Mexico's Future Star, The Jonathan González Story | El Futuro: Ep 1 

Interesting topic, but we wanna know - Mexican-American & other Hispanic-American youth players, do you dream to play for the US or Mexico/country of your family's heritage? Or both? And WHY? Let's hear it 👇 (Cuéntanos en español si quiere)

I want people who play for Mexico to play for Mexico because they love Mexico. I do not want them to flip flop for petty reasons or anything. And im grateful that he picked us, but i want the youth to know that when shit hits the fan, you will only have the love and pride of the country to pull you through. Play for love and passion, not for fashion. Not for money. Not for being snubbed.

mexicans will say we aren’t Mexican enough Americans will see us as Mexicans but at the end of the day it’s all down to the person, it’s best to understand and appreciate and have love for both countries that mean a lot to us

I think that him and Lozano Are the future of Mexico

This aged badly

Jonathan is the future of Mexico along with Diego Lainez, Paolo Medina, Cesar montes, and Joao Maleck

Wow once again another great video guys! I love the concentration on Mexican youth talent that have been shown the past few months.

He is playing good in France with Mexico

This is absolutely brilliant work. Keep it up

Why does this video keep freezing????

A minute was enough to love this, great job!

This is amazing content. Thank you!

He's already being scouted by European clubs just by playing in the Toulon Tournament and shining in Monterrey. You made a good choice J.Gonz. Your time for Mex senior team will come soon.

Amazing video. Cant wait for the next. Really hope he gets playing time in Russia. Would love to see the quality he can bring to Mexico. 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

I am mexican german but i will always play for mexico!

this is really good, I love this

Copa 90 has been dropping 🔥 lately I like these little documentaries right before the World Cup

Amazing video guys🤘

Échale ganas Jonatan eres un jugador con mucho talento dios te bendiga y vas a ser la new fugará de Mexico

This should be a movie or a documentary!!

Call me crazy, but y’all uploaded this yesterday and took it down quickly!

Hes doing well in the toulon tournament, and being linked to celta vigo

Quality videos recently. Keep it up

Se sigue congelando Esta madre.

Great vid! Interesting!

Cant wait for the next vid

welcome to mexico bro. es un onor sudra la camisa de la selecsion mexicana. Great video

as much as it may hurt to lose jona as usmnt fan, wish him the very best in his career

I want episode 2 nowwwwww

The US. National team should be the most diverse in the world but Continue to lose multicultural players. Obvious problem and there should be more investment in these type of player if they EVER want to win a world cup in the next 30 years

This would’ve been more interesting if it happened a few years ago. But thanks to the Bundesliga, the future is looking pretty bright for American soccer. I would even say it’s better than the youth of Mexico. The only thing the US needs to work on is a better management system.

Sick video 👍👍👍

Total Soccer Show is great

Crazy to say I used to play against him when we were u16s. I remember beating his team but man he was a baller forsure.

VAMOS MEXICO, VAMOS A GANAR LA COPA MUNDIAL. ¡VIVA MEXICO! ¡VIVA MEXICO! 🇲🇽

my cousin was pretty much in the same situation as jonathan, however my cousin is still with the us team, and hoping he's able to make it to the senior team. Good luck to all the players out there!

He is from my hometown in california. The guy has talent for sure. Hope he plays in Europe soon.

pleasure to have him be one of my homies 🙌🏼

Thanks Jonathan...

Santa Rosa reppin!!!! knew this kid a lil growing up always knew he was talented from a young age

VIVA MEXICO

Grew up all my life in Texas. Love my country but we grow up grilling fajitas on Mexico game days lol it’s instilled into to us to root for el tri

Very well for the boy it is difficult to choose where to play where he lived all his life or where his father is and think what he suffered. I'm mexico gto

that was dope!

It's a hard choice. Sometimes it feels like us chicanos (Mexican-Americans) feel out of place. Like it's been said before, Americans see us just as Mexicans and Mexicans say we are not Mexican enough. That we are too "white". It comes down to what country you can connect to more. The love and support of family and true friends make the choosing process a little bit easier but at the end of the day whatever you choose you will still be considered ungrateful or a traitor in a sense. It's fucking hard for us but we have to have the balls and mental strength to ignore all that negative noise. Do what you feel deep down is right and good luck 😁. I support anyone who is trying to succeed and transcend in life. ✌🏻

I never amounted to making it professional as a player, but if I was ever given the same opportunity as Jona, I would’ve selected Mexico form the beginning. Even though I was born and raised in California, I grew up watching Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Jared Borgetti and Rafa Marquez and watching Mexican soccer so I have an attachment to La Selección Mexicana that is nonexistent with the USMNT. I hate the USMNT as much as they hate the Mexican side

This is fucking incredible. Keep it up

Que buena produccion.

I get it. I’m Costa Rican, born and raised in NJ. I would have rather played for Costa Rica than the USMNT. It comes to culture and the home feeling. I love being American but ultimately Costa Rica runs through my veins and is where my passion for football comes from.

I was at that Mexico vs Iceland game

Nice little series. This going to be every tuesday?

He's not the next Cuauhtemoc but he will definetly be the next Herrera/Layun, the U-21 is in the finals in the Toulon Championship.

Weird the video keep stopping and not loading. I thought it was my connection but other videos on RU-vid work just fine. Hopefully they have this on their Facebook page so I watch it there.

It's My time to shine lol. After much thought I will be taking my talents to USA! My parents are Mexicans they made the choice to come over for a better life its my duty to repay with GLORY!

That's my dream play for the Mexican national team and I'm going to work hard so I can get there

Where’s episode 2?

The first time that I've ever rooted for a player to not make a WC roster and my wish was granted. Honestly its poetic justice. I planned on rooting for MX by of the US not making it and then this happen. I was shocked. I thought his choice was bizarre at his age. But this guy most likely never plays for the Mexican National team beyond friendlies and such. Just a hilarious decision.

Early squad + I think Mexico will be insane in the coming years if not this year

It's good he didnt make the cut because he will grow hopefully being at his prime in 2022 or the Olympics so until now we just have to wait

Wait can other players do that u know switch teams or it’s depending on your country blood

Imagine Jonathan and Chucky on the same team

It's crazy to think that my older brother actually got to play against Jonathan when they were both in high school

Should do one with Jesse Gonzalez he switched from Mexico to US

Man that would be a tough decision. I’m half Mexican and Costa Rican, but born in USA. I guess I would pick the same as him, but USA should have been trying to persuade him to play for the US.

He had playing time with the Mexico national team what do you mean?

I’m confused because he’s on the US team now but the video said he already did his one time switch to Mexico. So what?

2020 and isn't relevant anymore

He was born in Santa Rosa CA, aka my hometown city.

que paso con el? He fell off

ARRIVA LOS TIGRES!!!🐯🐯🐯

Nice

I would want to play for my country mexico porque siempre, ive wanted to play for them, and i was born in usa but im mexican american

Video is laggy or just me?

I saw an interview on Univision of Jonathan explaining why he ended up choosing the US over Mexico. One of the reasons he said was because he felt discriminated within the US national teams that he was part of by fellow “American” players and coach alike. So the truth is, that discrimination made him realize that he could not represent a country that didn’t even value him as an American, let alone a player...

The mom all the players he lookes up to names one an forgets the rest

This kid reminds of Jose El Gringo Torres former player of pachuca. His mom is white and his dad mexican but chose to play for the usmnt.

Mi hija es mexicoamericana de nacimiento pero mexicana de mente y corazon y espiritu. Ella hace mucho que escogio su camiseta: LA VERDE, ella no tiene ni ha tenido nunca ninguna duda.

Father definitely swayed his decision. I respect the move, but we'll see if he regrets it in the future.

This is a political yet hard topic to cover, specially in 2018.

Lol where he at now

The question of "would you play for the US or Mexico" is totally misleading in this case because while Jonathan was given the opportunity to play for the US national team, there were a ton of other avoidable circumstances that pushed him towards Mexico and which highlights the complete failure that is US soccer. People sadly need to realize sports in the US are run like a business; to make money not to grow talent the way the rest of the world does it. In sports where there isn't major competition from other countries and pipelines like high school football/baseball which keeps the talent close to home (and gives kids from poorer backgrounds a decent opportunity to play at the elite level) this works; in sports like soccer it fails miserably. Gonzalez was discovered at a talent showcase in the US as a kid and surprise, he got THIRTEEN Liga MX offers while getting little attention from US soccer's ONE FULL TIME SCOUT or any kind of top tier US youth clubs because it's all pay to play in the US so they don't even look at areas where most of the kids can't afford the high costs (US soccer has numerous times been referred to by people familiar with it including past players like Hercules Gomez as purely a "suburban sport" where only kids from means have a real chance). Of course there's also no academy system like in Germany so you can't secure him that way. The fact that Mexico was the only place he got an opportunity to play back in 2014 as a youth and where he already works and lives just makes it that much easier for Mexico to take him down the road. With all the turmoil and uncertainty around US soccer as people were fired after missing out on the World Cup, you'd think it might be time to do an outreach and assure the young players they'll be a part of the future. So the US call up all the young players for the Portugal friendly in November after being eliminated from the World Cup!! Except they don't even contact Gonzalez. He's reportedly upset with them not even calling him, Mexico gets wind of the situation and sends numerous coaches to talk to him face to face or over the phone and surprise, he now plays for Mexico (despite the fact that all along he actually wanted to play for the US instead of Mexico). And before you argue "he left for a chance to play at the 2018 WC", he's only 19 he already knew there was a slim chance of making the team and almost none of playing much; this was far more about his future. As an American from a different minority background who's just gotten into football the last few years it's disgusting to see how primitive US soccer is. In a country with such a large immigrant population, particularly that come from less means than the average in the US, you'd think things like scouting, academies, and just in general making your talent pool from lesser means and minority backgrounds feel included would be a good idea. Particularly when that talent pool has dual citizenship and can go play for other soccer powerhouses.

lol USA gonna be producing all our Mexico Team😋😋😋

I thought this was copa90 us? Shouldn’t this be on copa90?

Copa fam is there a problem with the video?

If he loves Mexico so much and wishes to represent that country, then he should move there and renounce his US citizenship. I will never understand the blind "love" and devotion Hispanics born and raised in the United States have for the country(ies) of their parents; countries that never gave them a goddamn thing. It's one thing to be proud of your heritage and ethnic identity, but it's another thing to turn your back on the country that gave (and continues to give) you and your family opportunities that hundreds of millions of people across the underdeveloped world would kill for. It's downright ungrateful and disgusting.

Lol so many usmnt fanboys are salty.

From all I heard before switch Is he wanted play for USA senior team but wasn’t even getting invited to camp! And if true he’s suppose be as good as he is it’s sad because we could use him!

Do a classico tapatio . Atlas vs chivas the oldest classico in Mexican league.

He did play this video is wrong but is still good tho

We can have more kids go pro but the problem is money, support. I say from experience. I grew up playing soccer and I played for the second academy team ( where you pay) but then they called me up for the official academy team but my parents didn’t want to drive all the way to L.A. no more. So I lost the opportunity to play with the academy of L.A. Galaxy for free. Then they put me in club but later took me out cuz of money. And where I live the clubs are in the lowest flight ( I think it’s 3 ) it goes by 1 the best to 3 the lowest. And there’s no scouts here and my team doesn’t get far. So now I have to work and try to get to L.A. to tryout again. I’m 17 now

My mom is from mexico and my dad is from Jordan but I dont give a shit about either. I would never choose a country that I know nothing about over usa. to represent another country other than USA, a country that has given me pride and a good life is stupid. Who cares about roots its where you were brought up, and I was born and raised in USA🇺🇸🇺🇸

He did play though

"I was born in the US,but I will be playing for Mexico" -- Kevin Durant

Taking notes from KD lol

i rather play for 🇲🇽 cause americans only see us as mexicans🤷🏽‍♂️

I'm born in United States but I want to talk play for Mexico I'm not living in Mexico I won't cause I can't and I will play for Mexico know matter what it takes to join the team.

this shit lagged so fucking much for me, my wifi was good I turned it off and was using my 4g that had 4 bars (i have Verizon unlimited) and this was still pausing every 3 seconds

Sorry, but we all know Hirving Lozano is Mexico's future

If I had to chose between the US or Mexico i would definitely chose Mexico even tho i was born in the United States. Just because think Mexico has a better style of play but also just because I would feel more welcomed...

Am MEXICAN-AMERICAN LIKE HIM