10.6.14
ASN Morning Read: Landon Donovan's Last Week
Here's a question: Will Landon Donovan's name be included on the United States roster released later today? Here's one vote for no. Plus, a bunch of young people get on their red, white, and blue, and USA 2022?
BY
Noah Davis
Posted
October 06, 2014
8:14 AM
Your U-23 roster for the upcoming trip to Brazil:
GOALKEEPERS (2): Charlie Horton (Cardiff City; Cleveland, Ohio), Cody Cropper (Southampton; Maple Grove, Minn.)
DEFENDERS (8): Cameron Carter-Vickers (Tottenham Hotspur; Westcliff on Sea, England), Christian Dean (Vancouver Whitecaps FC; East Palo Alto, Calif.), Matthew Miazga (New York Red Bulls; Clifton, N.J.), Eric Miller (Montreal Impact; Woodbury, Minn.), Juan Pablo Ocegueda (Alebrijes de Oaxaca; Riverside, Calif.), William Packwood (Birmingham City; Concord, Mass.), Dillon Serna (Colorado Rapids; Brighton, Colo.), Oscar Sorto (LA Galaxy; Los Angeles, Calif.)
MIDFIELDERS (5): Dennis Flores (León; Pasadena, Calif.), Marlon Hairston (Colorado Rapids; Jackson, Miss.), Emerson Hyndman (Fulham; Dallas, Texas), Benji Joya (Chicago Fire; San Jose, Calif.), Esteban Rodriguez (Dorados de Sinaloa; Bell Gardens, Calif.)
FORWARDS (6): Alonso Hernandez (Monterrey; El Paso, Texas), Jordan Morris (Stanford; Mercer Island, Wash.), Sean Okoli (Seattle Sounders FC; Federal Way, Wash.), Mario Rodriguez (Borussia Mönchengladbach; North Hollywood, Calif.), Rubio Rubin (Utrecht; Beaverton, Ore.), Ben Spencer (Indy Eleven; Albuquerque, N.M.)
The most interesting fact? How remarkably young many of those players are. 18-year-olds everywhere you look.
Expect plus or minus 10,000,000 stories along these lines this week:
The roster for the upcoming friendlies will drop today at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Will Andrew Wooten be on it? NOPE: “Unfortunately I've heard nothing." Oh well, fun while it lasted.
Even writers about the women's game are getting into the spirit: "Is the U.S. women’s national soccer team about to have its own Landon Donovan moment? With the qualifying tournament for the 2015 Women’s World Cup set to begin later this month, the top-ranked Americans are confronting the same questions that all great teams eventually have to deal with—when is it the right time for veterans to step aside for the next generation?"
British bookmamers now think the United States is more likely to host the 2022 World Cup than Qatar. Take that with a grain of salt. Or sand. Or whatever you want.
Food for thought:
Would Altidore have been better off coming back to MLS?
