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Who U.S. should call to play in friendly against Portugal

We still don't know who will be playing against the Cristiano Ronaldo-less Portuguese later this month, but Goal offers some ideas

As the days go by and the rage subsides in the American soccer community over the U.S. national team's shocking World Cup qualifying failure, it is suddenly beginning to dawn on people that the calendar waits for no one.

The recently announced USA-Portugal friendly probably felt like a cruel joke to some who still hadn't finished processing the events of Oct. 11, which saw the USMNT lose to Trinidad & Tobago, thus missing out on a World Cup for the first time since 1986.