Lionel Messi, Sergio Busquets, our Insigne and Bernardeschi, as well as Ibra himself, paved the way. Today MLS is full of young people ready for big European football: let’s see the best.
MLS is the new Eldorado of young footballers
Globalization has finally come to football. If the claim that European football is at the top in terms of market volumes is true, there are many championships where European football is at the top. They are conquering an important space for themselves Outside of the Old Continent.
Major League Soccer is one of the most entertaining and fascinating leagues in this respect. Not only that, it’s no more A championship where you can spend the winter at the end of your careerbut there is also a very interesting pool of athletes who could aim to break into one of Europe’s top championships. It is South America, and to a lesser extent Central America, that has exponentially increased the technical rate of a championship where youngsters from championships such as Argentina and Brazil are able to restrain themselves in a less competitive context. pressure.
MLS’s biggest talents
Red Bulls New York’s twenty-year-old left back John Tolkin is one of the players currently in the spotlight of European clubs. The player, who is strong in both phases, closed his last championship in the regular season with 2750 minutes. Anderlecht has already landed on himHe wants to turn him into a modern attacking full-back in the style of Theo Hernandez.
European sirens are sounding for Dallas FC’s offensive winger Alan Velasco, whose price tag has already reached 8 million euros, according to Transfermarkt, the world’s most important player evaluation site. 6 goals and 5 assists last season and there are transfer rumors that place him in the orbit of the Bundesliga, with Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen ready to bring him to Germany.
22-year-old Facundo Torres, who is also an offensive winger and has a contract with Orlando City, was called by Uruguay to the 2022 World Cup to be held in Qatar, although he never played on the field. It was definitely worth raising their prices recorded nine goals and eight assists He spent his first season with Orlando City, making him one of the league’s best signings last season.
Transfermarkt’s value for MLS’s most “expensive” young player, Talles Magno, is 15 million euros. Magno, 20, who plays for NYCFC, switched gears after closing the interrupted 2021 season with a goal in the Eastern Conference final and became a key element in New York’s attack, finishing last season with seven goals and eight assists. Young Brazilian being evaluated today One of the most interesting attacking wingers under 21 of global panorama
Top three: The best talent in the US championships
Thiago Almada was discussed at length in the last transfer session As a possible reinforcement for Napoli. Nothing has been done about it, but the discussion is not closed yet and it may come to Italy in the winter market. In fact, half of Europe has its eyes on him. Atlanta United’s 21-year-old attacking midfielder He kept all his promises so far.
The Georgia club paid him $16 million and he repaid him with six goals, seven assists and outstanding play. A decisive player for Atlanta’s tactical mechanisms. While his outstanding season was crowned with a call-up to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where he remains world champions, his importance for Atlanta is even greater today given the departure of a totem of the club like Martinez.
But at just 23 years old, Riqui Puig is almost an anomaly for U.S. soccer. Extremely pure jewelery produced by Puig, Barcelona’s Masia, despite the young champion’s stigma Failed to settle at Camp Nou and decided to start over with the Los Angeles Galaxy, which invested $7 million in him.
Midfielder, attacking midfielder, second striker, winger: Puig Led Los Angeles to the playoffs He took the team on his shoulders last season and it would not be a surprise if he returns to Europe at the end of next season.
At the end of our list is Jesus Ferreira, who was awarded the Best Young Player of the Year award by MLS and is known for his 18 goals and 6 assists with FC Dallas. Although he has not yet managed to conquer Stars and Stripes national team starting placeThe path seems clear for him. There are many European teams following him and his transition to elite football at the end of this season will be inevitable.
