{"id":8198,"date":"2026-03-24T19:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8198\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:08:27","slug":"roman-celentano-replaced-patrick-schulte-on-us-roster-for-friendlies-against-belgium-and-portugal-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/8198\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Celentano replaced Patrick Schulte on US roster for friendlies against Belgium and Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga, (AP) \u2014 Cincinnati’s Roman Celentano was replaced by Columbus’ Patrick Schulte on Sunday on the U.S. roster for friendlies against Belgium and Portugal.<\/p>\n

Celentano did not dress for Cincinnati’s 4-3 win over Montreal on Sunday in Major League Soccer, and the U.S. Soccer Federation said, \u201cCelentano has been withdrawn to avoid a potential injury risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Schulte has made three national team appearances. Both goalkeepers are considered backups to national team starter Matt Freese and former starter Matt Turner. The roster also includes Chris Brady.<\/p>\n

The U.S. plays Belgium on Saturday and Portugal on March 31, both at Atlanta, in the last matches before coach Mauricio Pochettino announces his World Cup roster on May 26.<\/p>\n

The revised roster:<\/p>\n

Goalkeepers: Chris Brady (Chicago), Roman Celentano (Cincinnati), Matt Freese (New York City), Matt Turner (New England Revolution).<\/p>\n

Defenders: Max Arfsten (Columbus), Alex Freeman (Villarreal), Mark McKenzie (Toulouse), Tim Ream (Charlotte), Chris Richards (Crystal Palace), Antonee Robinson (Fulham), Miles Robinson (Cincinnati), Joe Scally (Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach), Auston Trusty (Glasgow Celtic).<\/p>\n

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Midfielders: Sebastian Berhalter (Vancouver), Johnny Cardoso (Atletico Madrid), Weston McKennie (Juventus), Aidan Morris (Middlesbrough), Gio Reyna (Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach), Cristian Roldan (Seattle), Tanner Tessmann (Lyon); Malik Tillman (Bayer Leverkusen).<\/p>\n

Forwards: Brenden Aaronson (Leeds); Patrick Agyemang (Derby), Folarin Balogun (Monaco), Ricardo Pepi (PSV Eindhoven), Christian Pulisic (AC Milan), Tim Weah (Marseille).<\/p>\n

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ga, (AP) \u2014 Cincinnati’s Roman Celentano was replaced by Columbus’ Patrick Schulte on Sunday on the U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1310,4541,4568,4542,3722,4538,4567,7,4985,4550,4535,4532,4561,5822,4548,4566,4559,4574,4531,4549,4553,1317,1526,4573,5823,4557,4562,4534,4540,4565,4572,4850,4554,4547,335,4560,4844,4551,4555,4539,4543,4057,5824,2342,4564],"class_list":{"0":"post-8198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-ac-milan","9":"tag-aidan-morris","10":"tag-alex-freeman","11":"tag-antonee-robinson","12":"tag-atletico-madrid","13":"tag-auston-trusty","14":"tag-bayer-leverkusen","15":"tag-belgium","16":"tag-borussia-monchengladbach","17":"tag-brenden-aaronson","18":"tag-chris-brady","19":"tag-chris-richards","20":"tag-christian-pulisic","21":"tag-cincinnati","22":"tag-cristian-roldan","23":"tag-crystal-palace","24":"tag-folarin-balogun","25":"tag-fulham","26":"tag-gio-reyna","27":"tag-joe-scally","28":"tag-johnny-cardoso","29":"tag-juventus","30":"tag-leeds","31":"tag-lyon","32":"tag-major-league-soccer","33":"tag-malik-tillman","34":"tag-mark-mckenzie","35":"tag-matt-freese","36":"tag-matt-turner","37":"tag-miles-robinson","38":"tag-monaco","39":"tag-new-england-revolution","40":"tag-patrick-agyemang","41":"tag-patrick-schulte","42":"tag-portugal","43":"tag-ricardo-pepi","44":"tag-roman-celentano","45":"tag-sebastian-berhalter","46":"tag-tanner-tessmann","47":"tag-tim-ream","48":"tag-tim-weah","49":"tag-toulouse","50":"tag-u-s-soccer-federation","51":"tag-villarreal","52":"tag-weston-mckennie"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}