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| Denmark v USA: international friendly – live! | Denmark v USA: international friendly – live! |
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| Family matters | |
| Bryan Tisinger checks in with an email: “Where is Brad Guzan? Why is he not starting in place of Rimando?” | |
| A good question deserves a good answer: We’re told Guzan was left off the squad to be with his wife due to the imminent birth of their first child. | |
| 2.48pm ET18:48 | |
| The teams! | |
| Denmark: Andersen; Wass, Kjær, Sviatchenko, Boilesen, Kvist, Krohn-Dehli, Eriksen (c), Bendtner, J Poulsen, Vibe | |
| USA: Rimando; Chandler, Orozco, Brooks, Garza; Zardes, Bedoya, Bradley (c), Johnson; Altidore, Johannsson | |
| Los XI que salen al campo para la #USMNT contra Dinamarca. pic.twitter.com/Qi3aG44gyC | |
| 2.43pm ET18:43 | |
| Velkommen! | |
| Social scientists say Denmark is the happiest country in the world, but Jurgen Klinsmann would like nothing more than to dampen the national spirit – at least for one night – when his US national team visit NRGi Park in Århus for the first of five high-profile friendlies ahead of July’s Concacaf Gold Cup. While we track down the teams, here’s a look at the new away kits the Americans will be sporting today. | |
| The new away kit is the #USMNT #BusinessAttire for the first time today. #ShopTheLook: http://t.co/jXh0zJVu3u pic.twitter.com/nK86PbfQSf | |
| 2.00pm ET18:00 | 2.00pm ET18:00 |
| Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s Graham Parker’s preview of the game: | Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime, here’s Graham Parker’s preview of the game: |
| Interesting times for Jurgen Klinsmann since the World Cup. The US coach was in typically ebullient form at the recent announcement of the Gold Cup groups in Philadelphia – relishing what in Gold Cup terms is a relatively (and the key word should be “relatively”) difficult draw for this summer’s tournament, but he also had to face one or two questions about what’s been a rather lackluster run since the highs of the Ghana game that opened the World Cup. | Interesting times for Jurgen Klinsmann since the World Cup. The US coach was in typically ebullient form at the recent announcement of the Gold Cup groups in Philadelphia – relishing what in Gold Cup terms is a relatively (and the key word should be “relatively”) difficult draw for this summer’s tournament, but he also had to face one or two questions about what’s been a rather lackluster run since the highs of the Ghana game that opened the World Cup. |
| The subsequent mediocre run of results, characterized by late collapses, has begun to accrue a weight of caveats that might make you wonder why the games were played at all, if they were going to be rendered this meaningless by Klinsmann’s “big picture” advocates. | The subsequent mediocre run of results, characterized by late collapses, has begun to accrue a weight of caveats that might make you wonder why the games were played at all, if they were going to be rendered this meaningless by Klinsmann’s “big picture” advocates. |
| There’s certainly an argument, and in fairness it’s one that Klinsmann would make himself, that there shouldn’t be a drop in intensity, even if it is the start of a new World Cup cycle. But there was a definite sense of a World Cup hangover as 2014 ended with an embarrassing defeat to something of a Republic of Ireland ‘B’ team, while 2015 has opened with a loss in Chile and a rare win, over Panama at the StubHub Center. | There’s certainly an argument, and in fairness it’s one that Klinsmann would make himself, that there shouldn’t be a drop in intensity, even if it is the start of a new World Cup cycle. But there was a definite sense of a World Cup hangover as 2014 ended with an embarrassing defeat to something of a Republic of Ireland ‘B’ team, while 2015 has opened with a loss in Chile and a rare win, over Panama at the StubHub Center. |
| Those two games were played with the traditional MLS-heavy January roster – whereas the squad for this pair of games versus Denmark and Switzerland is, as expected, a far more eclectic affair. There’s the healthy Liga MX contingent, most of the expected Europeans and just five MLS players, now that Clint Dempsey has limped out of camp with a hamstring strain that’s expected to keep him out for the next two to three weeks. | Those two games were played with the traditional MLS-heavy January roster – whereas the squad for this pair of games versus Denmark and Switzerland is, as expected, a far more eclectic affair. There’s the healthy Liga MX contingent, most of the expected Europeans and just five MLS players, now that Clint Dempsey has limped out of camp with a hamstring strain that’s expected to keep him out for the next two to three weeks. |
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