#351: A draft of USMNT prospects and late-bloomers for 2026

Scuffed | USMNT, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Yanks Abroad, Sports, Youth National Teams, U20 National Team, Mls, American Soccer, Soccer, U17 National Team, Men's National Team, Usmnt, Us Soccer

4.7 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Matt Hartman, Marcus Chairez, Alex Calabrese and Belz pick XIs of players who were not on the World Cup roster and have fewer than 5 caps. Some surprises. Some surprising omissions. We call it the Future Draft. Hopefully it introduces you to some names to keep track of over the next three years.

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0:00.0	You're in a year. Welcome, I'm Adam Bell's. I've got three guests today, Matt Hartman, the Long Island Youth
0:21.0	Soccer Oracle. Markish-Threes, who writes about U.S. soccer talent for chasing a cup,
0:26.0	coming to us from Northern California and Alex Calabresi,
0:29.0	who also writes for chasing a cup,
0:31.0	an undergrad at Syracuse, who is back home in Chicago.
0:34.6	Welcome, fellas.
0:36.6	What's up, Alice?
0:37.6	Hey, so we are here, as you know, for the future draft.
0:42.2	This is a draft of players for the 2026 World Cup,
0:45.9	with lots of little rules that I'll get to in a second. We did this first in 2018,
0:50.2	Matt, Joey Anton, and me. It is a tough business predicting the future and we are to some extent going to get it wrong as we did in 2018 when George Bella was the first overall pick and my starting wingers were Nick Titegue and Andrew Carlton.
1:06.3	So laugh at us as much as you want.
1:09.5	Now we have some very important rules and they are as follows.
1:13.2	For this draft, number one, players who are on the World Cup roster
1:17.2	are not available.
1:18.8	Number two, players with more than five caps are also not available.
1:22.8	This includes a lot of people.
1:24.6	Chris Richards, Georgie Mihilovich, Ricardo Pepi,
1:27.8	Darrell Dikay, John Luca Boussio,
1:30.3	Mark Mackenzie James Sands, George Bello, the list goes on.
1:34.0	Number three, selections are based on our projection of what the player will be in 2026.
1:40.0	The measure of success is not who has the best team right now, but who has the best team in 2026.
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