There has not been this many USMNT players in England’s top flight in a decade, and it’s where a strong national team nucleus will be preparing for the 2022 World Cup.
During the first couple days of the most recent U.S. men’s national team camp, each player met for about 15-20 minutes with the media in Cincinnati, cycling through a hotel meeting room that was a short walk from Fountain Square. It would be the last chance for domestic writers and reporters (along with pretend journalist Weston McKennie, who crashed a couple sessions) to spend time with the World Cup qualifiers before everyone reconvened more than five months later in Qatar.