ASN: Pulisic, Musah, Adams, McKennie, Reyna, Dest spotlight USMNT roster

The USMNT roster is out and youth is served. 24 gamers with a median age of underneath 22 years outdated. ASN’s Brian Sciaretta breaks all of it down for you

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Brian Sciaretta

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November 03, 2020
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UNITED STATES nationwide workforce supervisor Gregg Berhalter at this time introduced a 24-team roster that may face each Wales and Panama in the course of the upcoming window. The roster is solely primarily based of foreign-based gamers and camp will open on November 8 in Wales.

The primary recreation will happen on November 12 in Swansea when it can tackle Wales. Then it can relocate to Austria for a impartial matchup towards Panama.

This roster accommodates many surprises. The largest is Valencia midfielder Yunus Musah who has represented England on the youth degree however was born in New York Metropolis after which raised in Italy.

Among the many 24 gamers on the roster, 10 gamers are uncapped and 19 are age-eligible for the U.S. U-23 workforce for the 2021 Summer season Olympics in Tokyo.

It will mark the primary time in a yr the place the U.S. workforce has had its European-based gamers at its disposal.

The Roster

GOALKEEPERS (3): Ethan Horvath (Membership Brugge/BEL; 4/0), Chituru Odunze (Leicester

Metropolis/ENG; 0/0), Zack Steffen (Manchester Metropolis/ENG; 17/0)

DEFENDERS (7): John Brooks (Wolfsburg/GER; 38/3), Reggie Cannon (Boavista/POR; 10/0),

Sergiño Dest (Barcelona/ESP; 3/0), Matt Miazga (Anderlecht/BEL; 18/1), Tim Ream

(Fulham/ENG; 40/1), Chris Richards (Bayern Munich/GER; 0/0), Antonee Robinson

(Fulham/ENG; 7/0)

MIDFIELDERS (6): Tyler Adams (RB Leipzig/GER; 10/1), Johnny Cardoso (Internacional/BRA;

0/0), Richard Ledezma (PSV Eindhoven/NED; 0/0), Weston McKennie (Juventus/ITA; 19/6),

Yunus Musah (Valencia/ESP; 0/0), Owen Otasowie (Wolverhampton/ENG; 0/0)

FORWARDS (8): Konrad de la Fuente (Barcelona/ESP; 0/0), Nicholas Gioacchini (Caen/FRA;

0/0), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea/ENG; 34/14), Uly Llanez (Heerenveen/NED; 1/1), Gio Reyna

(Borussia Dortmund/GER; 0/0), Josh Sargent (Werder Bremen/GER; 12/5), Sebastian Soto

(Telstar/NED; 0/0), Tim Weah (Lille/FRA; 8/1)

Fast ideas
Musah reporting for camp

The addition of Yunus Musah, 17, to the camp is one other listing of spectacular twin nationals who’ve joined the ranks of the U.S. program in recent times. With the addition of Sergino Dest in 2019, Berhalter has added some gamers who’ve an actual future.

Musah is an out of doors midfielder who’s extraordinarily athletic and made big strides in Arsenal’s academy. Final weekend, he scored his first La Liga purpose for Valenica. Previously he has performed for England’s youth nationwide groups.

It stays to be seen if Musah is totally on board with the U.S. program or is utilizing this camp simply to judge it as he comes to a decision. However even when he’s not but totally dedicated, it’s a constructive signal that the U.S. has made a powerful sufficient impression to no less than start the dialogue and get its foot within the door.

Musah’s ties to the USA are slim. He as soon as mentioned in an interview that: “I was only born in America because my mom went there on holiday.” This doesn’t imply that ties can’t be strengthened as he continues to play for the USA – because it has carried out for gamers like Aron Johannsson, Combine Diskerud, Terrence Boyd. However each participant is totally different and it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how he evolves.

Gioacchini, Otasowie, and Cardoso

Lots of the uncapped gamers on this roster have intensive expertise with U.S. youth nationwide groups – gamers like Richard Ledezma, Chris Richards, and Sebastian Soto.

On the flip aspect, Nico Gioacchini, Owen Otasowie, and Johnny Cardoso each made the workforce with very restricted expertise. SM Caen attacker Nico Gioacchini made the workforce and has by no means represented the USA at any degree. Cardoso, 19, in the meantime appeared with the U.S. U-23 workforce simply as soon as final yr. Otasowie, 19, has attended only a few minor camps on the youth ranges.

Gioacchini is a key participant for SM Caen because it appears to be like to earn promotion this yr into Ligue 1. He offers the U.S. workforce choices throughout the entrance line as he can play heart ahead and both wing.

Cardoso, in the meantime, is a defensive midfielder who performs at Internacional – the present Brazilian leaders and one of many largest non-European groups on this planet. Proper now, the U.S. workforce is skinny in defensive midfield behind Tyler Adams and Cardoso could possibly be a part of the answer.

Otasowie can also be a defensive midfielder however can play central protection as nicely. His title has come up earlier than and he’s definitely a participant that the workers has spoken extremely of. His Premier League debut appears to be coming prior to later as he has made the bench twice for Wolves this season.

Lacking out

There have been just a few notable omissions on this roster and it’s value mentioning.

Aron Johannsson is among the most notable as he’s scoring objectives in droves in Sweden. Whereas he’ll flip 30 this month and has an enormous damage historical past, he’s taking part in nicely and might need been seen as a extra speedy choice.

Erik Palmer-Brown is doing nicely with Austria Vienna though central protection is crowded in the mean time. That can also be the probably motive why Cameron Carter-Vickers has additionally been left off

Emmanuel Sabbi has additionally been impressing in Denmark with OB though the winger place is a bit unsettled.

Duane Holmes has been within the dialogue for awhile though he has struggled to start out the season with Derby County. The identical could be mentioned for Tyler Boyd who’s in a tough scenario at Besiktas.

Julian Inexperienced was additionally left off regardless of having performed nicely at occasions for Greuther Furth. His place is fairly free-ranging and may not exist on the present U.S. workforce.

Andrija Novakovich can also be doing nicely for a Frosinone workforce that’s hoping to earn promotion to Serie A. Mixed

Transferring ahead

Transferring ahead it’s a good roster for Berhalter. At this camp he can usher in a bunch of younger gamers to judge and see the place they’re at this stage of their careers.

There are lots of gamers which can be nonetheless not incomes first workforce minutes and are usually not in one of the best membership conditions. These gamers are well-known: Uly Llanez, Tim Weah, Owen Otasowie, Johnny Cardoso, Konrad de la Fuente, Richard Ledezma and even Chris Richards all have very minimal first workforce membership the previous two seasons. Sebastian Soto is doing nicely however is taking part in at a low degree within the Dutch second tier.

That could be a huge chunk of the roster and these gamers will finally want first workforce minuets (probably on mortgage) regularly because the video games grow to be extra vital. For a camp like this, nonetheless, the requirements could be relaxed a bit and gamers could be evaluated and no less than have the data they’re within the combine shifting ahead.