The extremely busy and pivotal year for the U.S. men's national team is upon us. For months, as the international calendar kept getting altered, all logistical signs pointed to a 2021 stacked with competitions that will test the depth of the player pool at the senior and U-23 levels (sadly but understandably, the FIFA U-20 and U-17 World Cups scheduled for 2021 have been canceled on account of the pandemic).
Things will begin to sizzle in March, when the Concacaf Olympic qualifying tournament commences a year after it was initially supposed to. They'll heat up in June with the Concacaf Nations League final four and then go into overdrive starting in July and continuing on through November, with the Gold Cup, the Olympics (qualification pending) and first three windows of 2022 World Cup qualifying.