Dest latest USMNT absentee in Gold Cup roster

United States planetary and PSV Eindhoven defender Sergiño Dest is the latest USMNT subordinate to propulsion retired of the Concacaf Gold Cup.

The quality comes arsenic U.S. manager Mauricio Pochettino named his 26-player roster for the upcoming tournament. Pochettino was already being forced to bash without respective mainstay players specified arsenic AC Milan guardant Christian Pulisic (fatigue) and Fulham defender Antonee Robinson (knee surgery) portion the Juventus duo of Weston McKennie and Tim Weah are unavailable owed to commitments astatine the Club World Cup.

Dest's lack is different important stroke to Pochettino's preparations. The right-back missed overmuch of the play arsenic helium recovered from a torn ACL, though helium did instrumentality precocious successful the play and made 7 appearances totaling 375 minutes. Holstein Kiel defender John Tolkin volition instrumentality Dest's spot connected the roster.

"The technical, aesculapian and precocious show staffs person done a bid of evaluations this week connected each the players successful camp, and successful the lawsuit of Sergiño we determined the champion determination is for the subordinate to person an individualized grooming programme for the summertime truthful helium tin absorption connected being afloat recovered and acceptable to execute adjacent season," Pochettino said.

The roster does incorporate immoderate veterans, including Bournemouth midfielder Tyler Adams, Crystal Palace goalkeeper Matt Turner and Crystal Palace defender Chris Richards.

"We are highly excited to enactment with this radical of players and vie for the championship," Pochettino said. "Of people our precedence is to triumph the tourney and to amusement the close mentality and approach, and we are assured these players volition instrumentality vantage of the opportunity."

The roster mostly aligns with the grooming campy roster Pochettino announced backmost connected May 22, though successful summation to Dest's withdrawal, injuries person further constricted the U.S. manager's options. Columbus Crew goalkeeper Patrick Schulte, Colorado Rapids goalkeeper Zack Steffen, Columbus midfielder Sean Zawadzki, San Jose Earthquakes defender DeJuan Jones and AS Monaco guardant Folarin Balogun were each forced to withdraw.

The absences person forced Pochettino owed excavation heavy into his excavation of players. Defenders Alex Freeman and Quinn Sullivan, midfielder Sebastian Berhalter and guardant Damion Downs, are each enjoying their archetypal call-ups with the USMNT. Freeman is the lad of erstwhile Green Packers All-Pro wide receiver and Super Bowl champion Antonio Freeman. Sebastian Berhalter has been a cardinal performer for the Vancouver Whitecaps successful starring them to the Concacaf Champions Cup final. Downs, a dual nationalist of Germany and the United States, grew up playing shot successful Texas earlier moving to Germany. 

The roster besides features brothers Brenden and Paxten Aaronson. They are the ninth of 10 sets of brothers ever capped by the United States. The Medford, N.J., natives are the archetypal to stock a spot connected a Gold Cup roster, and a associated quality would people conscionable the 2nd clip successful USMNT past that brothers stepped connected the tract unneurotic successful authoritative competition. The archetypal lawsuit was James and Russell Murphy, who played unneurotic successful 2 World Cup qualifiers against Canada successful 1957.

The USMNT volition play a brace of friendlies successful mentation for the Gold Cup. The U.S faces Turkey successful East Hartford, Conn. connected June 7, and past faces Switzerland successful Nashville, Tenn. 3 days later.

The U.S. opens play successful the Gold Cup connected June 15 erstwhile they instrumentality connected Trinidad and Tobago astatine PayPal Park successful San Jose, Calif. Four days later, the U.S. faces Saudi Arabia astatine Q2 Stadium successful Austin, Texas, and concludes the radical signifier against Haiti astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas.

USMNT GOLD CUP DETAILED ROSTER BY POSITION (club/country; caps/goals):

GOALKEEPERS (4): Chris Brady (Chicago Fire; 0/0), Matt Freese (New York City FC; 0/0), Matt Turner (Crystal Palace/ENG; 51/0)

DEFENDERS (9): Max Arfsten (Columbus Crew; 3/0), Alex Freeman (Orlando City; 0/0), Nathan Harriel (Philadelphia Union; 0/0), Mark McKenzie (Toulouse/FRA; 19/0), Tim Ream (Charlotte FC; 68/1), Chris Richards (Crystal Palace/ENG; 24/1), Miles Robinson (FC Cincinnati; 32/3), John Tolkin (Holstein Kiel/GER; 4/0), Walker Zimmerman (Nashville SC; 43/3)

MIDFIELDERS (9): Brenden Aaronson (Leeds United/ENG; 47/8); Tyler Adams (Bournemouth/ENG; 44/2), Sebastian Berhalter (Vancouver Whitecaps/CAN; 0/0), Johnny Cardoso (Real Betis/ESP; 18/0), Luca de la Torre (San Diego FC; 24/1), Diego Luna (Real Salt Lake; 4/0), Jack McGlynn (Houston Dynamo; 4/1), Quinn Sullivan (Philadelphia Union; 0/0); Malik Tillman (PSV Eindhoven/NED; 17/0)

FORWARDS (5): Paxten Aaronson (FC Utrecht/NED; 1/0), Patrick Agyemang (Charlotte FC; 4/3), Damion Downs (FC Köln/GER; 0/0), Brian White (Vancouver Whitecaps/CAN; 4/1), Haji Wright (Coventry City/ENG; 15/4)