Arena Drops Some Half Time Hints

April 8th, 2006 | By: Daryl | 2 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.

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Comments

By chuck | April 8th, 2006 at 9:11 pm

Daryl,

Thanks for filling us in… My son had a match today, and so I had to leave before I got to hear The Bruce.

You know, concerning the last paragraph, I thought I had already read somewhere that he was definitely going to take only 4 forwards. I recall this happening right around the Japan friendly… I guess I might look for that tomorrow or Monday.

Anyone else remember hearing that?

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By Ethan | April 11th, 2006 at 9:18 am

These are the 18… at least in my mind…

1. Keller
2. Donovan
3. McBride
4. Beasley
5. Reyna
6. Pope
7. Onweyu
8. Johnson
9. Cherundolo
10. Dempsey
11. Howard
12. Convey
13. Twellman
14. Lewis
15. Hejduk
16. Hahnemann
17. Mastroeni
18. Gibbs