Altidore to Villareal

An interview with Jozy

 

On life in Spain, Jozy says:

 

No wonder he always has that cheshire cat grin on...

 

I am not knocking Jozy's performance this weekend because he reportedly played well but from what I read he got the start due to multiple injuries at the forward position. Even if that is true Jozy has done very well to keep himself in contention and make a good showing when given the opportunity. I am hoping Setanta will show a replay of the match this week.

 

Jozy will be staying put in January.

 

I'd love to see him make the Champions League roster for the knockouts...was Beasley the last Yank to play in the field for a Champs League side?

 

I could be wrong on this, but I think I read somewhere a while back that Villareal (and all clubs) had to submit CL rosters prior to the start of group play, and Altidore wasn't on that list. I think it was partly because he had just been transferred, and each team had to have a quota of domestic born players. So I think he can't play in their last group play game.
I don't know if teams submit a new roster prior to the knockout stages or not.

 

Rosters are reset for the knockout rounds, so there's a chance he'll be added. And the CL instituted a "homegrown" player rule this year (I believe it was this year) which mandated "X" number of players from the club's country be included.

Thanks for the response, HD. My question was poor but you still answered it and then some, as I meant to ask if Beas was the only field player to play in the knockouts.

I still can't believe two kids from Jersey started up top for Villareal the past weekend.

 

Interesting that the rosters are reset. Any idea when the new rosters will be due? I've seen rumors about Rossi possibly going to Juventus or being bought back by Man U (don't know if they have any validity). Might give Jozy more of a chance if he leaves, though I kind of doubt he does.

 

Assuming management sim games get this right (and they generally do get things right, other than the arcane MLS roster rules), the rosters don't simply reset. Villarreal originally had to submit a 25-man CL-eligible roster prior to the start of group play, including some quota of domestic players.* Between group play and knockout play, the club will have the opportunity to make up to three player-for-player replacements to the eligible roster, while still meeting the quota. In other words, if Jozy is going to be eligible to play in the CL in the spring, he will have to replace someone else who was eligible in the fall. Since the word seems to be that Villarreal aren't expecting much player movement in January, it seems unlikely that Jozy would take someone else's spot on the roster. (That'd be different if Rossi were sold, of course.)


* Per FM08 it's a quota of 8 domestic players including 4 players from the club's youth system. Looking at their Wikipedia page, there are ten Spanish players, and Diego Lopez, Marcos Senna, Bruno Soriano and Juan Carlos Martinez came from Villarreal's youth system.

 

cool. thanks for the clarification, jmh.

 

Wow, good work. Interesting that 4 have to come from the youth system. If Fulham were involved in a competition like this (one can dream), who would be a product of the youth system?

 

Jozy should have gotten the game-winner but Rossi went for goal and the shot went out before Jozy could tap it home. Very entertaining last 10 minutes to the match.

 

I think Rossi and Jozy probably push each other. You know Jozy would probably like nothing better than to show the turncoat what a mistake he made. And/or maybe that is just what I would like.

Rossi seems like a selfish player. Which is kind of what you want with a scorer. Jozy had some good chances at headers, and nearly put one in before a great save deflected off the keeper and ended up at the feet of Pires for the 1st goal of the comeback. Quite a scrambling effort by Villareal. Before they even tied it, you could tell that they intended on coming back not to tie, but to win. Confidence.

 

Here are highlights from the game.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/1833422/

As WhitesBhoy said, he came close on his team's first goal as the guy scored off the save the goalie made on his header.

 

Why all the childish negativity towards Rossi? "Turncoat"? Why the need to hate this guy?

He isn't American. His parents were Italians living and working in the U.S. They weren't immigrants. It's not that big a deal.

Let the boy be.