On Saturday, with four-time World Cup champion Germany stateside, the USMNT will relish a rare chance to measure themselves against soccer nobility.
“Any opportunity we get to play teams like this, we want to do it,” USMNT Coach Gregg Berhalter said Friday. Berhalter's squad will meet Germany in a friendly on Saturday. , a timetable that would seem to leave Coach Gregg Berhalter flush with time and opportunity to polish personnel and tactics.But then you have to consider FIFA, the sport’s global governing body, sets aside only about five windows a year for training camps and international matches.
“We expect ourselves to win these games now, instead of just competing them,” midfielder Weston McKennie said. “It’s a great opportunity to see where we’re at. These are the type of games we have to win to advance the program forward to be successful.”, the United States received an automatic berth in the 2026 World Cup. Without the usual qualifiers scattered throughout Central America and the Caribbean, the U.S. schedule will look much different.
Former Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann, 36, will debut Saturday with No. 15 Germany sitting four slots behind the United States in theU.S. ties to German soccer run deep. Nine of the 23 players in camp are currently or formerly employed by Bundesliga clubs, and Berhalter played for Energie Cottbus and 1860 Munich between 2002 and ’09.
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