With Indiana Vassilev having joined the elite pool of US-eligible players who have appeared in EPL matches (with 2 as of this date), I was wondering who in the US pool had played in the EPL, but hadn't appeared for the USMNT (or hadn't appeared much)? I found this list from the time Pulisic made his EPL debut (EPL appearances as of January 2019 in brackets): Brad Friedel (450) Tim Howard (399) Clint Dempsey (218) Kasey Keller (201) Geoff Cameron (168) Brad Guzan (154) Brian McBride (148) Jonathan Spector (124) Carlos Bocanegra (116) Marcus Hahnemann (115) Claudio Reyna (105) DeAndre Yedlin (76) Roy Wegerle (75) Jozy Altidore (70) DeAndre Yedlin (69) Joe-Max Moore (52) Preki (46) John Harkes (43) Jurgen Sommer (33) Eric Lichaj (32) Jay DeMerit (32) Bobby Convey (29) Stuart Holden (28) Eddie Lewis (25) Tim Ream (24) Jovan Kirovski (23) Danny Williams (23) Cobi Jones (21) Eddie Johnson (19) DaMarcus Beasley (18) Zak Whitbread (18) Landon Donovan (17) Jermaine Jones (15) Lynden Gooch (11) Oguchi Onyewu (11) Benny Feilhaber (10) Jemal Johnson (6) Ian Feuer (5) Michael Bradley (3) Brek Shea (3) Paul Rachubka (3) (never in camp with US youth teams, only English, to the best of my knowledge) Matt Miazga (2) Maurice Edu (1) Johann Smith (1) Emerson Hyndman (1) Bolded players have zero USMNT caps. If this is accurate, is Zak Whitbread the player with the most EPL appearances without a USMNT cap? Anyone not on the list?
Seems right to me if we're not counting US-eligible players that ended up playing for other national teams............................(the Boaz Myhill, Giuseppe Rossi types)
It almost is surprising that there are 4 US-eligible players (now 5 with Vassilev) who played in the EPL but *don't* have US caps.