Jerome Kiesewetter has spent the past four years of his career with Bundesliga club Stuttgart, but it now appears that the U.S. Under-23 Men’s National Team winger will be on the move this summer.
According to German outlet Kicker, Kiesewetter is likely to leave Stuttgart in the summer following the expiration of his contract. The 23-year-old forward joined the Bundesliga club in 2012 from Hertha Berlin on a four-year deal.
Kiesewetter, who spent six months on loan with Hertha Berlin in 2014, has spent a majority of his time with Stuttgart featuring for the club’s reserve team in the third division of German soccer. In total, the U.S. U-23 winger made 62 appearances and scored five goals with the club’s reserves while making two appearances with the senior team.
Internationally, Kiesewetter earned his first two caps with the U.S. Men’s National Team as part of the recent January camp. The 23-year-old forward is expected to be a part of the upcoming Olympic qualifying playoff against Colombia, which is set for two legs on March 25 and 29.
What do you think of Kiesewetter’s move? What kind of club would provide the right fit? How important is he to the U-23’s Olympic qualifying hopes?
Share your thoughts below.
you guys are way to high on him. believe me he isnt that good
He’s no game changer, nor will he be a top class winger/wide forward, but he’s at the very least mid-table BL potential/talent. Lets not pretend wide players are hard to come by for us.
He certainly should be a better option than Zardes, and will be much more dynamic than Bedoya when he starts to age out.
Meant to say “…wide players are easy to come by…”
He’s pretty good. Don’t know if you saw him at the Toulon tournament. Physically strong with explosive first step, quick release shooter with a hard shot, above average technical ability. He needs to play up front, not on the wing; we have aggressive guys like Arriola and Gyau that are more suitable for wings.
Is Gyau playing?
ATTENTION CALEB PORTER: Here’s the “mystery winger” you are searching for.
His numbers may not dazzle, but he sure looked the part when playing for the USA over the last year. He was a dominant force on the u23 squad, and I thought he was an upgrade when he subbed in the recent friendly with the senior team. He already has the ability to go at players, speed to the corner and send in a decent cross, something that is apparently a lost art among our senior internationals.
Seattle probably got some allocation money for selling Martins. Get him and Morris back together.
They most certainly did not. You only get that if the transfer fee was higher than their total investment, which is far from the case with Oba
This article puts it well into perspective. He is 23. Scored 5 goals in 62 appearances in a league that I hope no one except Rob and Martha will argue with the fact that it’s worse than MLS. I am not sure why he should be ahead of guys like Agudelo, Paul Ariolla, Bunburry, Mullins, etc.
I think one of the major issues with this kid is that he is probably misused at his club, he does possess excellent speed and strength, he seems to be tailored made to be a winger, if that is where he plays at club, then they are looking for something else, perhaps more technical.
Making it to the Olympics just became very important to this young man.
Actually this might keep him off the Olympic roster as the Olympics will be held at the start of next season. If you just signed with a new club do you want to leave for a three weeks at the start of the season and let everyone else get a leg up on you.
Go to a bundesliga 2 club and get some playing time, preferably one that will be fighting for promotion. Hopefully they qualify for Olympics and he catches the eyes of some clubs
As the aspiring GM of Wild Onion FC, I formally submit a discovery claim on the rights of Jerome Kiesewetter.
Le Havre
Worked extremely well for Riyad Mahrez. Same position also.
Given what I’ve seen from him, if I’m an MLS club, I come in hard. He’s American – by passport, if not by birth – and he’s as good as a Gyasi Zardes or close. Come in with low-end DP dollars and you could wind up with quite a steal…and somebody you could easily sell on for five times that amount in a couple years, because with his Euro work passport he’s an easy sell back to Europe if he emerges like he might in MLS.
Seems like good business, and I’m sure there’s going to be more than a few takers in MLS if nobody in Europe really comes in.
Careful – if he comes to MLS he’ll be immediately become a bad player in the eyes of many US supporters.
Careful….. if he’s born in Germany, he just may automatically be considered a less than, Asterisk-American by some…. cough, cough… US Supporters. Right?
Correction – American by birth.
Colorado (top allocation team) should move on him! Reality is there will be bundesliga teams looking to sign him too.
Yes, be careful not to offend anyone regarding passport Americans. He was an American when he was born in Germany.
” passport Americans.”….stop this nonsense. He’s an American, period! If you start adding qualifications beyond what the government delineates, when does it end? If I wanted to, I could say only white men (and their progeny) who where here before WW2 are true Americans. Hell I even had a friend in college tell me he does not really view Asians as really Americans. He said he knows that they are citizens, but…
You are entitled to your opinions, but ignorance is ignorance. Now if you want say he is not a product of US development system and what that implies, then that is a different issue.
Offended. No. But….. I’ll correct an absolutely false premise when I hear it… especially when it comes to attempts at creating “others” or stratification among legal citizens. Folks repeat the same nonsense enough…. they actually start to believe it. Make no mistake- there is no hierarchy of citizenship. Kind of at the very root of what this nation was supposed to be about- yeah?
Would a move to MLS be a bad thing? I don’t think so…come back for 2-3 years and hone your skills with consistent playing time, then move back abroad for a decent chunk of change. Dallas…make that discovery claim!
I’m not at all against this idea, in theory, but you have to realize that MLS just isn’t scouted by top-of-the-table clubs in the Big 4+1. So if he were to move to MLS, he’d need to be pretty confident in his ability to not only make the WC squad in 2018, but star in it, to secure a move to a top club (what should be the goal of all our players; the highest level).
Let’s not forget, the best club considering Zardes, after winning the MLS Cup, was Genk and Reading (granted Keisewetter has a much better technical foundation). And not a single club in Europe had heard of Yedlin until WC’14.
I’m tired of our players having to prove themselves for years at bottom to midtable clubs before getting a sniff by top ones, after they’ve started to peak.
If you are good, the top clubs will notice no matter where you’re playing, no Americans starring at top clubs? Well that’s cause they ain’t good enough
Except I’m not just talking about Americans. Hate to break it to you, but in the entire history of MLS, there has only been 4-high profile transfers of outfield players (high-profile meaning traditionally a knockout round, UCL-caliber club signings) of ALL nationalities:
Jozy Altidore—-> Villareal
Matt Miazga—->Chelsea
Freddy Adu—-> Benfica
Damarcus Beasley—–>PSV
Cory Gibbs—–>Feyenoord (this ones a stretch, as Feyenoord for the past decade has been incredibly inconsistent)
4 signings of the now hundreds (thousands?) of players to have come through MLS’s now 20th season. Poland’s Ekstraklasa (a league many deem to be of a lower quality than MLS) has had at least 3 such signings over the last 2 years.
Top clubs just don’t scout the MLS. Its not an indictment against us or our players, just the reality of having to create a scouting network to cover an area the size of Europe itself, in a league that has yet to develop a truly World Class player. If any such player exists, top clubs will just wait for either the Gold Cup/WC/CCL to filter out such players.
damn, he’s 23 already? yeah, he needs to get minutes.
Yup. Suddenly Julian Green, still playing and scoring for Bayern II, doesn’t look as bad.
The bad part is Green was scoring more 2 years ago then he is now.
Oh he’s definitely not the same player he was 2 years ago. That Hamburg loan really screwed him up. Even worse is that this time last year, Bayern had already mathematically clinched the league, AND Robben and Ribery decided to get injured. He would’ve definitely of seen games last year, especially with Guardiola pushing for CL.
I really do not blame him for wanting to stay at Bayern all of this year, just to get back to the comfort and form he was in before that dumpster-fire they called a loan.
Just goes to show that its not all about just getting minutes. How and where you play matters.
He’s 23. He needs to go somewhere where he is going to at least play.