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Celtic are heading into the UEFA Europa League playoffs and rolling to a crucial Matchday 8 victory. Auston Trusty scored for the second-consecutive European match as Celtic defeated FC Utrecht 4-2 in Glasgow on Thursday night. The American defender played 90 minutes in the match, winning five duels, making five clearances, and making three defensive recoveries. With FC Utrecht fighting for an…

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Erik Palmer-Brown ready to take next step with U.S. national team

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports March 25, 20185:52PM EDT CARY, N.C. — It was simply a matter of time for Erik Palmer-Brown. Of the five first-time call-ups into the US national team camp currently training in North Carolina, Palmer-Brown seemed the most inevitable. He’s one of only 12 U.S. players ever named to two FIFA U-20 World Cup rosters. Palmer-Brown earned the Golden Ball award…

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Erik Palmer-Brown ready to take next step with U.S. national team

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports

March 25, 20185:52PM EDT

CARY, N.C. — It was simply a matter of time for Erik Palmer-Brown.

Of the five first-time call-ups into the US national team camp currently training in North Carolina, Palmer-Brown seemed the most inevitable. He’s one of only 12 U.S. players ever named to two FIFA U-20 World Cup rosters. Palmer-Brown earned the Golden Ball award as the best player in the 2017 Concacaf U-20 Championship, and he was the team captain of a U.S. U-20 World Cup squad that advanced to the quarterfinals last June.

Palmer-Brown could attain another goal Tuesday: earning his first USMNT cap in a friendly against Paraguay at WakeMed Soccer Park (7 pm ET | FS1, UniMás, UDN). It would be the next step along an accelerating career path for Palmer-Brown, an Ohio native who joined the Sporting Kansas City Academy in June 2009 at age 13. He signed his first professional contract with SKC in 2013 and appeared in 20 regular season MLS games through the end of 2017. He also appeared in a smattering of matches last year for Swope Park Rangers, SKC’s USL affiliate team.

Already the subject of intense overseas interest, the 20-year-old Palmer-Brown signed with Manchester City when his MLS contract expired following the 2017 season. He was soon sent on loan to K.V. Kortrijk in the Belgian Pro League in order to eventually meet the criteria for a UK work permit. Palmer-Brown made his debut for Kortrijk earlier this month when he played the full match in a 2-1 loss at Club Brugge.

Palmer-Brown, who spent 2016 on loan to FC Porto B, says his full-time move to Europe was always a career aspiration.

“It was one of my goals to go overseas,” Palmer-Brown says. “That’s something I wanted to do at a young age, and when I went on loan to Porto I saw how tough it was. It’s a struggle at times, but to grind through those [struggles] you come out a better person and player.”

Palmer-Brown says his experience playing in Portugal aided his transition to Belgium.

“There’s more English [in Belgium], so it’s been good,” Palmer-Brown says. “I don’t have to adapt — it’s been pretty easy.”

Palmer-Brown, more commonly called ‘EPB’ by his club and country teammates, enters a U.S. team not only recovering from its failure to qualify for this year’s FIFA World Cup, but also the unending search for the next great American center back. He believes the stiff competition he faces in Europe will better prepare him to put his stamp on the USMNT.

“I’ve been lucky enough to sign with one of the biggest clubs in the world now, and in watching those guys at the club, it’s very demanding,” Palmer-Brown says. “You see the whole field and you have to be able to lead from the back.”

In the meantime, Palmer-Brown’s debut U.S. senior team camp carries a distinct youthful air. The average age of the players in the current camp is less than 24. Though it’s his first USMNT call-up, Palmer-Brown’s youth national team accolades and his experience playing with many of his fellow March invitees affords him an unexpected level of comfort and high regard.

“EPB has done an unbelievable job so far coming into this camp,” says Tyler Adams, the 19-year-old New York Red Bulls midfielder and Palmer-Brown’s teammate on the 2017 U.S. U-20 World Cup team. “Having him gain minutes now with his Belgium team has been huge in his development. And it shows now with him getting called into [USMNT camp].”

“It’s been a good vibe,” Palmer-Brown added. “It’s been easy to mix in because I know a lot of the guys, and I’ve watched the guys I didn’t know coming into the camp. Meeting them has been awesome; they’ve all been very welcoming. For me, it’s been a nice, calm vibe, but also intense training.”a

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My Year of the Book - Day 13: (I’m at a BBall tourney, so today’s entry is excerpted from a blog post. Can’t miss a day!) Early in our engagement, my wife and I discovered we each loved browsing used books stores. It was great; wandering up and down the aisles, sipping coffee, dodging cats…until it became clear that on just about every visit, I found some long-lost children’s book I was looking for. And she didn’t. Ever. Eventually, the truth behind became obvious: she was always looking for the SAME book, a single book she’d read over and over and loved as a child. Her fond descriptions of this book were so touching, I began to pine for it, sight unseen. She remembered it vividly, with the exception of a few details, such as the title, author, and name of the main character. The whole thing was shrouded in mystery, as if she’d imagined it all. Fast forward fifteen years. My personal library had grown to ridiculous proportions, and the used book business had shifted with the growing dominance of the Internet. You could now locate a one-of-a-kind book in Zanzibar with the touch of the enter key…as long as you knew the author or the title. We’d nearly given up hope. Then one day, while browsing the on-line stacks of Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, Ohio, I stumbled onto a feature titled “Stump the Bookseller.” ... Here, you could describe your memories of a book, and, for a couple bucks, post it for caring people to see and…dare I say it? Respond. So I wrote “We are searching for a small hardcover book my wife read in elementary school in the ’70s...” and waited ... One day later, we had the answer. That evening, I hit Bookfinder.com with a vengeance. I found not one, but TWO fine 1st edition hardcovers of “Beyond the Pawpaw Trees.” I bought ’em both, because she is worth it. Besides, if you divide the cost of the two by 20 years, they weren’t really that expensive. Harriett Logan, the founder of Loganberry Books, describes the feature as a small sideline. All I know is, it saved my marriage. #yearofthebook #bookworm #booklover #palmerbrown #beyondthepawpawtrees #childrensbooks #mylibrary #usedbooks #bookfinder #booksofinstagram #giftbook #ilovemywife

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After stellar U-20 tournament, Erik Palmer-Brown returns to Sporting KC

USSoccer.com March 7, 20176:47PM EST KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Fresh off his breakout performance at the CONCACAF Under-20 Championships, Erik Palmer-Brown rejoins Sporting Kansas City this week, carrying the lessons of a year-long loan abroad and a renewed focus on winning minutes in a veteran-packed back line. The 19-year-old Homegrown missed the start of Sporting’s season, spending last…

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After stellar U-20 tournament, Erik Palmer-Brown returns to Sporting KC

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Sporting KC's Erik Palmer-Brown wins Portuguese LigaPro title with Porto B May 11, 20161:27 PM EDT On-loan Sporting Kansas City defender Erik Palmer-Brown and FC Porto B won the 2015-16 Portuguese LigaPro title on Sunday, beating Benfica B 3-1 to claim the second-division crown.