Future Watch: Cristian Casseres Jr. Soccer Cards, New York Red BullsMLS side New York Red Bulls are known for being willing to play young players and develop them. Among those who were given quality minutes at a very young age are super talents Tyler Adams and Caden Clark.

So, it is no surprise to see the Red Bulls give significant playing time over the past two seasons to the now 20-year old midfielder Cristian Casseres Jr. The Venezuelan made 19 appearances and 14 starts in the 2020 MLS regular season and tallied two goals and three assists. Casseres also had three goals and four assists in 23 games in 2019.

Casseres is a defensive midfielder who can get forward to support the attack. He is smart positionally and tracks back to help the defense well. He also reads the game nicely. You get that sense of his soccer smarts during a match against Montreal in September. Casseres was well up in the attack on a play and pulled back towards the back post on a cross from the other side of the pitch. That gave him space to gather a possible header away from goal but towards him. That is exactly what happened. Casseres was open to receive that ball and went to the endline. His cross was touched on to another teammate for an easy goal.

Casseres got his professional start in his home country at the age of 16 and played for the U-17 and U-20 youth teams. He’s begun to establish himself in the National team as well. Casseres has played in all four CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers this year, and started the last three of those games.

Get a deeper look at Casseres in this interview:

Casseres is part of the 2020 Topps MLS release, and will certainly be part of many more sets in the future.

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Standard Stats: Domestic Leagues Table
  Playing Time Performance Per 90 Minutes Expected Per 90 Minutes  
Season Age Squad Country Comp LgRank MP Starts Min Gls Ast PK PKatt CrdY CrdR Gls Ast G+A G-PK G+A-PK xG npxG xA xG xA xG+xA npxG npxG+xA Matches
2016 16 Dep La Guaira ve VEN 1. Primera División 6th 2 1 124 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00                 Matches
2017 17 Dep La Guaira ve VEN 1. Primera División 8th 9 9 741 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.12 0.00 0.12 0.12 0.12                 Matches
2018 18 Red Bulls II us USA 2. USL 13th 25 19 1,752 3 2 3 3 7 0 0.15 0.10 0.26 0.00 0.10                 Matches
2018 18 NY Red Bulls us USA 1. MLS 1st 3 1 97 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.04 0.00 0.04 0.04 0.04 Matches
2019 19 Red Bulls II us USA 2. USL Champ 8th 2 2 162 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00                 Matches
2019 19 NY Red Bulls us USA 1. MLS 12th 23 21 1,797 3 3 0 0 5 0 0.15 0.15 0.30 0.15 0.30 1.7 1.7 2.0 0.09 0.10 0.19 0.09 0.19 Matches
2020 20 NY Red Bulls us USA 1. MLS 12th 19 14 1,313 2 2 0 0 3 0 0.14 0.14 0.27 0.14 0.27 0.7 0.7 1.1 0.05 0.08 0.12 0.05 0.12 Matches
5 Seasons 3 Clubs   3 Leagues   83 67 5,986 9 7 3 3 17 0 0.14 0.11 0.24 0.09 0.20 2.4 2.4 3.1 0.07 0.09 0.16 0.07 0.16  
  Country Comp LgRank MP Starts Min Gls Ast PK PKatt CrdY CrdR Gls Ast G+A G-PK G+A-PK xG npxG xA xG xA xG+xA npxG npxG+xA Matches
NY Red Bulls (3 Seasons)   1 League   45 36 3,207 5 5 0 0 9 0 0.14 0.14 0.28 0.14 0.28 2.4 2.4 3.1 0.07 0.09 0.16 0.07 0.16  
Red Bulls II (2 Seasons)   1 League   27 21 1,914 3 2 3 3 7 0 0.14 0.09 0.24 0.00 0.09                  
Dep La Guaira (2 Seasons)   1 League   11 10 865 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.10 0.00 0.10 0.10 0.10                  
                                                     
MLS (3 Seasons)       45 36 3,207 5 5 0 0 9 0 0.14 0.14 0.28 0.14 0.28 2.4 2.4 3.1 0.07 0.09 0.16 0.07 0.16  
USL Champ (2 Seasons)       27 21 1,914 3 2 3 3 7 0 0.14 0.09 0.24 0.00 0.09                  
Primera División (2 Seasons)       11 10 865 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.10 0.00 0.10 0.10 0.10                  
Provided by FBref.com: View Original Table
Generated 12/4/2020.

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