in their match against perennial USL Championship whipping boys Hartford Atheltic - 3-0 approaching H/T.

Collier on the bench for Indy Eleven as usual. That match currently 1-1 after the hour mark. Seen some interesting news out of Indianapolis recently regarding the city vying for an MLS side. I'm sure we'll hear more on that at some point.

In the late matches, the other Kiwis in the USL Championship travel to California for their games. James Musa's bottom of the lot Colorado Switchbacks travel to Oakland SC, and Riley Bidois' Loudoun United travel to Sacramento Republic. Both matches kicking off 2pm NZT.

USL matches live and available to watch in NZ via YouTube.

Kyle Adams and Louisville cruise home 6-0. A full 90 and a defensive clean sheet for Louisville so they'll be happy with that.

Indy Eleven beating North Carolina FC, with Elliot Collier coming off the bench for the last 15 or so minutes.

No Musa in the Colorado Matchday squad - currently an hour in to that one and it stands at 0-0.

Riley Bidois has his first assist for Loudoun United, as his side have fought back to 1-1 at H/T in California. I'll let you guys judge on whether that's an assist or not. But the USL website, FotMob and Google have given it to him. Good on him as well. He also had a rasping shot saved at the near post just before H/T too.

Riley Bidois assist on starting debut. 🅰️

Happy for the lad and his first goal involvement in America, but I do wonder if they have a dubious assist's panel that this may be referred to? 👀😂

As you can see in the video FotMob was onto it in a flash. pic.twitter.com/WzVEG2EBza

— YoungHeart - 🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@YoungHeartHM) April 28, 2024

MLS Next Pro

Jay Herdman full game Fin Linder an unused sub, Whitecaps II (9th) lose 1-0 away to Real Monarchs (8th) 

https://us.soccerway.com/matches/2024/04/29/united-states/mls-next-pro/real-monarchs/whitecaps-fc-ii/4320509/