Arena Drops Some Half Time Hints

April 8th, 2006 | by: Daryl | View Comments

Bruce Arena was interviewed on ESPN2 during the DC United – Chivas half time break, and seemed happy to drop a few hints about his World Cup roster. I may be paraphrasing, but here are the highlights:

On John O’Brien:

He’s a talented player … if he’s fit and in any kind of form we want to take him … [against Jamaica] he’ll hopfeully play somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes.

On available roster spots:

I’m definite with 18 players … there are 5 interesting positions still to fill … I could mabye name all the way up to 21 definite players.

On those ‘5 interesting positions’:

We’re looking to fill out the midfield and work out how many forwards and defenders we want to bring.