Thorrington, Rogers, Franklin, Kljestan & Bornstein Named to January USMNT Camp in Carson
U.S. Men's National Team Coach Bob Bradley has included 19 players with 10 or fewer international appearances, including nine in search of their first cap, on the roster for the traditional January camp at Home Depot Center.
Those players include Palos Verdes' John Thorrington of the Chicago Fire (three caps, 0 goals), Cal State Northridge product Sean Franklin of the Galaxy (0/0), Rolling Hills Estates' Robbie Rogers (0/0) and Riverside's Chad Marshall of the Columbus Crew (4/1).
Also named to the squad were Chivas USA's Sacha Kljestan of Huntington Beach (12/0) and Jonathan Bornstein of Los Alamitos (13/1).
The camp for the 25 players that begins Jan. 4 culminates Jan. 24 with a game against Sweden in Carson.
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Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. 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 and follow him on Twitter.
We usually get to see Landon Donavan for the annual Northern European match-up.... sad and happy that we won't this year. Sad that we won't get to see him befuddle Sweden... happy that he is on to bigger and better things.