Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Kasey Keller (Borussia Moenchengladbach, Germany)
Defenders: Jonathan Bornstein (Chivas USA), Bobby Boswell (D.C.), Dan Califf (Aalborg BK, Denmark), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City), Jay DeMerit (Watford, England), Drew Moor (Dallas), Heath Pearce (Nordsjaelland, Denmark), Marvell Wynne (Toronto)
Midfielders: Kyle Beckerman (Colorado), Ricardo Clark (Houston), Benny Feilhaber (Hamburg SV, Germany), Eddie Gaven (Columbus), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA), Justin Mapp (Chicago), Lee Nguyen (PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ben Olsen (D.C.)
Forwards: Charlie Davies (Hammarby, Sweden), Herculez Gomez (Colorado), Eddie Johnson (Kansas City), Taylor Twellman (New England)
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=440997&root=us&cc=5901
5 comments:
No disrespect intended towards our 'youngins' but we are going to get our respective arses handed to us.
My Copa America prediction: 0-2-1
It'll be good for 'em....
Youth can be a spark in matches, but not stability. I really don't like the idea of youth being the core of our lineup.
I am quite worried as well. But I was also scared to death when we faced Portugal in 2002 and look what happened. We'll see. Too bad we can't take the entire Gold Cup squad to Venezuela.
I couldn't agree more that the line-up is too young, but we have to give our new coach Bradley a little credit. His approach has had the USMNT performing remarkably better than Arena's ever did. Seeing that we have a growing number of youngin's playing internationally, i think we have something to look forward to in the next few years, right now is a transition phase, if our coaches and players keep it up we should have a very exciting squad for the 2010 World Cup.
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