U.S. U-18 men’s national team coach Omid Namazi has named a roster of 20 players (all 1999-born) for a March 7-17 training camp in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The rosterincludes eight returnees from Namazi’s 36-player January camp in Bradenton, Florida.
This team’s players are eligible for the U.S. U-20 squad that will play in the 2017 Concacaf U-20Championship in Nicaragua for a berth at the 2017 U-20 World Cup in South Korea — a tournament with a Jan. 1, 1997 cutoff date.
The U-18s will play three games in Argentina.
USA ’99 vs. San Lorenzo ‘99
March 14
USA ’99 vs. Racing Club ‘99
March 16
USA ’99 vs. Uruguay ‘00
U.S. U-18 (1999s) men’s team
GOALKEEPERS (2): James Fetterly* (TexasRush; The Woodlands, Texas), Eric Lopez* (LA Galaxy; Westminster, Calif.).
DEFENDERS (7): Jose Alfaro* (Monarcas Morelia/MEX; West Chicago, Ill.), Daniel Jones (New EnglandRevolution; West Hartford, Conn.), Glademir Mendoza (RSL Arizona; Phoenix, Ariz.), Matthew Real* (Philadelphia Union; Drexel Hill, Pa.), Aedan Stanley (St. Louis Scott Gallagher Missouri; Columbia,Ill.), Angel Uribe (Club Tijuana/MEX; Tijuana, Mexico), Carson Vom Steeg* (Real So Cal; Santa Barbara, Calif.).
MIDFIELDERS (5): Raul Aguilera Jr. (Orlando City; Sanford, Fla.),Jonathan Gonzalez (C.F. Monterrey/MEX; Santa Rosa, Calif.), Andrew Paoli* (San Jose Earthquakes; San Jose, Calif.), Paxton Pomykal (FC Dallas; Lewisville, Texas), Nick Taitague (FC Richmond;Midlothian, Va.).
FORWARDS (6): Arda Bulut* (San Jose Earthquakes; Los Gatos, Calif.), Griffin Dorsey (Colorado Rush; Evergreen, Colo.), Nebiyou Perry (AIK Fotboll; New York,N.Y.), Justin Rennicks (New England Revolution; Boston, Mass.), Kei Tomozawa* (Seattle Sounders; Bellevue, Wash.), Aristotle Zarris (RSL Arizona; Casa Grande, Ariz.).
* Took part in36-player January U-18 camp.