Mauricio Pochettino has been forced into his first June roster change since announcing his 27-player roster.
Goalkeeper Chris Brady has been named to the June roster, U.S. Soccer announced Wednesday. Brady will replace Columbus Crew goalkeeper Patrick Schulte, who recently was sidelined with an oblique injury.
A product of the Chicago Fire Academy, Brady earned his first callup to the senior national team. Brady previously excelled with the USMNT U-20’s at the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship,
earning Golden Glove honors as the best goalkeeper of the tournament.
The 21-year-old has made 81 appearances for the Fire over the past four seasons since debuting in 2022.
He will join Matt Turner, Zack Steffen, and Matt Freese as goalkeepers on the June camp roster.
The USMNT will face Turkey and Switzerland on June 6 and 10 respectively in a pair of home friendlies before opening play at the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Zawadzki likely out for GC as well with knee injury.
Isn’t Zack Steffen still injured also? Nicolas Hansen has been between the sticks for Colorado for the past 2 games…..
Yes, sounds like a similar injury, but Zack is a couple weeks ahead in his recovery. I think that’s probably why there are 4 GKs. If Steffen doesn’t recover in time they’ll still have Freese, Brady, and Turner.
why. are. we. picking. hurt. players.
Well, because Schulte didn’t get hurt until after the roster was announced. Technically, all we have is the camp roster as well, the final GC roster isn’t until June 4 and of course injured players can be replaced up until June 14.
just curious, when the scouting department gathers is the idea to scout the worst teams in the league for the guys with high GAA who once were pipeline kids but haven’t yet matured into good adult keepers? chicago has been consistently a lousy team with a bad defense and yet there we seem to regularly shop.
i blame the MLS foreign player limit for this problem, too. keeper is not a position where there’s a left one, a right one, a couple middles, and a player might be versatile to more than one line or slot. there’s one keeper slot you either win or not. MLS used to produce a bunch of starting american keepers who competed for NT appreciation. once it went to 8 internationals you could spend one on a keeper, and keepers hog playing time.
we then make it worse by obsessing about foot skills more than shot stopping even though about every time i have seen a US keeper involved in a goal, it’s not farting around the back messing with opponents, it’s fairly direct punts or long balls getting held up or flicked on for quick strikes.
i digress. my original point is what is the obsession with wet behind the ears chicago YNT keepers who have 2.0 GAAs as adults.
if a US keeper is involved in a goal while building from the back, it’s usually the wrong way after we played it to the other team.
We’ve seen Turner twice give up goals after kicking it long. Knock down, pass ahead, shot, goal. Against Canada in qualifying and against Brazil last summer. Just booting it doesn’t protect you from quick turnover goals. Granted in Hamilton the turf was frozen and hard as concrete and the ball was cold and flat.
All this pissing and moaning over the keepers for what?
It’s hard to convince anyone of anything while you are sitting on the bench.
Turner is still here and now it looks like he might play every game this go around. I don’t know if Michael Bradley deserved as many caps as he got but to his eternal credit he was always there to answer the call. As they say, 80% of life is just showing up.
do i have to explain basic soccer to you? soccer 101, if you can’t execute a style don’t play that way.
that and it’s bass-ackwards to pick poorer quality selections for a concept that then doesn’t even work.