ASN: U.S. U-17 workforce receives powerful World Cup draw with Holland, Japan, & Senegal

The USA U-17 workforce could have a tricky activity forward of itself on the World Cup after being positioned into Group D together with two continental champions. ASN’s Brian Sciaretta is right here with a fast look

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Brian Sciaretta

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July 12, 2019
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THE UNITED STATES U-17 nationwide workforce realized its destiny because the draw for the U-17 World Cup was held on Thursday. Raphael Wicky’s workforce was given a troublesome hand because it was positioned into Group D alongside the Netherlands, Japan, and Senegal for the match that can happen in Brazil and run from October 26 – November 17 later this yr.

The match, which was moved from Peru earlier this yr, will happen in simply 4 venues throughout three completely different cities and journey will likely be restricted.

The USA will open their marketing campaign on October 27 towards Senegal at Estádio Kléber Andrade in Cariacica. The united statesteam will then tackle Japan on the identical venue on October 30. It would then conclude group play towards the Netherlands on November 2 at Estádio da Serrinha in Goiânia.

The group will likely be troublesome for the U.S. workforce because the Netherlands received the UEFA 2019 U-17 championship the place it defeated Belgium within the quarterfinals 3-0, Spain within the semifinals 1-0, and Italy within the remaining 4-2.

Japan may even enter the match as a champion after qualifying for U-17 World Cup after successful the AFC U-16 title final yr the place it was undefeated. It defeated Oman within the quarterfinals 2-1, Australia within the semifinals 3-1, and Tajikistan within the remaining 1-0.

Senegal, in the meantime, certified for the U-17 World Cup by means of default after Senegal misplaced to Guinea by a 2-1 rating within the group levels within the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations. Senegal was capable of show that Guinea used two gamers over the age restrict and falsified paperwork forward of the African match. Whereas the investigation went on, Guinea went onto to the African remaining the place it misplaced to Cameroon in a shootout. Guinea’s spot within the U-17 World Cup was ultimately given to Senegal. Coincidentally, Morocco additionally filed a criticism towards Cameroon for the deliberate use of an overage participant however that case was dismissed as a consequence of lack of proof.

The USA, in the meantime, completed second to Mexico in CONCACF after a 2-1 extratime loss. That match got here solely weeks after new supervisor Raphael Wicky was employed and he’ll now have months to arrange his workforce.

Beneath the principles of the match, the highest two groups from every group advance to the knockout stage of the World Cup together with the highest 4 of six third place finishers.

A have a look at the U.S. workforce
This age group is at all times troublesome to foretell. The 2015 workforce boasted Christian Pulisic and Tyler Adams however was unable to advance out of its group on the World Cup. In 2017, the workforce made it to the quarterfinal and was led by Josh Sargent, Jaylin Lindsey, Chris Durkin, Chris Gloster, Tim Weah, and Sergino Dest.

The 2019 United States U-17 workforce is in a singular scenario the place lots of the gamers are already seeing first workforce minutes at unprecedented ranges. Gianluca Busio is a daily for Sporting Kansas Metropolis whereas Ricardo Pepi, Sebastian Anderson, Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez, Daniel Leyva, and Griffin Yow have all earned MLS minutes in 2019. The large open query in the intervening time is whether or not or not star left again George Bello will return from damage in time for the match.

The chief of the workforce, nevertheless, is Gio Reyna who was just lately signed to Borussia Dortmund and was the workforce’s offensive chief in qualifying and all through the cycle.