USA's practice:
Argentina's practice:
If the visual doesn't do it for you, I crunched a few numbers. I compared just our midfield to Argentina's midfield. Here's what I came up with:
Argentina is taking 6 midfielders, average age 26, total caps 186.
between the six you have:
2 South American Youth Champions
3 FIFA World Youth Champions
1 Olympic Gold medal holder
They have won a combined 16 Division Championships
9 Argentina Primera
4 Serie "A"
2 La Liga
1 EPL
they have hoisted the following hardware:
2 UEFA Cups
3 Italia Super Cups
2 European Super Cups
1 Intercontinental Cup
1 Spanish Super Cup
they have also won:
2 Coppa Italia
1 UEFA Champions League
The USA is taking 8 midfielders, average age 23.5, total caps 55 (35 belong to Ben Olsen)
6 Have US youth team experience U17&U20
Between the eight you have:
10 years of college experience
1 year PDL experience
26 years of MLS experience (inflated because I'm counting this season and for instance Justin Mapp only had 28 minutes his first year with DC United)
1 year PSV Eindhoven
1 year Nottingham Forest (no Robin Hood jokes)
2 years with Hamburg SV
Oh yeah you've also got
1 Gatorade National Boy Soccer Player of the Year
and
1 Parade National High School Player of the Year
Yeah I think we match up pretty good.
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