Alert: Klinsmann announces roster for May/June camp on Thursday (announcement included in this thread)

https://twitter.com/MauriceEdu/status/334897301241868289

Maurice Edu ‏@MauriceEdu 28m
Gonna sleep so well on this flight. Holla at you guys later!!! ✈✈✈ ☁☁☁

 

Booo edu sucks

 

Maybe the German Media put pressure on him to release it sooner since Germany's roster will also be out this week.

 

Twitter code.... They know they can't say "got called up, heading to the states now". Or something.

So mo edu's, "I'm on a flight" is a dead giveaway.

Same with this one.. Bedoya is "flying" with American flag shoes. Ok..........


AleBedoya17 Sun is out so decided to bring out the "Fly" kicks!! Wearing my @ItsJeremyScott shoes! instagram.com/p/ZXvm0-GX2w/

 

Don't screw this up, JK.

 

What would Klinsmann specifically have to do to not "screw up" this May/June camp roster announcement?

(There's no way he can make everyone happy, right?)

 

Can i say that I love the call up rumor thread....

Photos at the airport, random twitter references about LA weather... Gets me thru the day.

 

Goff (with some news on Hamid that has already been tweeted) also offers some details/confirmation that some players from the camp (of perhaps 27 players) will not stick around for the WCQs (which is obvious, but worth seeing in print/online).

Interesting that some MLS players are apparently being released by their clubs (early and ahead of the official FIFA dates in June) for the BEL and GER friendlies -- with the possibility/likelihood that the players won't be involved with the WCQs in June.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/soccer-insider/wp/2013/05/15/d-c-united-news-and-notes-13/

In contrast to Hamid, who apparently has been given the green light by United to go to JK's camp ahead of the BEL and GER friendlies, United did not extend that courtesy (perhaps for very legitimate reasons) to some of the club's Canadian players:

 

Nice.
Hope Costa Rica's delegation files a complaint that not being able to play a full strength Canada squad is another attempt by the USSF to undermine their WC qualifying.

 

I actually hope that happens, too.

So FIFA would have to tell CRC to schedule their friendlies on FIFA dates.

(And then FIFA would have to encourage other NTs to do the same.)

 

True.

Don't screw this up from my perspective, JK. #solipsism

 

Fair enough.

So, from your perspective, who are the 27 (or however many) you would call to this camp ahead of the next 5 games in May/June?

Don't screw it up, because, if you announce/post it here, it's very likely (fairly or unfairly) going to get critiqued.

 

Bedoya's call up is good because it gives us wing options. If it's accurate. But man, he sure has oodles of that team chemistry that's required. Oodles! And he's been learning so much at JK's camps.

(No offense to Bedoya who has been playing well.)

 

Nothing that a week of hard-running two a days can't solve. Throw in a nutrition seminar, yoga class and a magic show, and he will be up to speed (or down to speed).

 

Can we get Gob at least?

 

I'm hearing Penn and Teller.

 

Speaking for myself: he would have to exhibit through some of his selections that he is actually looking beyond the "usual suspects" and pet players (Shea, for instance) that he has rolled out by and large.

So the inclusion of Bedoya, Kljestan, Corona, Pontius (were he not injured), Gatt and players of that ilk would be the sort of indication I am looking for. Not all of them, but some selections of that type: players in positions of need who were/have been underutilized during the f'ing friendlies he squandered when experimentation would have been low-risk.

Getting Boca, Goodson, Shea, Edu, to fill out the roster is not really supplying an answer to the squad's depth questions, IMO.

 

Well, you're likely only hearing half of that duo.

 

I do enjoy watching his completely anonymous performances. Oh wait no I don't.

 

WE'VE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE

 

just ten more days!

 

I know it was a joke but Bedoya was in the January camp, did well, and got minutes during the v Canada friendly and did well on the attack...

Watch the wings
It's no secret that that U.S. struggled with wide play at times during the last qualifying round. So it's no surprise that Klinsmann has been auditioning players who can fill in on the outside. That's one reason Gatt is in camp. Zusi, Davis and Alejandro Bedoya have also been deployed there during the scrimmages, even if they're not natural wingers.

"As soon as the ball turns over, Jurgen wants us to spread the field as wide as we possibly can," Davis said Friday. "You have to be able to adapt your game and play different styles at this level."
Bedoya echoed those comments. "I think they like the guys on the wings to stay out wide," he said. "Usually I like to come in centrally and combine, but I have to be able stay wide, get by the defender one-on-one and get crosses in when I have the opportunity."

http://insider.espn.go.com/sports/s...nal-team-early-look-usmnt-lineup-canada-match