The selection of U.S promises to sweep in the next qualifying rounds of CONCACAF on the way to the World Cup Qatar 2022 with his team full of quality. The squad that could make up the Stars and Stripes team has the option of 53 players currently emigrating into football from the old continent.
Some stand out in high-end equipment such as Christian Pulisic Bee Chelsea The Weston McKennie in JuventusThere are 18 footballers active in the five major European leagues: La Liga, Premier League, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1.
These are the players who are active in the TOP 5 leagues in the world:
- Tyler Adamas, RB Leipzig
- John Brooks, Wolfsburg, Bundesliga
- Timmy Chandler, unity. Bundesliga
- Konrad de la Fuente, Barcelona, La Liga
- Sergio Dest, Barcelona, La Liga
- Weston McKennie, Juventus, Serie A.
- Alfredo Morales, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Bundesliga
- Yunus Musah, Valencia, La Liga
- Owen Otasowie, Wolverhampton, EPL
- Christian Pulisic, Chelsea, EPL
- Tim Ream, Fulham, EPL
- Gio Reyna, Borussia Dortmund, Bundesliga
- Chris Richards, Hoffenheim, Bundesliga
- Antonee Robinson, Fulham, EPL
- Josh Sargent, Werder Bremen, Bundesliga
- Zack Steffen, Manchester City, EPL
- Tim Weah, Lille, Ligue 1
Sergio Dest, Gio Reyna, Tyler Adamas, Weston McKennie and Christian Pulisic are the main stars of this American “golden generation”. All of these players, plus those previously mentioned, already know what it’s like to compete in football at the highest level, having played the Champions League in recent years.
Compared to its neighbor and maximum rival in the area, Mexico It has only 9 players in the TOP European competitions, 6 of which are in La Liga in Spain.
Since his surprising elimination from the World Cup Russia 2018The United States has focused on polishing its youth arsenal which now forms the basis of its national team, which has managed to score 19 goals even without legionaries in the last three friendlies against Panama (6-2), El Salvador (6 – 0) and Trinidad and Tobago (7-0).
With a large nest of footballers, the team under the reins of ‘gringo’ World Cup player Gregg Berhalter has as a project to consolidate itself as a power and potential candidate for the 2026 World Cup where it will host.
The first big test of this American “golden generation” will take place in June this year in the final stages of the tournament. Nations League, where they will compete at home against Honduras in the semi-finals of the tournament. A month later they will Gold cup 2021where the US will try to take over the tournament, something they haven’t achieved since 2017, to get a good picture at home.