Sporting Kansas City Academy defender Luca Antongirolami has earned another call up to the USYNT, joining the U-15s for their training camp in Fayetteville, Ga. from Nov. 14-20. U-15 MYNT head coach Tom Heinemann has called 24 players to Fayetteville, the future home of the Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center.
Players born on or after Jan. 1, 2010 are age-eligible for this one-year U-15 MYNT cycle, which culminates in next summer’s Concacaf U-15 Championship. All 24 players selected for camp were born in 2010. As one of U.S. Soccer’s youngest Youth National Teams, the U-15s serve an important role in the Federation’s mission to develop winning teams by helping build the foundation of the MYNT player pool.
U.S. UNDER-15 MEN’S YOUTH NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER – NOVEMBER TRAINING CAMP
GOALKEEPERS (3): Olumuyiwa Ajayi (New York City FC; New York, N.Y.), Connor Dale (Inter Miami CF; West Palm Beach, Fla.), Jason Nemo (Chicago Fire FC; Evanston, Ill.)
DEFENDERS (8): Jeremiah Alexander-Munoz (Charlotte FC; Concord, N.C.), Luca Antongirolami (Sporting Kansas City; Kansas City, Mo.), Orion Jolliff (San Jose Earthquakes; Ceres, Calif.), Owen Jorgensen (St. Louis City SC; St. Louis, Mo.), Brenden Leon (Portland Timbers; Gates, Ore.), Richmond Luong (Columbus Crew; North Royalton, Ohio), Finn McCraney (Chicago Fire FC; Darien, Ill.), Landon Mulvenna (Philadelphia Union; Philadelphia, Pa.)
MIDFIELDERS (7): Vinny Garcia (LA Galaxy; West Covina, Calif.), Javier Linares (Philadelphia Union; Philadelphia, Pa.), Noe Santillan (Atlanta United FC; Lawrenceville, Ga.), Nathan Tchoumba (Colorado Rapids; Aurora, Colo.), Lisandro Torres (Los Angeles FC; Long Beach, Calif.), Robert Turdean (Chicago Fire FC; Niles, Ill.), Niccolo Vafiades (New York City FC; Pelham, N.Y.)
FORWARDS (6): JD Adigun (Columbus Crew; Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ikenna Chidebe (LA Galaxy; Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Jamil Danjaji (Columbus Crew; Columbus, Ohio), Timoni Gbalajobi (Philadelphia Union; Cherry Hill, N.J.), Kane Kraus (St. Louis City SC; St. Louis, Mo.), Eric Lodge (New York Red Bulls; Valley Cottage, N.Y.)
Ten players return from the U-15s’ first training camp of the cycle, an October gathering in West Palm Beach, Fla. Twenty-three of 24 players were a part of national identification camps in March and May as part of the Under-14 Talent ID program. Those camps featured 80 players, 20 from each of U.S. Soccer’s four scouting regions- East, Central, South and West. For this camp, nine players come from the Central region, seven from the East, five from the West and two from the South.
Antongirolami played a pivotal role in Sporting KC's 2024 U-14 squad who lifted the 2024 Easter International Cup trophy and placed second at the 2024 Patterson Cup at Swope Soccer Village. This season, the 14-year-old has been playing up an age group, earning minutes with Sporting's U-16s as they compete in MLS NEXT. The Kansas City native earned a call-up to the USYNT U-15 training camp in Florida in October and is back with the group less than a month later.
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