Questions the USMNT Friendly with Canada Will Answer

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Published: January 23, 2013

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The final round of World Cup qualifiers are just around the corner, and a slew of USMNT roster and starting lineup questions are still apprehensively swirling around the pages of American soccer websites; next week's friendly with Canada should provide a few clues to that puzzle.

The Canada game is scheduled for Jan. 29 at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston. The following week, the USMNT will open hexagonal play on the road at Honduras.

The Canada friendly is also the culmination of the USMNT’s January camp.

That Southern California camp primarily is for MLS national team hopefuls, as well as others who are not in the middle of their club seasons (Tippeligaen players). Coach Jurgen Klinsmann has said eight to nine from this camp are likely to be rostered for the Honduras trip.



The camp this week entered its functional work and evaluation phase. Those evaluations will go a long way toward determining which players from camp travel to Honduras.

They also will help determine Klinsmann’s focused analytic interests for the Canada friendly, as that game offers one more opportunity to validate his ongoing evaluations and ensure roster additions are ready for international play.

This friendly will not be the first opportunity for Klinsmann and his staff to see these players against another team. The camp players also participated in a closed-door scrimmage against Club Tijuana reserves yesterday.

That scrimmage aside, it will be the Canada friendly that fans can watch, and thus form their own opinions about the following five questions.

Two are pressing for this qualification cycle. Three are less pressing, but still interesting from the longer view of general depth and future World Cup cycles. 

 

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