{"id":9126,"date":"2012-02-09T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2012-02-10T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:08:51","slug":"brettschneider-set-for-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=9126","title":{"rendered":"Brettschneider set for trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former D.C. United striker Blake Brettschneider is the latest free agent hoping to earn a spot on the New England Revolution for the 2012 season. Brettschneider is set to join the team on trial next week the Revs confirmed to New England Soccer Today<\/em> on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Brettschneider, a 22-year-old who can also play in midfield, played in 15 league games, including nine starts, for D.C. as a rookie in 2011. The 6-foot-0 University of South Carolina product tallied one goal and two assists in MLS play, but in a surprising move the promising youngster was waived by United on February 3rd.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining D.C., Brettschneider had a stand-out senior year for the Gamecocks. In 2010, he scored 7 goals along with 10 assists for South Carolina and was named Conference USA Co-MVP and Co-Offensive Player of the Year. He also took part in a U.S. U-20 National Team camp in 2008.<\/p>\n

Brettschneider, a 2011 MLS Combine participant, was drafted by United with its second round pick in the 2011 MLS Supplemental Draft. In addition to his 15 games for the first team, he appeared in nine reserve league matches with three goals, including two against the Revolution Reserves, and an assist as D.C.\u2019s reserves finished the year 5-1-4.<\/p>\n

Despite Brettschneider, as he himself put it<\/a>,<\/span> seemingly exceeding expectations for a Supplemental Draft pick and showing promise with nine starts as a rookie, D.C. waived him Friday. The club likely deemed him surplus to the requirements after signing both Albanian striker Hamdi Salihi and Brazilian forward Maicon Santos this offseason.<\/p>\n

But D.C.\u2019s loss could be the Revs gain. Regardless of whether Jose \u201cPepe\u201d Moreno joins the team, the Revs are clearly lacking in forward depth. Brettschneider isn\u2019t the cure-all for the Revs issues up top, but adding some promising depth at striker would certainly be a positive for the club.<\/p>\n

Since being let go by D.C., Brettschneider has earned praise from various pundits surprised by the move. Both Washington Post <\/em>reporter Steven Goff<\/a><\/span> and Sporting News <\/em>scribe Brian Straus<\/a><\/span> pointed out the striker\u2019s promise via Twitter, though Goff did add <\/a><\/span>that Brettschneider \u201cdidn’t perform well at [D.C.\u2019s preseason Florida] camp.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, shortly after Brettschneider\u2019s release, MLSSoccer.com<\/em>\u2019s Matthew Doyle tweeted<\/a><\/span> \u201cno way a guy with those No. 9 instincts should go unclaimed.\u201d For a team that\u2019s just learned its projected number 9, Moreno, might not be coming after all, that comment is reason enough to give the young forward a shot at making the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former D.C. striker hopes to earn a spot on the Revs with a trial beginning next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brettschneiderfeature1.jpg?fit=490%2C240","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9171,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}