Wednesday's Notes For A New Year
Time to play a little catch-up after the holiday blogging break..........
Seven uncapped players, including UCLA product Marvell Wynne, are among the 26 players U.S. Men's National Team Coach Bob Bradley called into training camp that begins Thursday at Home Depot Center and culminates with a Jan. 19 game against Sweden in Carson.
The other six: San Jose Earthquakes defender Clarence Goodson, Colombus Crew goalkeeper Will Hesmer, Chicago Fire goalkeeper Matt Pickens, Houston Dynamo defender Eddie Robinson, new D.C. United goalkeeper Zach Wells and forward Jeremiah White, who plays in Demark and gets his first-ever camp callup.
The full roster: goalkeepers Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Will Hesmer (Columbus Crew), Matt Pickens (Chicago Fire), Zach Wells (D.C. United); defenders Dan Califf (Aalborg BK), Jimmy Conrad (Kansas City Wizards), Ramiro Corrales (SK Brann), Todd Dunivant (Toronto FC), Clarence Goodson (San Jose Earthquakes), Drew Moor (FC Dallas), Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution), Eddie Robinson (Houston Dynamo), Marvell Wynne (Toronto FC); midfielders Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Ricardo Clark (Houston Dynamo), Brian Davis (Houston Dynamo), Maurice Edu (Toronto FC), Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA), Justin Mapp (Chicago Fire), Pat Noonan (New England Revolution); forwards Josmer Altidore (New York Red Bulls), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), Eddie Johnson (Kansas Cit y Wizards), Chris Rolfe (Chicago Fire), Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution), Jeremiah White (AGF Aarhus).
U.S. Men's Under-23 national Team Coach Peter Nowak is also taking the opportunity to look at new players ahead of Olympic qualifying, naming just eight holdovers from the December camp to the 24-player roster he's called in for a camp that begins Sunday in Florida.
Rolling Hills Estates' Robbie Rogers, Galaxy defender Mike Randolph and former Galaxy striker Robbie Findley are among the returnees.
Nine collegiate players on the camp roster include UCLA Bruin Chance Myers of Thousand Oaks and Cal State Northridge defender Sean Franklin of Palmdale.
The full roster: goalkeepers Chris Seitz (Real Salt Lake), Chris Brown (Boston College), Billy Chiles (Towson University); defenders Sean Franklin (Cal State Northridge), Steve Purdy (1860 Munich), Patrick Ianni (Houston Dynamo), Greg Dalby (SC Charleroi), Julian Valentin (Wake Forest), Pat Phelan (Wake Forest), Mike Randolph (Galaxy), Chance Myers (UCLA); midfielders Stuart Holden (Houston), Johann Smith (Darlington), Dax McCarty (FC Dallas), Stephen King (Maryland), Alejandro Bedoya (Boston College), Eric Avila (UC Santa Barbara), Arturo Alvarez (FC Dallas), Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew); forwards Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake), Charlie Davies (Hammarby), Preston Zimmerman (Hamburg), Chad Barrett (Chicago Fire), Kamani Hill (Vfl Wolfsburg).
Finally, the 2008 version of InterLiga begins tonight in Texas.
A preview is here.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook.
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