Re: World Soccer XXV - the run up to the World Cup
The new shirts are certainly doing unfriendly things to my eyes.
Julian Green (discussed upthread) is the only Europe-based player in the squad for the match, presumably to irrevocably cap-tie him to the US. Hard to think of it as a friendly, but also hard to think of it as overly competitive with Howard, Guzan, Cameron, Jones, Altidore etc. not called up.
(Edit to add: Mexico have also only called up domestic-based players, so the crowd in Arizona won't get to see Memo Ochoa, Guardado, Chicharito, Dos Santos or some of Mexico's other big names either.)
Originally posted by FreshFish
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Julian Green (discussed upthread) is the only Europe-based player in the squad for the match, presumably to irrevocably cap-tie him to the US. Hard to think of it as a friendly, but also hard to think of it as overly competitive with Howard, Guzan, Cameron, Jones, Altidore etc. not called up.
(Edit to add: Mexico have also only called up domestic-based players, so the crowd in Arizona won't get to see Memo Ochoa, Guardado, Chicharito, Dos Santos or some of Mexico's other big names either.)
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