Published 6/29/2009
by Matt Barger
at Bleacher Report - World Football
Last week, Team USA Coach Bob Bradley named his roster for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. To reward his first team’s massive performance this Confederations’ Cup, he is giving his stars a break and putting in...
I think the correct term for is “junior varsity”. See for yourself: http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20090625&content_id=5521428&vkey=news_mls&fext=.jsp
Freddy Adu, Marvell Wynne, Heath Pearce, Charlie Davies, and Luis Robles are the only players joining the Gold Cup team on a plane from the Confederations Cup in Johannesburg. Nineteen men on this roster are playing or have played in MLS. Only Pearce, Robles, Davies, and Jeremiah White have not.
Bradley’s motives here, unlike most of his tactical substitutions the past two weeks, are easily understood. Like the MNT Coaches before him, Bradley is looking to MLS to find the right bench that will sustain and amplify the USA’s ...
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