Jamaican Forward Alanzo Adlam To Begin Trial With D.C. United
by benuski on Jan 22, 2012 12:00 PM EST
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PrintThe new car smell has barely begun to fade on D.C. United's current trialists, and already those names have begun to shift. There is word out of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, that goalkeeper Carl Goody has been released from United's camp and has returned home. Goody was always a longshot to make the team, having played his college soccer at William Carey University, a NAIA school. His task was made that much tougher when United announced that Andrew Dykstra, who has made 17 MLS appearances and currently plays for the Charleston Battery, was brought into camp as well.
In bigger news, D.C. United have brought an international forward into camp on trial. According to the Jamaica Observer, Portmore United forward Alanzo Adlam is set to fly to Washington tomorrow and join United for a two week trial. The 22-year old is currently tied for the lead in goals scored for the Red Stripe Premier League, having put in eight thus far this season. He has also appeared in matches for Jamaica's U-20 and U-23 national teams. (Also in the article is the news that Portmore United midfielder Andrew Vanzie will also be on trial in MLS, with the Seattle Sounders.)
Forward is obviously the position that United fans are anxious to see bolstered, and the current list of players on trial leaves much to be desired. Obviously, Adlam isn't the proven European striker that many would like to see. However, he is young, is currently hot for his club team, and there were posters on the Reggae Boyz forum calling for him to get a senior callup in 2009. From what I have been able to put together (I haven't been able to find any videos of him), he is a short and speedy player, but one who can make space to head some balls home. Maybe he can be our Joao Plata?
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rumor mongering
I really appreciate your citing sources and doing a far amount of research into these rumors. If these posts were just names from anonymous sources it would be annoying and useless but this is pretty good.
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How did United manage to find the one Jamaican forward that isn’t 6 foot? Seriously, every time we play Jamaica, I think, “we’re beating them, but that is one tall team.”
As long as he isn’t Franco Neill, bring him on.
Confirmed by dcunited.com this morning that Adlam is in camp.
Nice of DCU to wait until the team got to Florida to invite the Jamaican to join, instead of making him come to D.C.
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Two Theories:
First: This is a trial for United almost as much as it’s a trial for Adlam. The team didn’t want to make a crappy first impression filled with snow and ice, given that we’re talking about a Caribbean islander here.
Second: The trialists invited initially were put through more of a screen-out procedure. The ones coming to Florida passed the screening (or got exempted from it).
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Jamaicans in DC for winter
I recall freezing all of my important body parts off at the Soccerplex back in 2005 for our CONCACAF Champions Cup quarterfinal opener against Harbour View.
Despite the game taking place well into March, our typically unpredictable weather served up a snow/ice mix followed by days of highs below 35 and lows of roughly 20. As such, the snow/ice would thaw just enough to freeze into a more solid mass of ice, and the night of the game was preposterously bad weather for soccer. It was not only frigid, but also consistently breezy, and the air was very dry.
There were stories coming out of the Harbour View camp that included players losing toenails due to being totally unfamiliar with the cold on a physiological level. They appeared to have adequate long-sleeved undershirts and gloves for the field players, but I remember them having bench coats that were probably not comfortable below 45 degrees.
So anyway, it is probably for the best that he just meets the team in Florida.
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