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Bradley Announces Roster for DC, Finally Includes New Names

October 3rd, 2008 | By: Brooks Peck | 9 Comments »

Bob Bradley named the 23 men he’s taking to Washington, D.C. to face Cuba on October 11 and, wow, is there some good news on that list.

First off, both Freddy Adu and Jozy Altidore will take a break from sitting on their respective European club’s benches to get a long awaited look with the senior men’s team. In addition, fellow Olympic team member Charlie Davies, who has been impressive in Sweden so far this year, gets a somewhat surprising, yet deserved call.

The biggest surprise of all, though, is the inclusion of Jose Francisco Torres, a 20-year-old native of Texas who plays for Pachuca of the Mexican Premier Division. Torres was eligible to play for both Mexico and the US and, according to Steven Goff’s Soccer Insider, just confirmed his decision to accept the United States’ invitation last night.

From Soccer Insider:

“Torres, a left-footed player who is 5 feet 5 and 135 pounds, is a regular with Pachuca’s first team and has started half of the Tuzos matches this season. He scored against Puebla. Pachuca will play at Necaxa this Saturday before Torres travels to Washington for U.S. training camp.

‘I was born in the U.S. and my dream was always to play for the U.S. national team,’ said Torres, whose father was born in Mexico and mother is originally from the States.”

Especially nice to hear that after the continued Subotic nonsense this morning. We’ll have more on the roster announcement and the upcoming match later, as I’m sure Carter will have something to say about this once he calms down from the initial excitement of it all (read: once the sedatives take hold and the doctors get him properly restrained).

Oh, and yeah, still no Kenny Cooper.

UPDATE: Here’s a little YouTube evidence (via the other great US MNT blog Yanked Around) of what Torres can do (he’s the one who scores the first goal):

Yeah, that was a nice shot and all, but holy bejesus the kid has some acrobatic skills, too!

Tags: 2010 World Cup Qualifying, Charlie Davies, Freddy Adu, Jose Francisco Torres, Jozy Altidore, Kenny Cooper, Roster News

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Comments

By BMatthews | October 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Haha, I was wondering if we were going to see a mention of Kenny in that article. Normally I think 5′5″ is too short. But love the video evidence.

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By GS | October 3rd, 2008 at 4:36 pm

I’m so freaking happy to see some of the names on that list. Freddy, Jozy and Charlie are all guys that I expect to see travel to South Africa and I’ve been pulling heavily for them to get more caps with the senior team. With Ching on the list I doubt Charlie sees any playing time against cuba but it’s good that he’s at least getting recognition and a chance to train with the national team.

The thing that bums me out big time is that Ching is on the list. That means Jozy probably won’t start, which once again will deprive USA fans of seeing the future of the USMNT at the forward position.

Correct me if I’m wrong but they normally cut down to 18 players before the fixture and hopefully that will leave Ching off the list.

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By elle | October 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 pm

oh good. Brian “can only score on an open goal” Ching made the cut. again.

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By GS | October 4th, 2008 at 10:54 am

Hey guys. I thought I would submit a review as I just finished watching all 93 minutes of the West Brom : Fulham game. With an extremely surprising change of pace Clint Dempsey got the start and went the whole 90 for Fulham. After watching him the whole game I thought I would let you guys know how he did. Clint was by far the best player on the pitch for Fulham today. I think I counted 5 shots for Clint with 2 on target. He was the most creative player as well making solid runs and making great one touch precise passes. With all the good there was some bad. Even though he made some great runs he struggled with spacing at times and also was reluctant making near post runs. He also played a bit lazy at times but that was mainly due to the fact that Fulham was dispossessed and played all-around awful defense.

As some on this board may know I am a big fan of Clint and believe he will be a huge asset for the national team for qualifying and the 2010 world cup. It was great to see him get a start and go the full 90.

On a side note…who the f*** is Simon Davies…he single handedly lost this game for Fulham and probably kept Clint from scoring at least one goal if not more.

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By Brooks | October 4th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Thanks for that, GS.

Good to hear Clint is getting more time on the pitch for Fulham and proving what he can do.

By Pseudinho | October 5th, 2008 at 8:34 am

It’s about freaking time.

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By GS | October 5th, 2008 at 10:04 am

Another quick update. Matt Taylor, a Forward for 2. Bundesliga side TUS Koblenz from Irvine, California, had a hat trick today. He doesn’t really factor into the USMNT but it’s cool to see an American have a big day in Europe.

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By CW | October 6th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

Dude, I am reading this in line at a gas station Subway, tears streaming down my face. Apparently the Subway Chef didn’t understand my order for a Chicken Pizziola through my tears and laughter, because she just handed me yesterday’s Tuna.
Great stuff Brooks.

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