This season’s New York Red Bulls II team is characterized by its youthfulness, filled with first-time pros and fairly young players. This characteristic is not unknown to New York Red Bulls’ USL side, which has seen many first team players like Tyler Adams, Florian Valot, amongst others pass through its ranks.
Leading goal scorer Amando Moreno, who has nine goals to his name, is only 22 years-old, while leading assist-maker Jared Stroud, with seven assists, shares the same age. Many players in this NYRB II team, like Moreno and Stroud, came up through the ranks of the New York Red Bulls organization playing in the academy or for the PDL team, so when making the jump to NYRB II the change wasn’t entirely new, just another phase in their development in becoming a pro.