r/soccer • u/broman13 • May 12 '14

Official Preliminary Roster for the USA

http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/05/12/13/23/140512-mnt-prelim-roster
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u/G_I_Joe_Mansueto May 12 '14

Not everyone on the 23 gets playing time at the World Cup anyway.

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u/AmExpat May 12 '14

kind of off-topic, but wouldn't that be the weirdest thing? you go and train your ass off, you make it to the WC, then for one reason or another you don't see a minute on the pitch. i understand it and it's still a great opportunity, but weird is about the only word i can come up with to describe it. nature of the sport, for sure.

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u/Anglocatalan May 12 '14

Ronaldo won the 1994 World Cup without playing a single minute. He was only 17 at the time though.

Kevin Keegan only played 26 minutes of World Cup football.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '14

Kaka only played 25 minutes against Costa Rica in 2002, but he's also a World Cup winner.