Bradley Names 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup Roster Frankie Hejduk is on the roster. Shockingly enough, he's the only Columbus representative. Bradley wanted the Crew's attacking options, but most of them are foreign. According to the release, MLS players report to camp on June 3.
Ive been anti-Frankie for years. His play this year has really made me look stupid. Good for him. And our squad will definitely miss him when hes gone...Could we have a Brandon Moss sighting? Or will Marshall finally shake his concussion?
Congrats to Frankie. I know he'll represent club and country well. I'm a little suprised by Guzan over Reis. Was there a deal not to take too many players from one team?
Bradley won't want to do anything to piss off any coaches more than he has to. The third keeper has no realistic chance of seeing any minutes in the Gold Cup, and Guzan to Burpo is probably less of a downgrade than Reis to whatever NE's backup is. Too bad for Chivas, I hear Dan Popik is availible these days...
Agreed, and you're also likely to see Reis and maybe Noonan called up from the Revs for the Copa later. Hate to see Frankie lost to us for even part of the summer, but best of luck to him. The guy has earned it.
well, if we have to lose our skipper for a good amount of time, hopefully he'll see some significant action on the field. this looks like, for the most part, the USA "A" team. i will be curious to see what BB takes to Copa America. I would rather we try to condition our Nats in a competition that does not take place in USA
Frankie not playing was the reason the crew lost that open cup game v la...frankie is a solid defender and can get into scoring positions on offense...if you remember from the game galaxcy put a ton of crosses in from our right side (frankies normal position) and if he was around thoughs crosses wouldn't have numbered so high and doubtful any of them would of found the back of the net. that was the one position la was able to exploit that game.
Big congrats too Frankie. Can't say enough about this man, the way he has played this season after taking a pay cut, after suffering what should have been a career ending injury. Yeah...I have a boy crush on Frankie. Anyone that has a problem with that can bug off. about the national team roster....this doesn't seem like an A team. In my opinion this could even be a B - team. thoughts? what happened to Cory Gibbs?
Hasn't played in a year. Last game was the 1st going away series game before the World Cup against Tunisia.
Completely unrelated to the Crew, but what's Simek doing on that roster? I'll admit that I don't think I've ever seen the guy play, but I try to keep well informed of how the Americans in Europe are playing, and I haven't exactly been reading a pile of stellar reviews of Simek's play. I'd like to think that MLS has progressed to the point where the top defenders in MLS should be getting national team looks before guys who play on crappy, unsuccessful clubs in Europe just because those crappy, unsuccessful clubs happen to be located in Europe. I've said the same thing about Demerit in the past. I don't think being a defender on the Premiership club with the worst defense (or close to it; I haven't checked lately) should qualify a player for national team duty over a defender who plays for the best defensive teams in MLS just because the club happens to play in England. But at least Demerit seems to have a knack for coming through in a handful clutch situations. Again, I don't think I've ever seen Simek play so I fully understand that my opinion doesn't carry a lot of weight on this particular topic, but I'm just throwing it out there.
not that it means much. He was one of the better players on a mid-table Colaship side. I'd love to bitch about all the wonderful, talented left backs that should have been called in over him but......
Also, I think I see a pattern where BB is calling in a bunch of Euros right now for the Gold Cup that are not going to see any action down in Venezuela. I think this way he gets to see a bunch of these guys holding jobs over there in a real competition, he doesn't have to fight with their clubs, and then when they're done, they still have some time off to recoup before they have to return to their club teams at the end of the summer. ISTM that BB is tryign to also lighten the burden on MLS clubs since it will be a long summer and the demand on the MLS clubs is only going to increase after the Gold Cup. As for Simek, didn't he play in our big win over Ecuador earlier this year? I thought several of these defenders showed failry well during those friendlies.