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USMNT to open 2024 schedule with January friendly vs. Slovenia

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The U.S. men’s national team’s first match of 2024 has been decided.

Slovenia will oppose the USMNT on January 20 in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Soccer announced Monday. The friendly match will fall outside of a FIFA international window, which should provide major opportunities for MLS-based players in the current pool.

“This is an opportunity for us to identify and work with the next generation of players who have the potential to make an impact on our program,” USMNT head coach Gregg Berhalter said.

“With the World Cup coming to the United States in 2026, we have placed a huge priority on getting as many players as possible experience in important competitions. Between the Olympics, Concacaf Nations League and Copa America, the chances are there for players to make a statement, and for many of them the game in San Antonio can be an important first step.”

Toyota Field, home of USL Championship side San Antonio FC, will play host to the match.

Slovenia recently qualified for the 2024 UEFA European Championship, finishing tied on points with Group H winners Denmark. January’s showdown will be the third all-time meeting between the USMNT and Slovenia across all competitions.

The USMNT has a busy 2024 schedule after reaching the CONCACAF Nations League Semifinals and Copa America.

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    • “all due respect but CCV was in the same donut hole for years and he made the world cup.”

      No, he wasn’t.

      Your boys, Julian and Duane have been in the same rut for some time now.

      CCV went to Qatar because he was lucky enough to have found a home with Celtic, raised his game and played really well there, not long before Gregg had to decide on the Qatar roster. It’s good to be hot when auditions role around.

      And at that point the CB position had openings, which is why Ream, the reason for everything wrong in the universe according to you ,was in Qatar. But CCV and Ream going to Qatar was illegitimate by your standards because both got there based on club form, a no-no in the IV book. Based on your logic, they were supposed to suck.

      Are you telling us Holmes and Julian should have been in Qatar?

      How do you figure that?

      Duane and Julian still have time to go on a tear and impress Gregg if they can. No one is stopping them. But they are going to have to rip it up at their clubs and, of course, you don’t believe in club form as a way of determining a players validity to their national team.

      If both of them , for example, drag their teams to promotion you should ignore that because it happened at their clubs.

      Basically you want Gregg to give Holmes and Julian opportunities to impress that Gregg might have otherwise given to Reyna ,Tillman and perhaps Brenden. I can see cutting out Brenden but not the other two, who need the work..

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  1. we continue blissfully aware of the “european B team hole” in the middle of the donut formed by the first choice regulars looping around to the largely domestic january camp “potential” mentioned here.

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    • Perhaps it is you who is blissfully unaware that 2nd division journeyman or guys who play in bottom leagues in Eastern Europe are not the answer either.

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    • IV,

      What do you mean “we”?

      I don’t know what they are teaching players at the high school, college and select team level that seems to so color your vision but you are one of the most narrow minded posters here.

      You seem to have a bug up your butt about the lack of love for the Duane Holmes of the world.

      The ironic thing about that is that Holmes’ track record with the USMNT is Jamaica, 24 mins., Venezuela, 28 mins both listless losses back in 2019.

      No cheap goals for him in those games.

      So your support for him is based on his club form.

      Isn’t that supposed to be a No-no?

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