The second and final winter friendly is tonight against Jamaica. Jermaine Jones and Sacha Kljestan have left camp. Jones is gone because they want to look at other midfield combinations (JJ is suspended for the next qualifier), while Kljestan and his wife are expecting a baby.
Arena has said that Jorge Villafaña will be starting at LB, Walker Zimmerman will make his US debut and start at CB, and Luis Robles is starting at GK.
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The final U-20 friendly camp
leading up to qualifiers has been announced:
GK
Jonathan Klinsmann (University of California)
J.T. Marcinkowski (Georgetown)
Brady Scott (De Anza Force)
DF
Hugo Arellano (LA Galaxy)
Justen Glad (Real Salt Lake)
Aaron Herrera (University of New Mexico)
John Nelson (Internationals SC)
Erik Palmer-Brown (Sporting Kansas City)
Tommy Redding (Orlando City)
Auston Trusty (Philadelphia Union)
MF
Danny Acosta (Real Salt Lake)
Tyler Adams (New York Red Bulls)
Coy Craft (FC Dallas)
Jonathan Gonzalez (Monterrey)
Jeremiah Gutjahr (Indiana University)
Sebastian Saucedo (Real Salt Lake)
Jonathan Suarez (Querétaro)
Eryk Williamson (University of Maryland)
FW
Jeremy Ebobisse (Portland Timbers)
Brooks Lennon (Liverpool)
Jonathan Lewis (NYCFC)
Victor Mansaray (Seattle Sounders)
Emmanuel Sabbi (Las Palmas)
Brandon Vazquez (Atlanta United)
Since we're getting very close to qualifying, I think the team will largely be drawn from this pool, since a number of top players are unavailable.
There's a growing amount of buzz around Tyler Adams right now. The Dax McCarty trade has really cleared the way for a lot more playing time for him and Sean Davis. He's reportedly shown very well in MLS preseason so far and I've heard he had a very strong U20 camp last time around. He's still 17 and eligible for the next U20 team as well, but he might be able to fill a hole at DM for this team -- and hopefully, for the US in a few years.
We'll see if Ramos was able to cut any deals to get some of the better Euro-based players for qualifying. Part of that deal would almost certainly be that he won't be able to take them for pre-qualifying camps, so we won't know until the final roster is released. I expect that he'll be able to get Marlon Fossey from Fulham to play RB, but that might be it.