The United States national football team routinely sets up a winter training camp where players from the national team are taken to a specific place and work together for around 1 month or so.
Taking into consideration the time in which this training camp is scheduled to take place, it’s always incredibly difficult for the coach of the American national side to put high profile players or performers of big European clubs in this training session and Jurgen Klinsmann has instead opted to go for some of his younger players.
This period of time is an ideal moment for the players who don’t usually get called up for the first team of the national team to step it up and prove their worth.
Jurgen Klinsmann named a group of 23 players which have an average age of 24; these are the younger performers that the German coach included while some of the more veteran and experienced players include: Michael Bradley, Matt Besler and Jozy Altidore, all of which are U.S regulars.
The U.S national team has friendly matches against Iceland and Canada which are scheduled to take place on January 31st and February 6th respectively. The Under-23 side of the American team also has an important match to play against Colombia and this training camp will help them in this upcoming Olympic playoff game.
When Jurgen Klinsmann was asked about his team selection for the winter training camp, the German coach replied by saying: “This will be more of an identification camp and a development camp. We want to give those players a head start into their very busy year 2016, but we also want to make it clear to them that it’s a huge opportunity that you have here to understand what it takes to step it up and to become an international-level player.”
The U.S national side managed to make it past the group stages of the 2014 FIFA World Cup which was a fairly difficult group that had Germany, Portugal and Ghana but were ultimately knocked out in the Round of 16 after losing 1-2 against Belgium. Klinsmann is hoping that he can do better with his team in their upcoming competitions.
The United States national football team routinely sets up a winter training camp where players from the national team are taken to a specific place and work together for around 1 month or so.
Taking into consideration the time in which this training camp is scheduled to take place, it’s always incredibly difficult for the coach of the American national side to put high profile players or performers of big European clubs in this training session and Jurgen Klinsmann has instead opted to go for some of his younger players.
This period of time is an ideal moment for the players who don’t usually get called up for the first team of the national team to step it up and prove their worth.
Jurgen Klinsmann named a group of 23 players which have an average age of 24; these are the younger performers that the German coach included while some of the more veteran and experienced players include: Michael Bradley, Matt Besler and Jozy Altidore, all of which are U.S regulars.
The U.S national team has friendly matches against Iceland and Canada which are scheduled to take place on January 31st and February 6th respectively. The Under-23 side of the American team also has an important match to play against Colombia and this training camp will help them in this upcoming Olympic playoff game.
When Jurgen Klinsmann was asked about his team selection for the winter training camp, the German coach replied by saying: “This will be more of an identification camp and a development camp. We want to give those players a head start into their very busy year 2016, but we also want to make it clear to them that it’s a huge opportunity that you have here to understand what it takes to step it up and to become an international-level player.”
The U.S national side managed to make it past the group stages of the 2014 FIFA World Cup which was a fairly difficult group that had Germany, Portugal and Ghana but were ultimately knocked out in the Round of 16 after losing 1-2 against Belgium. Klinsmann is hoping that he can do better with his team in their upcoming competitions.