Andrew Carleton signed a Homegrown contract with Atlanta United at 15. He’s played alongside Josef Martinez and Miguel Almiron at 16. And he’s now gotten the YouTube Treatment. Welcome to the bigs, my dude.

Carleton, who owns a fairly extensive YNT and club profile on this very site, is perhaps the most eccentric and unique talent in the current U17 MNT cycle. While the U20s currently fight through traffic in their World Cup qualifying tourney, Carleton’s U17s are about to dip into the same fight later this spring. In the meantime, he’s gearing up for his rookie season in Atlanta. The question is what Tata Martino does with the promising ingenue. Bench option? Loan? Time shall decide.

In any case, spend your next eight minutes cranking up the hype machine. It’s good to shove some coal in that train’s engine room every now and then. Don’t want it stalled on the tracks next to the Adu Express, do we?