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ASN Morning Read: Time to Move On to Boca Raton

The United States men's national team prepares to play another game, jetting off to the south following Friday night's 1-1 draw with Ecuador. The American coach called in some reinforcements.
BY Noah Davis Posted
October 13, 2014
7:54 AM
  • Jurgen Klinsmann added six players to the roster: Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Matt Besler, Jermaine Jones Graham Zusi, and Sean Johnson. John Brooks, Landon Donovan, Luis Gil, Omar Gonzalez, Brad Guzan, and Joe Gyau, who will be OK, are going home. It's a safe roster, perhaps disappointingly so.

  • There's a game tomorrow. Against Honduras. Who do ya start?

  • Meanwhile, in Brazil:

  • It ain't official until U.S. Soccer puts it on the blog:

  • Good news?

  • Dax McCarty took the ASN Questionnaire, and he took it well.

  • The future is, well, the future:

    ESPN FC: Who do you see as being the next Landon Donovan in terms of being an attacking player that got people excited the way you did when you first arrived on the international scene?

    LD: I don't know. I think what makes those of us who have lasted a long time, what's made Clint [Dempsey] so successful, what's made Michael Bradley so successful, Tim Howard, Carlos Bocanegra; there's a lot of pieces that go into all that. There's guys who were much more talented than myself or Clint or Michael. From just a talent standpoint, the way they move, athletically, all those things. There are guys who have more than that. The mental piece is so important. Can you get up every day and go again and go again and go again? Do you take care of yourself? Do you do extra work that's needed? People don't realize that I've spent lots of time and lots of money doing Pilates, doing yoga, getting work done on my body, doing structural alignment work in the offseason to get my body right. All those things are what separate those of us who can last and who can do it for a long time from other people. I'm very proud of that, and if someone is going to continue in that way, and carry that torch, they have to have all of those pieces. Michael is certainly someone who has those tools. Whether or not young kids realize that yet is to be determined. We've seen a lot of young kids who come up through the national team who don't stick. I think that's a big piece of it that people forget about.

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