The U.S. males’s nationwide group gained’t be the one squad in motion this month.
U.S. Soccer revealed a 20-player roster that can participate in a U.S. Underneath-21 males’s nationwide group coaching camp from Nov. 10-18 in Europe. The USMNT U-21’s may even face Denmark in Vejle on Nov. 14 and Serbia in Backa Topola on Nov. 18, with former USMNT U-20 assistant coach Michael Morris, serving as head coach of this U-21 squad.
Damion Downs, Gabriel Slonina, and Diego Kochen have all been known as into earlier USMNT senior camps, with Downs main the way in which with six caps. 13 gamers have represented the USA at a FIFA Youth World Cup, together with 9 gamers from final month’s FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
Reed Baker-Whiting, Cole Campbell, Brooklyn Raines and Niko Tsakiris are amongst those that featured in Chile in October. Brandan Craig, Rokas Pukstas and Darren Yapi, together with Slonina and Tsakiris had been additionally on the USMNT U-20 roster on the 2023 U-20 World Cup in Argentina.
The USMNT U-21’s will practice and play matches via summer time 2026 in an effort to make up on nationwide group programming that gamers on this present age group missed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This camp may even function nice preparation for the USMNT U-21’s forward of the 2028 Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles.
Olympic rosters will primarily characteristic gamers below the age of 23-years-old.
“The Underneath-21 age group is widespread throughout the worldwide sport, and this programming permits us to proceed constructing a basis for all of our Nationwide Crew applications,” U.S. Soccer Sporting Director Matt Crocker stated.
“We’ve got gamers on this group who’ve already been with the senior nationwide group, and extra who’re perhaps only a small step away from establishing themselves at that stage. We proceed our work to attach the senior group with our youth groups and holding Underneath-21 camps helps us present them with high-level worldwide alternatives to additional their improvement.”
Here’s a breakdown of the total USMNT U-21 roster:
GOALKEEPERS: Diego Kochen (FC Barcelona/ESP Miramar, Fla.), Gaga Slonina (Chelsea/ENG; Addison, Unwell.).
DEFENDERS: Reed Baker-Whiting (Seattle Sounders; Seattle, Wash.), Noah Cobb (Colorado Rapids; Chattanooga, Tenn.), Brandan Craig (CF Montreal/CAN; Philadelphia, Pa.), Ethan Kohler (SC Verl/GER; Campbell, Calif.), Nolan Norris (FC Dallas; Fort Value, Texas), Thomas Williams (Orlando Metropolis; Titusville, Fla.).
MIDFIELDERS: Santiago Castañeda (Paderborn/GER; Tampa, Fla.), Jackson Hopkins (D.C. United; Fredericksburg, Va.), Rokas Pukstas (Hajduk Break up/CRO; Stillwater, Okla.), Brooklyn Raines (Houston Dynamo; Chicago, Unwell.), Niko Tsakiris (San Jose Earthquakes; Saratoga, Calif.), Gerardo Valenzuela (FC Cincinnati; Boca Raton, Fla.).
FORWARDS: Cole Campbell (Borussia Dortmund/GER; Peachtree Metropolis, Ga.), Damion Downs (Southampton/ENG; Werneck, Germany), Zavier Gozo (Actual Salt Lake; Eagle Mountain, Utah), Mykhi Joyner (St. Louis Metropolis; Bloomington, IL), Peyton Miller (New England Revolution; Unionville, Conn.), Darren Yapi (Colorado Rapids; Denver, Colo.).