The game taking place in Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Park will be the fourth meeting between the two teams. The first three games were split down the middle, with a win for each team and a 1-1 draw in their most recent 2019 meeting.
After throwing a Neymar-esque party following the U.S. men’s national team’s qualification for the World Cup, despite their 2-0 loss to Costa Rica, we at Yanks Abroad have finally overcome our hangovers to compile a list of the 23 players in contention for the flight to the Middle East.
The United States men’s national team is headed back to the World Cup, but before they go to Qatar, they have some business to handle in CONCACAF as the Nations League draw saw them placed with El Salvador and Grenada in League A Group D.
Coming off the heels of the United States finally putting their stamp on qualification for the FIFA World Cup later this year in Qatar, U.S. Soccer made the shock announcement that all players sporting tattoos will no longer be called up for either the men’s or women’s teams in the future.
It took a long, agonizing time for the shock of not qualifying for 2018 to wear off, which has made the joy of seeing the USMNT get the job done in 2022 even sweeter.
With the goal of qualifying for the World Cup achieved, and the opponents for the final tournament to be revealed in less than a day, USMNT head coach Gregg Berhalter says the team is ready to deal with any and all comers.
The United States men’s national team booked their passage to the World Cup, but it was not the way they wanted to finish CONCACAF qualifying as they fell to Costa Rica on Wednesday night in San Jose.
Ahead of what is likely the USMNT’s final qualifier before securing a trip to Qatar, head coach Gregg Berhalter hailed the growth of the team through what has been a grueling seven-month, 14-game stretch.
With only a historically unprecedented disaster standing between the team and automatic qualification for the World Cup, Gregg Berhalter’s USMNT squad will look to notch their first-ever win in Costa Rica on Wednesday night.
