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Beacon Story by Marla Ridenour on Porter's recent recruiting efforts. There's not a lot of inside scoop here, but it's notable that Caleb decided to "go fishing in the Caribbean" again :D

16 Jan 2011, 09:06 AM #1

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Join Date: Apr 2010 Mattocks to Europe

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I don't know whether I should have started a new thread, but couldn't find any Akron threads, and since he's not a Yank Abroad, thought this may be worthy of a new thread.

I have just seen the following information. It looks like he's flying over to Portugal soon to visit Portuguese SuperLiga club Benfica. That's all that I noticed. There's no more on whether he is just training, going on trial, or has been offered a contract.

If he hasn't been offered a contract, I would assume he will be doing everything to keep his college eligibility.

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Join Date: Apr 2010 Re: Mattocks to Europe

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No official link, but I noticed this following Facebook post was put up on a Jamaican forum a few days ago.

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Darren Mattocks

A EUROPE MI THING DEH

Sunday at 13:48 · Like · Comment

6 people like this.

Damion Eyeballa Gordon which club balla ?

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Darren Mattocks Mi a go pan a visit portugal benfica

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Damion Eyeballa Gordon mad thing darren u gone global

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Darren Mattocks Lol them fi know

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Kriz-Elementry D-Quvic ehh dweet..is a trails?

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Darren Mattocks Yeah

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This was taken from a thread on bigsoccer.com. Any one have any info?

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Genovese

Holmes

Speas Caldwell

Brenes Trapp

Balogun Yedlin

Gallego Barson

Meves

I am glad that Mattocks is with us another year. Whew!

Suppose freshman Yedlin starts @ RB, bisbee.

That creates a problem because I definitely want to see Genovese play. Gabe did scrimmage quite a bit @ RB last year. Perhaps Balogun would be the 12th man.

Luke Holmes is not transferring to Akron with one year eligibility left just to come off the bench.

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Mattocks

Holmes

Speas Caldwell

Brenes Trapp

Genovese Yedlin

Gallego Barson

Meves

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Trapp is definitely pick of the litter.

Shocking to see so many kids on this list from NEO. Only one of those, Murrow from Strongsville, coming to Zips.

Has Akron EVER got a kid from St. Ignatius?

I would love to know how the players were selected and find it very interesting that there are only a few players from the west coast.

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This is the thread I want to keep alive.

What is your preliminary 2011 starting lineup?

-------Mattocks-Holmes--------------

---Trapp-----------------Speas-------

------Brenes-Ontineveros-----------

Yedlin---Barson--Gallego---Balogun

-------------Meves---------------------

I know it seems ridiculous to not have Caldwell in there after the tournament that he had which ended in him scoring the clinching goal against UL, but if we play a 4-2-2-2 I don't see where he'd fit. Without the incredible leadership of Kitchen I don't think we'll be able to push 3 mids forward like we did last year and I don't see Caldwell as the type of player that can fit into a two attacking mid system. If you only have two attacking mids, they both need to be able to score somewhat consistently.Maybe it's just me, but he seems to be stuck somewhere in the middle of Attacking mid and holding mid. Speas seems to fit into that true attacking mid role a little better.

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So, you agree that Holmes already has a starting job.

I thought all season that Speas showed more quality than Caldwell. I could never understand how Porter played Caldwell over Speas.

And then, God bless him, Scotty had one of the best post seasons in Zips history. Go figure!

Ontiveros will definitely push for time.

I also think Genovese will somehow push for time.

Poor Richard Diaz may surface. Who knows. Tulloch?

Another thing is that Trapp may very well play the exact same role as Kitchen. I have to see him practice.

Good shtuff from you, Jacob M.

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ESPN Rise lists the following 2 players as tranfers to Akron: Kayvon Afsarifard and Luke Holmes. Anyone know about these guys? Is Holmes the guy who is from Notre Dame College in Ohio?

Holmes is from Notre Dame in Ohio.

Kayvon was reading the thread about us not getting anyone from St. Ignatius and is transferring after a year at Loyola,in Illinois. He is a defender who played in 9 games. I don't know if he is going to come in and start for us or not.

http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-so...d_kayvon00.html

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ESPN Rise lists the following 2 players as tranfers to Akron: Kayvon Afsarifard and Luke Holmes. Anyone know about these guys? Is Holmes the guy who is from Notre Dame College in Ohio?

Holmes is from Notre Dame in Ohio.

Kayvon was reading the thread about us not getting anyone from St. Ignatius and is transferring after a year at Loyola,in Illinois. He is a defender who played in 9 games. I don't know if he is going to come in and start for us or not.

http://loyolaramblers.cstv.com/sports/m-so...d_kayvon00.html

Thanks

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"Kayvon Afsarifard"

And here I thought we would never see a player with a more difficult name than Ampaipitakwong.

Ampaipitakwong is easy to pronounce; it only looks intimidating. However, the San Jose announcer could have a mouthful with Ampaipitakwong to Wondolowski. :D

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"Kayvon Afsarifard"

And here I thought we would never see a player with a more difficult name than Ampaipitakwong.

Ampaipitakwong is easy to pronounce; it only looks intimidating. However, the San Jose announcer could have a mouthful with Ampaipitakwong to Wondolowski. :D

Now that is funny! :rofl:

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"Kayvon Afsarifard"

And here I thought we would never see a player with a more difficult name than Ampaipitakwong.

Ampaipitakwong is easy to pronounce; it only looks intimidating. However, the San Jose announcer could have a mouthful with Ampaipitakwong to Wondolowski. :D

Damn! Could that be the reason Ampai fell to the second round -- opponents discovered he was less intimidating than they thought? :P

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