Mainz was in the first league two seasons ago, so it’s not unthinkable they’ll get themselves back up.

Carl, from what I have read, a U20 coach really offended Subotic several years ago and the rumor is now that he will never play for the U.S.

The following article discusses the situation:
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/1614/americans-abroad/2008/11/15/966243/rongen-defends-subotic-comment

As far as I know, he has an open invite to the National Team, he just hasn’t accepted the invite.

http://tags.worldcupblog.org/neven-subotic/

But why wouldn’t it be realistic to have him for 2010? Sure, maybe his family would vote for Serbia (we have the same issue here with many players of turkish descent), but from the point of career planning the US would hold some trumps, too.
Why doesn’t he just get an invitation to the NT? Or is there something prepared behind the scenes? I miss action.

Re: The coverage, there was a bunch early on in the Bundesliga season and more around the time that it was rumored he had chosen Serbia (which proved to be false,) but you’re right, coverage has seemed to have cooled of late. Maybe it’s because we’re still hesitant to invest time in following his career as we’ve been on the losing side of these national allegiance battles lately.

Regardless, having Neven available for 2010 would be amazing (if not realistic.) The thought is that we could slide Bocanegra to LB (a position of weakness currently.) Additionally, Nevin is really good in the air so we’d go from a good set piece team to a great one, IMO.

I’m tracking several US-football (I know, but I can’t use the s-word) blogs for quite a while now, looking out for one name. And all I found was one mention like “played the whole game” between dozends of other informations of field-time for US players playing abroad.
Hello?
The player I’m talking about is: Neven Subotic!
No.1 Bundesliga-Defender for the first half of the season and one of the hottest prospects of the league (today is his 20th birthday).
Although he has made some matches for the U17 and U20 US-teams, he is free to choose the country he will play for in the A-squad. This choise is between Bosnia, Serbia and the US (he already turned Bosnia down). If he was able to play for Germany and was in this situation, you bet that Löw would have contacted him already. But maybe the US-team doesn’t need an extraordinary defender, who astablished in an anstonishing way in a european top-league. Even if Onyewu is as good as thought, which remains to be seen (he doesn’t matches the big ones in the Belgium League), there is still another inner defender needed.
I mean, it is all about LD (other topic – won’t comment that here), Adu (81 minutes this season), Altidore (229 minutes this season), Onyewu (Belgium League), Bradley, etc.
And on the other hand you do have an absolute diamond, who is proving week for week, that he has got what it takes to make it on the top level – and it seems to me, that he is absolutely ignored by everyone over there.

Sorry for the length of the post, but I just don’t get it.

Best regard from Germany

(Chad Marshall being elevated to the Bundesliga wouldn’t be much of a consolation in my book considering he’s not one of our A list national team members.)