{"id":272402,"date":"2025-10-02T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272402\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:22:10","slug":"usa-roster-10-mls-players-called-for-ecuador-australia-friendlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272402\/","title":{"rendered":"USA roster: 10 MLS players called for Ecuador, Australia friendlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/us-men-s-national-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> head coach Mauricio Pochettino has named 10 MLS players to his 26-man roster for October friendlies against Ecuador and Australia as preparations continue for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n      GOALKEEPERS (4)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chris Brady &#8211; Chicago Fire FC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Freese &#8211; New York City FC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Patrick Schulte &#8211; Columbus Crew<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Turner &#8211; New England Revolution<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n      DEFENDERS (8)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Max Arfsten &#8211; Columbus Crew<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Cameron Carter-Vickers &#8211; Celtic<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alex Freeman &#8211; Orlando City<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mark McKenzie &#8211; FC Toulouse<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Ream &#8211; Charlotte FC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Chris Richards &#8211; Crystal Palace<\/li>\n<li>Antonee Robinson &#8211; Fulham<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miles Robinson &#8211; FC Cincinnati<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n      MIDFIELDERS (8)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brenden Aaronson &#8211; Leeds United<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diego Luna &#8211; Real Salt Lake<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Weston McKennie &#8211; Juventus<\/li>\n<li>Aidan Morris &#8211; Middlesbrough<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cristian Roldan &#8211; Seattle Sounders FC<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>James Sands &#8211; FC St. Pauli<\/li>\n<li>Tanner Tessmann &#8211; Olympique Lyon<\/li>\n<li>Malik Tillman &#8211; Bayer Leverkusen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n      FORWARDS (6)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick Agyemang &#8211; Derby County<\/li>\n<li>Folarin Balogun &#8211; AS Monaco<\/li>\n<li>Christian Pulisic &#8211; AC Milan<\/li>\n<li>Tim Weah &#8211; Marseille<\/li>\n<li>Haji Wright &#8211; Coventry City<\/li>\n<li>Alex Zendejas &#8211; Club Am\u00e9rica<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MLS call-ups are bolded above.<\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>October friendlies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oct. 10 vs. Ecuador &#8211; 8:30 pm ET | Q2 Stadium &#8211; Austin, Texas<\/li>\n<li>Oct. 14 vs. Australia &#8211; 9 pm ET | Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Park &#8211; Commerce City, Colorado<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This camp represents one of the final chances for players to impress Pochettino, with only three windows remaining before the USMNT convene for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty level remains high, as Ecuador and Australia are among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/fifa-2026-world-cup-qualified-countries-teams-tracker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 nations already qualified<\/a> for next summer&#8217;s expanded tournament. Those tests follow the September window, in which the USMNT lost against South Korea before defeating Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Both matches will be played at MLS venues, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/austin-fc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin FC<\/a>&#8216;s Q2 Stadium before heading to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/colorado-rapids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Rapids<\/a>&#8216; Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods Park.<\/p>\n<p>\n      MLS alums<\/p>\n<p>Of the 16 players overseas, eight previously played for MLS clubs.<\/p>\n<p>That group includes former Charlotte FC striker Patrick Agyemang, who joined EFL Championship side Derby County this summer for a club-record fee.<\/p>\n<p>Three Europe-based central midfielders have MLS ties: Columbus Crew homegrown product Aidan Morris (Middlesbrough), New York City FC loanee James Sands (St. Pauli) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/fc-dallas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FC Dallas<\/a> homegrown alum Tanner Tessmann (Lyon).<\/p>\n<p>Attacking midfielder Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United) and center back Mark McKenzie (Toulouse) are both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States head coach Mauricio Pochettino has named 10 MLS players to his 26-man roster for October friendlies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[48408,53525,141305,11172,136049,8887,141302,141303,141304,141301,37638,221,62,42918,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-272402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-alexander-freeman","9":"tag-chris-brady","10":"tag-cristian-roldan","11":"tag-diego-luna","12":"tag-league-club-news","13":"tag-matt-freese","14":"tag-matt-turner","15":"tag-maximilian-arfsten","16":"tag-miles-robinson","17":"tag-patrick-schulte","18":"tag-sendtonews","19":"tag-soccer","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tim-ream","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115305732202371122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}