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Berhalter lays out priorities for Gold Cup roster (0: 41)
USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter explains what he expects from the Gold Cup roster and USMNT player pool going forward. (0: 41)
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Associated Press
The US’ first dwelling World Cup qualifier against Canada on Sept. 5 will possible be staged at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.
The venue for the match, introduced Sunday, will discover the Americans’ opener at El Salvador on Sept. 2 and precede a Sept. 8 match at Honduras.
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U.S. players will utter in Nashville starting up Aug. 30, with many flying in from European weekend matches.
Attributable to the coronavirus pandemic, three World Cup qualifiers are being squeezed into FIFA global fixture windows designed for two matches. Because of that, U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter talked about he expects to make consume of additional players than he otherwise would get hang of.
The 20th-ranked U.S. ended a creep of seven straight World Cup berths when it didn’t qualify for the 2018 match in Russia, shedding dwelling matches to Mexico in Columbus, Ohio, and to Costa Rica at Harrison, Novel Jersey.
No. 70 Canada is calling for its first World Cup berth since 1986.
The Americans get hang of four wins, two losses and one draw in Nashville, beating Trinidad and Tobago 3-0 in a qualifier on April 1, 2009, boring a three-purpose recreation by Jozy Altidore.
The U.S. tied Panama 1-1 in Nashville sooner than 47,622 folk at some stage in the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup, beat Mexico 1-0 in a 2018 exhibition sooner than 40,194 and defeated Jamaica 3-1 sooner than 28,473 in the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
