YOUNG AMERICANS
The USMNT was by far the youngest team to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, garnering valuable experience going through the rigors of World Cup qualifying. Through 14 qualifiers, the USA Starting XI came in at an average of 23.82, almost two years younger than the next closest team, Ghana at 25.67. Together, the other 31 participating teams averaged a Starting XI age of 27.5 through qualifying, nearly four full years older than the U.S. Sources say this is one of the youngest, but most talented teams the U.S. has ever fielded. While they may not win the world cup this year, they may garner the experience needed to make a serious run on home soil in the year 2026 when the World Cup comes back to North America.
2022 USA World Cup Roster
FORWARDS
Jesús Ferreira (FC Dallas)
Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders)
Christian Pulisic (Chelsea)
Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund)
Josh Sargent (Norwich City)
Timothy Weah (Lille)
Haji Wright (Antalyaspor)
DEFENDERS
Cameron Carter-Vickers (Celtic)
Sergińo Dest (AC Milan)
Aaron Long (New York Red Bulls)
Shaq Moore (Nashville SC)
Tim Ream (Fulham)
Antonee Robinson (Fulham)
Joe Scally (Borussia Monchengladbach)
DeAndre Yedlin (Inter Miami)
Walker Zimmerman (Nashville SC)
GOALKEEPERS
Ethan Horvath (Luton Town)
Sean Johnson (NYCFC)
Matt Turner (Arsenal) [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Mbappe is so good. He’s so fast too. Would love to see a race between him and Tyreek
Agreed. I still don't understand how we don't have that type of a player coming out of the US in the last 30 years.. You'd think we would have by now [Reply]
Originally Posted by TripleThreat:
I just don’t think he’s that good, I hate his style of defending personally. I also think him being in the MLS is just the cherry on the top for me. When you’re always the best player on the field with inferior completion I’m an avid believe that when you get to these top tournaments against these top players, you’re just not ready. Sometimes mentally, sometimes physically, sometimes both.
The idea that he is always the best player on an MLS field simply is not close to being accurate. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Razaele:
I follow the PL avidly, but have not watched an MLS match in years and years. Maybe you fellas can enlighten me.
I know that “MLS defending” has a historically been the punchline, but Zimmerman has apparently been named defender of the year in MLS several times recently… yet he makes such an egregious error in the biggest moment. Is the standard of defending still that low in MLS? Just a particularly bad mental error in a bad spot…?
If he’s going against prime Gareth Bale ok, understandable, but Bale is basically on a retirement tour at this point
I think it was one moment in an intense game. [Reply]
Originally Posted by TripleThreat:
Yunus Musah = born in New York
Robinson = parent citizenship qualifies him
Dest has dual citizenship with both USA and Netherlands.
Cameron who?
England is worse tbh. It’s a weird way on how it all works. Someone else can probably go into more specifics
Originally Posted by TripleThreat:
Yunus Musah = born in New York
Robinson = parent citizenship qualifies him
Dest has dual citizenship with both USA and Netherlands.
Cameron who?
England is worse tbh. It’s a weird way on how it all works. Someone else can probably go into more specifics
What exactly is weird about it? A player has to have a tie to the country he wants to represent and then he gets locked into that country after playing competitive matches for them. It's quite simple really and not confusing. [Reply]
