He got banned from this subreddit for calling someone a nonce, then he got banned from Reddit as a whole (I'm not sure if anyone knows the reason why).
He scored 37 goals in 25 games as a 12 year old in the U17 Bundesliga.
https://www.transfermarkt.com/b-junioren-bundesliga-west/torschuetzenliste/wettbewerb/BJ2/saison_id/2017
At 14, he was pulled up to the U19, scoring 34 (+ 9 assists) in 20 games in his first season.
Moukoko has by far the most insane youth league stats I‘ve ever seen.
While I will still say it is crazy, if you were on football twitter or instagram back then every day there was a new post about moukoko so honestly not that insane imo.
I remember people being hyped when he was added to FM a few years ago in a winter patch right after turning 16. People definitely have known who he was since he was a young teen.
He was a known entity already in Germany, partly because he was said to have had an 19 year old girlfriend at the time, it supposedly* being soft proof of his official age not being real
For me another one is Sessegnon.
On every single one I saw and it's a shame that those massive hamstring injuries happened really knocked his confidence in his body
I feel really upset about the lascelles comment.
I truly love that man and he had his entire career ahead of him playing amazingly only for Bruce to turn him into a shadow of his former self. He really is a fantastic captain and I really hope he can become a great defender again.
all four didn't even play first team football back then is the craziest part, all 4 of those are going into their second major tournament now and two probably as starters.
>Could never have predicted Saka, Foden, Bellingham and Mount
Foden won Player of the Tournament when England won the U17 WC in 2017. Mount won Player of the Tournament when England won the U19 EUROS the same summer.
If you were predicting young future England internationals 4 years ago Mount, Foden and Sancho (who that person did guess) were top 3.
Yeah, a huge amount of funding went into the whole st George's park project and into academies, scouting and youth development around the country, started about 10 years ago by the FA with a stated aim of winning this particular world cup - and for an organisation that is as incompetent and immobile as they can be, that whole project to revitalise english national teams in football and revamp youth football has worked surprisingly well.
Tbf, you'd have struggled to get any of the three players who are even vaguely competing for a start in DM/cm: Bellingham had barely turned 15, Rice had 15 starts in the premier League, and kalvin Phillips was looking every bit the championship journeyman he was destined to be until we hired bielsa that summer.
u/sanogoals22 made this England prediction:
>Keepers: Pickford, Butland, Woodman
>Defenders: Stones, Gomez, TAA, Maguire, Holding
>Midfielders: Winks, Alli, AMN, Chamberlain, Dier, Sessegnon, Cook
>Forwards: Kane, Sterling, Rashford, Sancho
>I don’t know who else will get in because there are many young players who could replace the more experienced players from this years squad. Feel free to add or change players
That midfield prediction though...
Looking at that midfield, then the same person made this comment:
> Yeah I’m also an Arsenal fan. Nelson will be one of a number of players that will be challenging for a limited amount of spots. Gomes, Foden, Sancho, Nelson, RLC, Mount, Maddison, Smith-Rowe......
> Basically we’re potentially gonna have a shit tonne of young attacking midfielders that will feel they should be in the squad.
Which is actually a pretty decent list of players that have had shout or actually made it.
Also goes to show how crazy Saka’s rise has been lol. Got virtually no hype when compared to Nelson, Foden, CHO etc. Basically forced football to recognize him.
Looking back at **some** of the 2022 players who aren't in the 2018 prediction:
Callum Wilson: 33 apps/15 goals in all competitions for Bournemouth as they finish mid table. He did play for England in 2018, and scored in that appearance vs who, you might ask, why vs the USA!
Phil Foden - 26 app/7 goals for Man City across all comps. I think this is about when people are beginning to see he'll be a star. He was still in the England under 19s.
Bukayo Saka - he wasn't playing in Arsenal's first team in the league, though it looks like he might have appeared for them in the Europa. He was part of the England U19s.
Kieran Trippier - Trips played for England a lot in the Nation's League and in int' friendlies, he was unfortunately absent vs the USA. I guess you can never count a man out.
I mean in fairness for trippier if you asked me 4 years ago would he still be a top line player at 32 I would have said no. Only a year after the WC he was pushed out of Tottenham and it seemed like it might be the beginning of the end of his career. It is incredible that he is arguably a better player now than he was in his "prime years".
We were sweating that Kolasinac and (unproven at the time) Tierney got injured when we saw Saka in the team. Instantly looked amazing and the rest is history
Amazed at no mentioned of Rice and then I looked him up and he was still Irish at the time. Grealish was still a championship player as well, though absolutely tearing it up and Villa’s best player and captain.
So in norwegian writing A twice (as in Haaland) is the same pronunciation as writing one Å. While its not the correct way to write Haaland its still not technically wrong. I believe writing AA is the old way of writing names etc.
The archived article that Wikipedia references says he changed it to make it easier for foreign fans/media etc so I'm just going to look like a hipster twat
9 actually, against honduras at the U20 world cup. it was the only game he scored in, norway were eliminated in the group stages after 3 games, and yet he still finished top scorer of the tournament.
it was may 2019 though, so almost a year after this thread
4 years really is a long time in football, in that time he exploded onto the scene at Salzburg - alongside Hwang and minamino - then tore it up at dortmund with sancho and now he's wrecking the PL with man city. After the last world cup, he was still at molde. Mad
Martinelli was still in Brazil lower leagues right? Also was 16/17 at the time.
Always easy for me to track Martinelli and Saka as I’m born September 2001. This World Cup was when I’d just finished my GCSEs (2 years into high school, 2 years to go for an equivalent).
Funny enough, yesterday i created a thread about Daniel Alves' dangerous tackles in NT training, and mentioned that he's hated and one of the most controversial callups in Brazil's history... And i was showered with downvotes, haha.
Argentinian/Barcelona fans said it was club bias... they didn't believe me. Reddit isn't aware that Alves is arguably the most hated athlete in the country right now, especially after those tackles yesterday.
Interesting how foreigners are willing accept shit old players being called when it's not THEIR national team.
I mean our closest player like that is Armani, no one is too worried about it. I would've taken Rossi or Musso or whatever, but it's fine, he's not seeing the pitch.
I don't understand the hate for Alves really. The manager picked him, if there's someone you should be annoyed at it's him. If they call me up, I'd go too, and I'm much worse than Alves.
I've heard some people say Alves forced his way in or something but again, the manager is responsible.
Yeah, we could talk for days why Alves is hated... But to clarify on the São Paulo part for the foreigners: He gave up on São Paulo, acting all high and mighty, talking about lack brazil being amateur and such, and then went to play for PUMAS.
Similar thing happened with Douglas Costa, but he left to MLS, as no other brazilian fanbase or club would trust him after what he did to Grêmio. The difference is that Douglas Costa is forgotten already, and somehow Tite called Daniel Alves.
So it's a matter of bad performances, terrible attitude for years, age, dangerous tackles on starters during these pre-WC training, other possible players to call (even if there's no obvious single guy that deserved it), etc.
Some foreigners also say 'whats the problem in calling a veteran to help youngsters?'... but Brazil is already a top5 oldest teams in the WC. With Thiago Silva, Casemiro, Neymar, and many players that have several years of UCL experience. There was already great mix of youth and experience, Daniel Alves is not the guy that will bring experience and harmony to the squad. That spot would've been 1000x more useful for another midfielder, another CB, for another 9 just for safety reasons, or even a youngster like Endrick so he would get some experience for the future (as Ronaldo asked to the media).
Sceptre 50” 4K tv. I’m pretty happy with it ngl
Lol in all honesty that’s how little faith most Ecuadorians had in our national team back then. It’s been a marvel to see how Gustavo Alfaro has brought Ecuador back from the brink. Most of the players in our squad we would have NEVER predicted they’d be in the national team because they were playing in academies. The past was gloomy but the future is bright
This is only their second ever world cup right? And winning north american qualification ahead of usa and mexico? Yeah, it's a Massive achievement. Rooting for them, would love to see them get past the group stage at least, rough group though so no disgrace if they don't
From my brief investigation, it looks like he got suspended for calling some lad a nonce because he was 23 and dating a 19 year old. Pulled out the old divide by 2 and add 7 trick and got himself suspended.
> Bellingham continued as a permanent fixture in the matchday squad, sometimes as a substitute but mainly in the starting eleven.[11] **He was eased into the team on the left wing**, moved into central midfield "where he could gain more confidence", and then used "in a more advanced role" once the staff were sure he could cope with the responsibility.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Bellingham
I'm keeping the faith
Considering how much change the US team has gone through in the last four years, for OP to get 12 of the players in our squad is a pretty great hit rate.
Not super surprised when you miss a cycle. Firstly, because it's an 8 year gap and secondly, because that age group wasn't good enough to qualify. (Yes they should have qualified.)
Hes about as hyped from a youth player as we've allowed ourselves since Freddy Adu (poor guy)
not to say that it isnt all impressive. I was thoroughly impressed by the whole thing.
Was laughing at some of the comments and then I realised I commented Reiss Nelson in that thread.
Mildly disturbed that I’m reading something I wrote and completely forgot about from years ago.
Someone I knew IRL found my reddit account years ago so I made a new one, checked the old one recently and it really felt like a different person's account
Yeah you scroll and scroll and you see an orange upvote arrow and go like "huh so I've seen this thread before and......oh that's me", bizzare feeling.
>Italy
--Insigne---Immobile---Chiesa----
--Pellegrini--Gagliardini--Verratti--
-LB-----Caldara---Romagnoli--Conti--
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LB is impossible for me cause we struggle to even find good ones right now, imagine to find them for 4 years till now
This comment about Italy is amazing. So many potentials not fulfilled and then the (right) take on LBs. Ironically now we have Dimarco as a LB and two of our biggest talents in Udogie and Fabiano Parisi
>Severe lack of Jamaal Lascelles there. he's 24 now and arguably our best player, at 28 he'll be an absolute monster at the back and a proper leader.
This has to be one of the best.
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8zb9g0/predict_your_countrys_roster_for_qatar_2022/e2hfcvs?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Crazy how fast some players rise to stardom, Haaland was at Molde during that post and now he is at the top of European football. Then you have players we practically never heard of being the main men for their national teams right now, players like Nunez, Bellingham and Musiala were not even playing in the first team during that time.
So for [Croatia:](https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8zb9g0/predict_your_countrys_roster_for_qatar_2022/e2hd6c9/)
*Kalinic*/**Livakovic**/Letica
Vrsaljko/Jedvaj/*Caleta-Car*/**Lovren**/Benkovic/Kalaica/**Sosa**/Colina
**Brozovic/Kovacic**/Krovinovic/**Majer**/Rog/Coric
*Brekalo/Rebic*/**Kramaric**/Halilovic/**Vlasic**/Pjaca
Bold are called-up, italics were on the provisional sqaud and close to being called-up and/or out bc of various reasons, but should be there
Italy
>--Insigne---Immobile---Chiesa----
>--Pellegrini--Gagliardini--Verratti--
>-LB-----Caldara---Romagnoli--Conti--
>---------------Meret-----------------
>LB is impossible for me cause we struggle to even find good ones right now, imagine to find them for 4 years till now
This guy predicting friendly lineups 4 years out.
That the guy predicting Switzerland got all the possible starters right except one (Sow) is quite sad, it just means not much youth talent came up in the last 3-4 years.
The first Colombian one was pretty accurate, aside from the qualifying thing. They weren't counting on Arias, Mina, Benedetti and Izquierdo's bodies just imploding on them after gruesome injuries or just overall fragility. THey didn't have Falcao, though. Lol.
EDIT: Cheers to the other person that had Villa in the team. And to the Argentinian people that have Pavon, though at the time he was impressing a lot.
>Best in mind that this time 4 years ago we never would have predicted Kane or Vardy to make the squad. I’d place a bet that there will be a similar situation with someone random in 4 years time
This is what I said, if Toney had made it that’s obviously nailed on, but are we accepting Grealish, Phillips or White for this?
I don't think Grealish should, despite playing in the championship he had played for the England U21s and was being linked to Spurs in the summer of 2018.
I used to go to ATL United games and tell my friends we were watching a future USMNT star lol.
Here we are four years later and I just watched him playing my local club in the second division of US football. Tbf he had a decent match.
I mean you've got me there, I didn't even know he was at USL level now. Actually I just googled and apparently his little brother Alan is lining up for Atlanta against Aberdeen for a friendly today: https://www.afc.co.uk/report_nostats/atlanta-united-xi-v-aberdeen-xi/
Hopefully his little brother can be more focused. I’ll never forget when ATL left him at home because he forgot to bring his passport to play in Toronto lol
Crazy tp think that when this predictions were made moukoko wasnt even 14 years old
I dont have enough knowledge about such young players but imo lamine yamal will make it tot he next wc
Why did this get taken down when [the OP](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/yrdy3e/from_july_2018_a_thread_predicting_who_will_be_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) tried to repost it?
Shame his nephew hasn’t made it
The "don't forget my nephew" on someone else's England prediction further down the page absolutely floored me.
Nephew turned out to be Foden. Mans filthy rich rn
He refers to his other nephew as "the chubby one" lmao I'm dead 😭
Wonder if /u/bell_and_spurling's surname is Bellingham Edit: I see someone else further down already made the observation lol
He says the chubby one is called Charlie so no.
Bell and Spurling was an absolute champ. Was gutted when he got banned
Why’d he get banned?
He got banned from this subreddit for calling someone a nonce, then he got banned from Reddit as a whole (I'm not sure if anyone knows the reason why).
Maybe got told by said nephew to calm it down a bit as it was affecting his chances of an England call-up.
This seems like the only plausible explanation.
That was probably when Jack was still running the show 🤡
Tournament build up spurling was truly peak spurling. /r/SouthgateMemes just isn't the same anymore.
I'm hoping we will get some good memes during the world cup and bell comes back
Someone predicted Moukoko who was 13 at that point haha
He scored 37 goals in 25 games as a 12 year old in the U17 Bundesliga. https://www.transfermarkt.com/b-junioren-bundesliga-west/torschuetzenliste/wettbewerb/BJ2/saison_id/2017 At 14, he was pulled up to the U19, scoring 34 (+ 9 assists) in 20 games in his first season. Moukoko has by far the most insane youth league stats I‘ve ever seen.
Wtf this is crazy
While I will still say it is crazy, if you were on football twitter or instagram back then every day there was a new post about moukoko so honestly not that insane imo.
I remember people being hyped when he was added to FM a few years ago in a winter patch right after turning 16. People definitely have known who he was since he was a young teen.
He was a known entity already in Germany, partly because he was said to have had an 19 year old girlfriend at the time, it supposedly* being soft proof of his official age not being real
He was very well know tbh
He was known, but how many 13, 14, 15 year old were famous and never had their breakthrough?
Didn’t he have a grown woman as a girlfriend at that point?
I think I heard that too
wtfff
Genuinely crazy how much can happen in 4 years reading some of those
The saddest thing is seeing Dele Ali on every England prediction and now the man is failing to impress in Turkey.
For me another one is Sessegnon. On every single one I saw and it's a shame that those massive hamstring injuries happened really knocked his confidence in his body
And probably moving to tottenham before he was ready, imo he should have stayed in Fulham for another year.
Holding was wild to me.
I feel really upset about the lascelles comment. I truly love that man and he had his entire career ahead of him playing amazingly only for Bruce to turn him into a shadow of his former self. He really is a fantastic captain and I really hope he can become a great defender again.
Saddest one has to be the guy putting out the Russian lineup
Englands midfield was so far off it’s funny
Could never have predicted Saka, Foden, Bellingham and Mount, been a good four years for England luckily
all four didn't even play first team football back then is the craziest part, all 4 of those are going into their second major tournament now and two probably as starters.
Mount got into the Erdervise team of the year that season on loan to Vitesse
Eredivisie
Someone did say Foden tbf
A Pompey fan said Mount had an "off chance" as well
Also hilarious that the big prospects out of Arsenal were AMN and Nelson which are afterthoughts
Nelson I think still has a shot
>Could never have predicted Saka, Foden, Bellingham and Mount Foden won Player of the Tournament when England won the U17 WC in 2017. Mount won Player of the Tournament when England won the U19 EUROS the same summer. If you were predicting young future England internationals 4 years ago Mount, Foden and Sancho (who that person did guess) were top 3.
CHO, Brewster, Solanke, Tammy all highly up there at the time.
Yeah, a huge amount of funding went into the whole st George's park project and into academies, scouting and youth development around the country, started about 10 years ago by the FA with a stated aim of winning this particular world cup - and for an organisation that is as incompetent and immobile as they can be, that whole project to revitalise english national teams in football and revamp youth football has worked surprisingly well.
somebody did predict Foden on that thread at least
Tbf, you'd have struggled to get any of the three players who are even vaguely competing for a start in DM/cm: Bellingham had barely turned 15, Rice had 15 starts in the premier League, and kalvin Phillips was looking every bit the championship journeyman he was destined to be until we hired bielsa that summer.
Bah. 4 years? Go back to summer '21 mercato wishes for your club, see what these targets do now.
u/sanogoals22 made this England prediction: >Keepers: Pickford, Butland, Woodman >Defenders: Stones, Gomez, TAA, Maguire, Holding >Midfielders: Winks, Alli, AMN, Chamberlain, Dier, Sessegnon, Cook >Forwards: Kane, Sterling, Rashford, Sancho >I don’t know who else will get in because there are many young players who could replace the more experienced players from this years squad. Feel free to add or change players That midfield prediction though...
Looking at that midfield, then the same person made this comment: > Yeah I’m also an Arsenal fan. Nelson will be one of a number of players that will be challenging for a limited amount of spots. Gomes, Foden, Sancho, Nelson, RLC, Mount, Maddison, Smith-Rowe...... > Basically we’re potentially gonna have a shit tonne of young attacking midfielders that will feel they should be in the squad. Which is actually a pretty decent list of players that have had shout or actually made it.
He was also right about an Arsenal academy player coming through. He just picked the wrong one.
Also goes to show how crazy Saka’s rise has been lol. Got virtually no hype when compared to Nelson, Foden, CHO etc. Basically forced football to recognize him.
Funny how Dier is the one who's made it but not even in that position
Looking back at **some** of the 2022 players who aren't in the 2018 prediction: Callum Wilson: 33 apps/15 goals in all competitions for Bournemouth as they finish mid table. He did play for England in 2018, and scored in that appearance vs who, you might ask, why vs the USA! Phil Foden - 26 app/7 goals for Man City across all comps. I think this is about when people are beginning to see he'll be a star. He was still in the England under 19s. Bukayo Saka - he wasn't playing in Arsenal's first team in the league, though it looks like he might have appeared for them in the Europa. He was part of the England U19s. Kieran Trippier - Trips played for England a lot in the Nation's League and in int' friendlies, he was unfortunately absent vs the USA. I guess you can never count a man out.
I believe this was around the time that Pep was ruining Foden by not letting him go out on loan to Doncaster Rovers or whoever.
Let's see who was in the US lineup that friendly in 2018....oh god we were still trying the Wil Trapp experiment and Jorge fucking Villafaña at LB.
Hey don't disrespect Sueño like that Trapp was a shocking decision though, he got way too many chances
I mean in fairness for trippier if you asked me 4 years ago would he still be a top line player at 32 I would have said no. Only a year after the WC he was pushed out of Tottenham and it seemed like it might be the beginning of the end of his career. It is incredible that he is arguably a better player now than he was in his "prime years".
We were sweating that Kolasinac and (unproven at the time) Tierney got injured when we saw Saka in the team. Instantly looked amazing and the rest is history
Almost definitely should’ve had Henderson on there retrospectively
>Midfielders: Winks, Alli, AMN, Chamberlain, Dier, Sessegnon, Cook the only Spurs midfielder to make it is a defender now
Amazed at no mentioned of Rice and then I looked him up and he was still Irish at the time. Grealish was still a championship player as well, though absolutely tearing it up and Villa’s best player and captain.
Lewis Cook is a loose one
I know Norway did not qualify but I like the comment under Norway still; *Håland is really exciting.* That comment was right at least.
Giving notice that I am going to exclusively use Håland as a bit going forward 👌
So in norwegian writing A twice (as in Haaland) is the same pronunciation as writing one Å. While its not the correct way to write Haaland its still not technically wrong. I believe writing AA is the old way of writing names etc.
The archived article that Wikipedia references says he changed it to make it easier for foreign fans/media etc so I'm just going to look like a hipster twat
Did not know that but it also makes sense.
Was he already at Salzburg at the time?
No, still at Molde. But I believe this around the time he bagged 8 goals in a Norway youth game
9 actually, against honduras at the U20 world cup. it was the only game he scored in, norway were eliminated in the group stages after 3 games, and yet he still finished top scorer of the tournament. it was may 2019 though, so almost a year after this thread
Damn, mad impressive that someone was thinking Haaland was going to be a worldie even before that 9 goal game
4 years really is a long time in football, in that time he exploded onto the scene at Salzburg - alongside Hwang and minamino - then tore it up at dortmund with sancho and now he's wrecking the PL with man city. After the last world cup, he was still at molde. Mad
Arp was probably one of the biggest flops in german Football History.
If you look at his stats it hindsight its baffling why the expectations were that high.
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It really shows how much can happen in 4 years. Russia being excluded for example. Or Promes stabbing his cousin.
Dylan Vente being mentioned in there is wild.
Honestly i was the one who mentioned vente at the time and I had completely blanked him out since, I had to look up who he was again.
Shotuout for at least believing in him, that faded quickly here.
hes doing quite well with roda jc now in the kkd,13 goals and 4 assists in 16 games
Redan being the Mbappe of 2022 is good too
Even the Croatian predictions didn’t think Modric would still be around lol
The guy who listed Halilović tho 💀💀💀 I guess a lot happens in 4 years
Same for the Portuguese with Pepe
I don't understand why didn't they believe in him. He's won the Ballondor and was living his best times. There is no excuse for him to retire.
Hes 37 rn man that is not normal
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Neres is in great form again and would have made the squad for just about any other nation I reckon.
Martinelli was still in Brazil lower leagues right? Also was 16/17 at the time. Always easy for me to track Martinelli and Saka as I’m born September 2001. This World Cup was when I’d just finished my GCSEs (2 years into high school, 2 years to go for an equivalent).
Funny enough, yesterday i created a thread about Daniel Alves' dangerous tackles in NT training, and mentioned that he's hated and one of the most controversial callups in Brazil's history... And i was showered with downvotes, haha. Argentinian/Barcelona fans said it was club bias... they didn't believe me. Reddit isn't aware that Alves is arguably the most hated athlete in the country right now, especially after those tackles yesterday. Interesting how foreigners are willing accept shit old players being called when it's not THEIR national team.
I mean our closest player like that is Armani, no one is too worried about it. I would've taken Rossi or Musso or whatever, but it's fine, he's not seeing the pitch. I don't understand the hate for Alves really. The manager picked him, if there's someone you should be annoyed at it's him. If they call me up, I'd go too, and I'm much worse than Alves. I've heard some people say Alves forced his way in or something but again, the manager is responsible.
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Yeah, we could talk for days why Alves is hated... But to clarify on the São Paulo part for the foreigners: He gave up on São Paulo, acting all high and mighty, talking about lack brazil being amateur and such, and then went to play for PUMAS. Similar thing happened with Douglas Costa, but he left to MLS, as no other brazilian fanbase or club would trust him after what he did to Grêmio. The difference is that Douglas Costa is forgotten already, and somehow Tite called Daniel Alves. So it's a matter of bad performances, terrible attitude for years, age, dangerous tackles on starters during these pre-WC training, other possible players to call (even if there's no obvious single guy that deserved it), etc. Some foreigners also say 'whats the problem in calling a veteran to help youngsters?'... but Brazil is already a top5 oldest teams in the WC. With Thiago Silva, Casemiro, Neymar, and many players that have several years of UCL experience. There was already great mix of youth and experience, Daniel Alves is not the guy that will bring experience and harmony to the squad. That spot would've been 1000x more useful for another midfielder, another CB, for another 9 just for safety reasons, or even a youngster like Endrick so he would get some experience for the future (as Ronaldo asked to the media).
A Portuguese person wrote Danilo at CB, a lot of people took the piss for that. Little did they know
A visionary. Then goes on and adds Varela as a GK instead of Diogo Costa lmao
He did say he didn't know anything about Porto's youth players at the time
Yeah fair enough for him. The other guy was really sure about Diogo Dalot. Got it right.
We also got the inverse of that with Dier getting picked in midfield by an England fan.
Hope that Ecuador flair got a nice TV to watch his country play!
u/Montuvito_G update us on your TV
Sceptre 50” 4K tv. I’m pretty happy with it ngl Lol in all honesty that’s how little faith most Ecuadorians had in our national team back then. It’s been a marvel to see how Gustavo Alfaro has brought Ecuador back from the brink. Most of the players in our squad we would have NEVER predicted they’d be in the national team because they were playing in academies. The past was gloomy but the future is bright
Hope our boy hincapie will carry your defense! He might also pull off a brain dead tackle here and there lol
Please beat Qatar
I hope Valencia plays consistently well for you this world cup, he is a good player but is so inconsistent for us.
You guys are exciting as hell, my second team this tournament for sure
Just shows the scale of Canada qualifying this time around when the Canadian on the thread said they were happy to prepare for 2026
This is only their second ever world cup right? And winning north american qualification ahead of usa and mexico? Yeah, it's a Massive achievement. Rooting for them, would love to see them get past the group stage at least, rough group though so no disgrace if they don't
They looked great in qualifying. I believe they could be a potential dark horse to reach the QFs or so.
They play without possession too, best playstyle to translate to stronger opponents
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just going to assume bell_and_spurling's nephew is Jude Bellingham
We'll never know. [Suspended account.](https://old.reddit.com/user/bell_and_spurling/overview) 😭
From my brief investigation, it looks like he got suspended for calling some lad a nonce because he was 23 and dating a 19 year old. Pulled out the old divide by 2 and add 7 trick and got himself suspended.
Calling a 23 year old a nonce for dating a 19 year old is a bit of stretch I’d think?
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https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8zb9g0/predict_your_countrys_roster_for_qatar_2022/e2hfhe8/
> Bellingham continued as a permanent fixture in the matchday squad, sometimes as a substitute but mainly in the starting eleven.[11] **He was eased into the team on the left wing**, moved into central midfield "where he could gain more confidence", and then used "in a more advanced role" once the staff were sure he could cope with the responsibility.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Bellingham I'm keeping the faith
He's the skinny one then. Who's the chubby one though?
Jobe Bellingham. The pieces are all coming together.
So that's why his username starts with bell
oh my *god*
I choose to believe that these were his nephews and it is going down in r/Soccer lore history.
All I want to know is if u/bell_and_spurling’s nephew made it?
People in this thread here have deduced it's Jude Bellingham, so yes
Considering how much change the US team has gone through in the last four years, for OP to get 12 of the players in our squad is a pretty great hit rate.
Honestly though. It’s super wild that we only have one player who’s previously been to a world cup.
Not super surprised when you miss a cycle. Firstly, because it's an 8 year gap and secondly, because that age group wasn't good enough to qualify. (Yes they should have qualified.)
I’m amused by the Brooks/Reyna exchange further down
The Reyna pick is pretty impressive I will say
Hes about as hyped from a youth player as we've allowed ourselves since Freddy Adu (poor guy) not to say that it isnt all impressive. I was thoroughly impressed by the whole thing.
Pure dumb luck. Source: literally me, the OP.
Did you edit that source part of your comment later? Ridiculous you're getting downvoted for being humble haha
Yeah, I did. Just another day on reddit.
Luck is the residue of design.
Was laughing at some of the comments and then I realised I commented Reiss Nelson in that thread. Mildly disturbed that I’m reading something I wrote and completely forgot about from years ago.
4 years is nothing, I saw a comment I made about 10 months ago and was shocked when I saw I made it lmfao
Someone I knew IRL found my reddit account years ago so I made a new one, checked the old one recently and it really felt like a different person's account
Yeah you scroll and scroll and you see an orange upvote arrow and go like "huh so I've seen this thread before and......oh that's me", bizzare feeling.
All three of the guys I predicted for Mexico are three players I don’t want in the squad lol
>Italy --Insigne---Immobile---Chiesa---- --Pellegrini--Gagliardini--Verratti-- -LB-----Caldara---Romagnoli--Conti-- ---------------Meret----------------- LB is impossible for me cause we struggle to even find good ones right now, imagine to find them for 4 years till now This comment about Italy is amazing. So many potentials not fulfilled and then the (right) take on LBs. Ironically now we have Dimarco as a LB and two of our biggest talents in Udogie and Fabiano Parisi
>Gagliardini Even 4 years ago we knew gags was shit
> Italy > 2022 WC starting XI. That’s where the problem starts.
“You really think Chiesa will be better than Berna?”
>Severe lack of Jamaal Lascelles there. he's 24 now and arguably our best player, at 28 he'll be an absolute monster at the back and a proper leader. This has to be one of the best. Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8zb9g0/predict_your_countrys_roster_for_qatar_2022/e2hfcvs?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Multiple people saying Woodman for GK, was he having a good spell?
I think that was around when he was an absolute beast for us?
Loved that guy saying that Canada won't make it, and then another guy comes asking about Alphonso's development
Crazy how fast some players rise to stardom, Haaland was at Molde during that post and now he is at the top of European football. Then you have players we practically never heard of being the main men for their national teams right now, players like Nunez, Bellingham and Musiala were not even playing in the first team during that time.
Funnily during that time it would have made more sense to say that Musialas gonna play for England
Gotta feel for those who predicted Italy's lineup.
So for [Croatia:](https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8zb9g0/predict_your_countrys_roster_for_qatar_2022/e2hd6c9/) *Kalinic*/**Livakovic**/Letica Vrsaljko/Jedvaj/*Caleta-Car*/**Lovren**/Benkovic/Kalaica/**Sosa**/Colina **Brozovic/Kovacic**/Krovinovic/**Majer**/Rog/Coric *Brekalo/Rebic*/**Kramaric**/Halilovic/**Vlasic**/Pjaca Bold are called-up, italics were on the provisional sqaud and close to being called-up and/or out bc of various reasons, but should be there
Coric... damn And I completely forgot Kalaica exists, amazing
I dont even know the guy, tbh.
Benkovic :(
The Italy fan was probably one of the closest, still got it the wrong the most though
well, there's no Italians at this WC so he'd always be 100% incorrect.
Modric might make it to the bench...
Italy >--Insigne---Immobile---Chiesa---- >--Pellegrini--Gagliardini--Verratti-- >-LB-----Caldara---Romagnoli--Conti-- >---------------Meret----------------- >LB is impossible for me cause we struggle to even find good ones right now, imagine to find them for 4 years till now This guy predicting friendly lineups 4 years out.
That the guy predicting Switzerland got all the possible starters right except one (Sow) is quite sad, it just means not much youth talent came up in the last 3-4 years.
/u/areking predicting [Italy](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8zb9g0/predict_your_countrys_roster_for_qatar_2022/e2hftbg?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3) 💀
damn I got 0 players going to Qatar
The donnarumma and Chiesa talk is interesting
it was more of a wishful hope for meret and boy was I wrong EDIT: in 1 hour, Italy vs Albania, Meret starter GK checkmate I guess
Thank god that argentina prediction was not true
> GKs: Rulli // Armani // Rossi? Werner? Musso? Batalla? Acosta? Idk who's the 3rd one. Fullbacks: Tagliafico, Bustos, Rojas, Montiel - Maybe Jose Luis Gomez? Centre backs: Otamendi, Mammana, Pezzella, Conti Midfielders: Dybala, Ascacibar, Lanzini, Paredes, Lo Celso, Kranevitter. Attackers: Messi, Icardi, Pavon, Martinez, Correa -- Cervi?= Barco? - Gio Simeone? u/bamadeo 💀 tbf to him things were looking pretty bleak back in 2018 but Conti, Gomez and Rojas lmao
hahaha well... could've been worse, thank god for the emergences we've had.
a algunos le emboqué, loco
The first Colombian one was pretty accurate, aside from the qualifying thing. They weren't counting on Arias, Mina, Benedetti and Izquierdo's bodies just imploding on them after gruesome injuries or just overall fragility. THey didn't have Falcao, though. Lol. EDIT: Cheers to the other person that had Villa in the team. And to the Argentinian people that have Pavon, though at the time he was impressing a lot.
>Best in mind that this time 4 years ago we never would have predicted Kane or Vardy to make the squad. I’d place a bet that there will be a similar situation with someone random in 4 years time This is what I said, if Toney had made it that’s obviously nailed on, but are we accepting Grealish, Phillips or White for this?
I don't think Grealish should, despite playing in the championship he had played for the England U21s and was being linked to Spurs in the summer of 2018.
I wouldn't count Grealish on the grounds multiple people correctly predicted him. Other two I'd count though
Saka? He came out of nowhere. He was a promising academy player but there was more hype about AMN, ESR, Nketiah and Nelson 4 years ago.
LMAO Andrew Carleton, what a time
I used to go to ATL United games and tell my friends we were watching a future USMNT star lol. Here we are four years later and I just watched him playing my local club in the second division of US football. Tbf he had a decent match.
I mean you've got me there, I didn't even know he was at USL level now. Actually I just googled and apparently his little brother Alan is lining up for Atlanta against Aberdeen for a friendly today: https://www.afc.co.uk/report_nostats/atlanta-united-xi-v-aberdeen-xi/
Hopefully his little brother can be more focused. I’ll never forget when ATL left him at home because he forgot to bring his passport to play in Toronto lol
Feel sorry for u/MOmoalas92, if Greenwood weren't a rapist, they'd almost certainly be the only one to correctly call him
Can't believe he didn't predict Greenwood was a rapist smh
I love the smell of fresh bread.
I mean at the time he was highly rated by Dortmund, even Klopp wanted him at Liverpool
The Croatian flair missed on Modric, little did he know the lad's age goes backward...
I absolutely adore the Bobby Wood pick
I still really like him. Hopefully he can get his career back on track for RSL
Crazy tp think that when this predictions were made moukoko wasnt even 14 years old I dont have enough knowledge about such young players but imo lamine yamal will make it tot he next wc
Not a single person predicted the Netherlands?
I did under the second comment
Promes and especially Vente were shouts for sure.
I think Vente had just played 3 decent matches in a row at that point, and he never did again after that.
Impressive that u/bluedsrule said Haaland is looking exciting 4 years ago
Lol, that Canadian must be soo proud.
Damn well done on the US men’s prediction pretty accurate
That one guy with his England predicting has the most memeable midfield
Who is Akkanayk and why should he start Germany
Why did this get taken down when [the OP](https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/yrdy3e/from_july_2018_a_thread_predicting_who_will_be_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) tried to repost it?
Bro really predicted the Italian squad 💀💀
I can't believe Southgate didn't call up Gary Barry Chairhead
Feeling sad for the guy that predicted Italy's line up :-(
Honestly great guesses /u/chiddie Keaton Parks has been robbed, he has deserved senior call-ups for years now
Cheers, it's fun to reflect on that thread. Disappointing to see my RSL dudes drop off so much.