2015 U20 Qualifying Roster

Real Corona · Jan 26, 2015

I feel that Klinsmann may have made some level of promises to Zelalem to get him on the US program. But who knows.

bsky22 · Jan 26, 2015

Clint Eastwood said: ↑

I agree with you, but this is Klinsmann we're talking about. He doesn't play by these kinds of rules. He'll call up an NCAA player. He'll call up an NASL player. He'll call up Julian Green to the World Cup squad based solely on potential. Therefore, I can easily see him calling Zelalem or one of these youngsters to the Gold Cup.

In fact, I'll go on record. Klinsmann will call Julian Green and one other U20 to the Gold Cup.

To be fair, I don't think it'll be Zelalem or Hyndman. There are youngish players like Trapp, Gil, Kitchen, etc. ahead of those two in the midfield queue.

Hence, the answer is Rubio Rubin. Both Green and Rubin will be on the Gold Cup roster.
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However JK has made comments in the past the the kids should play with their age group. So we have that as an indication.... Which is pretty much worth nothing.

As I've said before, I wish we would make these tournaments as a priority. The hope would be these kids would start experience success at a young age in these tournaments. Also, I think it would be really helpful for other kids to play at a higher level and even if their minutes are cut.