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The Home Guard: MLS and the Upcoming USMNT Qualifiers
Nine Major League Soccer players were called to play for the USMNT in the upcoming qualifiers. That number fell to eight after Brad Evans injured his calf over the weekend.Jurgen Klinsmann's roster reflects his team's yellow card problem. With Costa Rica looking for revenge at home on Friday and the cage match against Mexico on Tuesday, Klinsmann had to make sure he had backup players to cover for his starters should they pick up a second yellow card against Costa Rica.
As reported by USSoccer.com, between yellow cards and injuries Klinsmann has several of the home guard on speed dial:
We know that the problem is we’ll be having nine players going into that game with yellow cards, so anything can happen after that game. We put everybody on notice to be in touch with us, and if there are changes to be made after that game we’ll make those changes.
A Jozy Altidore injury scare over the weekend had a few tongues wa...
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