Pre-match: U.S. MNT Oct. 10 vs Ecuador

Landon gets his send off game against Ecuador

http://www.si.com/soccer/planet-fut...n-usa-usmnt-hartford-ecuador-jurgen-klinsmann

 

Gotta bring Howard out of "retirement" for this one, right?

 

Nope. Bring the Gold Cup squad. That's who the manager feels LD is appropriate to play with.

 

I wonder who will get a rest for this one, if Jurgen calls all the World Cup vets there won't be much room for experimenting

 

Projected roster (MLS and Mexican-based players only):

G: Rimando, Hamid, Irwin
CB: Gonzalez, Besler, Edu, Parkhurst
RB: Yedlin, ?
LB: Garza, Robbie Rogers
CM: Bradley, Jones, Feilhaber, Powers, Shipp
W: Donovan, Dempsey, Zusi, Nguyen, Silva
F: Zardes, Bruin, McInerney, Wenger

Don't call: Beckerman, Wondolowski, Beasley, Corona, Castillo, Torres, EJ, Davis, Evans, Gil.

 

I honestly think it will be a split camp.

This game against Ecuador will be primarily the A squad + Donovan.

So we should be able to call in everyone but Seattle will be in a tough spot as they have two games during this period.

 

We could slot Wenger into rb if Yedlin comes off.

 

My first draft looks like this

All mls for this one.

1st team that's funny, isnt that the world cup team?)

---------------dempsey-------
--donovan--jones--bradley--zusi
------------------rasta-----------
--beasley--besler---gonzo---yedlin
-----------------rimando---------

The replacements:

-----------mullins,akindele---
--serna---nguyen----wenger
---------trapp--powers---
---garza--hedges--shuler--
---------------hamid-----

Wenger can play back if Yedlin needs to come off.

Subs: akindele, wenger, nguyen, powers, garza + 1 but it would depend on the situation. I think we need to know if these guys can hang with athletes of Ecuador's caliber.

The DNP guys would be there for the lecture on what we need to see from them at their clubs.

 

Being that it is Ecuador and not say Mexico or Brasil or Italia, JK can bring a young squad for all I care, like what we say yesterday in Prague, but for fuk's sake just start Donovan and remove him sometime in the 2nd half to a standing O the man rightfully has earned.

Some of us should plan to do a kick ass tifo for him. Thanks for all the memories sign with like 20 cans of red, white and blue let off. Something no other U.S. player has ever received.

 

Watch him play Donovan for 1 minute at Goalkeeper or something. I'm surprised the sendoff game wasn't in Prague

 

I thought I read somewhere that he will play for about 60 minutes.

 

So is Bocanegra going to be included in this game as well?

 

Got my tickets, bitches!!

 

Actually it is only 15-20 minutes since his team has a game a few days later.

 

Most Euro teams are taking the weekend off, as are LigaMX clubs. MLS is not. I know they are FIFA dates, but it'd be a dick move from JK to call in a full MLS team when their clubs could be fighting for the Shield, or the playoffs, to play in a friendly when we're still about 7 months away from the Gold Cup.
I would prefer to bring in the same guys we saw in Prague, with a few tweaks: if healthy, call Bacon and T-Bone Boyd instead of Rubin and Wood. Joe College can train with them too, i guess. And of course, Donovan. Leave Shea behind. I'd also like to see Lichaj, but i know that's not going to happen.
For Honduras, from looking at the schedule, the only domestic players i'd call would be Zusi, Biesler, Feilhaber, Dempsey, Yedlin, and Evans. Yep, i said Evans, so we can release Fabian and/or Chandler. Also release Donovan, Brooks, Bedoya, Boyd, and Hyndman.

 

GK: Sean Johnson, Bill Hamid, Nick Rimando
RB: DeAndre Yedlin, Andrew Farrell
CB: Matt Hedges, Nick Hagglund, Chris Schuler, Chad Marshall
LB: Greg Garza, Chris Klute
CM: Wil Trapp, Dillon Powers, Perry Kitchen, Joe Corona
AM/Wing: Landon Donovan, Luis Gil, Paul Arriola, Dillon Serna, Tommy Thompson
CF: Gyasi Zardes, Jack McInerney, Tesho Akindele, Will Bruin

GK: Sean Johnson
RB: DeAndre Yedlin
CB: Nick Hagglund
CB: Matt Hedges
LB: Greg Garza
DM: Perry Kitchen
DM: Wil Trapp
LM: Dillon Serna
RM: Paul Arriola
AM: Landon Donovan(C)
CF: Gyasi Zardes

 

Might there be a Tommy Thompson call up?

 

players i wanna see: farrell, nguyen and zardes.

 

fwiw, MLS didn't do much of anything to get out of the way of this FIFA friendly date window (Oct 6 -14).

We'll see if that at all impacts who JK opts to call up for the 10/10 match. My guess would be that he doesn't call in more than 2 players from any one team. (But that might be a bad guess.) --

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Date Home Team
7:30PM EDT Toronto FC Houston MLS LIVE
TSN
MLS Regular Season
at BMO Field
10:30PM EDT Portland San Jose MLS LIVE
MLS Regular Season
at Providence Park

Friday, October 10, 2014

Date Home Team
7:00PM EDT USA Ecuador ESPN
UniMas
Friendly
at Rentschler Field
8:30PM EDT Sporting KC Chicago MLS LIVE
MLS Regular Season
at Sporting Park
10:00PM EDT Seattle Vancouver NBCSN
TSN
MLS Regular Season
at CenturyLink Field

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Date Home Team
4:00PM EDT Montreal New England MLS LIVE
TSN2
MLS Regular Season RDS
at Stade Saputo
7:00PM EDT Philadelphia Columbus MLS LIVE
MLS Regular Season
at PPL Park
7:00PM EDT New York Toronto FC MLS LIVE
TSN
MLS Regular Season
at Red Bull Arena
9:30PM EDT Real Salt Lake San Jose MLS LIVE
MLS Regular Season
at Rio Tinto Stadium
10:30PM EDT Chivas USA Colorado MLS LIVE
MLS Regular Season
at StubHub Center

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Date Home Team
3:00PM EDT Houston D.C. United UniMas
MLS Regular Season
at BBVA Compass Stadium
7:00PM EDT FC Dallas LA Galaxy ESPN2
WatchESPN
MLS Regular Season ESPN Deportes
at Toyota Stadium TSN2

 

Forget Bradley, Toronto play right before and right after the Ecuador game. Lot of conflict for that date, no wonder JK was not a happy camper. Maybe we will see more of the euro young ones.

 

With the Rubin, Morris and Hyndman call ups, it wouldn't surprise me. Big thing working in TT's favor is that MLS teams in the playoff race are going to lose their shit if their best players get tapped by Juergen. SJ doesn't have to worry about since, you know, they suck.

 

The question really is which college players will be called up.

 

Come on now. The truth is Morris really impressed JK during the pre WC camp. Doubt any other college kids get called up for a while.

 

FORWARDS (4): Clint Dempsey, Landon Donovan, Gyasi Zardes, Jozy Altidore

MIDFIELDERS (9): Graham Zusi, Benny Feilhaber, Lee Nguyen, Wil Trapp, Perry Kitchen, Dillon Powers, Luis Gil, Joe Gyau, Jose Torres

DEFENDERS (7): Omar Gonzalez, Matt Besler, Greg Garza, DeAndre Yedlin, Matt Hedges, Andrew Farrell, Shane O'Neill

GOALKEEPERS (2): Nick Rimando, Bill Hamid

-----------Altidore-----------Dempsey------
Zusi---------------Donovan-------------Gyau
-------------Kitchen-------Feilhaber---------
Garza-------Besler-----Gonzalez-----Yedlin
---------------------Rimando-------------------

Left off Bradley, Wondo, and Beasley because those MLS teams have 2 games that week.