Union captain Alejandro Bedoya and Hershey native Christian Pulisic are among 26 players summoned by head coach Bruce Arena for the U.S. men’s soccer team’s do-or-die World Cup qualifiers next weekend. But the biggest news is elsewhere in midfield.
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Sporting Kansas City playmaker Benny Feilhaber has been recalled to the national team for the first time since this past February, when he played in a friendly against Jamaica that concluded the national team’s winter training camp.
Prior to then, the 32-year-old had been in an exile that began in early 2014, when he had a falling-out with then-head coach Jurgen Klinsmann (among others).